Audacity Forum

OK, its not the end of the word to press record and delete the silent beginning and end if all else works well. I think that is definitely the best method, but if you are still interested in looking into why Sound Activated Recording is not working for you, we can still look into that question. (So...

rrm wrote:It is not a freezing problem, audacity is automatically shut down, there is no option of waiting.

rrm wrote:audacity is freezes and is forced to shut down with windows message that it doesn't react anymore.

These two statements appear to be contradictory. Can you clarify?

Koolmees wrote:you handle this after making the program

Yes.
Record or import the music track(s).
Record your voice track.
Adjust the level of the music track(s) - either the Envelope Tool or the Auto Duck effect may be useful for this step (see links in previous posts)

Romeo-Charlie wrote: I just have to press the record button at the right time and wanted to have Audacity do it automatically.

The easiest way is to start Audacity recording first, then when the recording is finished, select the silent part at the beginning of the recording and delete it.

I can record and hear fine Sorry for the confusion Romeo-Charlie, I think that waxcylinder was replying to a post by another user that jumped into this conversation with an unrelated issue, but while he was typing I disapproved the unrelated post. I have notified waxcylinder so he may delete his la...

Have a look at this tutorial: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Creat ... h_Audacity
and also, the Envelope Tool: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Envelope_Tool

Is there a way to do a crossfade (or something similar) by selecting the app area where the two waves meet? There is a cross-fade plug-in that I think will be just the thing. You can download it here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=4324 To install the plug-in, put it in the Auda...

What is the job? What are you trying to do and how are you trying to do it? Too much detail is better than not enough.

Do you have the recording input set to the USB option in the Device Toolbar?

If that does not solve the problem, please give full details of your setup including model numbers. (too much detail is better than not enough)

Could this be the reason? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war