waldoctg Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Anyone know how to automate the balance of a aux or bus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon.a.billington Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Select the Aux in the mixer, select Add Track and that will create a track for it in the Arrange window, if it's not there already Then if you want to draw it in manually select the track, turn on automation and select Pan from the parameters. Or Select an automation mode from the Aux channel strip, hit play and move the Pan knob. But if you want to pan the signal BEFORE. It goes through the Aux strip Insert the Gain plugin at the top of your chain and automate the Balance parameter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldoctg Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Shoot, I should have been more clear. I know how to automate in that since...I'm looking to modulate the L/R Balance on the Aux or Bus with an LFO...Any idea on how to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 You can insert the stereo Tremolo plug-in (in the Modulation category) on your Aux channel strip, and leave the Phase set to 180° for the auto-pan effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardustmedia Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 In Logic you can not modulate plugin parameters. Plugins must include that feature themselves. Unlike Reaper for instance, where you can add modulators on any plugin parameter. So you can use Tremolo or any other 3rd party pan-plugin. There are plenty of them, a lot are even free. What you can do is to paint/write automation for pan, e.g. 2 bars long. Move that automation into a region (if not already done within the region), then just loop that region. Maybe you realize that at a certain point you need that panning over 4 bars? Easy, copy that region, stretch it (like you would do with audio regions), et voilà your automation is now stretched to 4 bars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 What you can do is to paint/write automation for pan, e.g. 2 bars long. Move that automation into a region (if not already done within the region), then just loop that region. I've done that here: viewtopic.php?t=3247 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardustmedia Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I do such stuff very often. Works like a charm with every kind of automation. And every non-stepped parameter can be curved with the automation curve tool. GREAT! Then create aliases to use in the arrangement, so you have to alter only the original once. EVEN BETTER!!! :D Funny thing is that still a lot of Logic users really don't know about that possibility. And this is available since L8 "Move automation data into region" Since I found that feature I've used track automation very very rarely. I find regions just much more convenient when arranging, than having to fiddle around with track automation when moving parts and regions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldoctg Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Thanks guys. I know how to automate it...wanted it modulated though. @David N. Your tip with the tremolo works great. Thanks a ton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 You're welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldoctg Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Thanks @deft_bonz! Had some work todo so I wasn't able to fully digest your response. That tip is awesome! I'll definitely be using this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon.a.billington Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Or if you're looking around there are always third party solutions that do more than just pan. One of my personal faves is this baby... http://www.waves.com/plugins/metafilter# Not that you asked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldoctg Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Thanks a lot! To be honest, I'm always trying to stick solely to Logic plugins...but I appreciate it! Always good to see what other plugins do and how to copy that with Logic's plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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