Offline Region automation

I am going to begin by automating panning in the region you see on track 8 at bar 3.

Region panning automation

Let's begin with the following steps:

1. Press A to see automation. It defaults to Track automation for volume, the automation is visible on every track, and is assigned to Read mode.
2. Should you want this track to be bigger, press Control + Z on the computer keyboard or, alternatively, go to the View menu and choose Zoom Focused Track, and any selected track now gets bigger.
3. Click on the word Track and it switches to Region, which is what I want to use to create panning for this region in this instance.
4. Hold the mouse down on Volume and navigate to Main | Pan | Absolute:

   Figure 15.4 – Set to create region-based panning automation

   As you turn the pan knob from left to right or right to left while listening to a stereo recording, any material that was panned to one side starts to disappear. You aren't moving anything...