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Software-update: Audacity 4.0

Slechts enkele dagen na het verschijnen van versie 3.7.9 van Audacity is versie 4.0 uitgekomen. Deze open source 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 undofunctie 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. De belangrijkste verbeteringen die in versie 4 zijn aangebracht zijn hieronder voor je samengevat:

Editing clips
  • Clips can be selected directly. Click a clip header to select it, or Shift-click to select multiple clips.
  • Several clips can be edited together. Moving, trimming and time stretching apply to all selected clips.
  • Clips can be grouped. Groups remain together when moved, copied, pasted or duplicated.
  • Clips can be placed more freely. They can move between mono and stereo tracks. Moving a clip over another replaces the overlapped part instead of blocking the move.
  • Splitting has a dedicated tool. Press or hold S, then click the waveform or clip header. Split, split-cut, split-delete, split at silences and split to a new track are also available as commands.
  • Paste handles more cases automatically. Audacity can create a track when needed, adapt compatible channel layouts and paste audio files from the operating-system clipboard.
  • Alignment guides, sample-boundary snapping and per-project snap settings have been added or expanded.
    • Interface and tools
  • The interface has been rebuilt on Qt, with native high-DPI rendering.
  • Toolbars and panels can be moved, docked, floated, shown or hidden.
  • UI layouts can be saved as Workspaces. Audacity includes Modern, Classic and Music workspaces.
  • Light, dark and high-contrast themes are available, along with accent colors, track colors and several clip styles.
  • The new Home screen shows recent projects with preview thumbnails.

    • The separate Select, Envelope, Draw and Multi-tool modes have been removed. Their functions are now context-sensitive:

  • Volume envelopes are displayed in the Clip gain mode.
  • Sample drawing becomes available when the waveform is zoomed to individual samples.
  • Splitting is available by holding S.
  • Track and effect parameters use consistent rotary controls with fine adjustment and double-click reset.
  • Sync-Lock has been removed. Delete, cut and paste now have explicit variants for either leaving a gap or moving later material to preserve timing.
    • Playback and recording
  • The playhead remains visible during navigation and can be dragged to a new position.
  • Playback can seek to another position without stopping.
  • Recording can start anywhere on the timeline and creates a clip at that position.
  • Loop boundaries and the interaction between playback, selections and loops have been revised.
  • Punch and Roll, lead-in recording, latency compensation, software playthrough and per-track input monitoring have been rebuilt for the new interface.
  • Audio Setup now includes system-default devices, refreshable device lists and custom channel mapping. Audacity can follow operating-system device changes automatically.
  • Official Windows builds include ASIO playback and recording support.
    • Tracks, meters and effects
  • Track headers now contain live playback and recording meters.
  • Preset handling is consistent across built-in, destructive and realtime effects.
  • Built-in effects, generators and analyzers have been rebuilt for the Qt interface.
  • Supported plugin formats are VST3, Nyquist, LV2 on Linux and Audio Units on macOS. Audacity can display generated controls when a plugin's own interface is unavailable.
  • Spectrogram has been redesigned with clearer guides and rulers, and faster rendering.
    • Projects, import and export
  • Audacity 4 uses the new .aup4 project format.
  • .aup3 projects open and convert to .aup4 without changing the original file. Converted projects cannot be saved back to .aup3.
  • Older .aup projects can be imported.
  • Project files store preview thumbnails and Audacity 4's additional clip and appearance data.

    • And last but not least, we had the audacity to change the Audacity logo.

    Compatibility notes

    The following Audacity 3 features are not available in Audacity 4.0, but we're working on adding them in future releases.

  • Time Tracks
  • Note/MIDI tracks
  • Mixer
  • Macro Manager and the scripting pipe
  • VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting
  • Play-at-speed

    • Sync-Lock and the old tool modes were replaced by the workflows described above.

    Additionally, Audacity 4 ships with some missing exporting and rendering features, analyzers, and effects.

    Source: Tweakers.net

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