If you've not messed around with automation much, you're missing out on an incredibly powerful mixing tool. From creating dynamic interest to correcting troublesome areas and much more, automation provides you with the means to strategically micromanage your mix, as it were - from making the smallest volume tweak to using an effect for only one note. Aside from all the expected basic automation tools, Pro Tools includes many specialized features, and Eli Krantzberg has put together a Pro Tools video course over two hours long that shows you everything you need to know about Pro Tools' powerful automation functions. These videos are for new and intermediate Pro Tools automation users.

If you aren’t in control of your dynamics you’re leaving a lot of that story untold.

Automation gives you the power to manipulate audio in a way you didn’t know was possible.

Or maybe you did, but you’ve been using simple automation lines going up and down on a straight slope.

There are many more ways to get creative with automation shapes: square or saw waves, lines with curves, and even drawing in your own.

Are you ready for the next technique which will significantly improve your productions?

Meet Automation Clips.

Automation clips allows us as producers to set tasks up prior, to run out automatically when our song plays!

Automation Lanes – what are they and how to use them video tutorial explains what automation lanes are and how to use them in the DAW for music production and writing.

In music production, and using a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like Cubase, Pro Tools, Reaper etc, automation is used to automate specific functions over a specified time.