Hi
Yes, you have to swap the two tracks.
1. Music
2. Voice
The control track has always to be beneath the affected track.
Apropos affected, you only want the music track to duck and the vocals
shouldn't be modified at all. Therefore, only the music track has to
be selected but not the vocals.
As I said, you assign the vocal track through its position to be
involved in the process and not through its selectiveness (the only
effect that acts like that, by the way)
However, you wanted a bit of silence at the start of the vocal so
things are quite the other way around (vocals should move, music not).
Here are the steps:
1. Select vocals, deselect music.
2. solo the music track or mute the vocals
3. find the right spot where the vox should come in.
4. Go to Tracks -> Align Tracks -> Start to Cursor/Selection Start.
This aligns the vocal track start with the position you've previously
found.
5. Repeat if necessary steps 3 and 4.
6. Select all (Control+a) but deselect the vocal track through
pressing enter on it.
7. Apply Auto Duck.
Cheers
Robert
On 10/09/2020, Sarah Stephenson-Hunter <sarahlstephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Yes me again!!
So I'm still struggling to get my head around getting auto duck to work even
though I know it should be simple!!
As you may recall I've started a podcast and have some music I use for intro
/ outro. I have the vocal track as track 1 and the intro music as track 2,
I select autoduck and it says something along the lines of "need to select
control track". I've tried switching things round i.e. music as track 1 and
vocals as track 2 but get the same response - what am I doing wrong?
Also presuming I can get the above to work how do I insert some silence into
the vocal track so that part of the music plans before the vocal track comes
in i.e. say it's a 30 second intro and I want the vocals to come in 15
seconds into the intro music and vice versa at the end.
Hope this all makes sense!!
With best wishes as always,
Sarah
Sarah Stephenson-Hunter
