wow man awesome!! I dont use FL, but i was looking into it, and all of these tutorials that you have done really helped me learn a lot. this is really cool. thanks! 
I read this the night you published it, I thought the same thing then as now.....Minds you've hit the nail on the head, this is the most asked question of all, certainly around here, and even if it isn't directly asked it usually is what they want to know about. Well seen and well done.
I wish I had known this back when I was an FL user.
I would Edit Events and end up either recording the knob movements or editing them by hand (adding pink bars) into the pattern window that it opens, the problem I always had like this was that the events were always 'in an event channel' but were not displayed.
Is this because I didn't make a selection first like you do here for the Events to be added to or are they just two different ways of adding automation to a song?
I wish I had known this back when I was an FL user.
I would Edit Events and end up either recording the knob movements or editing them by hand (adding pink bars) into the pattern window that it opens, the problem I always had like this was that the events were always 'in an event channel' but were not displayed.
Is this because I didn't make a selection first like you do here for the Events to be added to or are they just two different ways of adding automation to a song?
I've just checked this out in the FL bible , FL bible is written around FL 5 so some things might have changed but only for the better I presume.
OK bible says that "If you would like to have automation date that is not associated with a pattern block, use Automation clips"
So Automation clips work on a selected portion of the song as you have shown above and appear on an Audio channel in the Playlist.
Automation Events (Right click context menu : Edit Events...) are associated with and are a part of a pattern block, though they can have their own channel and are drawn in with the pencil as normal playlist blocks, which is handy if you only want a certain automated event at certain points in the song. As compared to having the automation event 'stuck' to a pattern block (channel) and that it works at every instance of the (bass?) pattern block in the playlist.
Bible says that Automation Clips cannot be recorded live and must be input manually. And judging by what I read (cheers Minds
) Automated Events seam to be more 'powerful' when it comes to recording and editing even if they are a little illusive ..... to start with !
Because Automated Clips appear in an Audio Playlist channel they are more versatile and 'hands on', they can be stretched, cut up and split.......Right clicking on the Automation curve line splits the line and creates another 'curve edit point'....... that is not in the Bible.....or above , I just found that out ! lol
So Automated Events are pattern blocks and you need to go back to the automated knob and right click to 'Edit Events' every time you want to change something.
Automated Clips are audio parts and are displayed in the Playlists audio channels.
Both are very powerful tools ........ tweak at will.
OK bible says that "If you would like to have automation date that is not associated with a pattern block, use Automation clips"
So Automation clips work on a selected portion of the song as you have shown above and appear on an Audio channel in the Playlist.
Automation Events (Right click context menu : Edit Events...) are associated with and are a part of a pattern block, though they can have their own channel and are drawn in with the pencil as normal playlist blocks, which is handy if you only want a certain automated event at certain points in the song. As compared to having the automation event 'stuck' to a pattern block (channel) and that it works at every instance of the (bass?) pattern block in the playlist.
Bible says that Automation Clips cannot be recorded live and must be input manually. And judging by what I read (cheers Minds
) Automated Events seam to be more 'powerful' when it comes to recording and editing even if they are a little illusive ..... to start with ! Because Automated Clips appear in an Audio Playlist channel they are more versatile and 'hands on', they can be stretched, cut up and split.......Right clicking on the Automation curve line splits the line and creates another 'curve edit point'....... that is not in the Bible.....or above , I just found that out ! lol
So Automated Events are pattern blocks and you need to go back to the automated knob and right click to 'Edit Events' every time you want to change something.
Automated Clips are audio parts and are displayed in the Playlists audio channels.
Both are very powerful tools ........ tweak at will.