How to flip automation horizontally (invert ) ?

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pdxindy wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 10:31 pm
Anatolio wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:29 am for example :

How to do this not in a photo editor, but in Bitwig? :) :)
Select the points you want to invert, go to the Inspector / Value Histogram and drag Scale to -100
Doesn't work for inverting Tool gain automation around 0 db (reflection across X axis) in Bitwig 6.

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Ou_Tis wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 10:34 pm
pdxindy wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 10:31 pm
Select the points you want to invert, go to the Inspector / Value Histogram and drag Scale to -100
Doesn't work for inverting Tool gain automation around 0 db (reflection across X axis) in Bitwig 6.
I just tried it and it works. You have to offset the 2nd Tool curve. If Tool 1 Mean, with all points selected, is -5.3dB, then after you invert with Scale to -100, then set the Histogram Mean to +5.3dB in the second Tool device and it will zero out.

I just used Test Tone and 2 Tool Devices. I put a complex curve on Tool 1 Gain. Then duplicated it to Tool 2 Gain, selected all points, and in the Histogram Scale -100 and then adjusted the Mean to be also inverse of Tool 1 Mean.

At that point, Turning both Tool Devices off is the same static level as no Tool Devices.

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pdxindy wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 11:33 pm
Ou_Tis wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 10:34 pm
pdxindy wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 10:31 pm
Select the points you want to invert, go to the Inspector / Value Histogram and drag Scale to -100
Doesn't work for inverting Tool gain automation around 0 db (reflection across X axis) in Bitwig 6.
I just tried it and it works. You have to offset the 2nd Tool curve. If Tool 1 Mean, with all points selected, is -5.3dB, then after you invert with Scale to -100, then set the Histogram Mean to +5.3dB in the second Tool device and it will zero out.

I just used Test Tone and 2 Tool Devices. I put a complex curve on Tool 1 Gain. Then duplicated it to Tool 2 Gain, selected all points, and in the Histogram Scale -100 and then adjusted the Mean to be also inverse of Tool 1 Mean.

At that point, Turning both Tool Devices off is the same static level as no Tool Devices.
Thanks... I just tried this and it works if you manually drag the mean down. If you just hold control, click, and enter the numeric value then it sets all the nodes to that value.

Or at least that's how it works in the latest official release, 6.0, on Windows 11. I don't see anything in the "pre-release" version 6.05 changelog that suggests any different behavior.

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Ou_Tis wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 11:57 pm Thanks... I just tried this and it works if you manually drag the mean down. If you just hold control, click, and enter the numeric value then it sets all the nodes to that value.

Or at least that's how it works in the latest official release, 6.0, on Windows 11. I don't see anything in the "pre-release" version 6.05 changelog that suggests any different behavior.
Sorry... I should have been more clear that it requires dragging the Mean... It's second nature so I forgot to mention it :tu:

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