diff --git a/src/core/music/Scheduler.ts b/src/core/music/Scheduler.ts
index 986db557..3f1c93fb 100644
--- a/src/core/music/Scheduler.ts
+++ b/src/core/music/Scheduler.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { FadeCurve } from '../model/sound';
-import { AUTOMATION_STEP, type AutomationTarget, type LaneMark, laneMarks } from './automation';
+import type { FxParams } from '../soundfx/nodes';
+import { AUTOMATION_STEP, type AutomationTarget, type LaneMark, laneMarks, paramsAt } from './automation';
 import { clipsIn, heldLoop, levelsIn, type LoopRange, notesIn, playheadAt, type Sequence } from './sequence';
 import {
   COMMON_TIME,
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ export interface ScheduledNote {
   /** A factor on its loudness, and the track of a song it is heard on (#334). */
   volume?: number;
   bus?: string;
+  /** The values the parameter lanes of its track have where it starts (#337). */
+  params?: FxParams;
 }
 
 /** One clip handed to the player (#334): when it starts, how long it plays and from where in the sound. */
@@ -44,6 +47,8 @@ export interface ScheduledClip {
   volume: number;
   bus: string;
   tempo: number;
+  /** As a note's. */
+  params?: FxParams;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -221,7 +226,9 @@ export class Scheduler {
     if (to <= this.until) return;
     this.voices = this.voices.filter((voice) => this.host.playing(voice));
     const sequence = this.sequence();
+    const lanes = sequence.lanes ?? [];
     for (const due of notesIn(sequence, this.from, this.loop, this.until, to)) {
+      const params = paramsAt(lanes, due.bus, due.tick);
       const voice = this.host.play({
         at: this.anchor + secondsOfTicks(due.at, this.tempo),
         duration: secondsOfTicks(due.length, this.tempo),
@@ -231,11 +238,13 @@ export class Scheduler {
         tempo: due.tempo ?? this.tempo,
         ...(due.volume !== undefined && { volume: due.volume }),
         ...(due.bus !== undefined && { bus: due.bus }),
+        ...(params && { params }),
       });
       if (voice !== 0) this.voices.push(voice);
     }
     if (this.host.playClip)
       for (const due of clipsIn(sequence, this.from, this.loop, this.until, to, this.fresh)) {
+        const params = paramsAt(lanes, due.bus, due.tick + due.skip);
         const voice = this.host.playClip({
           at: this.anchor + secondsOfTicks(due.at, this.tempo),
           duration: secondsOfTicks(due.length, this.tempo),
@@ -245,6 +254,7 @@ export class Scheduler {
           volume: due.volume,
           bus: due.bus,
           tempo: due.tempo ?? this.tempo,
+          ...(params && { params }),
         });
         if (voice !== 0) this.voices.push(voice);
       }
@@ -264,7 +274,7 @@ export class Scheduler {
     if (this.host.automate) {
       const anchor = this.anchor;
       const step = ticksOfSeconds(AUTOMATION_STEP, this.tempo);
-      for (const lane of sequence.lanes ?? []) {
+      for (const lane of lanes) {
         const marks = laneMarks(lane, this.from, this.loop, this.until, to, this.fresh, step);
         this.host.automate({
           bus: lane.bus,
diff --git a/src/core/music/automation.ts b/src/core/music/automation.ts
index 17f373b1..b92ab1e5 100644
--- a/src/core/music/automation.ts
+++ b/src/core/music/automation.ts
@@ -7,16 +7,47 @@
  *
  * The scheduler reads a lane window by window as marks on the audio clock, each ramped or jumped to.
  * Where the value moves along a shape the clock cannot ramp, it is read every `AUTOMATION_STEP`.
+ *
+ * A lane can also move a parameter (`param:<name>`): of the track's sound FX, of the sound FX of its
+ * items, of the instruments of its notes and the sound FX of its clips – wherever one of them has a
+ * parameter of that name, as `Set sound FX parameters` reaches them. A note or clip starts at the
+ * value its lane has there, so a parameter a voice only reads when it starts is heard from the next one.
  */
 import type { KeyInterpolation, VectorPoint } from '../model/Asset';
 import { easedShare, easingOf, isKeyInterpolation } from '../model/animation';
 import type { CurveLookup } from '../model/curve';
+import type { FxParams } from '../soundfx/nodes';
 import { dbToGain, TRACK_MAX_DB, TRACK_MIN_DB } from './level';
 import { type LoopRange, playheadAt } from './sequence';
 
-export type AutomationTarget = 'volume' | 'pan';
+/** What a lane always moves on a track: its fader and its pan. */
+export type TrackTarget = 'volume' | 'pan';
 
-export const AUTOMATION_TARGETS: readonly AutomationTarget[] = ['volume', 'pan'];
+/** A parameter by its name (#337, stage 3); no name of a parameter has a colon. */
+export type ParamTarget = `param:${string}`;
+
+export type AutomationTarget = TrackTarget | ParamTarget;
+
+export const AUTOMATION_TARGETS: readonly TrackTarget[] = ['volume', 'pan'];
+
+const PARAM_PREFIX = 'param:';
+
+export function paramTarget(name: string): ParamTarget {
+  return `${PARAM_PREFIX}${name}`;
+}
+
+/** The parameter a target moves; null for the volume and the pan. */
+export function paramOf(target: AutomationTarget): string | null {
+  return target.startsWith(PARAM_PREFIX) ? target.slice(PARAM_PREFIX.length) : null;
+}
+
+/** Whether a text is a target a lane can have: the volume, the pan or a parameter with a name. */
+export function isAutomationTarget(value: unknown): value is AutomationTarget {
+  if (value === 'volume' || value === 'pan') return true;
+  if (typeof value !== 'string' || !value.startsWith(PARAM_PREFIX)) return false;
+  const name = value.slice(PARAM_PREFIX.length);
+  return name !== '' && !name.includes(':');
+}
 
 export interface AutomationPoint {
   tick: number;
@@ -30,35 +61,67 @@ export interface AutomationLane {
   target: AutomationTarget;
   /** In the order of their ticks. */
   points: AutomationPoint[];
+  /**
+   * Only on a parameter's lane: the range its values are drawn and held in, `PARAM_RANGE` where left
+   * out. A parameter says nothing of its own range, so the lane does. Such a lane is kept without a
+   * point too, for its range; it rules its parameter once it has one.
+   */
+  min?: number;
+  max?: number;
 }
 
+/** What says how a lane's values are held and drawn: its target, and a parameter's range. */
+export type LaneKind = Pick<AutomationLane, 'target' | 'min' | 'max'>;
+
+/** A lane's kind, or the volume or the pan by name: neither has a range of its own to name. */
+export type LaneSpec = LaneKind | TrackTarget;
+
+export function laneKind(spec: LaneSpec): LaneKind {
+  return typeof spec === 'string' ? { target: spec } : spec;
+}
+
+/** The range of a parameter's lane that sets none. */
+export const PARAM_RANGE = { min: 0, max: 1 } as const;
+
 /** Seconds between two readings of a value that moves along a shape the audio clock cannot ramp. */
 export const AUTOMATION_STEP = 0.01;
 
-/** The lowest and the highest value a lane of that target holds. */
-export function targetRange(target: AutomationTarget): { min: number; max: number } {
-  return target === 'volume' ? { min: TRACK_MIN_DB, max: TRACK_MAX_DB } : { min: -1, max: 1 };
+/** The lowest and the highest value a lane of that kind holds. */
+export function laneRange(spec: LaneSpec): { min: number; max: number } {
+  const { target, min, max } = laneKind(spec);
+  if (target === 'volume') return { min: TRACK_MIN_DB, max: TRACK_MAX_DB };
+  if (target === 'pan') return { min: -1, max: 1 };
+  return heldRange(min, max) ?? { ...PARAM_RANGE };
 }
 
-/** A lane's value as its bus takes it: the volume as a gain, the pan as it is. */
-export function audioValueOf(target: AutomationTarget, value: number): number {
-  const { min, max } = targetRange(target);
+/** A range a parameter's lane may have: both ends finite, the top above the bottom; null otherwise. */
+export function heldRange(min: unknown, max: unknown): { min: number; max: number } | null {
+  if (typeof min !== 'number' || typeof max !== 'number') return null;
+  if (!Number.isFinite(min) || !Number.isFinite(max) || !(max > min)) return null;
+  return { min, max };
+}
+
+/** A lane's value as its bus takes it: the volume as a gain, the pan and a parameter as they are. */
+export function audioValueOf(lane: LaneKind, value: number): number {
+  const { min, max } = laneRange(lane);
   const held = Math.max(min, Math.min(max, value));
-  return target === 'volume' ? dbToGain(held) : held;
+  return lane.target === 'volume' ? dbToGain(held) : held;
 }
 
 /**
  * Held to what the lanes of a track may be: a target it knows, one lane for each, points in whole
- * ticks from 0 with their values in range, in the order of their ticks. A lane without one is dropped.
+ * ticks from 0 with their values in range, in the order of their ticks. A lane of the volume or the
+ * pan without a point is dropped; a parameter's is kept for its range.
  */
 export function heldLanes(raw: unknown): AutomationLane[] {
   const lanes: AutomationLane[] = [];
   for (const entry of Array.isArray(raw) ? (raw as unknown[]) : []) {
     if (typeof entry !== 'object' || entry === null) continue;
     const lane = entry as Record<string, unknown>;
-    const target = AUTOMATION_TARGETS.find((t) => t === lane.target);
-    if (!target || lanes.some((l) => l.target === target)) continue;
-    const { min, max } = targetRange(target);
+    const target = lane.target;
+    if (!isAutomationTarget(target) || lanes.some((l) => l.target === target)) continue;
+    const range = paramOf(target) !== null ? heldRange(lane.min, lane.max) : null;
+    const { min, max } = range ?? laneRange({ target });
     const points = (Array.isArray(lane.points) ? (lane.points as unknown[]) : []).flatMap(
       (point): AutomationPoint[] => {
         if (typeof point !== 'object' || point === null) return [];
@@ -75,11 +138,17 @@ export function heldLanes(raw: unknown): AutomationLane[] {
       },
     );
     points.sort((a, b) => a.tick - b.tick);
-    if (points.length > 0) lanes.push({ target, points });
+    if (range) lanes.push({ target, points, ...range });
+    else if (points.length > 0 || paramOf(target) !== null) lanes.push({ target, points });
   }
   return lanes;
 }
 
+/** The parameters a track's lanes move, in their order, those without a point among them. */
+export function laneParams(track: { automation?: readonly AutomationLane[] }): string[] {
+  return (track.automation ?? []).flatMap((lane) => paramOf(lane.target) ?? []);
+}
+
 /** The lane of a track for that target, while it has a point. */
 export function laneOf(
   track: { automation?: readonly AutomationLane[] },
@@ -93,6 +162,7 @@ export function sequenceLaneOf(lane: AutomationLane, bus: string, curves: CurveL
   return {
     bus,
     target: lane.target,
+    ...(lane.min !== undefined && lane.max !== undefined && { min: lane.min, max: lane.max }),
     points: lane.points.map((point) => {
       const { shape, curve } = easingOf(point.ease ?? 'linear');
       const found = shape === 'curve' ? curves(curve ?? '') : undefined;
@@ -106,13 +176,40 @@ export interface SequenceLanePoint extends AutomationPoint {
   curve?: readonly VectorPoint[];
 }
 
-/** A lane as a sequence plays it: on the bus it acts on, never without a point. */
-export interface SequenceLane {
+/**
+ * A lane as a sequence plays it: on the bus it acts on, never without a point. A parameter's acts on
+ * that bus's sound FX and on everything heard on a bus inside it (`reaches`).
+ */
+export interface SequenceLane extends LaneKind {
   bus: string;
-  target: AutomationTarget;
   points: readonly SequenceLanePoint[];
 }
 
+/** Whether a voice or a bus by that name is on the track of `bus` – it, or a bus inside it (`<bus>:…`). */
+export function reaches(bus: string, name: string): boolean {
+  return name === bus || name.startsWith(`${bus}:`);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The values the parameter lanes of a sequence have at `tick` for what is heard on `bus`, a note's or
+ * a clip's; undefined where none reaches it.
+ */
+export function paramsAt(
+  lanes: readonly SequenceLane[],
+  bus: string | undefined,
+  tick: number,
+): FxParams | undefined {
+  if (bus === undefined) return undefined;
+  let params: Record<string, number> | undefined;
+  for (const lane of lanes) {
+    const name = paramOf(lane.target);
+    if (name === null || !reaches(lane.bus, bus)) continue;
+    const { min, max } = laneRange(lane);
+    (params ??= {})[name] = Math.max(min, Math.min(max, laneValueAt(lane.points, tick)));
+  }
+  return params;
+}
+
 function between(a: SequenceLanePoint, b: SequenceLanePoint, t: number): number {
   return a.value + (b.value - a.value) * easedShare(a.ease ?? 'linear', t, () => a.curve);
 }
@@ -151,7 +248,10 @@ function straight(a: SequenceLanePoint, b: SequenceLanePoint): boolean {
   return a.value === b.value || ease === 'step' || ease === 'linear';
 }
 
-/** Whether the bus takes it as one ramp: held, or a straight line also in its own units. */
+/**
+ * Whether the bus takes it as one ramp: held, or a straight line also in its own units. A parameter
+ * becomes its knobs along ways of their own, so only one held is a ramp of them.
+ */
 function rampable(target: AutomationTarget, a: SequenceLanePoint, b: SequenceLanePoint): boolean {
   const ease = a.ease ?? 'linear';
   return a.value === b.value || ease === 'step' || (ease === 'linear' && target === 'pan');
@@ -179,8 +279,8 @@ export function laneMarks(
   fresh: boolean,
   step: number,
 ): LaneMark[] {
-  const { points, target } = lane;
-  const audio = (value: number) => audioValueOf(target, value);
+  const { points } = lane;
+  const audio = (value: number) => audioValueOf(lane, value);
   const marks: LaneMark[] = [];
   const stretchEnd = loop !== null && from < loop.end ? loop.end : Infinity;
   let elapsed = start;
diff --git a/src/core/music/needs.ts b/src/core/music/needs.ts
index 86800d74..833a559f 100644
--- a/src/core/music/needs.ts
+++ b/src/core/music/needs.ts
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ export function fxVoiceOf(
   return plan ? { plan, params, tempo } : null;
 }
 
-/** The sound FX a clip goes through. */
-export function clipFx(project: Project, fxId: string, tempo: number): FxVoice {
-  return fxVoiceOf(project, fxId, tempo) ?? DRY_VOICE;
+/** The sound FX a clip goes through, with the values its parameters start at. */
+export function clipFx(project: Project, fxId: string, tempo: number, params: FxParams = {}): FxVoice {
+  return fxVoiceOf(project, fxId, tempo, params) ?? DRY_VOICE;
 }
 
 /** Every layer and FX of every note and every file and FX of every clip a sequence plays. */
diff --git a/src/core/music/playbacks.ts b/src/core/music/playbacks.ts
index 316288c2..59df2fb5 100644
--- a/src/core/music/playbacks.ts
+++ b/src/core/music/playbacks.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ export interface BusLevel {
   sends?: readonly BusSend[];
   /** The sound FX all of it goes through as one chain (#346), before its level and pan. */
   fx?: FxVoice;
-  /** What its automation sets while it plays (#337): `gain` and `pan` are then only where it starts. */
+  /**
+   * What its automation sets while it plays (#337): `gain`, `pan` and a parameter of `fx` are then
+   * only where it starts.
+   */
   automated?: readonly AutomationTarget[];
 }
 
diff --git a/src/core/music/song.ts b/src/core/music/song.ts
index 808e45b1..734fc465 100644
--- a/src/core/music/song.ts
+++ b/src/core/music/song.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { type PropertyBag, textOf } from '../model/Properties';
 import { findAssetOf, type Project } from '../model/Project';
 import { findSound } from '../model/sound';
 import { pickedFx } from '../properties/assetFx';
-import { AUTOMATION_TARGETS, type AutomationLane, heldLanes, laneOf, sequenceLaneOf } from './automation';
+import { type AutomationLane, heldLanes, sequenceLaneOf } from './automation';
 import { dbToGain, TRACK_MAX_DB, TRACK_MIN_DB } from './level';
 import { gridTicks, GRID_OPTIONS, patternInstrument, patternLength } from './pattern';
 import { heldLoop, type LoopRange, type Sequence, type SequenceClip, type SequenceNote } from './sequence';
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export interface SongTrack {
   solo: boolean;
   /** The sound FX everything on the track goes through, before its volume and pan (#346); `''` for none. */
   fx: string;
-  /** Its volume and pan over the song (#337); left out without a lane. */
+  /** Its volume, pan and parameters over the song (#337); left out without a lane. */
   automation?: AutomationLane[];
 }
 
@@ -230,10 +230,9 @@ export function songSequence(project: Project, song: SongAsset): Sequence {
   clips.sort((a, b) => a.tick - b.tick);
   const curves = curveLookup(project);
   const lanes = song.tracks.flatMap((track) =>
-    AUTOMATION_TARGETS.flatMap((target) => {
-      const lane = laneOf(track, target);
-      return lane ? [sequenceLaneOf(lane, trackBus(song.id, track.id), curves)] : [];
-    }),
+    (track.automation ?? [])
+      .filter((lane) => lane.points.length > 0)
+      .map((lane) => sequenceLaneOf(lane, trackBus(song.id, track.id), curves)),
   );
   return { notes, clips, ...(lanes.length > 0 && { lanes }) };
 }
diff --git a/src/core/music/songBuses.ts b/src/core/music/songBuses.ts
index b4ab8573..dac62122 100644
--- a/src/core/music/songBuses.ts
+++ b/src/core/music/songBuses.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { Project } from '../model/Project';
 import type { PropertyBag } from '../model/Properties';
 import type { Graph } from '../graph/Graph';
-import { AUTOMATION_TARGETS, type AutomationTarget, audioValueOf, laneOf, laneValueAt } from './automation';
+import { audioValueOf, laneOf, laneValueAt, paramOf, type TrackTarget } from './automation';
 import { fxVoiceOf } from './needs';
 import type { BusLevel } from './playbacks';
 import { songRoutes, trackGates } from './routing';
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ import {
 
 /**
  * The buses of a song: each track's at its volume and pan, through its sound FX (#346), on to where
- * its routing sends it (#350), a level or pan its lane rules (#337) from where the lane starts; a bus
+ * its routing sends it (#350), a level, pan or parameter its lane rules (#337) from where the lane
+ * starts – a parameter on the sound FX of its items too; a bus
  * for its own items into it; and one for each pattern item with a sound FX into that, at unity – its
  * volume is its notes'. Mute and solo close sends and items
  * (`trackGates`). A sound FX that does not compile is none, and the bus then only passes it on.
@@ -35,18 +36,30 @@ export function songBuses(
   },
 ): BusLevel[] {
   const tempo = songTempo(song.props);
-  const fxOf = (id: string) => {
-    const fx = fxVoiceOf(project, id, tempo);
+  const byId = new Map(song.tracks.map((track) => [track.id, track]));
+  // A parameter a lane rules starts where the lane does (#337).
+  const fxOf = (id: string, track: SongTrack | undefined) => {
+    const lanes = (track?.automation ?? []).filter((lane) => paramOf(lane.target) !== null);
+    const params = Object.fromEntries(
+      lanes.flatMap((lane) =>
+        lane.points.length > 0
+          ? [[paramOf(lane.target)!, audioValueOf(lane, laneValueAt(lane.points, 0))]]
+          : [],
+      ),
+    );
+    const fx = fxVoiceOf(project, id, tempo, params);
     return fx ? { fx } : {};
   };
   const routes = songRoutes(song);
   const gates = trackGates(song.tracks, routes);
   const tracks = song.tracks.map((track) => {
     const gate = gates.get(track.id);
-    const automated = AUTOMATION_TARGETS.filter((target) => laneOf(track, target));
-    const atStart = (target: AutomationTarget, fader: number) => {
+    const automated = (track.automation ?? []).flatMap((lane) =>
+      lane.points.length > 0 ? [lane.target] : [],
+    );
+    const atStart = (target: TrackTarget, fader: number) => {
       const lane = laneOf(track, target);
-      return lane ? audioValueOf(target, laneValueAt(lane.points, 0)) : fader;
+      return lane ? audioValueOf(lane, laneValueAt(lane.points, 0)) : fader;
     };
     return {
       name: trackBus(song.id, track.id),
@@ -60,7 +73,7 @@ export function songBuses(
           gain: gate?.passes(route.to) ? dbToGain(route.volume) : 0,
           tap: route.tap,
         })),
-      ...fxOf(track.fx),
+      ...fxOf(track.fx, track),
     };
   });
   const own = song.tracks.map((track) => ({
@@ -77,7 +90,16 @@ export function songBuses(
       gain: 1,
       pan: 0,
       into: trackItemsBus(song.id, item.track),
-      ...fxOf(itemFx(project, item)),
+      ...fxOf(itemFx(project, item), byId.get(item.track)),
+      ...automatedParams(byId.get(item.track)),
     }));
   return [...tracks, ...own, ...items];
 }
+
+/** The parameters a track's lanes rule, for the bus of one of its items: its sound FX leaves them alone. */
+function automatedParams(track: SongTrack | undefined): Pick<BusLevel, 'automated'> {
+  const automated = (track?.automation ?? []).flatMap((lane) =>
+    paramOf(lane.target) !== null && lane.points.length > 0 ? [lane.target] : [],
+  );
+  return automated.length > 0 ? { automated } : {};
+}
diff --git a/src/core/music/trackParams.ts b/src/core/music/trackParams.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..19a55910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/music/trackParams.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import { VELOCITY_PARAM } from '../instrument/nodes';
+import { instrumentParams } from '../instrument/compile';
+import { findAssetOf, type Project } from '../model/Project';
+import { assetFxOf } from '../properties/assetFx';
+import { soundFxParams } from '../soundfx/compile';
+import { patternInstrument } from './pattern';
+import { itemFx, type SongItem, type SongTrack } from './song';
+
+/** A parameter a lane of a track can move, with the default it has where it is first declared. */
+export interface TrackParam {
+  name: string;
+  default: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The parameters a lane of a track can move (#337): those of its sound FX, of the sound FX of its
+ * items, of the instruments its pattern items play and of their own sound FX, each name once, in
+ * that order. A name several of them have moves all of them.
+ */
+export function trackParams(
+  project: Project,
+  song: { items: readonly SongItem[] },
+  track: SongTrack,
+): TrackParam[] {
+  const found = new Map<string, number>();
+  const add = (ports: readonly { key: string; default?: number }[]) => {
+    for (const port of ports)
+      if (!found.has(port.key) && port.key !== VELOCITY_PARAM) found.set(port.key, port.default ?? 0);
+  };
+  const addFx = (fxId: string) => {
+    const fx = fxId ? findAssetOf(project, fxId, 'soundfx') : undefined;
+    if (fx) add(soundFxParams(fx.graph));
+  };
+  addFx(track.fx);
+  for (const item of song.items) {
+    if (item.track !== track.id) continue;
+    addFx(itemFx(project, item));
+    if (item.kind !== 'pattern') continue;
+    const pattern = findAssetOf(project, item.asset, 'pattern');
+    const id = item.instrument || (pattern ? patternInstrument(pattern.props) : '');
+    const instrument = id ? findAssetOf(project, id, 'instrument') : undefined;
+    if (!instrument) continue;
+    add(instrumentParams(instrument.graph));
+    addFx(assetFxOf(instrument.props));
+  }
+  return [...found].map(([name, value]) => ({ name, default: value }));
+}
+
+/**
+ * The range a new lane of a parameter gets: 0 to 1 for a default in there, else from 0 – or as far
+ * below – to twice the default, on a round number.
+ */
+export function defaultParamRange(value: number): { min: number; max: number } {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(value) || (value >= 0 && value <= 1)) return { min: 0, max: 1 };
+  const top = roundUp(Math.abs(value) * 2);
+  return value > 0 ? { min: 0, max: top } : { min: -top, max: top };
+}
+
+/** The next of 1, 2 and 5 times a power of ten from `value` up. */
+function roundUp(value: number): number {
+  const power = 10 ** Math.floor(Math.log10(value));
+  return ([1, 2, 5, 10].find((step) => step * power >= value) ?? 10) * power;
+}
diff --git a/src/editor/inspector/songSection.ts b/src/editor/inspector/songSection.ts
index 7c7a92f2..7ea20620 100644
--- a/src/editor/inspector/songSection.ts
+++ b/src/editor/inspector/songSection.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
   TRACK_MIN_DB,
 } from '../../core/music/song';
 import type { MenuEntry } from '../../ui';
+import { laneLabel } from '../song/laneView';
 import { ownFxEntries } from '../song/ownFx';
 import type { EditorState } from '../state';
 import { createFieldRow } from './fieldFactory';
@@ -107,7 +108,13 @@ export function songSignature(
   const asset = findAssetOf(project, assetId, 'song');
   const item = itemOf(asset, itemIds);
   if (item) return `item:${item.id}:${item.kind}`;
-  return asset?.tracks.some((t) => t.id === trackId) ? `track:${trackId}` : 'missing';
+  const track = asset?.tracks.find((t) => t.id === trackId);
+  return track ? `track:${trackId}:${ruledLanes(track).join(',')}` : 'missing';
+}
+
+/** The lanes with a point on a track (#337): what its fields no longer set while it plays. */
+function ruledLanes(track: SongTrack): string[] {
+  return (track.automation ?? []).flatMap((lane) => (lane.points.length > 0 ? [laneLabel(lane.target)] : []));
 }
 
 /** The item picked last (#334), else the track: its rows. */
@@ -163,6 +170,13 @@ function buildTrack(host: InspectorHost, asset: SongAsset, track: SongTrack): vo
   const count = asset.items.filter((i) => i.track === track.id).length;
   addNote(host, `Track of the song "${asset.name}", ${count} ${count === 1 ? 'item' : 'items'}.`);
   addNote(host, 'Its Sound FX takes everything on it together, before its volume and pan.', 'small');
+  const ruled = ruledLanes(track);
+  if (ruled.length > 0)
+    addNote(
+      host,
+      `Automation lanes rule ${ruled.join(', ')} while it plays; a field here is only heard once its lane is cleared.`,
+      'small',
+    );
   for (const def of TRACK_ROWS) {
     const commit = (value: SongTrack[TrackField]) =>
       new SetSongCommand(
diff --git a/src/editor/song/ParamLaneDialog.ts b/src/editor/song/ParamLaneDialog.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db799325
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/editor/song/ParamLaneDialog.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+import { heldRange } from '../../core/music/automation';
+import { defaultParamRange, type TrackParam } from '../../core/music/trackParams';
+import { type Button, Dropdown, Label, Menu, NumberField } from '../../ui';
+import { dialogSlot, FormDialog } from '../FormDialog';
+
+const PICKER_WIDTH = 200;
+const FIELD_WIDTH = 90;
+
+const slot = dialogSlot<ParamLaneDialog>();
+
+/** The open dialog, for the check scripts. */
+export const currentParamLaneDialog = slot.current;
+
+/** Opens the dialog centred, closing whichever one was open before it. */
+export const openParamLaneDialog = slot.open;
+
+/**
+ * A lane for a parameter of a track (#337): which parameter, and the range its lane spans – a
+ * parameter says nothing of its own. A new one starts at a range round its default; `editing` sets
+ * the range of a lane there is, its parameter fixed.
+ */
+export class ParamLaneDialog extends FormDialog {
+  private param: string;
+  private min: number;
+  private max: number;
+  private readonly picker: Dropdown;
+  private readonly minField: NumberField;
+  private readonly maxField: NumberField;
+  private readonly summary: Label;
+  /** Public for the check scripts. */
+  readonly confirm: Button;
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly offered: readonly TrackParam[],
+    editing: { name: string; min: number; max: number } | null,
+    onConfirm: (name: string, range: { min: number; max: number }) => void,
+  ) {
+    super(340, editing ? `Range of the ${editing.name} lane` : 'Add a parameter lane');
+    this.param = editing?.name ?? offered[0]?.name ?? '';
+    this.picker = new Dropdown('', { width: PICKER_WIDTH, onClick: () => this.openPicker() });
+    this.picker.setEnabled(!editing && offered.length > 1);
+    this.content.add(this.formRow(this.fieldLabel('Parameter'), this.picker));
+    ({ min: this.min, max: this.max } = editing ?? this.rangeOf(this.param));
+    const field = (value: number, set: (value: number) => void) => {
+      const made = new NumberField(value, {
+        onInput: (now) => (set(now), this.refresh()),
+        onChange: (now) => (set(now), this.refresh()),
+      });
+      made.minWidth = FIELD_WIDTH;
+      return made;
+    };
+    this.minField = field(this.min, (value) => (this.min = value));
+    this.maxField = field(this.max, (value) => (this.max = value));
+    this.content.add(this.formRow(this.fieldLabel('From'), this.minField));
+    this.content.add(this.formRow(this.fieldLabel('To'), this.maxField));
+    this.summary = new Label('', { style: 'muted' });
+    this.content.add(this.summary);
+    this.confirm = this.addButtons(editing ? 'Set range' : 'Add lane', 'primary', () => {
+      const range = this.range();
+      if (range && this.param) onConfirm(this.param, range);
+    });
+    this.refresh();
+  }
+
+  /** What the dialog holds, for the check scripts. */
+  debugInfo(): { name: string; offered: string[]; min: number; max: number; ok: boolean } {
+    return {
+      name: this.param,
+      offered: this.offered.map((p) => p.name),
+      min: this.min,
+      max: this.max,
+      ok: this.confirm.enabled,
+    };
+  }
+
+  /** Picks a parameter and a range by value rather than by hand, for the check scripts. */
+  pick(name: string, range?: { min: number; max: number }): void {
+    this.param = name;
+    ({ min: this.min, max: this.max } = range ?? this.rangeOf(name));
+    this.minField.setNumber(this.min);
+    this.maxField.setNumber(this.max);
+    this.refresh();
+  }
+
+  private rangeOf(name: string): { min: number; max: number } {
+    return defaultParamRange(this.offered.find((p) => p.name === name)?.default ?? 0);
+  }
+
+  private range(): { min: number; max: number } | null {
+    return heldRange(this.min, this.max);
+  }
+
+  private openPicker(): void {
+    new Menu(
+      this.offered.map((param) => ({
+        label: param.name,
+        current: param.name === this.param,
+        onSelect: () => this.pick(param.name),
+      })),
+      { searchable: this.offered.length > 9 },
+    ).openBelow(this.picker);
+  }
+
+  private refresh(): void {
+    this.picker.setText(this.param || '—');
+    const range = this.range();
+    const param = this.offered.find((p) => p.name === this.param);
+    this.summary.setText(
+      !this.param
+        ? 'Nothing on this track has a parameter to move.'
+        : !range
+          ? '"To" has to be above "From".'
+          : param
+            ? `Its default is ${param.default}.`
+            : 'Nothing on the track has this parameter now.',
+    );
+    this.confirm.setEnabled(!!this.param && range !== null);
+    this.refreshLayout();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/editor/song/SongTimeline.ts b/src/editor/song/SongTimeline.ts
index 5c4a498c..2b08dd28 100644
--- a/src/editor/song/SongTimeline.ts
+++ b/src/editor/song/SongTimeline.ts
@@ -2,14 +2,20 @@ import { Container, type FederatedPointerEvent, type FederatedWheelEvent, Graphi
 import { CreateAssetCommand, MakeProjectAssetCommand } from '../../core/commands/assetCommands';
 import { CompoundCommand } from '../../core/commands/CompoundCommand';
 import {
-  AUTOMATION_TARGETS,
   type AutomationPoint,
   type AutomationTarget,
+  isAutomationTarget,
   laneOf,
+  laneParams,
+  laneRange,
   laneValueAt,
+  paramOf,
+  paramTarget,
   type SequenceLanePoint,
   sequenceLaneOf,
+  type TrackTarget,
 } from '../../core/music/automation';
+import { trackParams } from '../../core/music/trackParams';
 import { SetLoopCommand } from '../../core/commands/patternCommands';
 import { SetSongCommand, type SongParts } from '../../core/commands/songCommands';
 import {
@@ -84,9 +90,19 @@ import { snapDown, snapNear } from '../pattern/rollEdit';
 import type { EditorState } from '../state';
 import { axisTween } from '../viewTween';
 import { easingEntries } from './easingMenu';
-import { addedPoint, draggedPoint, easedPoint, lanePoints, withLanePoints, withoutPoint } from './laneEdit';
 import {
-  LANE_LABELS,
+  addedPoint,
+  draggedPoint,
+  easedPoint,
+  lanePoints,
+  withLanePoints,
+  withoutLane,
+  withoutPoint,
+  withParamLane,
+} from './laneEdit';
+import {
+  laneKindOf,
+  laneLabel,
   laneValue,
   laneValueText,
   laneWay,
@@ -95,8 +111,10 @@ import {
   shownLanes,
   type SongRow,
   songRows,
+  trackLanes,
   trackRows,
 } from './laneView';
+import { openParamLaneDialog, ParamLaneDialog } from './ParamLaneDialog';
 import { drawMeter } from './meterDraw';
 import {
   gainToDb,
@@ -420,7 +438,7 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     this.open = new Map(
       Object.entries(typeof lanes === 'object' && lanes !== null ? lanes : {}).map(([id, targets]) => [
         id,
-        AUTOMATION_TARGETS.filter((t) => Array.isArray(targets) && targets.includes(t)),
+        Array.isArray(targets) ? (targets as unknown[]).filter(isAutomationTarget) : [],
       ]),
     );
     this.needsFit = false;
@@ -654,10 +672,11 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     const asset = this.asset();
     const row = asset ? this.rows(asset).findIndex((r) => r.track === track && r.lane === target) : -1;
     if (row < 0) return null;
+    const kind = laneKindOf(this.shownTracks(asset!)[track]!, target);
     const at = this.getGlobalPosition();
     return {
       x: at.x + HEAD_WIDTH + tickToX(this.view, tick),
-      y: at.y + RULER_HEIGHT + trackTop(this.view, row) + laneY(target, value, this.view.trackHeight),
+      y: at.y + RULER_HEIGHT + trackTop(this.view, row) + laneY(kind, value, this.view.trackHeight),
     };
   }
 
@@ -909,7 +928,7 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
   /** Opens all the lanes of a track, or closes them while any is open. */
   toggleLanes(trackId: string): void {
     const track = this.asset()?.tracks.find((t) => t.id === trackId);
-    if (track) this.setOpen(trackId, shownLanes(track, this.open).length > 0 ? [] : AUTOMATION_TARGETS);
+    if (track) this.setOpen(trackId, shownLanes(track, this.open).length > 0 ? [] : trackLanes(track));
   }
 
   /** Changes the points of a lane of a track as the song holds them now, as one step to undo. */
@@ -1059,9 +1078,7 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
       );
     } else if ((part === 'volume' || part === 'pan') && laneOf(track, part)) {
       // Decision 4 of #337: a lane with points rules the value, the fader only shows it.
-      this.state.setNotice(
-        `${LANE_LABELS[part]} follows its automation lane – clear the lane to set it here`,
-      );
+      this.state.setNotice(`${laneLabel(part)} follows its automation lane – clear the lane to set it here`);
     } else if (
       (part === 'volume' || part === 'pan') &&
       pressCount(e, `song-slider:${track.id}:${part}`) === 2
@@ -1129,8 +1146,9 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     const { track, target, top } = lane;
     this.keepOpen(track);
     const points = lanePoints(track, target);
+    const kind = laneKindOf(track, target);
     const y = g.y - top;
-    const hit = pointAt(this.view, target, points, g.x, y);
+    const hit = pointAt(this.view, kind, points, g.x, y);
     if (hit !== null && pressCount(e, `song-point:${track.id}:${target}:${hit}`) === 2) {
       this.pickedPoint = null;
       this.editLane(track.id, target, (now) => withoutPoint(now, hit), 'Delete automation point');
@@ -1141,12 +1159,7 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     let index = hit;
     if (index === null) {
       const tick = this.cursorTick(xToTick(this.view, g.x), songGrid(asset.props), e.altKey || e.shiftKey);
-      ({ points: base, index } = addedPoint(
-        points,
-        target,
-        tick,
-        laneValue(target, y, this.view.trackHeight),
-      ));
+      ({ points: base, index } = addedPoint(points, kind, tick, laneValue(kind, y, this.view.trackHeight)));
     }
     const point = base[index]!;
     this.pickedPoint = { track: track.id, target, index };
@@ -1159,7 +1172,7 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
       points: base,
       offset: {
         x: tickToX(this.view, point.tick) - g.x,
-        y: laneY(target, point.value, this.view.trackHeight) - y,
+        y: laneY(kind, point.value, this.view.trackHeight) - y,
       },
       pointer: g,
       moved: false,
@@ -1272,12 +1285,14 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
         );
         if (row < 0) break;
         const y = g.y + gesture.offset.y - trackTop(this.view, row);
+        const owner = asset.tracks.find((t) => t.id === gesture.track);
+        const kind = owner ? laneKindOf(owner, gesture.target) : { target: gesture.target };
         gesture.points = draggedPoint(
           gesture.base,
-          gesture.target,
+          kind,
           gesture.index,
           this.cursorTick(xToTick(this.view, g.x + gesture.offset.x), grid, free),
-          laneValue(gesture.target, y, this.view.trackHeight),
+          laneValue(kind, y, this.view.trackHeight),
         );
         break;
       }
@@ -1423,7 +1438,14 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     const inside = local.x >= HEAD_WIDTH && local.x <= this.w && local.y >= RULER_HEIGHT && local.y <= this.h;
     const lane = inside ? this.laneAt(asset, g.y) : null;
     const point =
-      lane && pointAt(this.view, lane.target, lanePoints(lane.track, lane.target), g.x, g.y - lane.top);
+      lane &&
+      pointAt(
+        this.view,
+        laneKindOf(lane.track, lane.target),
+        lanePoints(lane.track, lane.target),
+        g.x,
+        g.y - lane.top,
+      );
     if (lane && point !== null) {
       const { track, target } = lane;
       tooltips.point(
@@ -1535,8 +1557,9 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     global: Vec2,
   ): void {
     const { track, target } = lane;
+    const param = paramOf(target);
     const points = lanePoints(track, target);
-    const index = g ? pointAt(this.view, target, points, g.x, g.y - lane.top) : null;
+    const index = g ? pointAt(this.view, laneKindOf(track, target), points, g.x, g.y - lane.top) : null;
     if (this.pickedTrack !== track.id || this.pickedIds.length > 0) this.pick([], track.id);
     if (index !== null) {
       this.pickedPoint = { track: track.id, target, index };
@@ -1572,9 +1595,57 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
             shownLanes(track, this.open).filter((t) => t !== target),
           ),
       },
+      // A parameter's lane (#337) has a range to set, and is there until it is taken away.
+      ...(param === null
+        ? []
+        : [
+            { separator: true as const },
+            { label: 'Range…', onSelect: () => this.openParamLaneDialog(track, param) },
+            {
+              label: 'Remove lane',
+              danger: true,
+              onSelect: () =>
+                this.editTrack(track.id, (t) => withoutLane(t, target), 'Remove automation lane'),
+            },
+          ]),
     ]).open(global.x, global.y);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Adds a lane for a parameter of a track (#337), or sets the range of one: `name` given, only that
+   * one. A new lane opens under its track.
+   */
+  openParamLaneDialog(track: SongTrack, name: string | null = null): ParamLaneDialog | null {
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    if (!asset) return null;
+    const taken = new Set(laneParams(track));
+    const offered = trackParams(this.state.project, asset, track).filter(
+      (param) => param.name === name || (name === null && !taken.has(param.name)),
+    );
+    const lane = name === null ? undefined : track.automation?.find((l) => l.target === paramTarget(name));
+    return openParamLaneDialog(
+      new ParamLaneDialog(
+        offered,
+        name === null ? null : { name, ...laneRange(lane ?? { target: paramTarget(name) }) },
+        (picked, range) => {
+          if (name === null) this.setOpen(track.id, [...shownLanes(track, this.open), paramTarget(picked)]);
+          this.editTrack(
+            track.id,
+            (t) => withParamLane(t, picked, range),
+            name === null ? 'Add automation lane' : 'Set automation range',
+          );
+        },
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+
+  /** Changes one track as the song holds it now, as one step to undo. */
+  private editTrack(trackId: string, change: (track: SongTrack) => SongTrack, label: string): void {
+    const asset = this.asset();
+    if (!asset) return;
+    this.commit(asset, { tracks: asset.tracks.map((t) => (t.id === trackId ? change(t) : t)) }, label);
+  }
+
   /** What the sign over a point of a lane says: its value, as the song holds it at the time. */
   private pointTooltip(trackId: string, target: AutomationTarget, index: number): TooltipTarget | null {
     const asset = this.asset();
@@ -1585,11 +1656,12 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
       ? this.rows(asset).findIndex((r) => r.lane === target && tracks[r.track]?.id === trackId)
       : -1;
     if (!point || row < 0) return null;
+    const kind = laneKindOf(track, target);
     const at = this.getGlobalPosition();
     const x = at.x + HEAD_WIDTH + tickToX(this.view, point.tick);
     const y =
-      at.y + RULER_HEIGHT + trackTop(this.view, row) + laneY(target, point.value, this.view.trackHeight);
-    return { text: laneValueText(target, point.value), anchor: { x: x - 4, y: y - 4, w: 8, h: 8 } };
+      at.y + RULER_HEIGHT + trackTop(this.view, row) + laneY(kind, point.value, this.view.trackHeight);
+    return { text: laneValueText(kind, point.value), anchor: { x: x - 4, y: y - 4, w: 8, h: 8 } };
   }
 
   /**
@@ -1667,9 +1739,9 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
       { label: 'Move up', disabled: row === 0, onSelect: () => swap(row - 1) },
       { label: 'Move down', disabled: row === asset.tracks.length - 1, onSelect: () => swap(row + 1) },
       { separator: true },
-      // Which automation lanes (#337) show under the track.
-      ...AUTOMATION_TARGETS.map((target) => ({
-        label: `${LANE_LABELS[target]} lane`,
+      // Which automation lanes (#337) show under the track, and one for a parameter to add.
+      ...trackLanes(track).map((target) => ({
+        label: `${laneLabel(target)} lane`,
         checked: () =>
           shownLanes(this.asset()?.tracks.find((t) => t.id === track.id) ?? track, this.open).includes(
             target,
@@ -1684,6 +1756,13 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
           );
         },
       })),
+      {
+        label: 'Add parameter lane…',
+        disabled: trackParams(this.state.project, asset, track).every((p) =>
+          laneParams(track).includes(p.name),
+        ),
+        onSelect: () => this.openParamLaneDialog(track),
+      },
       { separator: true },
       {
         label: 'Delete track',
@@ -1983,29 +2062,35 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
       const top = trackTop(this.view, i);
       if (!target || top > lh || top + th < 0) return;
       const track = tracks[row.track]!;
-      // 0 dB, or straight ahead.
-      const middle = top + laneY(target, 0, th);
-      g.rect(0, Math.round(middle), lw, 1).fill({ color: c.text, alpha: 0.12 });
+      const kind = laneKindOf(track, target);
+      const param = paramOf(target);
+      // 0 dB, or straight ahead; a parameter has no middle of its own.
+      if (param === null) {
+        const middle = top + laneY(kind, 0, th);
+        g.rect(0, Math.round(middle), lw, 1).fill({ color: c.text, alpha: 0.12 });
+      }
       const points = this.wayOf(track, target);
       if (points.length === 0) {
-        const y = Math.round(top + laneY(target, track[target], th));
+        const value = this.unruledValue(asset, track, target);
+        if (value === null) return;
+        const y = Math.round(top + laneY(kind, value, th));
         for (let x = 0; x < lw; x += 8) g.rect(x, y, 4, 1).fill({ color: AUTOMATION_COLOR, alpha: 0.45 });
         return;
       }
-      const way = laneWay(this.view, target, points, lw);
+      const way = laneWay(this.view, kind, points, lw);
       way.forEach((p, k) => (k === 0 ? g.moveTo(p.x, top + p.y) : g.lineTo(p.x, top + p.y)));
       g.stroke({ width: 1.5, color: AUTOMATION_COLOR, alpha: 0.95 });
       points.forEach((point, k) => {
         const x = tickToX(this.view, point.tick);
         if (x < -6 || x > lw + 6) return;
-        const y = top + laneY(target, point.value, th);
+        const y = top + laneY(kind, point.value, th);
         const lit = picked?.track === track.id && picked.target === target && picked.index === k;
         g.rect(x - 3, y - 3, 6, 6)
           .fill(lit ? c.accentText : AUTOMATION_COLOR)
           .stroke({ width: 1, color: 0x000000, alpha: 0.6, alignment: 1 });
         if (dragged?.track === track.id && dragged.target === target && dragged.index === k)
           labels.push({
-            text: laneValueText(target, point.value),
+            text: laneValueText(kind, point.value),
             x: x + 7,
             y: Math.max(top, y - 16),
             w: 90,
@@ -2022,6 +2107,16 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     return sequenceLaneOf({ target, points }, '', curveLookup(this.state.project)).points;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * What a value is while no point of its lane rules it: the fader's, or a parameter's default where
+   * the track has it (#337); null for a parameter it does not have.
+   */
+  private unruledValue(asset: SongAsset, track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget): number | null {
+    if (target === 'volume' || target === 'pan') return track[target];
+    const name = paramOf(target);
+    return trackParams(this.state.project, asset, track).find((p) => p.name === name)?.default ?? null;
+  }
+
   private drawItems(asset: SongAsset, lw: number, lh: number, values: readonly Placed[]): void {
     const c = Theme.colors;
     const rows = this.rowsOfTracks(asset);
@@ -2187,10 +2282,15 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
     const heard = (id: string) =>
       routes.some((route) => route.from === id && gates.get(id)?.passes(route.to));
     const now = this.playhead ?? this.shownStart();
-    const valueOf = (track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget) => {
+    const valueOf = (track: SongTrack, target: TrackTarget) => {
       const points = this.wayOf(track, target);
       return points.length > 0 ? laneValueAt(points, now) : track[target];
     };
+    const laneText = (track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget) => {
+      const points = this.wayOf(track, target);
+      const value = points.length > 0 ? laneValueAt(points, now) : this.unruledValue(asset, track, target);
+      return value === null ? '—' : laneValueText(laneKindOf(track, target), value);
+    };
     rows.forEach((row, i) => {
       const y = trackTop(this.view, i);
       const track = tracks[row.track]!;
@@ -2203,8 +2303,8 @@ export class SongTimeline extends Widget {
         this.headsG.rect(HEAD_BOXES.name.x - 8, y, 2, th).fill({ color: AUTOMATION_COLOR, alpha: 0.7 });
         const top = y + Math.max(2, Math.min(HEAD_BOXES.name.y, (th - 18) / 2));
         labels.push(
-          { text: LANE_LABELS[lane], x: HEAD_BOXES.name.x, y: top, w: 60 },
-          { text: laneValueText(lane, valueOf(track, lane)), x: HEAD_BOXES.name.x + 62, y: top, w: 90 },
+          { text: laneLabel(lane), x: HEAD_BOXES.name.x, y: top, w: 60 },
+          { text: laneText(track, lane), x: HEAD_BOXES.name.x + 62, y: top, w: 90 },
         );
         return;
       }
diff --git a/src/editor/song/laneEdit.ts b/src/editor/song/laneEdit.ts
index 2802b568..e6c142ad 100644
--- a/src/editor/song/laneEdit.ts
+++ b/src/editor/song/laneEdit.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 import {
   AUTOMATION_TARGETS,
+  type AutomationLane,
   type AutomationPoint,
   type AutomationTarget,
-  targetRange,
+  type LaneSpec,
+  laneRange,
+  paramOf,
+  paramTarget,
 } from '../../core/music/automation';
 import type { SongTrack } from '../../core/music/song';
 import type { KeyInterpolation } from '../../core/model/Asset';
@@ -18,32 +22,66 @@ export function lanePoints(track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget): Automati
   return track.automation?.find((lane) => lane.target === target)?.points ?? [];
 }
 
-/** The track with these points on that lane; with none the lane goes, and with the last one `automation`. */
+/**
+ * The track with these points on that lane. With none the lane of the volume or the pan goes; a
+ * parameter's stays for its range. With the last lane `automation` goes.
+ */
 export function withLanePoints(
   track: SongTrack,
   target: AutomationTarget,
   points: readonly AutomationPoint[],
 ): SongTrack {
-  const kept = (track.automation ?? []).filter((lane) => lane.target !== target);
-  const lanes =
-    points.length > 0
-      ? AUTOMATION_TARGETS.flatMap((t) =>
-          t === target ? [{ target, points: [...points] }] : kept.filter((lane) => lane.target === t),
-        )
-      : kept;
+  const old = track.automation?.find((lane) => lane.target === target);
+  const range = paramOf(target) !== null ? laneRange(old ?? { target }) : null;
+  const lane: AutomationLane | null =
+    points.length > 0 || range ? { target, points: [...points], ...range } : null;
+  return withLane(track, target, lane);
+}
+
+/** The track with a lane for that parameter in this range, its points held to it; a new one is empty. */
+export function withParamLane(
+  track: SongTrack,
+  name: string,
+  range: { min: number; max: number },
+): SongTrack {
+  const target = paramTarget(name);
+  const points = lanePoints(track, target).map((point) => ({
+    ...point,
+    value: Math.max(range.min, Math.min(range.max, point.value)),
+  }));
+  return withLane(track, target, { target, points, min: range.min, max: range.max });
+}
+
+/** The track without that lane at all, a parameter's range with it. */
+export function withoutLane(track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget): SongTrack {
+  return withLane(track, target, null);
+}
+
+/** In a fixed order: the volume, the pan, then the parameters as they came; a new one last. */
+function withLane(track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget, lane: AutomationLane | null): SongTrack {
+  const others = (track.automation ?? []).filter((l) => l.target !== target);
+  const fixed = AUTOMATION_TARGETS.flatMap((t) =>
+    t === target && lane ? [lane] : others.filter((l) => l.target === t),
+  );
+  const params = (track.automation ?? []).flatMap((l) =>
+    paramOf(l.target) === null ? [] : l.target === target ? (lane ? [lane] : []) : [l],
+  );
+  const known = (track.automation ?? []).some((l) => l.target === target);
+  if (lane && paramOf(target) !== null && !known) params.push(lane);
+  const lanes = [...fixed, ...params];
   const { automation: _, ...rest } = track;
   return lanes.length > 0 ? { ...rest, automation: lanes } : rest;
 }
 
-function held(target: AutomationTarget, value: number): number {
-  const { min, max } = targetRange(target);
+function held(kind: LaneSpec, value: number): number {
+  const { min, max } = laneRange(kind);
   return Math.max(min, Math.min(max, value));
 }
 
 /** A new point, after those already on its tick, and where it went. */
 export function addedPoint(
   points: readonly AutomationPoint[],
-  target: AutomationTarget,
+  kind: LaneSpec,
   tick: number,
   value: number,
 ): { points: AutomationPoint[]; index: number } {
@@ -51,14 +89,14 @@ export function addedPoint(
   let index = 0;
   while (index < points.length && points[index]!.tick <= at) index++;
   const out = [...points];
-  out.splice(index, 0, { tick: at, value: held(target, value) });
+  out.splice(index, 0, { tick: at, value: held(kind, value) });
   return { points: out, index };
 }
 
 /** The point at `index` dragged to a tick and a value, the tick held between its neighbours'. */
 export function draggedPoint(
   points: readonly AutomationPoint[],
-  target: AutomationTarget,
+  kind: LaneSpec,
   index: number,
   tick: number,
   value: number,
@@ -71,7 +109,7 @@ export function draggedPoint(
   out[index] = {
     ...point,
     tick: Math.min(high, Math.max(low, Math.round(tick))),
-    value: held(target, value),
+    value: held(kind, value),
   };
   return out;
 }
diff --git a/src/editor/song/laneView.ts b/src/editor/song/laneView.ts
index c17e73c3..c1f3cd12 100644
--- a/src/editor/song/laneView.ts
+++ b/src/editor/song/laneView.ts
@@ -2,11 +2,17 @@ import {
   AUTOMATION_TARGETS,
   type AutomationPoint,
   type AutomationTarget,
+  type LaneKind,
+  laneKind,
   laneOf,
+  laneParams,
+  laneRange,
   laneValueAt,
   laneValueBefore,
+  paramOf,
+  paramTarget,
+  type LaneSpec,
   type SequenceLanePoint,
-  targetRange,
 } from '../../core/music/automation';
 import type { SongTrack } from '../../core/music/song';
 import { clamp } from '../../ui';
@@ -28,12 +34,31 @@ export interface SongRow {
 /** The lanes a track was opened to or closed on by hand, by its id. */
 export type OpenLanes = ReadonlyMap<string, readonly AutomationTarget[]>;
 
-export const LANE_LABELS: Readonly<Record<AutomationTarget, string>> = { volume: 'Volume', pan: 'Pan' };
+/** What the head of a lane calls it: the volume, the pan, or the name of its parameter. */
+export function laneLabel(target: AutomationTarget): string {
+  return target === 'volume' ? 'Volume' : target === 'pan' ? 'Pan' : (paramOf(target) ?? target);
+}
 
-/** The lanes a track shows, in a fixed order: as opened by hand, else the ones with a point. */
+/** Every lane a track can show: the volume, the pan, and each parameter it has a lane of (#337). */
+export function trackLanes(track: SongTrack): AutomationTarget[] {
+  return [...AUTOMATION_TARGETS, ...laneParams(track).map(paramTarget)];
+}
+
+/**
+ * The lanes a track shows, in a fixed order: as opened by hand, else the ones with a point and every
+ * parameter's – one is only there because it was added.
+ */
 export function shownLanes(track: SongTrack, open: OpenLanes): AutomationTarget[] {
   const named = open.get(track.id);
-  return AUTOMATION_TARGETS.filter((target) => (named ? named.includes(target) : !!laneOf(track, target)));
+  return trackLanes(track).filter((target) =>
+    named ? named.includes(target) : paramOf(target) !== null || !!laneOf(track, target),
+  );
+}
+
+/** A track's lane of that target as far as its kind goes: a parameter's range is on its lane. */
+export function laneKindOf(track: SongTrack, target: AutomationTarget): LaneKind {
+  const lane = track.automation?.find((l) => l.target === target);
+  return lane ? { target, min: lane.min, max: lane.max } : { target };
 }
 
 export function songRows(tracks: readonly SongTrack[], open: OpenLanes): SongRow[] {
@@ -58,24 +83,42 @@ export const LANE_INSET = 6;
 export const POINT_REACH = 6;
 
 /** Where a value is drawn in a lane `h` high, from its top; past the range it is held to the edge. */
-export function laneY(target: AutomationTarget, value: number, h: number): number {
-  const { min, max } = targetRange(target);
+export function laneY(kind: LaneSpec, value: number, h: number): number {
+  const { min, max } = laneRange(kind);
   const share = clamp((value - min) / (max - min), 0, 1);
   return LANE_INSET + (1 - share) * Math.max(1, h - 2 * LANE_INSET);
 }
 
-/** The value a height of a lane stands for: to a tenth of a dB, or a hundredth of the pan. */
-export function laneValue(target: AutomationTarget, y: number, h: number): number {
-  const { min, max } = targetRange(target);
+/**
+ * The step a lane's values are set in: a tenth of a dB, a hundredth of the pan, and for a parameter
+ * a power of ten that cuts its range into at least a hundred.
+ */
+export function laneStep(kind: LaneSpec): number {
+  const { target } = laneKind(kind);
+  if (target === 'volume') return 0.1;
+  if (target === 'pan') return 0.01;
+  const { min, max } = laneRange(kind);
+  return 10 ** Math.floor(Math.log10((max - min) / 100));
+}
+
+/** The value a height of a lane stands for, in its step. */
+export function laneValue(kind: LaneSpec, y: number, h: number): number {
+  const { min, max } = laneRange(kind);
   const share = clamp(1 - (y - LANE_INSET) / Math.max(1, h - 2 * LANE_INSET), 0, 1);
-  const step = target === 'volume' ? 0.1 : 0.01;
-  return clamp(Math.round((min + share * (max - min)) / step) * step, min, max);
+  const step = laneStep(kind);
+  return clamp(roundTo(min + share * (max - min), step), min, max);
+}
+
+/** Rounded to a step, without the tail a float adds to a tenth. */
+function roundTo(value: number, step: number): number {
+  const digits = Math.max(0, -Math.floor(Math.log10(step)));
+  return Number((Math.round(value / step) * step).toFixed(Math.min(digits, 12)));
 }
 
 /** The point of a lane under a point of its row, the last drawn first; null for none. */
 export function pointAt(
   view: SongView,
-  target: AutomationTarget,
+  target: LaneSpec,
   points: readonly AutomationPoint[],
   x: number,
   y: number,
@@ -95,7 +138,7 @@ export function pointAt(
  */
 export function laneWay(
   view: SongView,
-  target: AutomationTarget,
+  target: LaneSpec,
   points: readonly SequenceLanePoint[],
   width: number,
   every = 2,
@@ -126,13 +169,18 @@ export function laneWay(
 }
 
 /** A value as the head of a lane and the sign over a point say it. */
-export function laneValueText(target: AutomationTarget, value: number): string {
+export function laneValueText(kind: LaneSpec, value: number): string {
+  const { target } = laneKind(kind);
   if (target === 'volume') {
-    const { min } = targetRange('volume');
+    const { min } = laneRange('volume');
     if (value <= min) return '-inf dB';
     const shown = Math.round(value * 10) / 10;
     return `${shown > 0 ? '+' : ''}${shown.toFixed(1)} dB`;
   }
-  const share = Math.round(Math.abs(value) * 100);
-  return share === 0 ? 'Centre' : `${share}% ${value < 0 ? 'left' : 'right'}`;
+  if (target === 'pan') {
+    const share = Math.round(Math.abs(value) * 100);
+    return share === 0 ? 'Centre' : `${share}% ${value < 0 ? 'left' : 'right'}`;
+  }
+  const digits = Math.max(0, -Math.floor(Math.log10(laneStep(kind))));
+  return roundTo(value, laneStep(kind)).toFixed(Math.min(digits, 6));
 }
diff --git a/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts b/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts
index cecd50da..304f4d56 100644
--- a/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts
@@ -491,8 +491,15 @@ export function strikeNote(
     duration: note.duration,
   };
   const timing = { at: note.at, tempo: note.tempo, ...(note.bus && { bus: note.bus }) };
-  const fx = fxVoiceOf(sources.project, instrumentFx(sources.project, note.instrument, ''), note.tempo);
-  return playNote(sources, note.instrument, struck, owner, {}, timing, fx);
+  // What the lanes of its track start it with (#337) reaches its instrument and its sound FX alike.
+  const params = note.params ?? {};
+  const fx = fxVoiceOf(
+    sources.project,
+    instrumentFx(sources.project, note.instrument, ''),
+    note.tempo,
+    params,
+  );
+  return playNote(sources, note.instrument, struck, owner, params, timing, fx);
 }
 
 /** A clip of a song (#334): its sound at its own volume times the item's, through its sound FX. */
@@ -509,7 +516,7 @@ export function playClip(
   return audio.playClip(
     playedSoundOf(ref),
     { at: clip.at, offset: clip.offset, duration: clip.duration, volume, bus: clip.bus },
-    clipFx(project, clip.fx, clip.tempo),
+    clipFx(project, clip.fx, clip.tempo, clip.params),
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts b/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts
index bd19b067..3190e84e 100644
--- a/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts
+++ b/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import { arrivalOf, sendDelays, type TimedBus } from '../core/music/routing';
 import type { SendTap } from '../core/graph/Graph';
 import { MASTER_MIX, type MixBus, type MixSend, sameMix } from '../core/music/mixer';
 import { limiterLatency } from '../core/soundfx/dynamics';
-import type { AutomationTarget } from '../core/music/automation';
+import { type AutomationTarget, paramOf, reaches } from '../core/music/automation';
 import type {
   ScheduledAutomation,
   ScheduledClip,
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ import {
   FADE,
   type Follow,
   followCurve,
+  followMarks,
   fadeOut,
   gainNode,
   GLIDE,
@@ -283,6 +284,8 @@ interface Pending {
   bus: string;
   fx: Layered;
   timed: { params: FxParams; time: number; ease: EaseShare }[];
+  /** The marks of parameter lanes (#337) planned for it meanwhile, taken up once it starts. */
+  lanes: { param: string; automation: ScheduledAutomation }[];
   /** Stopped by its number before it started. */
   stopped: boolean;
   /** A note released before it started: it starts and is released at once, so a one-shot is heard. */
@@ -361,6 +364,8 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
   private readonly failed = new Set<string>();
   private voices: Voice[] = [];
   private pending: Pending[] = [];
+  /** The knobs a parameter's lane (#337) has planned for: the next window ramps on from there. */
+  private readonly followed = new WeakSet<Knob>();
   /**
    * The last note of each Acid (#421), by who plays it and the Acid: when it starts, until when it
    * is held, its frequency and voice, and what cuts it short – each of the notes that started then.
@@ -604,6 +609,8 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
    * A fresh start drops what was planned for it from its first mark on.
    */
   automateBus(name: string, automation: ScheduledAutomation): void {
+    const named = paramOf(automation.target);
+    if (named !== null) return this.automateParam(name, named, automation);
     const bus = this.buses.get(name);
     const first = automation.marks[0];
     if (!bus || !first) return;
@@ -635,10 +642,74 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
       else this.route(name, bus, into ?? null);
       this.setBus(name, gain, pan, automated);
       waits.push(this.setFx(bus, fx ?? null));
+      this.keepParams(bus, fx ?? null, automated ?? []);
     }
     await Promise.all(waits);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A parameter taken along its lane over one window (#337): on the sound FX of the track's bus and of
+   * every bus inside it, and on every voice heard inside it – playing, or still waiting on its bytes.
+   * Each mark is read through the chain, so a knob that is not the parameter itself follows too; one
+   * without a parameter of that name stays where it is.
+   */
+  private automateParam(name: string, param: string, automation: ScheduledAutomation): void {
+    if (automation.marks.length === 0) return;
+    const now = this.audio().currentTime;
+    for (const [busName, bus] of this.buses) {
+      const fx = bus.fx;
+      if (!fx || !reaches(name, busName)) continue;
+      const values = automation.marks.map((mark) => ({ ...fx.params, [param]: mark.value }));
+      if (bus.chain) {
+        const levels = values.map((params) => levelsOf(fxChainOf(fx.plan, params, fx.tempo)));
+        followMarks(bus.chain.knobs, levels, automation.marks, now, automation.fresh, this.followed);
+      }
+      bus.fx = { ...fx, params: values.at(-1)! };
+    }
+    for (const voice of this.voices)
+      if (voice.bus !== '' && reaches(name, voice.bus)) this.followVoice(voice, param, automation);
+    for (const waiting of this.pending)
+      if (waiting.bus !== '' && reaches(name, waiting.bus)) waiting.lanes.push({ param, automation });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A voice along a parameter's lane: a note's instrument and its own sound FX (`fx:`, see
+   * `strikeNote`) alike, as `Set sound FX parameters` reaches both.
+   */
+  private followVoice(voice: Voice, param: string, automation: ScheduledAutomation): void {
+    const { layers, tempo } = voice.fx;
+    const values = automation.marks.map((mark) => ({
+      ...voice.fx.params,
+      [param]: mark.value,
+      [`fx:${param}`]: mark.value,
+    }));
+    const levels = values.map((params) => {
+      const out: number[] = [];
+      for (const plan of layers) levelsOf(fxChainOf(plan, params, tempo), out);
+      return out;
+    });
+    const now = this.audio().currentTime;
+    followMarks(voice.knobs, levels, automation.marks, now, automation.fresh, this.followed);
+    voice.fx = { ...voice.fx, params: values.at(-1)! };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A sound FX set again as it was (#337): a parameter goes to what it is set to now – one a lane let
+   * go back to where it stands without one –, but one a lane rules is the lane's.
+   */
+  private keepParams(bus: Bus, fx: FxVoice | null, automated: readonly AutomationTarget[]): void {
+    const held = bus.fx;
+    if (!fx || !held || held === fx || held.plan !== fx.plan) return;
+    const ruled = new Set(automated.flatMap((target) => paramOf(target) ?? []));
+    const params: Record<string, number> = { ...fx.params };
+    for (const key of ruled) if (held.params[key] !== undefined) params[key] = held.params[key];
+    const keys = new Set([...Object.keys(params), ...Object.keys(held.params)]);
+    if ([...keys].every((key) => params[key] === held.params[key])) return;
+    bus.fx = { ...held, params };
+    const levels = levelsOf(fxChainOf(held.plan, params, held.tempo));
+    if (bus.chain) glideKnobs(bus.chain.knobs, levels, this.audio().currentTime, 0, 'linear');
+  }
+
   /**
    * Lets these buses go once what is on them now has faded (#346): their chains would otherwise run
    * on for nothing. One used again before then stays.
@@ -1698,6 +1769,7 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
       bus: start.bus ?? '',
       fx: { ...start.fx, params: { ...start.fx.params } },
       timed: [],
+      lanes: [],
       stopped: false,
       released: false,
     };
@@ -1718,6 +1790,9 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
       if (stream?.failed) delete started.stream;
       this.start(started);
       for (const { params, time, ease } of waiting.timed) this.tune(id, params, time, ease);
+      const voice = this.voices.find((other) => other.id === id);
+      if (voice)
+        for (const { param, automation } of waiting.lanes) this.followVoice(voice, param, automation);
       if (waiting.released) this.release(id);
     });
     return id;
diff --git a/src/viewport/fxNodes.ts b/src/viewport/fxNodes.ts
index 6ab09ab3..3a439891 100644
--- a/src/viewport/fxNodes.ts
+++ b/src/viewport/fxNodes.ts
@@ -675,6 +675,39 @@ export function glideKnobs(
   return moved;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Takes knobs along the marks of a parameter's lane (#337): `levels` are the knobs' levels at each
+ * mark, in the order of `marks`. A knob that stays where it is all the way is left alone. Each other
+ * one is ramped to its level at each mark, or jumped there; its first mark is a jump where nothing
+ * has been planned for it by a lane yet – `followed` says which have –, or where the playing has
+ * just started (`fresh`), which drops what was planned for it from there on.
+ */
+export function followMarks(
+  knobs: readonly Knob[],
+  levels: readonly (readonly number[])[],
+  marks: readonly { at: number; jump: boolean }[],
+  now: number,
+  fresh: boolean,
+  followed: WeakSet<Knob>,
+): void {
+  knobs.forEach((knob, i) => {
+    const param = knob.param;
+    const way = levels.map((level) => level[i]);
+    if (!param || way.every((level) => level === undefined || level === knob.target)) return;
+    const restart = fresh || !followed.has(knob);
+    followed.add(knob);
+    marks.forEach((mark, m) => {
+      const level = way[m];
+      if (level === undefined) return;
+      const at = Math.max(now, mark.at);
+      if (m === 0 && fresh) holdParam(param, at);
+      if (mark.jump || (m === 0 && restart)) param.setValueAtTime(level, at);
+      else param.linearRampToValueAtTime(level, at);
+    });
+    knob.target = way.at(-1) ?? knob.target;
+  });
+}
+
 /** Samples per second of an eased curve: a bounce keeps its corners, a long sweep stays small. */
 const CURVE_RATE = 200;
 
diff --git a/tests/core/automation-params.test.ts b/tests/core/automation-params.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..82015a1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/core/automation-params.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
+/**
+ * Automation of the parameters of a song's track (#337, stage 3): a lane `param:<name>` with a range
+ * of its own, the value each note and clip starts with, the sound FX of the track and its items set
+ * where the lane starts, and which parameters a track has to offer.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { CreateAssetCommand, SetAssetPropertyCommand } from '../../src/core/commands/assetCommands';
+import { SetPatternNotesCommand } from '../../src/core/commands/patternCommands';
+import { SetSongCommand } from '../../src/core/commands/songCommands';
+import type { BehaviorAsset, InstrumentAsset, SongAsset, SoundFxAsset } from '../../src/core/model/Asset';
+import { findAssetOf } from '../../src/core/model/Project';
+import { chipPresetGraph } from '../../src/core/instrument/chipPresets';
+import {
+  type AutomationLane,
+  heldLanes,
+  laneMarks,
+  laneRange,
+  paramsAt,
+  reaches,
+  type SequenceLane,
+} from '../../src/core/music/automation';
+import {
+  type ScheduledClip,
+  type ScheduledNote,
+  Scheduler,
+  type SchedulerHost,
+} from '../../src/core/music/Scheduler';
+import { newItem, songSequence, trackBus } from '../../src/core/music/song';
+import { songBuses } from '../../src/core/music/songBuses';
+import { defaultParamRange, trackParams } from '../../src/core/music/trackParams';
+import { strikeNote } from '../../src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext';
+import { type AudioSink, SILENT_AUDIO } from '../../src/runtime/systems/Audio';
+import { graphEditor, makeProject, type ProjectFixture } from '../helpers';
+
+const Q = 480;
+const BAR = 4 * Q;
+
+describe('a lane of a parameter (#337)', () => {
+  it('is held to a name without a colon, its points to its own range, and kept without a point', () => {
+    expect(
+      heldLanes([
+        {
+          target: 'param:cut',
+          min: 100,
+          max: 5000,
+          points: [
+            { tick: 0, value: 20000 },
+            { tick: 10, value: 50 },
+          ],
+        },
+        { target: 'param:', points: [{ tick: 0, value: 1 }] },
+        { target: 'param:a:b', points: [{ tick: 0, value: 1 }] },
+        { target: 'param:mix', min: 1, max: 1, points: [{ tick: 0, value: 3 }] },
+        { target: 'param:empty', min: -1, max: 1, points: [] },
+        { target: 'param:bare', points: [] },
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual([
+      {
+        target: 'param:cut',
+        min: 100,
+        max: 5000,
+        points: [
+          { tick: 0, value: 5000 },
+          { tick: 10, value: 100 },
+        ],
+      },
+      // A range that is none is the one a lane without a range has: 0 to 1.
+      { target: 'param:mix', points: [{ tick: 0, value: 1 }] },
+      { target: 'param:empty', min: -1, max: 1, points: [] },
+      { target: 'param:bare', points: [] },
+    ]);
+    expect(laneRange({ target: 'param:mix' })).toEqual({ min: 0, max: 1 });
+    expect(laneRange('volume')).toEqual({ min: -60, max: 12 });
+  });
+
+  it('reaches its track and every bus inside it, and starts what is heard there at its value', () => {
+    expect(reaches('song:s:t', 'song:s:t')).toBe(true);
+    expect(reaches('song:s:t', 'song:s:t:#items')).toBe(true);
+    expect(reaches('song:s:t', 'song:s:t2:#items')).toBe(false);
+    const lanes: SequenceLane[] = [
+      {
+        bus: 'song:s:t',
+        target: 'param:cut',
+        min: 0,
+        max: 10,
+        points: [
+          { tick: 0, value: 0 },
+          { tick: 100, value: 20 },
+        ],
+      },
+      { bus: 'song:s:t', target: 'volume', points: [{ tick: 0, value: -6 }] },
+      { bus: 'song:s:u', target: 'param:other', points: [{ tick: 0, value: 1 }] },
+    ];
+    expect(paramsAt(lanes, 'song:s:t:#items', 25)).toEqual({ cut: 5 });
+    // Past its range the way is held to it.
+    expect(paramsAt(lanes, 'song:s:t:item', 90)).toEqual({ cut: 10 });
+    expect(paramsAt(lanes, 'song:s:x:#items', 25)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(paramsAt(lanes, undefined, 25)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('is read every step even where it runs straight, as a knob may not be the parameter itself', () => {
+    const lane: SequenceLane = {
+      bus: 'b',
+      target: 'param:cut',
+      min: 0,
+      max: 1000,
+      points: [
+        { tick: 0, value: 0 },
+        { tick: 960, value: 1000 },
+      ],
+    };
+    const marks = laneMarks(lane, 0, null, 0, 480, true, 9.6);
+    expect(marks).toHaveLength(51);
+    // In the units of the parameter, not as a gain.
+    for (const mark of marks) expect(mark.value).toBeCloseTo((1000 * mark.at) / 960, 9);
+    const held = laneMarks({ ...lane, points: [{ tick: 0, value: 300 }] }, 0, null, 0, 480, true, 9.6);
+    expect(held).toEqual([
+      { at: 0, value: 300, jump: true },
+      { at: 480, value: 300, jump: false },
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the scheduler and a parameter lane (#337)', () => {
+  it('starts each note and clip of the track at the value the lane has where it starts', () => {
+    const notes: ScheduledNote[] = [];
+    const clips: ScheduledClip[] = [];
+    let time = 0;
+    const host: SchedulerHost = {
+      now: () => time,
+      latency: () => 0,
+      play: (note) => (notes.push(note), 1),
+      playClip: (clip) => (clips.push(clip), 2),
+      playing: () => true,
+      stop: () => {},
+      wake: () => () => {},
+    };
+    const lane: SequenceLane = {
+      bus: 'song:s:t',
+      target: 'param:cut',
+      min: 0,
+      max: 1000,
+      points: [
+        { tick: 0, value: 0 },
+        { tick: 1000, value: 1000 },
+      ],
+    };
+    const scheduler = new Scheduler(
+      host,
+      () => ({
+        notes: [
+          { tick: 200, length: 10, note: 60, velocity: 1, instrument: 'i', bus: 'song:s:t:#items' },
+          { tick: 210, length: 10, note: 60, velocity: 1, instrument: 'i', bus: 'song:s:u:#items' },
+        ],
+        clips: [{ tick: 100, length: 500, sound: 's', fx: '', offset: 0, volume: 1, bus: 'song:s:t:#items' }],
+        lanes: [lane],
+      }),
+      { tempo: 120 },
+    );
+    scheduler.start(300);
+    time = 0.5;
+    scheduler.pump();
+    expect(notes).toEqual([]);
+    // Started inside the clip: it is taken up 200 ticks in, at the value there.
+    expect(clips.map((clip) => clip.params)).toEqual([{ cut: 300 }]);
+    scheduler.start(150);
+    time = 1;
+    scheduler.pump();
+    expect(notes.map((note) => [note.bus, note.params])).toEqual([
+      ['song:s:t:#items', { cut: 200 }],
+      ['song:s:u:#items', undefined],
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
+/** A sound FX "Filter" with a parameter `cut` (default 800) into its gain. */
+function makeFilter(f: ProjectFixture): SoundFxAsset {
+  const command = new CreateAssetCommand('soundfx', 'Filter');
+  f.stack.execute(command);
+  const fx = command.asset as SoundFxAsset;
+  const edit = graphEditor(f, fx as unknown as BehaviorAsset);
+  const input = edit.addNode('SoundFxInput');
+  const gain = edit.addNode('SoundFxGain');
+  const output = edit.addNode('SoundFxOutput');
+  input.ports = [{ key: 'cut', kind: 'number', default: 800 }];
+  edit.connect(input, 'out', gain, 'in');
+  edit.connect(input, 'cut', gain, 'gain');
+  edit.connect(gain, 'out', output, 'in');
+  return fx;
+}
+
+/** A song "Tune" with a pattern of one note on its one track, played by a chip instrument with a parameter `tone`. */
+function makeTune() {
+  const f = makeProject();
+  const song = new CreateAssetCommand('song', 'Tune');
+  const pattern = new CreateAssetCommand('pattern', 'Riff');
+  const chip = new CreateAssetCommand('instrument', 'Chip');
+  for (const command of [song, pattern, chip]) f.stack.execute(command);
+  const instrument = chip.asset as InstrumentAsset;
+  instrument.graph = chipPresetGraph('pickup', () => 0);
+  instrument.graph.nodes.push({
+    id: 'params',
+    type: 'InstrumentParameters',
+    x: 0,
+    y: 0,
+    params: {},
+    ports: [
+      { key: 'tone', kind: 'number', default: 0.25 },
+      { key: 'cut', kind: 'number', default: 5 },
+    ],
+  });
+  f.stack.execute(new SetAssetPropertyCommand(pattern.asset.id, 'bars', 1));
+  f.stack.execute(new SetAssetPropertyCommand(pattern.asset.id, 'instrument', instrument.id));
+  f.stack.execute(
+    new SetPatternNotesCommand(pattern.asset.id, [{ id: 'n1', tick: 0, length: Q, note: 60, velocity: 1 }]),
+  );
+  const tune = () => findAssetOf(f.project, song.asset.id, 'song') as SongAsset;
+  const trackId = tune().tracks[0]!.id;
+  f.stack.execute(
+    new SetSongCommand(song.asset.id, {
+      items: [newItem({ track: trackId, kind: 'pattern', asset: pattern.asset.id, tick: 0, length: BAR })],
+    }),
+  );
+  const setTrack = (fields: Partial<SongAsset['tracks'][number]>) =>
+    f.stack.execute(new SetSongCommand(song.asset.id, { tracks: [{ ...tune().tracks[0]!, ...fields }] }));
+  return { ...f, tune, trackId, setTrack, instrument, patternId: pattern.asset.id };
+}
+
+describe('a song with a parameter lane (#337)', () => {
+  const cutLane: AutomationLane = {
+    target: 'param:cut',
+    min: 0,
+    max: 2000,
+    points: [
+      { tick: 0, value: 400 },
+      { tick: BAR, value: 1600 },
+    ],
+  };
+
+  it('plays it on its track, and sets the sound FX of the track where it starts', () => {
+    const f = makeTune();
+    const fx = makeFilter(f);
+    f.setTrack({ fx: fx.id, automation: [cutLane] });
+    expect(songSequence(f.project, f.tune()).lanes).toEqual([
+      { bus: trackBus(f.tune().id, f.trackId), ...cutLane },
+    ]);
+    const [track] = songBuses(f.project, f.tune());
+    expect(track).toMatchObject({ automated: ['param:cut'], fx: { params: { cut: 400 } } });
+    // Without a point it rules nothing, and is not played.
+    f.setTrack({ automation: [{ ...cutLane, points: [] }] });
+    expect(songSequence(f.project, f.tune()).lanes).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(songBuses(f.project, f.tune())[0]).not.toHaveProperty('automated');
+    expect(songBuses(f.project, f.tune())[0]!.fx!.params).toEqual({});
+  });
+
+  it('sets the sound FX of a pattern item on the track the same way, which leaves it to the lane', () => {
+    const f = makeTune();
+    const fx = makeFilter(f);
+    const item = f.tune().items[0]!;
+    f.stack.execute(new SetSongCommand(f.tune().id, { items: [{ ...item, fx: fx.id }] }));
+    f.setTrack({ automation: [cutLane] });
+    const own = songBuses(f.project, f.tune()).find((bus) => bus.name.endsWith(item.id));
+    expect(own).toMatchObject({ automated: ['param:cut'], fx: { params: { cut: 400 } } });
+  });
+
+  it('offers the parameters of the track, its items and their instruments, each name once', () => {
+    const f = makeTune();
+    const fx = makeFilter(f);
+    expect(trackParams(f.project, f.tune(), f.tune().tracks[0]!)).toEqual([
+      { name: 'tone', default: 0.25 },
+      { name: 'cut', default: 5 },
+    ]);
+    f.setTrack({ fx: fx.id });
+    // The track's own first: its `cut` is the one whose default is named.
+    expect(trackParams(f.project, f.tune(), f.tune().tracks[0]!)).toEqual([
+      { name: 'cut', default: 800 },
+      { name: 'tone', default: 0.25 },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('starts a new lane at a range round the default, on a round number', () => {
+    expect(defaultParamRange(0.25)).toEqual({ min: 0, max: 1 });
+    expect(defaultParamRange(800)).toEqual({ min: 0, max: 2000 });
+    expect(defaultParamRange(1.5)).toEqual({ min: 0, max: 5 });
+    expect(defaultParamRange(-3)).toEqual({ min: -10, max: 10 });
+    expect(defaultParamRange(Number.NaN)).toEqual({ min: 0, max: 1 });
+  });
+
+  it('hands a note its values for its instrument and its own sound FX alike', () => {
+    const f = makeTune();
+    const fx = makeFilter(f);
+    f.stack.execute(new SetAssetPropertyCommand(f.instrument.id, 'fx', fx.id));
+    const struck: { params: Record<string, number> }[] = [];
+    const audio: AudioSink = {
+      ...SILENT_AUDIO,
+      playNote: (_name, _layers, params) => (struck.push({ params: { ...params } }), 1),
+    };
+    const note: ScheduledNote = {
+      at: 0,
+      duration: 0.1,
+      note: 60,
+      velocity: 1,
+      instrument: f.instrument.id,
+      tempo: 120,
+      params: { cut: 1200 },
+    };
+    expect(strikeNote({ project: f.project, audio }, note, '')).toBe(1);
+    expect(struck[0]!.params).toMatchObject({ cut: 1200, 'fx:cut': 1200 });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/tests/editor/song-lanes.test.ts b/tests/editor/song-lanes.test.ts
index 7f94c4fa..54769353 100644
--- a/tests/editor/song-lanes.test.ts
+++ b/tests/editor/song-lanes.test.ts
@@ -10,10 +10,15 @@ import {
   easedPoint,
   lanePoints,
   withLanePoints,
+  withoutLane,
   withoutPoint,
+  withParamLane,
 } from '../../src/editor/song/laneEdit';
 import {
   LANE_INSET,
+  laneKindOf,
+  laneLabel,
+  laneStep,
   laneValue,
   laneValueText,
   laneWay,
@@ -21,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   pointAt,
   shownLanes,
   songRows,
+  trackLanes,
   trackRows,
 } from '../../src/editor/song/laneView';
 import { trackAtY, type SongView } from '../../src/editor/song/songView';
@@ -165,6 +171,53 @@ describe('editing the points of a lane (#337)', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('the lane of a parameter (#337)', () => {
+  const cut = { target: 'param:cut' as const, min: 0, max: 2000 };
+  const withCut = track('a', [
+    { target: 'volume', points: [{ tick: 0, value: -6 }] },
+    { ...cut, points: [] },
+  ]);
+
+  it('is shown by its name after the volume and the pan, with no point too: it was added', () => {
+    expect(laneLabel('param:cut')).toBe('cut');
+    expect(trackLanes(withCut)).toEqual(['volume', 'pan', 'param:cut']);
+    expect(shownLanes(withCut, new Map())).toEqual(['volume', 'param:cut']);
+    expect(laneKindOf(withCut, 'param:cut')).toEqual(cut);
+    expect(laneKindOf(withCut, 'pan')).toEqual({ target: 'pan' });
+  });
+
+  it('draws and reads its values in its own range, to a step that cuts it into a hundred or more', () => {
+    expect(laneY(cut, 0, 52)).toBe(52 - LANE_INSET);
+    expect(laneY(cut, 2000, 52)).toBe(LANE_INSET);
+    expect(laneStep(cut)).toBe(10);
+    expect(laneStep({ target: 'param:mix' })).toBe(0.01);
+    expect(laneValue(cut, laneY(cut, 1234, 52), 52)).toBe(1230);
+    expect(laneValue({ target: 'param:mix' }, 26, 52)).toBe(0.5);
+    expect(laneValueText(cut, 1234)).toBe('1230');
+    expect(laneValueText({ target: 'param:mix' }, 0.123)).toBe('0.12');
+    expect(addedPoint([], cut, 0, 5000).points).toEqual([{ tick: 0, value: 2000 }]);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps its lane and range without a point, takes its points into a new range, and goes only when removed', () => {
+    const a = withLanePoints(withCut, 'param:cut', [{ tick: 0, value: 1500 }]);
+    expect(a.automation?.map((l) => l.target)).toEqual(['volume', 'param:cut']);
+    const emptied = withLanePoints(a, 'param:cut', []);
+    expect(emptied.automation?.[1]).toEqual({ ...cut, points: [] });
+    const narrow = withParamLane(a, 'cut', { min: 0, max: 1000 });
+    expect(narrow.automation?.[1]).toEqual({ ...cut, max: 1000, points: [{ tick: 0, value: 1000 }] });
+    // A new one comes last; a later volume lane still goes first.
+    const more = withLanePoints(withParamLane(narrow, 'tone', { min: 0, max: 1 }), 'pan', [
+      { tick: 0, value: 0 },
+    ]);
+    expect(more.automation?.map((l) => l.target)).toEqual(['volume', 'pan', 'param:cut', 'param:tone']);
+    expect(withoutLane(more, 'param:cut').automation?.map((l) => l.target)).toEqual([
+      'volume',
+      'pan',
+      'param:tone',
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('the easings as a menu (#337)', () => {
   const project = {
     assets: [
diff --git a/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts b/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts
index 534c419a..ebea64d6 100644
--- a/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts
+++ b/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import {
   type FxStagePlan,
   type FxVoice,
 } from '../../src/core/soundfx/nodes';
+import type { AutomationTarget } from '../../src/core/music/automation';
+import { dbToGain } from '../../src/core/music/level';
 import type { MixBus } from '../../src/core/music/mixer';
 import type { BakePlay, SequencePlay } from '../../src/core/music/playbacks';
 import type { ScheduledAutomation, ScheduledNote } from '../../src/core/music/Scheduler';
@@ -2073,6 +2075,84 @@ describe('the automation of the tracks of a song (#337)', () => {
     ]);
     expect(library.busLevels().some((bus) => bus.name.includes('gone'))).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  /** A gain whose decibels are the parameter `loud`; with `source` it plays FILE, as a clip's FX does. */
+  const loud = (fields: Partial<FxPlan> = {}): FxVoice => ({
+    plan: {
+      pitch: [],
+      stages: [{ kind: 'gain', db: { value: 0, param: 'loud', min: -120, max: 24 } }],
+      ...fields,
+    },
+    params: {},
+    tempo: 120,
+  });
+  const clip = (library: SoundLibrary, bus: string, file = FILE) =>
+    library.playClip(file, { at: 0, offset: 0, duration: 10, volume: 1, bus }, loud());
+  const tracks = (fx: FxVoice, automated: readonly AutomationTarget[] = ['param:loud']) => [
+    { name: 'song:s:t', gain: 1, pan: 0, fx, automated },
+    { name: 'song:s:t:#items', gain: 1, pan: 0, into: 'song:s:t' },
+    { name: 'song:s:u:#items', gain: 1, pan: 0 },
+  ];
+  const marks = (...values: [number, number][]) =>
+    automation({
+      target: 'param:loud',
+      marks: values.map(([at, value]) => ({ at, value, jump: false })),
+    });
+  /** What was planned for each gain before the clips fade out at their end, 10 s on. */
+  const moved = () =>
+    gains.map((gain) => gain.ramps.filter(([, , at]) => Number(at) < 5)).filter((ramps) => ramps.length > 0);
+
+  it('takes the sound FX of a track and every voice inside it along a parameter, in what their knobs hold', async () => {
+    const library = new SoundLibrary(false);
+    await library.setBuses(tracks(loud()));
+    await settle();
+    clip(library, 'song:s:t:#items');
+    clip(library, 'song:s:u:#items');
+    await settle();
+    await arrive();
+    library.automateBus('song:s:t', marks([1, -6], [2, -12]));
+    // The chain of the track and the voice on it, each first set where nothing was planned yet.
+    const way = [
+      ['set', expect.closeTo(dbToGain(-6), 9), 1],
+      ['linear', expect.closeTo(dbToGain(-12), 9), 2],
+    ];
+    expect(moved()).toEqual([way, way]);
+    // The next window ramps on from there; a mark where a knob stays is left out.
+    library.automateBus('song:s:t', marks([2, -12], [3, 0]));
+    expect(moved()[0]).toEqual([...way, ['linear', expect.closeTo(dbToGain(-12), 9), 2], ['linear', 1, 3]]);
+    library.automateBus('song:s:t', marks([3, 0], [4, 0]));
+    expect(moved()[0]).toHaveLength(4);
+  });
+
+  it('takes up the marks planned for a voice still waiting on its bytes once it starts', async () => {
+    const library = new SoundLibrary(false);
+    await library.setBuses(tracks({ ...loud(), plan: { pitch: [], stages: [] } }, []));
+    clip(library, 'song:s:t:#items', OTHER);
+    library.automateBus('song:s:t', marks([1, -6], [2, -12]));
+    expect(moved()).toEqual([]);
+    await settle();
+    await arrive();
+    expect(moved()).toEqual([
+      [
+        ['set', expect.closeTo(dbToGain(-6), 9), 1],
+        ['linear', expect.closeTo(dbToGain(-12), 9), 2],
+      ],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a parameter a lane rules alone when the tracks are set again, and hands one let go back', async () => {
+    const library = new SoundLibrary(false);
+    // One plan throughout, as a sound FX compiles to: another would be another chain.
+    const fx = loud();
+    await library.setBuses(tracks(fx));
+    library.automateBus('song:s:t', marks([1, -12]));
+    const knob = gains.find((gain) => gain.ramps.length > 0)!;
+    await library.setBuses(tracks({ ...fx, params: { loud: -3 } }));
+    expect(knob.glides).toEqual([]);
+    // The lane is gone: back to what the track's FX is set to, its default.
+    await library.setBuses(tracks(fx, []));
+    expect(knob.glides).toEqual([1]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('a bake (#340)', () => {
diff --git a/tools/e2e/65-song.mjs b/tools/e2e/65-song.mjs
index a9003a0d..8ff79493 100644
--- a/tools/e2e/65-song.mjs
+++ b/tools/e2e/65-song.mjs
@@ -703,7 +703,65 @@ export async function song(t) {
   await mutate(`
     const song = __gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === ${JSON.stringify(id)});
     delete song.tracks[1].automation;
-    song.tracks[1].volume = 0;
+    song.tracks[1].volume = 0;`);
+
+  // 65h3. A lane of a parameter (#337, stage 3): the sound item of the first track goes through a
+  //       sound FX whose parameter `cut` is its gain in dB, and starts again a bar on, eight bars
+  //       long. Its clip starts at the value the lane has there, and its knob follows the lane while
+  //       it plays: one voice, read twice.
+  const cutItem = (await model()).items.find((i) => i.kind === 'sound');
+  const itemBefore = JSON.stringify(cutItem);
+  const startAt = Math.ceil(((await json('__gm.song.position()')).ticks + BAR) / BAR) * BAR;
+  await mutate(`
+    __gm.state.project.assets.push({
+      id: 'sg65-fx',
+      type: 'soundfx',
+      name: 'Cut 65',
+      props: {},
+      graph: {
+        nodes: ${JSON.stringify([
+          node('sg65-fx-in', 'SoundFxInput', 0, 0, {}, [{ key: 'cut', kind: 'number', default: 0 }]),
+          node('sg65-fx-gain', 'SoundFxGain', 200, 0),
+          node('sg65-fx-out', 'SoundFxOutput', 400, 0),
+        ])},
+        edges: ${JSON.stringify([
+          edge('sg65-fx-e1', 'sg65-fx-in', 'out', 'sg65-fx-gain', 'in'),
+          edge('sg65-fx-e2', 'sg65-fx-in', 'cut', 'sg65-fx-gain', 'gain'),
+          edge('sg65-fx-e3', 'sg65-fx-gain', 'out', 'sg65-fx-out', 'in'),
+        ])},
+      },
+    });
+    const song = __gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === ${JSON.stringify(id)});
+    const item = song.items.find((i) => i.id === ${JSON.stringify(cutItem.id)});
+    Object.assign(item, { fx: 'sg65-fx', tick: ${startAt}, length: ${8 * BAR} });
+    song.tracks[0].automation = [
+      { target: 'param:cut', min: -40, max: 0, points: [{ tick: 0, value: -40 }, { tick: ${16 * BAR}, value: 0 }] },
+    ];`);
+  const cutDb = (ticks) => -40 + (40 * ticks) / (16 * BAR);
+  const readCut = () =>
+    json(`({
+      voices: __gm.sound.levels(${JSON.stringify(blip?.file ?? '')}).filter((knobs) => knobs.length > 0),
+      at: __gm.song.position()?.ticks,
+      clip: __gm.song.clips().filter((c) => c.fx === 'sg65-fx').at(-1) ?? null,
+    })`);
+  const cutFirst = await waitFor(readCut, (r) => r.voices.length > 0 && r.at > startAt + 0.25 * BAR, 40);
+  await sleep(1500);
+  const cutLater = await readCut();
+  const offCut = (r) => Math.abs(20 * Math.log10(r.voices[0]?.at(-1) ?? 0) - cutDb(r.at));
+  check(
+    'a lane of a parameter starts a clip at its value there and takes its knob along while it plays',
+    [cutFirst, cutLater].every((r) => r.voices.length === 1 && offCut(r) < 1) &&
+      Math.abs(cutFirst.clip?.params?.cut - cutDb(startAt)) < 0.01 &&
+      cutLater.at - cutFirst.at > 600 &&
+      20 * Math.log10(cutLater.voices[0].at(-1) / cutFirst.voices[0].at(-1)) > 1,
+    JSON.stringify({ startAt, cutFirst, cutLater, off: [cutFirst, cutLater].map(offCut) }),
+  );
+  await mutate(`
+    const song = __gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === ${JSON.stringify(id)});
+    const at = song.items.findIndex((i) => i.id === ${JSON.stringify(cutItem.id)});
+    song.items[at] = ${itemBefore};
+    delete song.tracks[0].automation;
+    __gm.state.project.assets = __gm.state.project.assets.filter((a) => a.id !== 'sg65-fx');
     ${loopBefore ? `song.loop = ${JSON.stringify(loopBefore)};` : 'delete song.loop;'}`);
   await click(...Object.values(await json("__gm.song.headAt(0, 'mute')")));
   // Mute closes every send of the track (#350); its own level stays as it is set.