Audacity Forum

I'm a documentation guy; I think that everything we know about a program should be in the manual. Fantastic, (and yes I agree that the manual should be comprehensive). As you will no doubt appreciate, documenting Audacity is a huge task, so volunteers to help with the task are always welcome. Do yo...

And, as it happens, because for some reason, it didn't work for me. 1) Place music bed as first track vertically in workspace. 2) Assemble all voice clips into the second track. 3) Select first track by clicking on control panel; observe that the entire track is selected. 4) Choose Effects->Auto Duc...

Because inspection is rarely authoritative.

I'm a documentation guy; I think that everything we know about a program should be in the manual.

Also, because my followup question only made sense in context.

I *prefer* dragging points. I just prefer them to react in the fashion I expect. :-) Am I correct in understanding that there can be multiple selected tracks which will be ducked, but only one unselected track which will act as the control -- that is: that I must drag all the segments of my announce...

I'm afraid, Gale, that I can parse neither your reply nor the page quite well enough to be sure whether Auto Duck applies an envelope to each selected track, with the calculated envelope points in it and editable, or modifies the actual selected track audio , baking the calculated envelope into it u...

I haven't, but I will. Does it actually create an editable envelope on the target track?

For the record, I would be fine with "modifier-key requires that you click to add a new point *on* the current curve, not off of it" (which is, I think, the specific point at hand. My particular use case, as I alluded to above, is ducking music beds for VO, in which case the envelope is at 100% ever...

Thank you.

I'll try to test MixMeister and Audition to see what they do different.

I didn't suggest "not visibly creating" the point when you click. I know that, but since everyone is beefing about Envelope Tool I reserve the right to add my own beefs. ;) Ah, sorry; you cornered too fast for me. I just suggested that you be required to click and release to create it, and then cli...

Actually, you don't have to move the mouse to create and simultaneously "adjust" a control point on creation of the point. Just click somewhere below the 100% envelope line. It is very difficult to add a point exactly at the 100% level. I rarely use envelopes, but when I do I've gotten into the hab...