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By solrac Fri May 28, 2021 10:58 am
On a keygroup program, I was hoping to record the changes I was making on the LFO modulation screen (in this particular case I was gradually increasing the filter destination parameter).

I turned on the global automation record and did my thing whilst the sequence played out, but it didn't record it.

I can't find much about this, so guessing that's just the way it is?

Or is there a good workaround to record that action? Thanks!
By Calcaire Fri May 28, 2021 10:02 pm
I succeed to make it :

Put the destination(s) you want to automate on one (or several) Q links, you can use SCREEN MODE ... I can' remeber if it worked using "overdub" or "global automation" or both .... But at the end I had automations lane for my single keygroup program on any parameter of LFO page
By solrac Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:47 am
Calcaire wrote:Put the destination(s) you want to automate on one (or several) Q links, you can use SCREEN MODE ... I can' remeber if it worked using "overdub" or "global automation" or both .... But at the end I had automations lane for my single keygroup program on any parameter of LFO page


Thanks for the help, will try the Q link assign option and see if that works.

I didn't think you needed to 'overdub' if you were using the 'global automation' button, but that might be worth a try as well. :worthy:
By solrac Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:48 am
Lampdog wrote:I’ve recorded automation in the lfo/modulation page many times.


And did you do anything other than just turn on the global automation button in order to achieve this?
By solrac Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:47 am
Calcaire wrote:I succeed to make it :

Put the destination(s) you want to automate on one (or several) Q links, you can use SCREEN MODE ... I can' remeber if it worked using "overdub" or "global automation" or both .... But at the end I had automations lane for my single keygroup program on any parameter of LFO page


I finally got round to trying this last night and it doesn't seem possible to map a Q link to the filter destination parameter :Sigh: I could map the Wave / Rate / Sync, but none of the destinations. Am I missing something? If you could explain exactly how you did it, I'd be very thankful!
:worthy:
By solrac Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:23 pm
Have been playing round with this a bit more, and I can do the automation on a single pad in a drum program, but doesn't seem possible when in a keygroup.

So I guess I'll need to bounce the keygroup sequence to sample, save it to a pad, and then do the automation from there. Bit annoying, but it's a workaround at least!