

There's three things you can shape up manually:ġ) Control Points - which you can move in any directionĢ) Automation Mode - by right-clicking on a control point, you can decide the shape of the curve between two control points.ģ) Tension Handles - which will determine what happens with that shape you chose between 2 control pointsĪt the same time you can change color, size, icon, routing and all the rest of features by accessing the clip menu on the top left corner of the automation lane. But with automations we have some additional controls to shape up the lanes:

Just like with Samples (Audio Clips) or Patterns (Midi Regions) you can use the tools in the playlist to edit these, such as the grab tool, scissors tool, zoom tool, brush tool, among many others available. Once you have your automation lane layed out, you can do tons of stuff with it. Right-click on it, and the ‘Create Automation Clip’ will show up. When that happens, you’ll have to access the Browser on your left, look for the plugin which parameter you want to automate (in the case of Kontakt, that will be classified as a ‘Generator’), and select the specific CC control you are looking for. Some third-party plugins such as Kontakt give a bit of a fight some times to create automation. There are several ways, but the easiest and fastest is following these easy steps: What if I would like to automate third-party plugin parameters? This will work for all native controls, not third-party plugins.

On all faders, knobs, and dials you see in FL Studio you’ll be able to create automation by right-clicking the control you’d like to automate and selecting ‘Create Automation Clip’ FL Studio will give you the freedom to do anything you want with an automation lane: copying, cutting, pasting, create an LFO from it, transfer it's parameters into a different automation lane, among many other features. Just like with Patterns (MIDI Regions) and Samples (Audio Clips), Automation lanes can be placed anywhere in the Playlist (timeline), and can have any duration or shape that you wish.

However, in FL Studio, things work a bit differently. In other daws such as Logic or ProTools, you'll see automation lanes attached to the track you want to automate.
