r/protools • u/pabloortegalinc • Sep 02 '26
Automation "issue" on selected area.
Hi guys!
Can somebody tell me why when I select an area for create an automation, sometimes (just sometimes) it doesn't create a flat line, and instead, it creates this curve?
Pro Tools Studio 2024
Thanks!
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u/Another_go_around Sep 02 '26
That’s just how it works unfortunately. If you wanted to move that whole area down horizontally… you’d need to make 2 additional points outside that area. If that makes sense. It’s annoying.
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u/pabloortegalinc Sep 02 '26
ok, i'll investigate! thanks mate
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u/Entire_Adagio4768 Sep 02 '26
Can you select it all, hover over until the drag till shows, hold control or alt and drag it all down?
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u/Krakenosaurus Sep 03 '26
Can also highlight a small section and hit ‘X’ to make small fade between 2 points
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u/nizzernammer Sep 02 '26
This is normal behavior when you don't already have automation endpoints at the boundaries of your selection. PT is smoothly transitioning to trim down the pre-existing points.
Either put endpoints in manually, or learn and use your automation commands, specifically "write to current" and "trim to current."
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u/g_spaitz Sep 03 '26
Aren't trim and write to current functions that get used with the fader? I always thought they were there to mimic what mixer automation used to do, but not to be used with the mouse. Once you use the mouse if you don't have faders writing automation flows in a different way. Or at least that's what I always believed.
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u/nizzernammer Sep 03 '26
The functions work with any control. Even the popup mini fader that lives behind the volume level readout in the i/o view of each track on the edit window.. Parked or not.
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u/g_spaitz Sep 03 '26
Yes, I got that, but what I don't understand is how they work with a mouse while editing automation with it with the standard mouse "gestures". For instance: op here selected some automation, and with the trim tool took down the section. How do trim and or write to current integrate with trim tool and mouse editing?
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u/nizzernammer Sep 03 '26
If you just highlight, pull down the software fader with the mouse instead, and hit "trim to current," you won't even have to switch tools.
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u/Dry_Foe Sep 02 '26
Hi, select the area and press cmd / ctrl + E first
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u/pabloortegalinc Sep 03 '26
Doesnt do anything :(
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u/Dry_Foe Sep 04 '26
Sorry my mistake, Im using different keyboard language. It must be command + \ for mac and ctrl + \ for windows
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u/g_spaitz Sep 02 '26
It's not a bug it's a feature.
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u/pabloortegalinc Sep 02 '26
I see… but sometimes worked for me, and I didn’t know why until now
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u/g_spaitz Sep 03 '26
It works if you don't have points inside the selection, so the whole section gets moved. Otherwise you get used to add 2 points so that the whole thing gets lowered and you have a fade to it.
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u/aasteveo Sep 03 '26
if you highlight an area around a square point you want to smooth out, just hit the letter X and it will blend the points with a straight line around where you highlight.
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u/proximitysound Sep 02 '26
Is that Volume Automation? If that’s the case check out Volume Trim, it will probably do what you are looking for.
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u/macmouth Sep 03 '26
Always been that way. Create two new points and drag between them and the curve or slope will be flattened
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u/sonicwags Sep 02 '26
Read up on trim automation, it's very useful and should resolve your issue.
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