Hello everyone and welcome to this week's article!
Today we are talking about an useful tool for editing and doing automations that can make our workflow faster, which in some daw is called "marquee tool", in some other "smart tool", but it's the same thing, and we're going to show it through the Presonus Studio One interface.
Let's start with the editing: usually to edit a track we select the cut tool, click with the cursor in the beginning and ending part of the section we want to cut and then we drag it around wherever we need.
With the smart tool we need to select the symbol in the red square in the image, and to keep selected the arrow tool. This way if we click in the upper half of our audio track it will become a select tool, so we can highlight a certain part of the track, then we just double click on the selection and it will automatically be cut at the beginning and the end of the selection. If you sum up the time saved using this tool when editing a whole song, it will add up to minutes, or sometimes hours.
By dragging vertically the selected part from the lower half of the audio track, we can also automatically move it to another audio track, and all these things works also with multiple selections at the same time.
Moving to the automations, usually we open up our automations panel and start drawing points wherever we need, for example to raise and lower the volume of certain parts of our track.
In order to do the automations via the smart tool first we enable the automation we need, then we select the area we want to automate (we can do it also with multiple tracks at the same time), hover with the mouse in the upper part of the track until it turns into the shape of a bracket like this l-l and then simply drag the automation up and down in the selected area, it will automatically move it without the need of drawing points.
This marquee tool is very useful and time saving, give it a try!
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