On 09/06/05 17:05:21, Noah Roberts wrote: > It took me a bit to learn this. First you click on the button that > will say "automation" in the tooltip and choose gain. This brings up > another 'track' that you draw the line in. Then you have to turn it > on by setting it to play or write or something. I choose play...write > actually alters the track itself I think, play just moves the sliders > up and down as it plays. As far as I can see, write means as you play the track you can alter the sliders and ardour records this as a change to the gain curve, whereas play does the opposite, i.e. it applies the saved gain curve and moves the sliders for you. What I never did figure is what the "touch" setting did. the other thing to check is that the track is not marked for record - this seems to disable the slider. Steve.