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Terry Kelley

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A friend sent me a bundle and it has something I've never seen before. The R for Read Automation is grayed out and it has a slash (on all tracks.) I can add automation and it reads it but I've never seen the grayed out R with the slash. Toggling it just changes the density of the gray.

Any idea what this means? (Beside, yeah, ya didn't read the manual did you? Admit it!)

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33 minutes ago, Terry Kelley said:

A friend sent me a bundle and it has something I've never seen before. The R for Read Automation is grayed out and it has a slash (on all tracks.) I can add automation and it reads it but I've never seen the grayed out R with the slash. Toggling it just changes the density of the gray.

Any idea what this means? (Beside, yeah, ya didn't read the manual did you? Admit it!)

Actually, I looked up "automation" in the most recent Theme Editing Guide (v.2020.10.13) rather than the Reference Manual.  Do the buttons on page 24 look like what you are seeing?

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changed page 23 to page 24; its on page 23 in an earlier version
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From p. 1650 of The Cakewalk Reference Guide:

"Read Automation and Write Automation buttons are fully colored when they affect the entire channel strip. If only a subset of the
channel strip’s controls are affected, the Read Automation button and Write Automation buttons are only partially colored."

I found this by searching for "read automation."

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A subset of controls .... hmmmm

I've only seen blue for Automation Read. I've never seen it gray or with a slash and the documentation doesn't explain how to even get that to happen. This is the first time I've seen it.

I wonder if it has something to so with some controller he has. Frankly, I don't think he knows what caused this.

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