Clearing a VCA Master

You can use a VCA Master to write grouped automation, coalesce the VCA automation to all of the slave tracks, and clear the automation on the VCA Master. The coalesced tracks will play back exactly as they did when they were in the VCA group.

To coalesce automation from a VCA Master to all of its slave tracks and retain the VCA Master:

1 Select the VCA Master track whose automation you want to coalesce.

2 Do one of the following:

Choose Track > Coalesce VCA Master Automation.

– or – 

Right-click the VCA Master track name and choose Coalesce VCA Master Automation.

The composite Volume level and Mute state are coalesced to each of the slave tracks. The VCA Master Volume fader is reset to zero, the VCA Mute is set to unmuted, and any automation on the VCA Master is cleared.