Trim Latch Volume Automation

[jlward]

I am currently using automation on a mix. I have recorded volume automation for my mix using the Latch mode and would like to scale certain tracks at various points with the Trim Latch mode. When changing the mode to Trim Latch from Latch the volume faders in the mixing board window and on my Mackie Control Universal (MIDI version) adjust appropriately. When I enable record automation the button flashes red/green indicating it is enabled. During playback, movement of a fader results in appropriate scaling of the volume data (in my monitors), however upon touching a fader the button continues to flash red/green instead of becoming red and no automation data is recorded.

I have searched the forum and know that some others have experienced trouble with Trim modes, but couldn't find an exact answer as to whether this is a bug that can be corrected with an update or some setting I need to change. I am working with Audio data, no MIDI. Only volume automation. I am not using DAE (nor can I find it in the menus).

[Shooshie]

That was a bug in the version 5 series. I believe it's fixed in DP6.

Shooshie

[FMiguelez]

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I got used using the other method, which I find more reliable and much quicker:

Just select the automation you want to change, choose Change Continuous Data, set it by how much, voila!
If you want to lower the piano and bass for say, 3 measures, just select the volume points, do as above, and you will do it in under 2 seconds

I could never make the Trim Modes work reliably...

[jlward]

Thanks for the info. Now I can quit trying to get it to work.

I tried the "Change Continuous Data," which seems easy enough (if not easier).

[FMiguelez]

Thanks for the info. Now I can quit trying to get it to work.

I tried the "Change Continuous Data," which seems easy enough (if not easier).

Yeah, Once you try it, it's hard to let go of it. And, in case you haven't done so, give it a quick key command. Then it's even faster.

Anyway, it's good to know that those issues have been fixed it DP 6, so we still have more than one way to do the same thing.

[philbrown]

Thanks for the info. Now I can quit trying to get it to work.

I tried the "Change Continuous Data," which seems easy enough (if not easier).

Yeah, Once you try it, it's hard to let go of it. And, in case you haven't done so, give it a quick key command. Then it's even faster.

I use the same method using Control-Command-Shift-C as an easy key binding. The nice thing is you can leave that little window open and click the 'apply' as needed - very handy and not as fiddly as the trim latch method, for me anyway as I do a lot of volume automation in my work (all day long). Depending on what you're doing you can leave the Change Continous Data window set at -1db and just hit apply 3 times for a 3db drop for example.