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I am producing some spoken-word CDs to go with a series of seminars. I need to start with music up, then fade the music for the narrator, then bring the music back up at the end.

I do this in Real Band. Any DAW would work.

I tried going to mixer view and fading the music down then up in real time. Then I tried the "Record Mixer Moves" function in RB. I have to use my mouse to do the fades. Both ways came out rougher than I would have liked.

Then I tried copying the music to two duplicate tracks. One instance is at full volume and the other 12 dB lower to serve as music-under while the narrator is talking.

On the full-volume track, I use "EDIT>EFFECTS>Gain change" to create the fade-out and fade-back-in on the full volume track. Erase the audio between fades. The lower-volume track is going the whole time. Paste in the narration on a separate track at about 00:09.

Came out very smooth. I get a nice degree of editability and do-over if I need it. The process is easily reproduced for the next project in the series.

Let me know if y'all decide to try this.

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