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Audacity 2.2.0 Released

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Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

microcolonel wrote: post #13
tomc1985 wrote: post #5

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

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 embar…

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Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released

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Post by wohlergehen »

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...?

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Post by reaperducer »

blt wrote: post #25

MIDI support seems like feature bloat to me...

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.)

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Post by reaperducer »

xellisx wrote: post #9
tpabla wrote: post #4

I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of software!

Back in my day, we had Windows Recorder and Cool Edit.

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.

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Post by SnowingXIV »

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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Post by tangental »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #19
tangental wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not for producing as such but there's also Mixxx DJ software where you can write your own controls and effects in Javascript.

Have you used it? How does it compare to commercial DJ software? Iyho

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'.
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