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Originally Posted by mccrabney
this has been a core issue and somewhat onesided conversation with this entire pre cycle.
the way it currently exists, if these automation lanes were audio tracks, you'd essentially have a tone generator (that you couldn't turn off) blasting your track with a sine wave in between your audio items, even if you only wanted audio within your audio item bounds.
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it would be a DC signal, even worse. unless there was A bit of logic that said "don't let Reaper do that"
as it stands, it is perfectly possible to create DC in Reaper and send it to the speakers.
currently, any audio clip may be used to modulate any parameter that an automation lane can.
this is a no brainer if seen in this light.
an automation envelope is an editable rectified signal.
i'm not saying that handling the automation system is trivial, it is very very complicated, so i would say to not go down the road of re-inventing the wheel. cut the losses. just base automation items on the same system that audio and midi clips use, but allow "inline editing" in a similar way that inline midi editing works, except on a sample level. like a pencil tool in sound forge. this could blast open waveform editing as well.