Guys, I don't mean to wag my tail if you will, but I figured out the issue with 
my plugin settings getting reset each time I would hit play.

It turns out, under preferences, mixing, and in the automation section, I had 
the box checked for plugin controls default to auto-enabled.  Listenning to 
ProTools with Speech, which was recorded using PT 10, not 12, Matt and Rod both 
suggest that you check this box.  I don't totally understand why, but I looked 
at a system I have with ProTools installed as well, granted, version 11, not 
12, but still!  On that system, I knew things were working.  I noticed that was 
literally the only thing different with my settings.  I tried that on my system 
in the studio, and well, well well!  I'll? be damned!  That did the trick!  
Once I unchecked it, I was in business!

So, can someone please explain to me what that setting does?  I guess my logic 
of thinking was that certain things can be automated within a plugin.  For 
example.  On a compressor, you may be able to automate the attack and release 
controls.  So say for example that on the bridge of a song, I want my attack to 
be shorter, whereas on the verse, I want it to be longer.  I could automate the 
attack setting of the plug, so that when writing automation to the vocal track, 
once things need to be changed, I could write automation to the track by 
starting out writing a global pass to the track, then going back, selecting the 
bridge, moving the attack where I want it to go instead, write it, then boom.  
I thought that you know how in pretty much all plugs you have a button that 
says automation enable?  I was under the impression that this checkbox in 
preferences made it where if checked, all plugs which contained automatable 
settings would be enabled by default, allowing you to write automation to any 
given track or tracks from the plugin of choice.

Am I not completely understanding this correctly?  I gather I'm on the right 
track, but it seems to me that there is a little bit more to it than just that.

Slau, can you, or Kevin, or someone more knowledgeable try to clarify here and 
help me better udnerstand, when checked, what in all actuality I'm exactly 
doing?

I tell ya.  This is why I love using PT so much on a daily basis!  I love the 
adrenalin rush/high I get just from knowing that ProTools is so powerful, that 
every day! I'll probably wind up learning something new.

You all've done so! much along the way to also help me, and for that, you'll 
never ever know my gratitude!

Chris.

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