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Thursday, 1 April 2004

Logic Bus Automation II ::

A couple of days ago I tried the technique I wrote about in February to automate a master output in Logic, to do a fadeout at the end of a piece. I was unpleasantly surprised to hear the volume jump from one level to the next at the end of the fade. I ended up reworking the piece not to fade out, but instead I wanted to automate the reverb bus. I thought, Emagic is better than this, there has to be a better way, one that doesn’t create low-resolution controller quantization artifacts. Indeed, there is a much better—and much easier—way in Logic 6 to automate busses (including outputs) and the effects in them.

If you check the bus’s Icon attribute, then you can assign a track to the bus, and automate its volume, insert effect parameters, etc., just as easily as you can automate any other audio track—and the volume automation is completely smooth.

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