Fighting with P5's automation - should I be?
I'm working on a song and I lay down some tracks and set their volumes how I want them to be. But then I need to go in again and edit specific parts for fade outs and such. So I use the automation pen tool and two things happen that baffle me:
#1: There is no indication given of what my original volume was set to. I had it perfect, but I click once and suddenly P5 has no idea what it was.
#2: Volume is labeled in DB. But when you draw automation, it shows what volume you are at in PERCENT. It is incomprehensible. I want to get to specific levels, not to some imaginary % of something.
For #1, if P5 were still in development, it would seem like automation should draw a starting point by default when you change the track volume, so that it doesn't lose what you had it set to. For #2, this is silly. Do people do it differently or has anyone dealt with this before?