18.16 Managing Automation Envelope Display
REAPER offers you a flexible range of options to determine how you display your automation envelopes.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 18 Automation – Envelopes and More Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
REAPER offers you a flexible range of options to determine how you display your automation envelopes. For any track or track you can choose to:
- Display all automation envelopes in separate lanes, or
- Display all automation envelopes over the media items, or
- Display some envelopes in lanes and others over the media items, or
- Display some envelopes and hide others, or
- Hide all automation envelopes.
In the example shown here, a track is displaying three envelopes. – one each for Pan, Track Volume and the volume of a send to an FX bus. One of these – Pan – is displayed on top of the actual media item. The other two each have their own lanes. The Peaks/Waveforms preferences option to Draw faint peaks in automation envelope lanes has been enabled. The summary table explains how you use these options. You should also set the preference (Editing Behavior, Automation) When adding volume/pan envelopes, apply trim to envelope and reset trim to Always. Your safest option is to set this to Never to ensure that the envelope will be placed in the vertical center of the automation lane, thus leaving adequate room both above and below the envelope for manual editing.
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Hide an individual envelope
Right click over the envelope and choose Hide Envelope from the menu, or, in the envelope panel, click on the Hide/Clear button and choose Hide Envelope.
Display a currently hidden envelope
Click on the Envelopes/Automation button in the TCP and check the Visible box for that envelope.
Change the envelope displayed in a particular lane
In the TCP, right click over the envelope name and choose another parameter from the list.
Move an envelope from its own lane to over the media item(s)
Right click over the envelope and disable the Show envelope in lane option, or click on the Hide/Clear button in the envelope panel and choose Move to media lane.
Move an envelope from over the media item to its own lane
Right click over the envelope and enable the Show envelope in lane option
Show all visible envelopes in individual lanes
In the TCP, choose Show all visible track envelopes in envelope lanes from envelope button’s right-click menu.
Show all visible envelopes over their media item(s)
In the TCP, choose Show all visible track envelopes in media lane from the envelope button’s right-click menu.
Show all active envelopes
In the TCP, right click over the envelope button and choose Show all active track envelopes, or open the Envelopes/ Automation window and click on Show all active.
Hide all envelopes
In the TCP, right click over the envelope button and choose Hide all track envelopes, or open the Envelopes/ Automation window and click on Hide all.