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Audacity 4.0 is finally out!
TL;DR this is a huge overhaul of the popular open-source audio editing app. The UI specifically has been the biggest overhaul, making it a lot more modern and friendly to use.
Hopefully, one day, GIMP will get some kind of update like this.
www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4/
Replying to @popcar2@piefed.ca
Is audacity still bad and sending information to Russian servers or something?
Replying to @Lexam@lemmy.world
Surprisingly, the Internet seems to look mostly favourably on Audacity these days. I never really kept up with it at the time, but apparently all the allegedly heinous (mis)features were opt-in. (Further verification of this may be required.)
I can't tell if that's the result of a really good scrubbing of bad search results or whether they genuinely cleaned up their act.
Either way, Tenacity, the fork that came about as a result of the controversy, still exists, and apparently has themes to change the look just like Audacity is claiming to have done now, so if you're uncertain, that's always an option.
Replying to @palordrolap@fedia.io
I remember when audacity was pure destructive editing, the mspaint of daws, like not quite notepad and sound recorder, but maybe wordpad. I think I still have a version of that old audacity installer somewhere…
I always kept/keep a full licensed daw for real projects, and then audacity for when I wanted to do a quick edit or recording and didn’t want to boot up the big stuff.
Is it worth getting anymore? Or is it trying to compete with real daws? And if so, is it competitive on the same level?
Replying to @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Is it worth getting?
Maybe someone else will have a better answer. I used it once in a blue moon to naively hack at some audio, and will install it or Tenacity to do the same in future as and when the need arises. In fact, I'll probably end up going for Audacity and a wary eye for telemetry opt-ins because Debian seems to have a native package for it. Tenacity seems to be Flatpak-only.
Audacity isn’t a fully fledged DAW, it’s an audio editor that’s mostly for recording, making quick edits, or fixing up audio. I don’t think it’s really possible to use it in music production yet.
Replying to @popcar2@piefed.ca
So it’s basically still*(edit, mistype) the same space? That’s cool, I guess.
Replying to @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Audacity is where you edit samples or record stems. A DAW is where you then use those samples and stems.
Replying to @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
It’s much better than mspaint now but still as snappy. I think they removed overwriting the track while recording, though.