On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Adam B. Varga wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just discovered XO Wave last night - and am really excited by what its
capable of. I run
> podcast called Dailysonic and have been looking for an inexpensive yet
powerful DAW to
> recommend to our contribs and other fellow podcasters).
>
> One question - especially relevant to podcasting... Is XO Wave really capable
of ducking? It
> appears that the side chain on the compressor only allows me to select an EQ
range on the
> same audio track... In order to duck my audio I'd need to, for example, put
vocals on track 1
> & music on track 2, put a compressor on track 2 with the side chain analyzing
the input from
> track 1. Is that currently possible?

Thanks for your comments. unfortunately, ducking is not really possible
with the current version, though we plan to implement it in the future. In
general, I recomend volume automation as an alternative.


For what it's worth, you could get ducking by some complex track routing
trickery, but I'm not sure it's worth it, since it requires understanding
the routing so that you can appropriately set levels.

If it is worth it, here's how:

- create a stereo speech track. (track 1)
- create a stereo audio track. pan it to the right. (track 2)
- create a mix track. (track 3)
- assign the output from track 2 to track 3.
- assign the routing of track 3 to output only it's right track to the
main output.
- add an aux send to track 1. set it to go to the left channel of track 3.

That should do it, though obviously a real ducking feature would be
better.

bjorn

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