But wouldn’t it be nice if we could play our song or pattern, change the channel volume (or any other control) while the song is played and record that movement? This is where (recording) automation events come in. You already know (assuming you have read the mentioned tutorial) that you can move your controls by linking them to automation clips – which you manipulate manually. In this tutorial we will have a closer look at the latter type of automation. While automation clips can exist independent of a pattern, automation events are bound to patterns and do not exist independently. In a previous tutorial (see What is automation?) I mentioned automation clips and automation events. FL Studio tutorial explaining automation events.