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Old 08-01-2017, 03:09 PM   #1
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Default Automation items: examples of applications

I'm just about wrapping up the AI documentation for the User Guide and would be interested to hear a cross section of the kind of applications or tasks people are using AIs for.

Please post your stories to this thread, I only need "broad brush" overviews, no need to go into detail. In other words, I need to know what you are using AIs for and perhaps why, but not necessarily how.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 08-02-2017, 03:05 AM   #2
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I've been using them to automate volumes on tracks.
For instance on the track my drums come in on from Maschine, I have automation clips with volume 0db,with the underlying envelope at infdb. This way I can sequence the ai clips as if they contained the drums, but really they are just volume automation. Then I switch scenes using midi notes.
This allows me to have constant drums coming from Maschine, but I can still arrange and edit where they play in reaper.
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Old 08-02-2017, 03:21 AM   #3
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I use them for any pattern-based repeatable stuff (for example, mimicking sidechain, or adding LFOs), and also if I want to link some parameters, I use pooled AIs across multiple envelopes (can be on same track or multiple tracks), to keep the edits between them identical.
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Old 08-02-2017, 06:07 AM   #4
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Any rhytmic parameter modulation which is not based on some primitive curve. For example bubbled basslines (when changing cutoff only on every 3th note in clip etc...)

Previously it was PITA using CC's AND it was megaPITA if I changed my mind later and want to change "rythm" of that effect - practically impossible - required to re-edit CC in all midi clips on track.

Now with ghost copies it works like a charm.

THX for that, I will return back to production thanks to this very soon.
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Old 08-02-2017, 02:05 PM   #5
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I'll be using them for game audio content creation, where multiple variations of sounds are created and I want to change automation across all variations rather than having to copy/paste.
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Thanks guys, keep 'em coming!
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Old 08-02-2017, 02:39 PM   #7
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Funnily I mentioned in a thread of 2014 already what I'd use them for.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=150358

Copying automation between envelopes / tracks and keeping position is much nicer now with AI's imo, as they can snap to grid.
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