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Audacity 2.2.0 Released
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http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/___________________________________________________________________
ukyrgf - 20 minutes ago
I love seeing software that still has a "Screenshots" section of
their website. It's looked the same for as long as I've been using
computers to record audio, starting with my high school band's demo
over 15 years ago.I could probably make fun of Audacity for not
keeping up with the times, but if you look at other DAWs you'll see
none are exactly bastions of good interface design. I got a little
more serious about my music last year and decided I wanted to
invest in a nice DAW, but after demoing I few I felt completely
unimpressed. They're nearly identical to how they were 15 years
ago, other than my PC being much more powerful. I ended up just
sticking with Reaper, and hoping something comes along someday to
mix the industry up. Proprietary dongles and tiered versions of the
exact same software with gimped features doesn't cut it for me.
st0le - moments ago
I'm certain I'm more likely to download your app if you have some
informative screenshots on your webpage.
esaym - 58 minutes ago
Looks like still no native pulse audio support.. dang.
wohlergehen - 43 minutes ago
I know I've come across a debugging story that ultimately ended up
with the author loading binary data into audacity and
hearing/seeing a pattern.Does anyone know what I mean, and has a
link, since I can't seem to find it...?
bayangan - 20 minutes ago
This is the only reference I have to it https://imgur.com/7ZoTLX7
Cyphase - 42 minutes ago
Can the link be changed to HTTPS? Unfortunately the site isn't
doing it automatically, even though it does support HTTPS
connections.
bfuller - 1 hours ago
I recently switched my workflow to all linux compatible free as in
beer software. I like being able to produce music on pretty much
any hardware no matter where I am.I love audacity and want to say
thanks to the team!
bitwisebob - 1 hours ago
What other free-as-in-beer software do you use to produce music?
tangental - 56 minutes ago
Not for producing as such but there's also Mixxx DJ software
where you can write your own controls and effects in
Javascript.
chiefalchemist - 48 minutes ago
Have you used it? How does it compare to commercial DJ
software? Iyho
tomc1985 - 8 minutes ago
Compared to digital vinyl with Serato, I found Mixx to be
laggy (and more importantly, lacking of a dedicated
next/previous track keys) with a low-end Pioneer DDJ SB.
Track controls are replaced with a "hot cue" function,
which makes beatmatching without cuepoints unnecessarily
cumbersome. Don't recall if the UI had a dedicated
next/prev track button but remapping the control scheme
meant diving into some javascript datastructure that I
wasn't in the right mindset to do at the time. Really
wanted to like Mixxx but I could not see how I could
perform with it
tangental - 29 minutes ago
Yes I use it regularly. It has more or less the same
features as the commercial software. Where it falls down is
with the quality of the audio effects which are nowhere
near as good as the ones you find on Serato or Traktor, but
they're getting better all the time. On the other hand, you
can customize almost every aspect of Mixxx. I have an
unconventional controller setup so created my own skin (XML
and CSS) and MIDI controls (Javascript) and that has really
helped my 'creativity'.
tomc1985 - 1 hours ago
Not OP, but there's Ardour, Rosegarden, or Audacity
anonova - 1 hours ago
Ardour (https://ardour.org/) and LMMS (https://lmms.io/) are
probably the two most popular open-source DAWs. I also really
like MuseScore (https://musescore.org/) for composition.
bfuller - 1 hours ago
also hydrogen is ok
thomastjeffery - 15 minutes ago
All three of these are Free (as in freedom).
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tpabla - 1 hours ago
I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of
software!
xellisx - 1 hours ago
Back in my day, we had Windows Recorder and Cool Edit.
laumars - 56 minutes ago
I don't think anyone used Windows Sound Recorder for anything
serious. It had a built in maximum record length for starters
(I think to prevent piracy?).Sound Forge was my preferred
editor for years before Audacity matured. Cool Edit was ok, but
I seem to recall it had a bizarrely over-designed UI that made
the thing feel more like a toy than a serious tool.
Particularly when compared to the much older and more feature
rich (at that time) Sound Forge. It took a while before Cool
Edit really became competitive and by that point I was already
using Audacity.I do still miss some features of Sound Forge
even now. Though I don't tend to do too much with audio editors
these days compared to the stuff I was doing in the 90s and
00s.
whatever_dude - 51 minutes ago
> It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I
think to prevent piracy?).It was somewhat related to the
memory the computer had. I think it tried to store audio all
uncompressed in memory. At the very least it varied a lot
between different machines. I remember trying it in a super
low spec machine and it could record up to about 5s max.
dguaraglia - 48 minutes ago
Haha, Cool Edit... now, that's a name I haven't heard in
forever. Cool Edit and Paint Shop Pro were like the highest end
crackeable shareware I never had a use for, and yet for some
reason were the first thing I'd install on every new Windows
install.
bobsgame - 46 minutes ago
Cool Edit is now Adobe Audition
reaperducer - 33 minutes ago
Back in my day we had SIDEdit. And you would solder one SID
chip on top of the other piggy-back style to make sweet stereo
music.
tomc1985 - 1 hours ago
I am so glad for Audacity but the UI always feels more convoluted
than it needs to be. I wish they would copy Sound Forge's controls
microcolonel - 1 hours ago
That's a thought! I think that Reaper is the one to beat these
days though, is there an essay or review of Sound Forge which
would capture (comprehensively) what is to love about it?It'd be
nice to decouple the UI from all the major open source sequencer
and audio software, just leave some sort of pure data + Core
Audio style innards and reconnect the UIs on top. I've taken a
few cracks at this in private, but embarrassingly have a hard
time getting much done on this particular project without anyone
watching.
tomc1985 - 52 minutes ago
I am not at home with my audio software but, off the top of my
head, zooming and navigating a waveform in Sound Forge is SUPER
efficient and intuitive, as mouse-wheel zooms and middle-click
scrolls, and click-drag to edit individual samples. You can
quickly zoom into your work at a level of individual samples
and them zoom out and see the whole waveform in only a few
movements.My other favorite features are how editing doesn't
rely on "modes' like Audacity (I hate having to hit a button
before I make a selection then another to do something else),
and Sound Forge's selection logic itself:- the playback cursor
will intelligently snap and loop on your selections (or not,
depending on how you set the toggle), -- the editing scrolls to
follow your cursor as you are zoomed in, but not if you're
currently editing something. A lot of programs do this but I
find their logic is terrible and I have to control automatic
scrolling myself. This is very helpful for working on
seamlessly looping material, as you can leave playback on loop
and continue working at the very end of your selection without
the UI losing your place- load and save in native formats
without having to use some proprietary intermediary format
(AUP)
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blt - 37 minutes ago
MIDI support seems like feature bloat to me...
harrumph - 20 minutes ago
>MIDI support seems like feature bloat to me...Totally agree, but
you know how it is. I really have always seen Audacity as a
swiss army knife for PCM audio files, but I am always surprised
to see what people do with swiss army knives.
reaperducer - 34 minutes ago
bt and hundreds of thousands of other musicians would
disagree.(Actually, let's hope that bt can afford something
better than Audacity, but the point remains that MIDI is still a
hugely popular protocol.)
tomc1985 - 5 minutes ago
It's not that. MIDI != PCM or any kind of audio data reallyMidi
looks like (imagine someone playing two notes: a C then a D):C4
127 On C4 127 Off D4 127 On D4 127 Off(not literally, but that
is the essence of MIDI)MIDI support means synthesizer support,
which means VST support, which means now you need some sort of
MIDI data editor, which means now you've got to work out all
the weird timing shit with MIDI, and by this point you are
better off with LMMS or FLStudio or Pro Tools or what-have-you.
Use the tool most fit for purpose
da_chicken - 25 minutes ago
Kind of depends to what extent MIDI is supported. Many
instruments output MIDI. If they're slowly adding MIDI playback
support, they may begin adding MIDI recording support.
tomc1985 - 6 minutes ago
Audacity is for audio data. If you want MIDI use a DAW
SnowingXIV - 32 minutes ago
Woah, this is still around? Years and years ago when I poorly
attempted that "band" life. My friends and I would use this as our
recording software and it was great. Glad to see them keep at it!
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