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UNDERSTANDING AUTOMATION IN ABLETON LIVE

he sound of synthesis is the sound of controls being moved. Sometimes that movement occurs by human hand. Other times, it’s the result of automation. Automated movement comes as a result of controls that are drawn in via a DAW’s tools, captured from live inputs or programmed in some other way. There was a time when expensive mixing desks or control surfaces with motorised faders were required to implement automation. Today, however, there are many more options, some of them

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