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For example, as seen in the screenshot above, the VCA 1 fader is moving the faders in tracks SYNC, VO, and Drum Hit, while each individual channel strip fader in this group maintains its offset from the others.
Recording Fader Automation for VCAs
You can record automation data to a VCA fader, and all faders in that VCA group will follow even though they’re not actually automated themselves. This makes it easy to record complex automation involving multiple faders when you still might want the freedom to finely adjust each individual
fader later on.
Nesting VCAs
VCAs can also be “nested,” where one or more VCAs can be controlled by yet another VCA. To nest a VCA, simply assign the VCAs you want have controlled to yet another “master” VCA.
Arm, Solo, and Mute Buttons
These controls are identical to the controls found on the track header of each timeline audio track.
— Record Arm: Enables a track for recording when the Record button on the transport is engaged (highlights red when enabled).
— Solo: Lets you mute all other tracks in order to play a track you need to focus on in isolation (highlights green when enabled).
— If Solo is enabled for multiple tracks, all soloed tracks will play, and all non-soloed tracks will be muted.
— Solo status affects rendering, so if one or more tracks are soloed, the muted tracks won’t be output or rendered.
— Solo Safe: Command-Shift-click a Solo button to put it into Solo Safe mode (highlights blue when enabled).
— Channel strips set to Solo Safe always play even if Solo is enabled for other tracks.
— Solo Safe can be useful for effect returns busses with effects like reverb where you may want to hear the reverb when tracks feeding it are soloed.
— Mute: Turning on Mute disables audio playback from that track (highlights orange when enabled). This affects rendering, so if one or more tracks are muted, they won’t be output or rendered.
TIP: You can click a button and drag across multiple channel strips to turn that button on or off for multiple tracks easily.
TIP: You can click a button and drag across multiple channel strips to turn that button on or off for multiple tracks easily.
TIP: You can click a button and drag across multiple channel strips to turn that button on or off for multiple tracks easily.
The channel strip’s Arm, Solo, and Mute buttons