I really need help with this. I can't use audacity or anything when recording with Action!

Hello there I have been using Action! for quite a while now. But now I'm running into a lot of seemingly impossible to fix bugs here and there. The largest and most annoying one is: When recording with Action! The program takes absolute priority over my microphone and will not allow any other progra...

Issue 1: I'm not sure how to stop Action from taking exclusive access to my microphone. I have even set the microphone to not allow exclusive access but no matter what, when I'm recording, action takes it anyway. This causes my friends in things like discord or even in-game unable to hear me when I ...