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First, the track volume envelope is always post-fx. Keep that in mind, because you want to control the material before it hits your compressor, and I assume you want to do it on one track.
If hand-editing envelopes is your thing you have two choices, but the more practical way is to use the ITEM TAKE VOLUME ENVELOPE(the other beind the pre-fx volume envelope of the track), and bake that by using the action "RENDER AS NEW TAKE", which bakes the item take volume envelope in to new audio.
So the sequence of events for this method is:
- Switch on the take volume envelope in the context menu of your items(or use the relevant action on a selected bunch of items)
- Make your volume changes on the item take volume envelope(long title).
- To bake them in to audio, select the items and use the action "Render as new take". A new take will appear with the rendered audio, and the old take will remain available if you'd like to change your mind on something.
Should you prefer to ride faders, then the Feed-One-Track-In-To-Another is the better idea. If you'd like to bake that in to new audio, you can just FREEZE the feeding track, mute that track and copy the frozen audio on to the fed track that has the compressor and other processing on it.
Thus, Track 1 feeds exclusively to Track 2. Track 2 has the plugin processing on it. Track 1 uses the volume envelope to control the signal before it hits any processing on Track 2. Bake by Freezing Track 1 and copying that audio to Track 2, then mute Track 1(and unfreeze if you like).
So, hand editing and one track, or fader riding and two tracks. Your choice really, and there are probably a few more methods
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