Clicks & glitches in the automation when bypass turns on and off

Question

I get clicks & glitches when I automate logic plugins to turn on/off (bypass) on an audio track. The clicks & glitches happen at the point in the automation when bypass turns on and off.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Who can help me with this?
Thanks so much
ps - I use Logic Pro 8

Answer 1

Certain fx plug ins unfortunately just do that when you switch them on and off while audio is passing through them. It's not technically a bug, it's just the way the audio is handled by the plug in that means it can't manage to cleanly cut in and out. When this happens, you have to use alternative methods such as the one already suggested. Depending on what you need to do there are other ways around this. If you're able to engage/disengage the plug in at moments of silence in the audio (such as in between words in a vocal track), then you could use volume automation to go in very precisely to silence the clicks when they happen. But if you're automating the effect on continuous audio, sereen's suggestion of using an aux and automating the send is a more appropriate workaround. Another technique is to just bounce an entire copy of the track with the effect on it, and then just edit it in and out (still on a separate track if you like) as needed, this way you can use fades as well to clean it up. But this is only appropriate in certain situations and might not be the right approach depending on what you're doing.