Vertical automation snapping/numeric control?

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#1

Hi all,

I’ve been having a blast with Ardour 8; good controls, good VST support. I have an issue: I would like to program a pitchbend modulation in half-step increments (with some articulated sliding, so simple MIDI doesn’t cut it). However the automation clips are very finicky - they are continuous, so I find myself frequently inputting “-2.98” when I mean to say -3. Is there either (a) a way to snap automation values to increments that I can choose, or (b) a way to “move up by specified amount” like Blender’s mode of “g0.1x” to move 0.1 in the x direction?

Thanks for your time!

#2

  1. we don’t have automation clips, at all.

  2. there is no vertical snap, sorry (unless the parameter is known to be discrete, which pitch bend essentially is not - the MIDI value is, but the intended pitch bend is not).

There’s really no way to do this graphically at all. Lua could create the required automation automatically, of course.