Where's the pen tool in soundtrack pro

I am used to adjusting audio levels in FCP using the pen tool and adding key frames. I don't see how you can do that in STP. The only volume adjustment it makes is global.
Please help

The keyframes show up on the envelope rows. You can get them to show up in the mulitrack view by clicking the little disclosure triangle to the left of hte track name in the track header. (See over there by where it says "Trk 1"? That thing.)
Two purple rows show up for volume and pan. You can create envelope points by double-clicking on the line, and then dragging the resulting point up and down to set the level.
If you want to have more control, hit F2 go to the mixer view. Up at the top of the mixer window there's two pop-ups. One says the name of the project, and the other defaults to "Read". That means that Soundtrack will read the envelopes and animate the faders. If you set that to "Latch" or "Touch", start soundtrack playing, and then jiggle some faders, you will record a bazillion envelope points. (I'll let you refer to the documentation for the difference between Latch and Touch.)
Remember to set it back to Read so you don't accidently whomp your envelope points later!

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