Audacity v2.3.0 Released

[Arthur]

Website / Download: Windows, macOS, Linux / Release Notes / New Features

 

New in Audacity 2.3.0:

• New feature – “Punch and Roll Recording”
  
• Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging
  
• Play-at-speed now can be adjusted whilst playing.
  
• Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision
  
• Macros (formerly ‘Chains’) substantially extended
  
  • New Macro palette
    
  • Macros can be bound to keyboard keys
    

  [*]New commands

  • New ‘Tools’ menu
    
  • New ‘Scriptables’ commands
    

  [*]Nyquist gains AUD-DO command

  [*]Nyquist effects are now translatable and translated

  [*]More dialogs have help buttons now

  [*]Increased legibility of trackname display

  [*]Half-wave option for collapsed tracks

  [*]Sliding Stretch

  [*]Dialog (option) for entering labels

See: 2.3.0 New Features for longer descriptions and links on how to use the new features.

 

Bug Fixes

Over 90 bugs that were in 2.2.2 fixed, including:

 

• Windows: Queen Mary 1.7.1 Vamp plug-ins crash Audacity on opening Plug-in Manager – bug #1244
  
• Inconsistent behavior when recording with a selection defined – bug #1839
  
• Ctrl + M does not open label for editing – bug #1852
  
• Vertical Zoom in by clicking in the vertical Scale, or context menu, in waveform views is inconsistent – bug #1810
  
• Deletion of all tracks cannot be undone – bug #1845
  
• Timer Record with a selection present can get a truncated recording with data loss – bug #1851
  
• Duplicate shortcuts can be created – bug #1786
  
• Labels longer than 260 characters are now supported – bug #1905
  
• Using Spectrogram Settings in TCP or using Preferences causes Audacity to reset Project Rate to default rate in Quality Preferences – bug #1977
  
• Cut Preview should play all selected/sync-locked tracks, respecting Mute/Solo during preview – bug #231
  

 

Punch and Roll Recording

We have introduced Punch and Roll Recording into Audacity as one of our most popular and long-standing feature requests.

 

It is Accessed by: Transport > Recording > Punch and Roll Recor] or more simply using its shortcut Shift + D

 

This enables you to to correct errors easily during the course of a recording session.

 

• You can stop, back up over a mistake, and continue recording, resulting in one track that eliminates the errors and is properly timed, without the use of cutting, pasting, and clip-moving commands, or mixing of multiple tracks.
  
• You can do rough editing as you go, with minimal interruption of your performance and less work left until afterwards.
  

This is likely to be very useful to voiceover artists and audiobook authors enabling them to make rapid corrections of fluffs as they progress.

 

Be aware that this is not punch-in patch repair - the repair recording carries on rolling (as the command name implies) until you specifically stop it.

 

[Arthur]

Audacity v2.3.1 released.

 

Changes and improvements since previous version.

 

• Audacity now supports 64-bit Mac.
  
• Over 20 bugs fixed since 2.3.0, including:
  
  • A crashing bug on Linux that made Audacity 2.3.0 unsuitable for Linux.
    
  • Crash on Mac when right clicking on label.
    
  • Problems with Change Pitch, including not remembering parameter values.
    

  [*]Options and preferences:

  • Microfades are now an opt-in feature. They were always on in 2.3.0.
    
  • The advanced vertical zooming option is now available in the View->Zoom menu.
    

  [*]Regular interval labels now support range labels.

Full details of new features in the visual guide to New Features in 2.3.1

[6Foot2]

Link: Audacity 2.3.2 Released

 

Audacity 2.3.2 replaces all previous versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

 

Improvements:

 

• Audacity now includes the LAME mp3 encoder. Previously, due to now expired patents, you had to download it separately.
  
• There is a new ‘Select’ button in the track panel to select the whole track.
  
• Audacity mod-script-pipe for driving Audacity from Python now comes with Audacity and can be enabled via preferences.
  
• Options and preferences:
  

• Type to Create a Label is now off by default.
  
  
• A plug-in installer for Nyquist now provides a file browser for selecting ‘.NY’ files to install.
  
  

 

See also: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/New_features_in_Audacity_2.3.2

 

Bug Fixes:

 

Over 20 bugs in 2.3.1 fixed, including:

 

• Audacity 2.3.1 would crash if append-recording to a collapsed track.
  
• Many accessibility bugs on macOS fixed
  

See also: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.3.2

 

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[6Foot2]

Link: Audacity 2.3.3 Released

 

...Improvements:

 

Equalization effect now split into two effects, Filter Curve and Graphic EQ.

 

• Presets (using manage button) now active/working.
  
• Can now have two points at same frequency for steep steps.
  

‘What you hear is what you get’ for exports. Formerly the solo button preferences could lead to differences in which tracks were exported.

Leading silence (blank space) not skipped over in exports.

Quality setting on AAC/M4A exports.

Some confusing functionality removed (better achieved in other ways)

 

• Removed Nyquist Workbench (use built-in nyquist features)
  
• Removed Vocal Remover (use Vocal Reduction)
  
• Removed On-Demand aliased files (copy files instead)
  
• Removed ‘Normalize on Load’ (Normalize as needed on export, instead)
  

See also: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/New_features_in_Audacity_2.3.3

 

Bug Fixes:

 

Over 150 bugs in 2.3.2 fixed, including:

2112 – Crash when opening Equalization settings in a Macro

2127 – Crash deleting a track while in Record/Pause state

2176 – Crash when attempting to time shift multiple tracks

2141 – Tabbing between labels stopped working

2200 – Refusal to export some large (4GB) files on size grounds

 

See also: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.3.3