hello folks in this video I answer one
of our viewer questions who asked uh I
stumbled upon this video but blah blah
blah
basically they want to know how to work
the absolute and additive automation
thingy and I said of course I'll
literally make that video to look one
second ago it was literally a second to
go so I wasn't being figurative as being
literal and we're going to talk about
the absolute versus additive automation
and I can't believe I haven't made this
video already it's like that it's one of
the coolest things inside the way it's
even if you don't use it it's just like
it's nice to look at it's just neat to
just observe what it's doing and this is
why I need you guys to tell me what you
need to know what you want to know
because I will told I'm so missing all
kinds of stuff that you know as hard as
I can think about what I would show you
next I just I need you to tell me what
you want to know and so this is a prime
example of that because as soon as you
mentioned it I was like holy shit I
haven't covered this you know so again
definitely let me know be like our buddy
here and tell me what you want to know
and I will make a video for you that's
kind of the whole point of this channel
here ok let's start the show
all right so first of all let's just
listen to what I've made here it is not
fantastic it's just it's just something
I just made MIDI data for the purpose of
this video so let's have a listen
yeah and it just does that and you all
know how to automate you first of all
like if this is a track you want you can
double click to get the devices down
here and then you just kind of scroll
over to whatever it is that you want to
automate and say it's the cutoff filter
or cutoff frequency of a filter well you
can just click it and now when you press
automate it shows up down there and
quite simply if we expand this a little
more so you can see it you can just you
can create an automation and in this
case why don't we just do something like
that so the filter kind of slowly opens
and then from there you know you can
press option and you can bend it and
that's fine and well and that's that's
what you get to do you could press three
I guess and you can draw in a whole
bunch of automation if you want to do it
that way
and whatever so there you go you've
successfully automated but you can go a
little bit further than that and so here
down here when you select your views of
course you have your note editor you got
your mixer panel your device panel if
you click the one that is the automation
editor panel then the BAM there you go
is your automation that you've just kind
of created so now there's two different
there's a couple different modes here
there's there's you know absolute and
additive what I just did was absolute
value so let's just listen to it now
you
yeah you get the point
so now additive you notice that this all
disappears and what you're going to see
is a difference up there so if I press
three and just go to my pencil tool and
and say I just make a squiggly line you
know what I'll do it
a little bit lower right here and I just
squiggle I'm going to squiggle sharply
so you can really see it um kind of
about the medium line there that I'm
following you see that okay so check
this out up here you'll notice that even
though when I made the squiggly line I
was just kind of doing it around the
middle line here you'll notice that it
bends upwards and so that means that
when you're doing additive you're
automating and automation see so I've
made a squiggly line but it's still
going to follow the automation that I
made before so that's essentially what
what additive automation is so it's
pretty it's pretty crazy you can do some
pretty neat stuff let's do that check
that out you see what I'm saying so if I
just drew a straight line okay look how
it follows that so in here if if I were
to do something like this
okay there you go there you have it and
and I just just get rid of all this
automation quickly doo doo doo there
okay so right now we're back to the
point where it's just normal automation
I could have just drawn this in here and
not worried about it in the automation
editor panel but now if I'm on additive
right here and I click I can increase
and decrease the effect of that so if I
want the Sharpe kind of shark fins there
but I want to fade them in slowly I can
just do something like this I'm running
out of no space there we go and then as
it as it comes in the shark fins get
more prominent into the point where
they're exceeding the actual base
automation lane there okay so that's
essentially that's in a nutshell what
additive automation is and again to get
there let me just let's just make sure
we're all clear on this I will delete
this automation and we'll go back to the
device pane and we'll close it up okay
so you you know let's just let's start
again
okay so you've clicked filter cutoff
frequency and you can just go right over
to the automation editor panel and then
from there you can just you can make
your edits so if I want one here and I
want to point up there and I can bend it
let's open this up and have a look there
it is okay and that's basically how that
works and you could have done that one
of two ways you could have just clicked
the cutoff frequency and click down on
this and expend automatically you would
see cutoff filter right here and then
you could have made it that way
or you could just clicked that
immediately brought up the automation
editor panel and done it the way I just
did it and but it's the same side it
says two sides of the same coin
it's the same thing okay now if you want
to do the additive thing you just come
over here and click plus oh it's worth
mentioning if I'm in track mode is not
there so you have to be in clip mode
okay and then you click click plus and
now you're in additive mode you can
press 3 on your keyboard to bring up the
little pencil and and now you can sort
of automate however you want like that
see and that's it good question
I'm glad you asked because I wouldn't
have thought of that so good fantastic
question thank you for doing that and
also I don't know if you've seen
recently I've asked you guys to submit
your projects to me because then I'll
take your projects and add my own thing
to them and I'll do it on camera so that
you can all watch me do it and like I
mentioned in that post
I won't I won't judge or belittle your
project I'm not there to critique it or
take it apart or anything like that I'm
just there to play with it it's just
like it's like you're giving me a new
Tonka truck to throw into the sandbox
and I'm just going to chill with it for
a bit play around with it add my little
flavor to it and then you can all watch
and maybe I'm definitely going to learn
stuff from you guys that I didn't think
to do before and hopefully you will
learn something for me by doing that
also and you can submit that too to my
email and you can find that of course
let's just go back here for sec let's go
over to my channel you can find that
good to do if you click about and it's
right there ok
alternatively you can go to Facebook you
can find it there you'll find a post and
you can comment on that but yeah yeah so
go ahead and do that I think that'll be
a lot of fun and as always tell me what
you want to know and I'll make a video
for you ok that's the whole thing about
this channel is that it's for you guys
like just let me know so anyway good
questions thank you for asking and thank
you for watching be good to each other
and we'll see you in the next video
alright guys ciao
you
