Automation Feature Change

It's a small thing, but does anyone else wish that adding a volume automation envelope worked differently?
 
I get my fader about where I want it, and then I use the drop-down in the track view to change from CLIPS to AUTOMATION | VOLUME.  This creates a volume envelope.  So far, so good.  The problem is that Sonar puts a node at the first of the song and at the end.  I always have to scroll to the end and cut the last node.  Why?  Because as I mix, I will be adjusting the level of each track up or down—but when I don't, I do get a clean change: I get a sloping envelope from the start to the end.
 
EXAMPLE:  I think the bass should be at about -4.  I create and envelope and there is a -4 node at the start and end.  BUT if I decide the bass should be at -3, I can't just change the node at the first: I have to change both.  If I just change the first node, the colume will gradually be decreasing from -3 to -4 over the course of the song.
 
So, I always end up creating an envelope, then scrolling to the end and razor-blading the node at the end.  I want Sonar to put nodes where I put them and not help me by adding extras.
 
This is a small thing, but it affects workflow.  Anyone else agree?

Also I would not bother to use automation for that. When I use automation I use it for adjusting volume throughout the track.Not the whole track set to a single volume. And I use a control surface to do the rough pass. For your use simply lower or raise the fader. Set it to where you want it. You may make adjustments to it but they shouldn't be recorded. 

You can also easily select the entire lane by clicking jn the top left of the lane header, then if you hover on the top part of the lane, you can drag increase/decrease the envelope along the entire length. Also useful for adjusting the overall volume of an already automated track.

scook
In X1, to change both nodes at once hold the SHIFT key and drag the envelop.

I think it's actually CTRL, not shift. But yes, that's the way to change an entire section of envelope.

John T

scook
In X1, to change both nodes at once hold the SHIFT key and drag the envelop.

I think it's actually CTRL, not shift. But yes, that's the way to change an entire section of envelope.

When I tried it before posting, SHIFT worked for me where CTRL did not in X1. I also found CTRL worked in X3 and SHIFT did not. Maybe I did something wrong in X1.

Anderton

Sanderxpander
You can also easily select the entire lane by clicking jn the top left of the lane header, then if you hover on the top part of the lane, you can drag increase/decrease the envelope along the entire length. Also useful for adjusting the overall volume of an already automated track.

This is one of my favorite automation shortcuts, I use it all the time.

As an added bonus, you don't even need to select first. If nothing is selected, it defaults to moving the entire envelope.

Great suggestions.  I still don't want the last node, though. I find it more exact to right-click a node and change the value than to drag the whole envelope.  Sometimes 1db or 0.5db is the right change. Sometimes the mix sounds good, but everything needs to go up or down slightly to get the peak at the right place.  I find it hard to make those delicate changes by dragging, and it is easy to mess up the mix.
 
So, great tools suggested here, but I would still like Sonar only to add the nodes I want and not assume I want another at the end of the song.  This is a really minor thing, though.

I don't work in the same way so I don't often run into the same issue you have, but I do agree with you. Every once in a while I'll have to mess with that last node.