Recording realtime automation in GB 10.0.3

It looks like you are using the GiO as an external Control Surface which works with GarageBand. However GarageBand doesn' allow to record Track Automation online by performing specific fader knob movements (onscreen or per external controller). In GarageBand you can only create Track Automation offline, which means, drawing the Automation Curve with your mouse.

Hope that helps

Edgar Rothermich

http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

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Mike, you have to make a very important distinction between "recording Track Automation" and "recording MIDI Events"

Track Automation

When you record track automation online (yes Logic can do that), you move the onscreen controller (Fader, Knob, etc) on your DAW, or use an external controller (Control Surface) to remotely move those onscreen controller. What is record are so-called "Fader Events". You can also create those Fader Events offline, by manually drawing those Automation Control Points (which are the representation of those Fader Events).

MID Recording

When you use a MIDI Controller, you record its MIDI signals as individual MIDI Events in GarageBand (or Logic). These MIDI Events are the notes you play on the keyboard or any controller (PitchWheel, ModWheel, etc) on a MIDI Keyboard. The important thing is that these are all MIDI Events that you can edit in the Piano Roll. When looking, for example, in the MIDI Draw Area of the Piano Roll Editor, you can see the MIDI Events for the ModWheel (CC#1). Although they look like automation at a (Control Points creating a continuous curve)., these are just MIDI Events

Here is a screenshot of GarageBand that shows Track Automation and MIDI Recording, both look like "automation", but they are different.

Attention

Many Control Surfaces use MIDI as the protocol to send and receive data. This could lead to some confusion. Although you would send a MIDI signal from your controller to the GarageBand/Logic, you are not recording that MIDI signal. That signal is only used to remotely move specific onscreen controls in GarageBand/Logic. Only the Fader Events related to specific controls (and even controls on the Smart Controls) are recorded in the Track Automation and visible as an Automation Curve on the Track Lane.

I hope that explanation is not too complicated/confusing. I explain all that in great detail with lots of graphics in my manuals "GarageBand X - How it Works" and "Logic Pro X - How it Works".

Hope that helps

Edgar Rothermich

http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

'I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.'

I don't have the GiO, but in Logic's Control Surfaces, it is listed as a supported device, so it should be plug&play (so don't be scared with the long setup page).