Recording Effects on top of a track, or tracking automation live?

Is there a way for me to play with the dials and knobs of my plug-ins after I have already recorded a track?
I want to be able to use a pretty cool plug-in that I found that has a great range of filters, sweeps and such, but I've already laid down the track and the automation would be extremely difficult to map out by hand...
Is it possible to track automation live?
Any clues?

Is it possible to track automation live?
Sure several ways of doing this:
Set the Audio track to Automation "Latch" or "Write" Mode - press play - tweak the Plug In with your Mouse - the Automation Engine will record your mouse movements
Assign different Controllers (knobs on your Synth or Control device) to different parameters in the Automation->Quick Access Menue - go into "Latch" or "Write" Mode - press play - record the Controller movements
or really old school "live"
Assign the Audio track to a Bus - use that Bus as an Input for a new Audio track - press record - tweak your Plug In while recording the new Audio track - the Plug In movements will get printed onto the new track together with the original Audio

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Thanks for your response Steve, I didn't explain things thoroughly enough which is why you thought I hadn't tried the automation twirl down that shows the automation lanes, yes I do know about that and did try it, let me try to explain properly:
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"sigh"
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