Sony Vegas Automated track volume based off separate track?

[Mitalis]

Greetings,

I have 2 audio tracks in Sony Vegas. Track #1 is captured audio recorded through a video game. Track #2 is commentary. What I'm wondering is if there is a way I can have track #1 volume pan down automatically to a specific level while there is talking happening in track #2, and then when track #2 is silent the volume in track #1 adjusts back to the default level.

Is this possible, if so how would I set that up in Vegas?

Thanks in advance.

-Mitalis

[budwzr]

Right click the track and turn on the volume envelope. Then left double click to create points.



What you see here is called a "duck". The playback sound will drop to whatever is on the track below. The shape is a visual representation of fade out, hold, fade up.

To select a preset, right click a point.

[poisondeathray]

I think he wants to do it "automatically"

In the audio world, it's called "ducking"

I don't think vegas can do it without 3rd party scripts or plugins, but you can search for "sony vegas and audio ducking"

http://vegasaur.com/voice-over

[Mitalis]

Thanks budwzr,

That's basically what I've been doing by hand... I was hoping there was some sort of way of Vegas being able do achieve this automatically, but I think Vegasaur will work. Thanks poisondeathray.

[budwzr]

Hmmm...I see, said the blind man

[Cornucopia]

Some 3rd party compressor plugins (VST, DirX) include the ability to duck as long as they can take a different channel as their control signal.

Scott