Every track that you create in Pro Tools has the ability to be automated.
So using your chord progression that we used in the last lesson, go ahead and
go to that track and at the bottom of your track,
in the left-hand corner, you will see a drop-down triangle.
And if you hover over that you're going to see that it says show or
hide automation lanes.
Go ahead and click on that.
The first thing that you will see is a measurement of the velocity that
we talked about in the last lesson.
So, on the left-hand side of the automation lane,
you can see that there's a choice for velocity in this little menu here.
When you click on it, you notice you have a lot of different options of what you can
automate over time, and what I want you to choose for this first one is audio volume.
I want to make a big distinction between MIDI volume and audio volume.
MIDI volume, which is going to be one of your options here, is going to be
MIDI automation, based on the data that comes from your MIDI controller.
If you want to learn more about MIDI data automation,
then you can check out some additional resources on MIDI in the reading.
Audio automation which is actually volume controls based on everything going through
your sampler or synthesizer already is going to be much more accurate and
much more useful for what we're doing here.
So even though, you're going to be playing MIDI you want to automate in audio.
So, to automate volume, choose Audio Volume.