Hi Ardour,
I have had a go at automation of the fader before for tracks. My issue last time was I wanted the fader automation “on top of” the fader levels I’ve set.
Say I record the automation to bump up the bass in the chorus. Then I find the whole bass level now seems to high. I can’t just turn down the fader, and have the automation pushed down relatively. It doesn’t seem to work like that.
Answers before (2-3 years ago) were to automate the output level of a plugin, or create a VCA.
I now have a control surface. Is writing the automation to the output level of a plugin going to work? It didn’t seem to when I just tested it.
Is VCA still the best way to do what I’m after, or is there anything new around this in Ardour since 6.x?
Cheers all!