Hey Robert, you beat me to it. I started my comments but was distracted by
dinner. I did not check for new mail before posting.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Robert Hänggi
Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2020 7:51 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Autoducking / inserting silence
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
