I have recovered does that mean that you have had a major insident on your system and has used some kind of software to recover destroyed files? If so, the information could somehow be lost.. If you on the other hand just have loaded an older project then it is strange that the instrumentnames has ...
*sigh* sadly no..
not even zynAddSubFX that is shipped with lmms can have any knobs bound to automation. Only the instruments 'default preset' interface-knobs can be automated.
BR