Edit Automation data

Question

Greetings Logic-o-philes,
Is there a way to move track automation data; volume for instance, created on several tracks, all at once?
Thank you,
Boe

Answer 1

Boe Brown wrote:
Is there a way to move track automation data; volume for instance, created on several tracks, all at once?
What you want to do is access Logic's Automation folder. For some typically stupid Apple reasoning, easy access to this folder was eliminated in version 7. But you can still get to it...
Open the Automation Event list. This is only accessable via a key command, so you may need to create one. Open your key commands window, and in the search field, type in "automation".
Find "Automation Event Edit", and assign a key command to it.
Once you open the Automation Event Edit list (via your new key command). With the Event list open, go up to the windows menu and open "Arrange".
A new Arrange page will open, but on this arrange page, you are looking at all your automation data, in the form of regions, just like you see with MIDI and audio regions, on the main arrange page.
Within this Automation arrange page, you can cut, move, drag, etc... automation data, just like you do with audio nad MIDI regions.
So if you need to copy, say, volume automation on tracks 6 , 7 and 8, from bars 1 through 16, to bars 30 through 46, simply select the automation regions on those tracks, and option/drag them to the proper location.
Tip... merge the automation regions per track, once they are copied.
You may also need to disable automation view, and then re-enable it, when you go back to your main arrange page, to visabliy see the changes.
Tip #2.... save this automation arrange page as a screenset. So from this day on, when you want to copy/move automation, you're a screenset away from it.