I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of software!
Back in my day, we had Windows Recorder and Cool Edit.
You never forget your first! SoundEdit16: https://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/2247/sounde...
Audacity 2.2.0 Released
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Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#62I 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 m…
> but if you look at other DAWs you'll see none are exactly bastions of good interface design What? Modern "good interface design" (at least by HN standards) has almost nothing to say about complicated 1000+ feature apps. (In fact every time I rant that modern design sucks and that apps need more features the first response I usually get back is, "but that's so much more testing! Do you know how many execution paths…
Logic Audio (I started at v5) remains the most complex UI I have ever had to learn. It makes perfect sense to me now, but I long thought it was designed by sadists. I just did t understand the why of it.
> Any time I see new-school UI designers' take on audio apps I cannot help but cringe. They are completely misunderstanding and underestimating their audience -- audio is complicated and we need complex tools to do what we do.
Absolutely. Also worth mentioning is that many of these tools borrow elements from physical recording studios. If you haven’t worked in a professionally wired studio, some of the abstractions seem dated and unnecessary. Replacing / reimagining them is not practical, as DAWs still need to run in these environments. But try explaining that to someone who is just starting out chopping loops in their bedroom.
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#63I've used Audacity off and on for years. Love that it is still around and pretty much _just works_. It does just what I need, as infrequently as I need it, and doesn't require an idiotic (and steep) subscription fee to use (glaring at you Adobe CS).
Honestly, I couldn't disagree more. Audacity is one of the buggiest pieces of open source software I've used. Audio routinely gets corrupted or lost. Their "known issues" page is comically long, and little ever gets fixed. I have a lot of love for them for making audio editing accessible to the masses, but I wish a team would clean the app up like the LibreOffice folks did to OpenOffice.
Sure, but like, the licensing works well for me. :)
Also, I don't know who decided to put a "Find out about LibreOffice Vanilla..." banner in that damn app, which appears Every. Time. I. Open. The. App. now. They need to be taken out back and code-reviewed harshly. It's not like LibreOffice is without many horrendous flaws either.
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#64I 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 m…
Have you tried bitwig? It's fairly new and seems to do alot of things right.
not op but thanks for the suggestion
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#65MIDI 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.)
I don't understand your point. Of course MIDI is a popular protocol, I'm just saying that a basic multitrack audio editor doesn't need midi support.
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#66"
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How can I trust the website to tell me the correct SHA256 signature?
Shouldn't this be linked to a repository, or ideally something my client can verify the commits are correct?
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but if you look at other DAWs you'll see none are exactly bastions of good interface design What? Modern "good interface design" (at least by HN standards) has almost nothing to say about complicated 1000+ feature apps. (In fact every time I rant that modern design sucks and that apps need more features the first response I usually get back is, "but that's so much more testing! Do you know how many execution paths…
Logic Audio (I started at v5) remains the most complex UI I have ever had to learn. It makes perfect sense to me now, but I long thought it was designed by sadists. I just did t understand the why of it. > Any time I see new-school UI designers' take on audio apps I cannot help but cringe. They are completely misunderstanding and underestimating their audience -- audio is complicated and we need complex tools to do w…
Agreed, particularly about Logic... I learned that program last and so much of the UI seemed to get in my way when all I wanted was to quickly lay out something like track routing. FL has spoiled me :P
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#68MIDI support seems like feature bloat to me...
>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.
True. I guess it's like Photoshop incorporating basic 3D and video editing features. It will never be a tool for serious practitioners, but if you only need to do something simple, it's nice when to have it within your "comfort zone" software.
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#69I 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...?
It's pretty common to use Audacity as a (very crappy) oscilloscope to capture analog signals via a sound card, is that maybe what you're thinking?
Re: Audacity 2.2.0 Released
#70Still looks like crap on OSX and Windows due to using GTK. I wish projects with aspirations of being cross-platform would stop using that shitty library and switch to QT.
It looks like crap on Linux too, they deliberately chose a widget theme to make it look that way. This version at least includes revamped theme support, so maybe someone will give it a decent coat of paint.