Using VST Plugins

By Inge on 2005-08-10

Print this tutorial  Add a comment  Send this tutorial to a friend

6. Automating VST plugins

Automation is a method to change parameters of a VST plugin over a specified amount of time. MadTracker 2.5 offers a graphical approach to perform this method.

• open the  Automation window
• select the VST plugin and its setting that you want to automate
• select the pattern for which you want to make time-based changes with the automation
• draw the curve for this setting
  • you add points with your right mouse button
  • you move existing points around by clicking them with your left mouse button and moving your mouse around
  • you delete existing points by clicking on them with your scroll mouse button or middle mouse button

Overview of the VST automation. On the left are your tracks and individual VST plugins. Expanding a VST plugins reveals the automatable parameters. Parameters can be chosen by selecting one, and replacing it with another one via the drop-down box on the bottom of the automation screen.

You can use [Ctrl]+[X], [Ctrl]+[C] and [Ctrl]+[V] to respectively cut, copy and paste an automation.

You can right-click on the track, VST plugin or VST parameter to cut, copy, paste or delete the current automation.

You can automate up to 16 parameters of a VST plugin at once.

If a setting is automated in a pattern, and then followed by one or more patterns with no automation for that setting, then the final setting of the automation will remain active until a new automation for that effect starts. Automation thus is a fast way to configure a VST effect without using its actual GUI. Some VST interfaces can be very confusing, whereas automation always is the same.

Print this tutorial  Add a comment  Send this tutorial to a friend