Who do I know that uses an old ish version of Sound Forge with the good auto-ducker? If that's you, can you make a list or a recording of yourself moving through its controls? I've had requests to try making something similar for REAPER, have got a thing going, but I'd like the controls to feel familiar and I don't have SF here for comparrison.
Names of controls in the equivalent GoldWave feature would also be interesting to see, maybe I can land on a sort of middle ground.
@Scott I could do that if I were at home (still have an old version on an old computer I don't use anymore), but I'm not, so I can't. All that completely useless stuff to ask: when you say auto ducker, do you mean the thing in the mixed dialogue where you can set a fade in and fade out time, then set the source and destination levels, such that it drops to the specified level when mixing instead of just dropping immediately?
@BorrisInABox Yup that.
@Scott So, without looking, you have a slider that goes in 0.1 DB increments for source volume, that being what is on the clipboard. Then a phase invert check box. The same repeats for destination, in other words, what you are mixing on top of. Then there are two boxes for how long a fade should happen before the thing is mixed at whatever levels you use. So it's basically like a pre-roll. Mixing starts at the cursor, fading starts however long before the cursor, and ends after the end point of what is being mixed. I think that's basically all there is to it.
@Scott Can't seem to find that in version 13. I really should ditch it entirely so I'm forced to use Reaper.