[Rwp] snapping automation envelopes

[Chris Belle]

Well, I can't quite get my chuckle head around the visuals of it either, 
and Patrick is a lot smarter than I am 'grin'.
The way I looked at it was like a square, I imagined a volume curve 
linear dips down or up uniformly between two points, but a square 
doesn't change the sides are straight.
I know you can have one of those messed up tilted squares, can't 
remember what that's called, been a lot of years since I took geometry 
'grin',
so maybe I'm way off base, but if the angle of the curve doesn't change, 
then things stay the same till you hit the next envelope point.


On 3/13/2016 7:07 PM, James Teh wrote:
> No; it's a snap between the two points. I can see why you'd say that, 
> since that's how a square wave might work. However, waves are always 
> cycles, whereas envelopes only have the points you draw. If you draw a 
> line from point 1 to point 2, that's half a square. You could imagine 
> the other half being invisible going from point 2 back to point 1 in 
> the same shape.
>
> On 14/03/2016 9:59 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>> I would have thought that, with a square shape, the change would have 
>> happened exactly half way between the two envelope points. Maybe not.
>>
>> On 3/13/2016 6:11 PM, James Teh wrote:
>>> As noted earlier though, setting the shape to square should allow 
>>> you to
>>> do this with only two points.
>>>
>>> On 14/03/2016 8:08 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>>> Yep. That's what I ended up doing. Literally just stuck the third
>>>> envelope point 1 ms after the second.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/13/2016 5:31 PM, Snowman wrote:
>>>>> Three points?  One at the start with 16%r, and two immediately 
>>>>> adjacent
>>>>> points at the switchover position.  the first is 16%r, and the 
>>>>> second,
>>>>> millisecondes later, is 16%l.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Perdue"
>>>>> <patrick at pdaudio.net>
>>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:03 PM
>>>>> Subject: [Rwp] snapping automation envelopes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> OK...
>>>>>> So, I'm still trying to figure out the basics of track automation 
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> OSARA's point-of-view.
>>>>>> I have a track that is panned 16% right for 32 minutes. At this 
>>>>>> point,
>>>>>> I want it to snap to 16% left. If I create two envelope points, the
>>>>>> track, somewhat expected, gradually slides from 16% right to 16% 
>>>>>> left
>>>>>> over 32 minutes, which is, of course, what I don't want to happen.
>>>>>> What is the best way to handle this sort of situation?
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