Hi David, thx for your firm answer. I am familiar with broadcast and radio, as i am an enginear, but apple, voiceOver and Audacity are still a bit new to me, so consider me as a beginner smile. What are the j and shift k keys for? after selecting the tracks? I also wander if there is a way to change the language of audacity. now its dutch, but thats very inconvenient. One of the reasons why i could not find the auto dugging. It was called here automatisch dempen. In my opinion, thats a reall other thing smile. Hope you can help me further? If it works better, my skype is: syoss2012 . thx, Egbert Op 17 mrt. 2012, om 10:35 heeft David Bailes het volgende geschreven: > Hi Egbert, > > Are you trying to get the auto duck effect to work? If so, here are some > instructions: > > The requirements of the Auto Duck effect are that: > 1. The tracks whose volume is going to be reduced are selected, and a > time-range is selected to include all the audio you want to be modified. > 2. The control track is the next track after the above tracks, and it isn't > selected. > > So if you've got one music track and one narration track in the project: > 1. Make sure that the music track is the first track. You can move tracks up > and down the table using the tracks context menu (application key). > 2. Arrange for the music track to be selected and the narration track > unselected. (pressing enter toggles whether the focussed track is selected) > 3. Select a time range to include all the audio in the selected track: press > j, and then shift + k. > 4. Open the Auto Duck effect from the effects menu, and press Enter to press > the default OK button. > > In fact the Auto Duck dialog contains a number of controls for setting > various parameters which you may want to adjust. All the time parameters are > specified in seconds, and the volumes in db. > 1. The first control is a panel which graphically illustrates the parameters, > and you can just ignore this. > 2. The duck amount is the reduction in volume. > 3. The maximum pause is the maximum time that the volume in the control > track can be below the specified threshold before the volume in the selected > tracks is faded up again. > 4. The time over which the volume in the selected tracks is faded down to > the reduced volume is made up of two parts: the time before and the time > after the time when the volume in the control track exceeds a threshold. > These are known as the outer and inner fade down lengths. > 5. Similarly, there are outer and inner fade up lengths. > 6. The threshold is the volume in the control track which if exceeded causes > the volume in the selected tracks to be reduced. > > Note that whatever value of maximum pause is set, it is always at least the > sum of the outer fade down and fade up lengths. > > Note also that Undo (ctrl+z), and redo (ctrl+y) are very useful when playing > around with effects. > > > David. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: van Ooit <vanooit@xxxxxxxxx> > To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, 17 March 2012, 1:26 > Subject: [audacity4blind] new listmember > > Hi All, > > first, let me excuse myself for my rusty writing. > i am Dutch, near by Rotterdam and English is not my first language. > The mac and Audacity are fairly new to me, and although i am a fast learner, > there is einough to ask. > > > for instans: > i wanne dug somemusic because i want to tell something in a podcast i am > doing. music is track one, my voice track two. > i gave markers in the music track, when i started and stopt talking. > but no dugging option in the effect menu appeers. > Any idea's? > thx, > Egbert > The audacity4blind web site is at > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > Audacity keyboard commands, and more... > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject line > unsubscribe > > The audacity4blind web site is at > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > Audacity keyboard commands, and more... > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject line > unsubscribe > The audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe