Welcome to the video, brick by brick we have been building such an epic template. Let's keep this going by delving into automation quick access, you can find this feature in logic preferences command comma, go to the automation tab. And right here in the bottom is where you'll find it. The way this works is as soon as you click this button, automation Quick Access turns on. This can also be found on the toolbar and toggled with a key command CTRL ALT Command A. Do you remember we took it off earlier?
Right here. To set it up, you're going to need an external controller. This can be a MIDI keyboard with knobs on it, like the complete control keyboard or anything that gives cc information. I personally use the circuit controller by Novation. So here is how we're going to set up step one As a single controller by clicking learn, go ahead and turn the knob that you wish to assign automation quick access all the way up and all the way down. By the way, this can also be done with a model we'll click done when you're finished.
And that's that. So now if you look at my channel strip, you can see that my volume is being controlled by the knob on my circuit controller. From the automation parameter menu of the selected track, choose what you wish to control. So let's get some space here. We're going to open this up. So at the moment, we are controlling volume check out this slider if we wanted to control let's see Pan for example.
Same thing, we have full control over pan. If you wanted to automate this information in, you would go down here, use touch or latch. And I'll teach you the difference here in a second. You don't even have to hit record, just play, going back to the controller, and automating my information. So the hardware controller controls whatever the currently selected automation parameter is. So if you have volume selected, you'll be controlling volume.
And if you have a bus with delay, then that'll be what's controlled. For example, here, if I choose high cut frequency and we choose to write that in you'll notice Then I'm creating a filter. If you wanted to do that with volume could be done with anything. Okay and the difference between latch mode and touch mode. Here it goes. When you're writing the knob in latch mode, the automation parameter will stay in the same place that you left it.
For example here if I stop at the very bottom, and latch, it stays there. When we do the same exact thing, using touch, check out what happens. Get to the very bottom And it shifts to the original volume. So how do we started at let's just say zero? Check it out. Hope that helps.
This is yet another great addition to your workflow. Thank you for watching.