See how this works in the free tutorial video brought to you with the support of Avid.You will notice to the left hand side of both the Mix and Edit windows within Pro Tools is a list of the tracks within your currently open session, and despite its simplistic appearance, there is much more to this tool than meets the eye. Using this setting it is easy to use the same techniques with your automation as you do with clips. If it is off (orange) then this won’t happen. Automation Follows EditĬentral to how this trick works is ‘Automation Follows Edit’ this button toggles a setting which, when engaged (blue) means that if you move or copy a clip its underlying automation data moves with it. The clip doesn’t have any MIDI data in it and the Instrument track doesn’t host a VI but it has insert slots and can host automation playlists in the same way as an Aux. All an Instrument track is is a MIDN and an Aux Input combined into a single track for convenience.īecause of this an Instrument track is the perfect candidate for an Aux Input which can host clips on the timeline.
The MIDI track handled the MIDI and the Aux Input hosted the VI. To use a virtual instrument you had to create a MIDI track and an Aux Input. People with long experience of Pro Tools will remember the days before Instrument tracks. Most of the time just using the Automation playlists is fine but if you want to manipulate clips containing automation data you can’t. If you are using Auxes for effects returns or submixes you can’t create a clip on these tracks. However, one track type where you can’t create a clip is the Aux Input. A lot of the time that is already possible, if you have automation controlling mix parameters or plugins on an audio track then that automation data is contained in the clip along with the audio or MIDI data. It’s not difficult to copy and paste automation just like anything else on the timeline but in the same way as it’s really convenient to be able to put audio and MIDI data into a ‘container’ and manipulate it on the timeline - in that case that container would be a Clip Group, it would sometimes be convenient to be able to put automation data into a container and treat it in the same way. Here’s a trick for people who like to experiment with arrangements and get creative with automation.
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