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The idea of voice activation is to divorce the performance from the timeline. Why don't you just record everything? The loud bits will be the only ones that stick up on the timeline. If you want more of an indication, apply Noise Gate to the recording and that will switch between Something and Nothi...

Do either or both of you still have the evil sound files?

It could be really important to get them to the Audacity developers for inspection.

Koz

The AUP project manager files are plain text and they will open in any text editor. Open one up (do not save anything) and look at it. First of all, is there anything there? Does it look something like this? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/aupFileGraphic-redbox.jpg Yours will be more condensed. I...

Start a fresh Audacity. Generate > Silence. Play it. Do you get the click? If you do, then your on-board soundcard may be in trouble.

Set the 2i2 as your playback device and listen to it with headphones. Play the silence. Do you get the click?

Koz

Most of the log is complaining about not being able to find FFMpeg and its associated programs. This looks like the sky is falling, but is normal if you didn't install the FFMpeg libraries. You may not if you didn't need them. They're optional if you didn't need additional or unusual sound formats. ...

Quick note: If your ACX Check succeeds on a mono show, the user display is relatively simple and concise. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ACX-Check_Success2.jpg But if you do everything wrong in stereo the panel reads like a small book. Make fresh coffee. Screen Shot 2019-08-16 at 20.19.20.png Koz

Is this spoken word or music? This only works if the voice isn't already mixed with anything else. You can't take apart a mixed performance, fix something and put it back together again—like say video game commentary.

Koz

How "tight" is it? Did you try to correct one word in the middle of a sentence? That will usually drive you nuts. If the correction is a little sloppy, say, one sentence, you can use the Envelope Tool (two arrows and bent line). Keep pushing the work around louder and softer until you get ...

This burns me every time.

I want Audacity to default to Export Selected if I select something.

Koz

I tried it. The vocal has a lot of special effects added and the best I could do was underwater bubbling. untitled.mp3 Vocal Remover fails most of the time. Next time you see a proof of concept Youtube posting about success, see if they get it to work more than once. I can get it to work once by car...