Automation lanes, automation clips, and note lanes

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mescalinebanana
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Automation lanes, automation clips, and note lanes

Post by mescalinebanana » Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:05 pm

These are my favorite features of Reason's sequencer, and I would love to see them replicated in Live.

In Reason, all automation exists within dedicated Automation Clips, which are located in dedicated Automation Lanes. This makes it very easy to copy and paste automation and view all automated parameters simultaneously. The lanes can be collapsed so they don't fill up your screen when you're not working with them.

Also, for any MIDI track, you can have multiple note lanes. The lack of this feature in Live is the main reason I rarely use the Drum Rack for drums - I like to work with each drum sound in a different clip. I know I can make multiple MIDI tracks to control a single drum rack, but I find this cumbersome, especially when applying automation to the different sounds. Having multiple collapsible note lanes under one output would smooth out my workflow greatly.
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digitalrust
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Re: Automation lanes, automation clips, and note lanes

Post by digitalrust » Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:33 pm

+1 for automation clips. Reason's implementation is the best of any daw.

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Re: Automation lanes, automation clips, and note lanes

Post by Tweaking Knobs » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:50 am

mescalinebanana wrote:These are my favorite features of Reason's sequencer, and I would love to see them replicated in Live.

In Reason, all automation exists within dedicated Automation Clips, which are located in dedicated Automation Lanes. This makes it very easy to copy and paste automation and view all automated parameters simultaneously. The lanes can be collapsed so they don't fill up your screen when you're not working with them.

Also, for any MIDI track, you can have multiple note lanes. The lack of this feature in Live is the main reason I rarely use the Drum Rack for drums - I like to work with each drum sound in a different clip. I know I can make multiple MIDI tracks to control a single drum rack, but I find this cumbersome, especially when applying automation to the different sounds. Having multiple collapsible note lanes under one output would smooth out my workflow greatly.

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