Grouped Relative Gain Adjustments Changed

Hopetown · January 4, 2019, 10:35pm

pjproby:

“it isn’t in fact changing the levels of the outer 2 points that I’ve grabbed.”

It does for me. Highlight a range of points with the “Object Selection” (regular arrow) tool. Then grab an automation point somewhere within the selection. Once you start dragging up or down, hold down Command. It does ramp the automation to the prior and next points outside of the selection range. I’m not sure how you would not hit Command properly. If you don’t you would see the points move in time and then you could adjust your finger on the keyboard until you are hitting it right and the points will snap back into place.

While I think it makes some logical sense that the default behavior would be to only move the points that you have selected and not adjust volume levels outside of the selection range, I agree with you that in actual practice the behaviors should be swapped. Both ways should also work with the adjust level arrow at the top of the selection range in conjunction with Command. Having to grab an automation point to get the ramping behavior is an unnecessary step, and I think it was a mistake on the programmer’s part.

Yes, it works if you grab the one of the points, but that means…grabbing one of the points. The way it worked before N8 is you could just grab the arrow in the middle and drag up or down, not risking moving the points in time or accidentally adding a new point etc. Bottom line, it worked better the old way. It’s always frustrating when a software company devotes hours to making something very basic that worked fine, worse.