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Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (and much nicer) Qt interface (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[-] SCmSTR 7 points 6 days ago

Just use an old version of Audacity. Audacity was never a good DAW. It's like...

Sound Recorder is Notepad, Audacity is Wordpad, and your actual DAW is actual Word.

I've always seen the act of beefing-up and feature-bloating audacity as incredibly counter productive. Make it more efficient and lighter weight and streamline the UI. Make it start and stop VERY fast. And no logins or purchases or accounts or telemetry or any of that bullshit, Audacity is the desert island editor that requires no DRM or setup and will be the best balance of it-just-works and ability, given enough time.

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

That is why I use tenacity, it is excally what you discribed

[-] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

That logo hasn’t grown on me

[-] shy_mia 3 points 5 days ago

Frankly I think Audacity was in dire need of polishing. People may not like this redesign but the original one wasn't great, especially for new users. With that said, the new icom looks absolutely hideous imo. It has no personality whatsoever.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 8 points 6 days ago

Audacity is fine but its operations are destructive. I've been trying to learn Ardour, but it's a completely different beast...

[-] Nyadia 37 points 6 days ago

I don't think OP's link mentions it but iirc one of the major changes in Audacity 4.0 is supposed to be non-destructive editing. At least that's what I think I remember hearing like a year or more ago.

[-] Doorknob@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

It already supports realtime audio plugins now, which are non-destructive.

[-] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Does anyone know if Audacity 4.0 allows for more recording tracks at a time? Last I tried, it could only record to a single stereo track at a time.

[-] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Fwiw try out Reaper. Much easier and more professional than ardour, but unfortunately not open source. It supports a custom JavaScript system for making your own plugins on the fly, though, and is crazy powerful.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the advice

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Just as everyone is getting sick of ugly flat UIs, they release a nice new ugly flat UI

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago

Speak for yourself.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

With how many people are excited for oxygen and air's revival I doubt I'm alone in thinking the new design is really ugly compared to the old one

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

oxygen and air’s revival

You need to keep in mind that we are part of a niche community (Fediverse), where most of the people (I'm betting) run linux and are pretty old-school in their FOSS and design mentalities. Any excitement that exists here is going to be skewed by confirmation bias in a network where everyone basically thinks the same.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Well if we want non-foss examples, look at windows 11 and modern macos. Flat design is clearly finally starting to fall out of style

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not to piss in your cheerios, but I like this new design.

The logo is kind of mid but it integrates with modern themes better than before (I will miss the old logo).

It's an absolute blessing that they picked Qt instead of GTK and I want to see more of this.

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[-] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah... That abismality called the new logo.

If a CLA is a kick in the groin, the logo has got to be at least ten thousand since for each contributor there's at least ten thousand users.

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

are you saying that the old one is like kde oxygen? i’m fairly sure the old one was also flat but worse

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

the (current) audacity 3 UI: stern guy hiding the hurt, from the "Am I a joke to you?" meme

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