by Navron » 14 Aug 2012 00:02
I know Ableton supports automation, but does it feature drawing tools for the automation?
I use Cubase, but trying to learn Ableton as well. Cubase lets you select Sine, Triangle, and Square shapes to use as drawing tools for automation. That combined with the grid snap being enabled, you can create Sine waves based off the size of the snap grid (1, 1/2, 1/8, 1/16, etc.) If Ableton supports a similar feature, you wouldn't even need a 3rd party plugin to modulate it.
A tiny bit more time consuming, but much more precise.

The green segment represent basic automation editing with the cursor that shows a fade in. The blue segment represents a more advanced form of automation editing, utilizing the sine wave draw tool. The latter is based upon your quantize settings. If you draw a sine wave segment over your automation with a quantize of 1/16, then you will have 16 waves within a single measure. On my picture, the quantize is at 1/4, so there are 8 waves over 2 measures.
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