Versie 3.4.0 van Audacity is in ontwikkeling en de eerste bètarelease is uitgekomen. Deze opensource-audio-editor, die beschikbaar is voor Windows, Linux en macOS, kan geluid opnemen, en wav-, aiff-, ogg- en mp3-bestanden importeren en exporteren. Het programma heeft een ongelimiteerde undo-functie en heeft daarnaast een grote verzameling effecten aan boord, zoals fade-in en fade-out, echo, tempowijziging en ruisonderdrukking. Meer effecten kunnen eenvoudig worden toegevoegd, want het programma ondersteunt onder meer Nyquist-, vst- en ladspa-plug-ins. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
Major changesOther changes
- Music workflows
Audacity now features several music related features, such as switching between hh:mm:ss time and Beats & Measures, and time-stretching clips to align them to a song's tempo.- Time stretching
Hold Alt (macOS: Option) while hovering over the top third of a clip edge to stretch it.- New exporter
Audacity now features a new export window with easier access to options such as sample rate and custom mapping (for 5.1 or 7.1 audio). Additionally, the "Browse" button uses the native file browser now!Libraries
- For MP3, Audacity now always uses Joint Stereo mode, which always delivers the best possible quality.
- #4720 Simplified pasting logic.
- Simplified stereo tracks. Left and right channels now always have synchronized clip starts and ends, and the same sample rate in both channels.
- #5014 Added cursors trimming and stretching left and right, and changed the I-beam cursor to be less similar to either.
- #4448 When importing audio, the project sample rate no longer changes.
- #5204 The spectrogram colors are now perceptually uniform, and the colormap has gotten a name: Roseus. It also can be used for dataviz outside of Audacity, see here for more info!
- New defaults: The Time Signature toolbar now gets shown, the solo button is set to multi-track mode, time tracks have a wider starting range.
- #5291 Unsquished the Audacity logo found in some places of the app.
- #2330 Clicking on the border of two clips no longer merges them.
- #2530 Overdubbing on Windows fails with WASAPI with default Recording device.
- #443 Built-in Opus support.
Bug fixes
- lib-time-and-pitch implements a time stretching algorithm originating in Staffpad.
- Audacity now uses Conan 2.
- Continued extracting code into libraries and modules, especially in the context of importing and exporting.
- #3778 --nogap metadata no longer is ignored.
- #4410 fixed a crash with LV2 plugins.
- #2471 #4798 fixed some crashes related to macros.
- #4769 fixed a crash when pasting in certain configurations.
- #4677 Accessibility: GUI can be disabled again for VST2 plugins.
- #4988 Accessibility: Restored window control IDs, improving NVDA compatibility.
- #4872 fixed a crash on launch on OSX 10.9.