Chapter 10. Using Audition’s Automation Tools

Adobe Audition’s automation features allow you to execute complicated mixes with great flexibility and accuracy. Most knobs, switches, faders, and other settings on the mixer can be automated to create a great sounding mix.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use Audition’s automation features.

  • Draw automation data.

  • Record automation data in real time.

  • Edit, overdub, and fine-tune automation data.

  • Use clip envelopes.

Getting Started

It can be quite a task to make accurate and timely changes to mixer settings as the session plays. For example, while mixing a multitrack song, you might have to raise the volume fader for the synth track during the solo section, and then drop it back during the chorus. In the ...

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