Thanks! Glad it was helpful for you, I got lots of videos on the schedule coming up.

That's how it's supposed to be, The way I see it, is the task itself should be easy and smooth so you can concentrate on the music and not be bogged down in the technical side of things

That's awesome to hear!! You're very welcome 🤙🤙

A before and after comparison would have been a good thing to have included, good point! I could probably do something on newtime soon no problem

That's great to hear! You're very welcome!

Thank you so much!!

You're very welcome!

Thanks! One thing I'm really curious of is if Hold has a very small fade built into it. It seems like it might because it doesn't have nearly the pops/clicks that pro tools has when automating.

@@jonaudio i think that automation updates the target at the rate of project PPQ. Smoothing can be set in either the Controller Link dialog, or the target parameter has smoothing handled within the plugin. An IL official recently said, somewhere on the forum, that Fruity Balance doesn't apply smoothing internally. To know for sure, one could bounce down something like a sine tone with dramatic volume automation of Hold style. Open the render in an audio editor and look to see if there are ramps, or significant jumps in values between sample points. i did a steppy Fruity Balance volume automation on a test tone and found there were pops. Pops are possible with one or two milliseconds' worth of smoothing, so visual analysis of the waveform would be conclusive.

Addenda: i just now performed the visual test. There is indeed a ramp on Fruity Balance volume change automated by points of type Hold. It seems to be longer for larger volume jumps.

Thank you so much for looking into that!!! I really appreciate you doing that. That's good to hear because Hold is such a convenient automation type and since it has fades, it makes the work flow that much faster!

@@jonaudio My pleasure, glad to repay the learning i've sourced from your channel. In the case of this video, i learned a huge quality of life aid. Specifically, how to create a point on a line!

it will get you some good results, just remember to do this process before it gets compressed

you're very welcome! So basically once you have your gain stages set, this happens afterwards because we're putting fruity balance on the insert and automating the gain knob there. Usually if you have an EQ and a compressor on the inserts before fruity balance, most of the track should be in the ball park, then once you get to automating the gain knob of fruity balance, it shouldn't be huge moves, but rather keeping the vocal sitting right where you want it.

Thanks so much ❤

hmm, what version of FL are you running and do you by chance have typing to keyboard turned on?

Fl 20,no i don`t have it turned on...@@jonaudio

What version of FL are you running?

@@jonaudio 21! But It workes now:) thanks to one of the comments. Think it was that the mode wasent on hold.

Glad to hear it's working now!! Thats great news!

Hmm not sure why that is. Have you installed the new FL21 instead of FL20? That may solve your issue

@@jonaudio yeah I tried that and it works now so thanks! Was very weird tho coz i remember it used to work ages ago but yeah

What do you mean exactly?

I'm a little confused on what you mean, could you explain a little more on what's happening on your end during automation?

@@jonaudio it's not on you I was being a bit snarky cause it was funny to me. I'll try to make a video in a bit cause describing it is a bit tough.

All good my man, I'm just curious what is happening on your end, if you make the video send it to me and we'll figure out what's happening

This is changing the volume of the vocal

You'll get a quicker result for sure, but using automation and compression together, you'll get a much better and more precise result without having to let the compressor to the entire work

@@jonaudio interesting.. so lighter compression settings along with this technique is a recommend? How else do you use automation and why?

Yep it gives more accurate results and let's you decide how much signal you want to push into the Compressor. I mix this way for lots of different track and not such vocals. It gives lots of control and to get everything balanced exactly how you want it. Lets say you want a cool guitar lick pushed a little more in the mix than other stuff, this is perfect for that occasion

Using a limiter would get you close but if you do it by hand like this, you'll get a better result since you're not relying on an automatic process. Also limiters and Compressors sometimes won't catch everything so it's nice to do it by hand first and then run it into a Compressor for the finishing touches

Don't speed up shii, the video has nice and necessary Info's that you shouldn't miss

Thank you

You're very welcome!

Which "easier process" are you reffering to? Link pls, because I thought this was genius but if there's something newer now then I want to know. Imagine if FL had some built in like what Nectar 4 and Waves Vocal Rider do.

You're very welcome!! 🤙🤙