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Let's take a step back...

Imagine that you're telling me how to create exactly the same set up as you have, and describe, step by step, what I need to do to reproduce the problem.

It can be done with a macro (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html). You need to know in advance how long "file 1" is, then your macro commands are: 1) Select from start of track to <length of file 1> 2) Repeat effect (repeat once) 3) Select from start of track to <length of file...

See also: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=106071

I want to reduce it at the time i want to speak... can that be done? Not with Audacity. Audacity is designed for "off-line" editing. That is, you record or import the audio, then edit it. For live mixing, you could either record the CD and voice at the same time using a mixer (hardware), ...

You can use the envelope tool (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/envelope_tool.html) This is the more flexible approach. or You could use the Auto Duck effect https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/auto_duck.html This is not such a flexible approach, but can be very quick to do once you have everythi...

Check the "Frequency Bands" setting. By default it is set at "3". It must be between 0 and 12. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/noi ... ction.html

Instructions for installing FFmpeg are here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#winff

Working with high quality audio (or video) does require a lot of disk space. There's no way around that. Audacity works in very high quality "32-bit float" format. At the default sample rate of 44100 Hz, a stereo track requires around 20 MB per minute of audio. Audacity also supports unlim...

Please report problems with Snap packages (or flatpac) to the person that supplied the package.

This is not a known problem in a normal release build of Audacity.

Please avoid posting duplicate topics. For general questions like this, please post to the forum board that matches your operating system - in your case, the Windows board. Your previous topic is here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=106155 I'll close this topic to avoid dual...