THANK YOU for showing me where to set the "Editing a clip can move other clips" option. That's one new feature I won't be using.. but all the others... WOW!
Not yet, unfortunately. Audacity has announced that real time plugins will be coming soon, though. Which means you won't have to render the effect permanently on the audio.
Hi Joe! I was wondering if this non-destructive way of editing also applies when adding effects from the Effects dropdown menu? For example, when I add Compressor and then reverb, I have to press undo button for me to edit back and re-apply the compressor effect. I might be missing some settings but please let me know if it's possible. Thanks
For me movable auto ducking would be a huge benefit So if I move a voice track left or right the audio above auto ducks (using envelope tool) to allow the voice track to cut through the mix I spend far too long adjusting the envelope to drop audio
I can see how that could be handy. Now that Audacity has realtime plugin support & rendering, have you considered using your vocal track's output to sidechain an AU or VST compressor/dynamics plugin? Would that work?
Hi Kevin. It's just going to be down to whatever Behringer recommends. I don't think Behringers use dedicated drivers so it'll just be the latest ASIO4ALL driver you'll probably want.
How do you remove dead air without causing the track to slide left? Say you got a track and you want to remove a mess up or a dead space, can I do it with out having the track move Left? Thanks for the tips.
Edit > Remove Audio or Labels > Split Delete to split audio into two clips. The go to Preferences > Tracks > uncheck 'Editing a clip can move other clips'.
Hi. i have a question about the declicker function, so i just used it on audio that was 4 minutes, but i have another 2 audio files of myself speaking, one 11 minutes and another 14 minutes, do i have to half them so their time length is less, for the declicker?? Or will the declicker edit out longer audios no proble.??
I have edited some clips in Audacity 3.6.1 and it do not seem do have non-destructive editing on audio in Final Cut Pro. There the original audio is always there and effect and cuts applied. Fade in and out can be edited or removed long time after they have been done. Same with compressor and other audio edits. In one edit on a long clip, saved it and closed Audacity. Then needed to do more edits and noticed that the old edits I have done can not be undone anymore. For me that isnt non-destructive. Is it something Im missing?
I have a mustang 1 fender amp I have the usb cable goin from my amp onto my new mac m1 2020 I use headphones I got a Y jack into the headphone jack one end of the Y jack going into the headphones and the other going to the headphones into my amp. when I start to record along with a backing track that I imported I can hear everything in my headphones including my guitar which is an Epiphone Les Paul, When I start recording it automatically opens a new track for my guitar I start recording playing my guitar that works ok except when I sop play to pause so does the audacity. I start playing again its starts recording again but starts sounding scratchy. when I was using this before it was working fine then, I haven't used it in awhile and this happens. Any thoughts on this what am I missing I've been searching for an answer for a couple of weeks now no luck. I never had this happen to me before
I just got it figured out the first time I upload the click track it muted the song so I just added another track copied and pasted the song to the second track so that the clicks equals the song in the first track so now I got the beats the same length of the song in the first track
Question: I have Audacity 2.4.2 and have the settings the way I want them. Will those setting remain when I download the newer version? Or will I need to go through and re-do all of the settings in the newer version?
Normally it asks upon install if you want to keep settings. But you should be able to install both versions and check, before uninstalling 2.4.2. Or install the portable version and give it a go before removing the previous version.
I deal with music so I want to know how I would punch in a new part on the same track in the middle of a song for say, a few bars, then come back out and continue, all on the same track. This is a feature that most other programs have.
Hey @darryl Dixon my name is George I'm. Starting my.new label and I'm looking for people who use the same daw as I Are u a artist or producer? Please email me back
Now if they would add more vu meters. I like to record four tracks at one time and the vu meters only work on tracks 1 & 2. 3 & 4 are blind adjustments.
First IN MY OPINION, people ARE stupid!! You have always been able to do "non destructive editing" in Audacity, BUT it requires you to SAVE YOUR WORK!!! In other words...If YOU make a change to your edit SAVE IT as a unique file name on your hard drive IMMEDIATELY after you made THAT CHANGE! YES this takes up space on your hard drive, and YES this means you will have more than ONE copy of your file that you are working on, i.e. Part A, Part B, Part C and so on, BUT if you make a mistake....which we all (should) know can and will happen (Murphy's Law), at least you can "reopen an older version of the same file, that you just saved to your hard disk, to work from, in case of such a problem!! The problem IS people are lazy, and complacent and do NOT back up and save their work!! So if you get into the practice of saving your files with a different and unique file name, then you quickly run into zero problems at all!! For example in my own case, I might make a recording and call that file "Master1.mp3" and then I will save THAT unedited file as "Master1.mp3" to my hard drive! IF I do a simple task like "Normalize the track" I will then save that file as "Master1A.mp3"!!! If I then apply a filter to the same file, that I normalized, at add a EQ Curve to it, for example, I will then save THAT EDIT to my hard drive as "Master1B.mp3" and so on!! And if I add a compressor to my file that master file then becomes "Master1C.mp3"!!!! You can even save your files in different directories (i.e. folders) that you also can create on ANY standard Windows computer!! I have seen this play out a number of times too, where people are either too stupid, too lazy or both to simple create a folder/ directory and name that folder a unique name like "April_1_2023" to save their work in!! Just organizing your work AS YOU DO IT, will streamline your work flow and protect you as well, should you need a file from your past projects!! But again people are stupid and lazy, and completely oblivious to working counterintuitive!!! My point is simple.......like with ANY computer file back it up, back it up, back it up, back it up!!! The more you remember to BACK UP YOUR FILES the less trouble you will find yourself in, in the end!! And by the way I never went to college for computers, I only have a high school diploma from my graduating class of 1982!! I grew up at a time when the Tandy 1000 and the Commodore 64K computers WERE KING, and I learned computers by teaching myself how to run and use them!! Yet I see college educated folks that are just as guilty of what I am telling you NOW, and DO NOT EVER back up their own data!!! Then wonder what they should do when they run into problems!!!!
Hi Greg, totally agree that people need to make regular backups and save new versions for revisions, but for editing jobs like with podcast editing where hundreds of edits are being made, it's great that it's possible to do non-destructive editing. It wouldn't be practical to save a separate session after each edit, and it would only be saving the session in that particular state, rather than being able to go back to one specific edit without affecting all the later edits as you can with non-destructive editing.
THANK YOU for showing me where to set the "Editing a clip can move other clips" option. That's one new feature I won't be using.. but all the others... WOW!
Ahh yeah, I'm glad they kept both functions in. They're useful for different types of editing.
Helped alot I could figure out how to time shift and it was the first thing you went over
Awesome, happy to help!
Bonnes explications sur ces importants changements. 😎
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Good explanations of these important changes. 😎
You are a boss!
What about for effects? Does the non-destructive editing apply there too?
Not yet, unfortunately. Audacity has announced that real time plugins will be coming soon, though. Which means you won't have to render the effect permanently on the audio.
Hi Joe! I was wondering if this non-destructive way of editing also applies when adding effects from the Effects dropdown menu? For example, when I add Compressor and then reverb, I have to press undo button for me to edit back and re-apply the compressor effect. I might be missing some settings but please let me know if it's possible. Thanks
Hey there, unfortunately the non-destructive effect are only for the real-time plugins. You can only use the undo function with the built in effects.
Great. How do I turn it off?
For me movable auto ducking would be a huge benefit
So if I move a voice track left or right the audio above auto ducks (using envelope tool) to allow the voice track to cut through the mix
I spend far too long adjusting the envelope to drop audio
I can see how that could be handy. Now that Audacity has realtime plugin support & rendering, have you considered using your vocal track's output to sidechain an AU or VST compressor/dynamics plugin? Would that work?
@@itchardhen .... cheers will look into that
where is time shift tool???
Interesting really... Look into this updated version..which driver ideal to run this Audacity V3.1 please?
It's more about your interface and which driver is best for that rather than the DAW version.
@@JoeAtClaricast good to know, Joe! I've got a Behringer UMC22 interface.
Like this one?
Which driver you recommend? I'm using Windows 7
Hi Kevin. It's just going to be down to whatever Behringer recommends. I don't think Behringers use dedicated drivers so it'll just be the latest ASIO4ALL driver you'll probably want.
How do you remove dead air without causing the track to slide left? Say you got a track and you want to remove a mess up or a dead space, can I do it with out having the track move Left? Thanks for the tips.
Edit > Remove Audio or Labels > Split Delete to split audio into two clips. The go to Preferences > Tracks > uncheck 'Editing a clip can move other clips'.
do you know if there are any plans to make Fade Ins/Outs be Non-destructive instead of destructive?
I'm not sure, sorry. But I would use the envelope tool for this (F2).
Hi. i have a question about the declicker function, so i just used it on audio that was 4 minutes, but i have another 2 audio files of myself speaking, one 11 minutes and another 14 minutes, do i have to half them so their time length is less, for the declicker?? Or will the declicker edit out longer audios no proble.??
I have edited some clips in Audacity 3.6.1 and it do not seem do have non-destructive editing on audio in Final Cut Pro. There the original audio is always there and effect and cuts applied. Fade in and out can be edited or removed long time after they have been done. Same with compressor and other audio edits.
In one edit on a long clip, saved it and closed Audacity. Then needed to do more edits and noticed that the old edits I have done can not be undone anymore. For me that isnt non-destructive. Is it something Im missing?
I have a mustang 1 fender amp I have the usb cable goin from my amp onto my new mac m1 2020 I use headphones I got a Y jack into the headphone jack one end of the Y jack going into the headphones and the other going to the headphones into my amp. when I start to record along with a backing track that I imported I can hear everything in my headphones including my guitar which is an Epiphone Les Paul, When I start recording it automatically opens a new track for my guitar I start recording playing my guitar that works ok except when I sop play to pause so does the audacity. I start playing again its starts recording again but starts sounding scratchy. when I was using this before it was working fine then, I haven't used it in awhile and this happens. Any thoughts on this what am I missing I've been searching for an answer for a couple of weeks now no luck. I never had this happen to me before
Thanks! Excited to get this update.
Can't wait until the next big one now!
I just got it figured out the first time I upload the click track it muted the song so I just added another track copied and pasted the song to the second track so that the clicks equals the song in the first track so now I got the beats the same length of the song in the first track
Nice one! Hopefully we'll get a native click plugin eventually.
Question: I have Audacity 2.4.2 and have the settings the way I want them. Will those setting remain when I download the newer version? Or will I need to go through and re-do all of the settings in the newer version?
Normally it asks upon install if you want to keep settings. But you should be able to install both versions and check, before uninstalling 2.4.2. Or install the portable version and give it a go before removing the previous version.
@@JoeAtClaricast thank you so much
Love this version
For sure. There have been more useful updates in the last year or so than probably the five years prior!
I deal with music so I want to know how I would punch in a new part on the same track in the middle of a song for say, a few bars, then come back out and continue, all on the same track. This is a feature that most other programs have.
Hey @darryl Dixon my name is George I'm. Starting my.new label and I'm looking for people who use the same daw as I
Are u a artist or producer? Please email me back
Now if they would add more vu meters. I like to record four tracks at one time and the vu meters only work on tracks 1 & 2. 3 & 4 are blind adjustments.
Definitely on my wanted list too!
Nondestructive editing in Audacity 3.1
I take it it does not have a metronome built in
No, really could do with a click feature! I'm working on a video on click tracks at the moment though.
First IN MY OPINION, people ARE stupid!! You have always been able to do "non destructive editing" in Audacity, BUT it requires you to SAVE YOUR WORK!!! In other words...If YOU make a change to your edit SAVE IT as a unique file name on your hard drive IMMEDIATELY after you made THAT CHANGE!
YES this takes up space on your hard drive, and YES this means you will have more than ONE copy of your file that you are working on, i.e. Part A, Part B, Part C and so on, BUT if you make a mistake....which we all (should) know can and will happen (Murphy's Law), at least you can "reopen an older version of the same file, that you just saved to your hard disk, to work from, in case of such a problem!!
The problem IS people are lazy, and complacent and do NOT back up and save their work!! So if you get into the practice of saving your files with a different and unique file name, then you quickly run into zero problems at all!!
For example in my own case, I might make a recording and call that file "Master1.mp3" and then I will save THAT unedited file as "Master1.mp3" to my hard drive! IF I do a simple task like "Normalize the track" I will then save that file as "Master1A.mp3"!!! If I then apply a filter to the same file, that I normalized, at add a EQ Curve to it, for example, I will then save THAT EDIT to my hard drive as "Master1B.mp3" and so on!! And if I add a compressor to my file that master file then becomes "Master1C.mp3"!!!!
You can even save your files in different directories (i.e. folders) that you also can create on ANY standard Windows computer!! I have seen this play out a number of times too, where people are either too stupid, too lazy or both to simple create a folder/ directory and name that folder a unique name like "April_1_2023" to save their work in!! Just organizing your work AS YOU DO IT, will streamline your work flow and protect you as well, should you need a file from your past projects!! But again people are stupid and lazy, and completely oblivious to working counterintuitive!!!
My point is simple.......like with ANY computer file back it up, back it up, back it up, back it up!!! The more you remember to BACK UP YOUR FILES the less trouble you will find yourself in, in the end!!
And by the way I never went to college for computers, I only have a high school diploma from my graduating class of 1982!! I grew up at a time when the Tandy 1000 and the Commodore 64K computers WERE KING, and I learned computers by teaching myself how to run and use them!! Yet I see college educated folks that are just as guilty of what I am telling you NOW, and DO NOT EVER back up their own data!!! Then wonder what they should do when they run into problems!!!!
Hi Greg, totally agree that people need to make regular backups and save new versions for revisions, but for editing jobs like with podcast editing where hundreds of edits are being made, it's great that it's possible to do non-destructive editing.
It wouldn't be practical to save a separate session after each edit, and it would only be saving the session in that particular state, rather than being able to go back to one specific edit without affecting all the later edits as you can with non-destructive editing.