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Originally Posted by Eisenspalter
@hopi Automation Items for Media Items are more flexible and compact. It's easier to move them around, if you arrange a song. I hope in the next Reaper version you can store and reuse Media Item. This would be a huge improvement.
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I agree with you, but Automation items can be effectively thought as additional media items so in that mental frameset you can see where this is headed. You simply move them all together and think of them as one entity. There's an option to move envelope together with items on copy and move so when that's turned on you have what you're after. Might check additional automation items options. I personally have underlying envelope bypassed completely and use only automation items. Here are some scripts that help me with envelope editing:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=221082
The only negative thing I can think of here is that automations items position and size doesn't always have to respond to that of the media item that it follows but that's a visual thing and with the mentioned option, it should become moot unless you're really eager to have it all visualized nicely (which is always a good think so I agree with your observation and I'm just offering my way of thinking here when using automation - which I do use and sometimes even in huge quantities)
Sometimes it's easier to simply change an angle of thinking and use different mental paradigm then it is to rechange everything. It also makes us practice mindfullness and lets us understand many facets of our egos. You know what they say, mind is a terrible master and a fine servant ;D