This is the first in a series of examples I'll be posted, in this case from Nuendo 4, which has one of the best automation systems of all native/DSP-based DAW.
Loop Fill
What if you could play a loop, tweak your values, and when you stop playback, those values were written to the loop area. Here's what it looks like in Nuendo 4 with its brilliant automation panel.
http://shup.com/Shup/63114/Automation_LoopFill.avi (1.8MB)
It requires the Techsmith codec. If you don't have the codec, grab it or a small custom player from
http://techsmith.com. VLC might work too as a player.
I'll be explaining some of the strengths of this automation panel in a forthcoming post.
For now, this method of filling a loop with a single setting of parameters gives you the huge timesaver of actually hearing what you're tweaking and then applying it across an area as large or small as you wish, which is much faster than doing a manual writing pass.
The Suspend Write part of the automation panel(red buttons are active buttons there) lets you pick what automation to overwrite, and what you wish to leave as is.
Images removed in favor of an animated GIF version of the above AVI. See below.
More to come. Comments and questions are very welcome.