You might have noticed at some point that automation that looks like this while you are recording it…
…ends up looking like this after the recording stops:
This is because Live automatically “thins” the automation data. In other words, it removes breakpoints that are deemed unecessary and creates a simpler shape with more straight lines.
These simplified automation shapes are a little easier to edit but sometimes noticeably reduce the accuracy of a recorded performance. If you find this to be the case, it’s easily tweakable in the options.txt file. Just add the line
-ThinningAggressiveness=0
…to leave automation in tact exactly as it was recorded. Instead of zero, you can use any number between 0 and 1 with 1 being the maximum amount of thinning. Live’s default is .45 so there’s a good bit it can be adjusted in either direction.
looks a little different after
