ok.....this is soooooooo E LA Mentry.....naw JK.....basically what you have to do is first record or dump your mix.....then starting off simple say you have a kick, snare, hi hat and bass on separate channels dumped.....what you do is you can set up a group for the kick and the snare....so if you click mute it mutes them both..........in the graphics I used protools Le, I shifted + left mouseclicked on midi 2, 3 and 7 and created the mix group called "new"......so if i mute or control the volume fader it will control those 3 channels.....then once i am ready to record my automation I just record my automation by enabling my auto off for the mix to auto write to record my muting and group controls.....thats just the basics but I put up some lo resolution graphics of what I do as an example....