DAW Automation

Every continuous parameter on the panel can be automated by your DAW, including the iconographic drag controls (Bright, Damp, Length, Sympath, Body, Width, Volume, Mix) and the four wind rotaries (Wind, Turbulence, Gust, Breath). The Pairing and 12-string toggles are also automatable. Per-string note, microtuning, mute, and ghost-mute parameters are also exposed.

When you record an automation pass by dragging a control, the plugin opens and closes a gesture around the move so the DAW captures it as a single edit (and groups it under one undo step). On playback, parameter changes are smoothed over roughly 10 ms inside the audio engine, so block-rate automation lanes do not produce zipper noise on volume, brightness, stereo width, or wind level.

In your host's generic parameter list (the plain view a DAW builds from the plugin's own parameter names — and the surface a screen reader speaks), the twelve strings are numbered 1–12 to match the panel, so you'll see String 1 Note through String 12 Ghost Mute. Each continuous parameter also reads back with its unit rather than a bare number: percentages read as 71 %, string length as 90 cm, fine-tuning as +12 ¢, and String Mix as a 0.30 ratio — the same values the on-panel readouts show.

Note for existing sessions: The Sympathetic Coupling toggle (sympatheticEnabled) was removed in version 1.0.0. Any DAW automation lane bound to that parameter will be silently dropped when the session is reloaded. To preserve the intent — disabling sympathetic resonance — set the Sympathy knob to 0, which fully disables coupling.