Audacity: Applying real-time effects stacks

All demos from “How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future”

1. 22:520:11Moving audio clips with handles in Audacity 3.1The narrator demonstrates how the addition of visual handles allows users to drag and move audio clips horizontally without switching to a dedicated 'Time Shift' mode.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
2. 23:030:14Non-destructive clip trimmingThe video shows how users can grab the edges of audio clips to trim them while preserving the underlying audio data for later recovery.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
3. 24:490:17Applying real-time effects stacksCurrentThe narrator demonstrates opening the effects panel on a track to stack VST or Audio Unit plugins non-destructively.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
4. 27:300:28Snapping to beats and measuresThe demo shows the new snapping settings and the ruler display for beats and measures, allowing for musical sample alignment.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
5. 34:470:38Customizing the Audacity 4 UIThe narrator demonstrates the new dockable top bar, custom meters, and the button used to toggle specific feature visibility in the interface.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
6. 37:270:27Multi-clip selection and time-stretchingThe demo shows the rebuilt clip system in Audacity 4, where multiple clips are selected and moved or time-stretched simultaneously using new UI handles.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
7. 43:120:38Using the redesigned Graphic EqualizerThe demo shows the improved legibility of the equalizer, including decibel popups when dragging sliders and the ability to draw curves across multiple sliders.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
8. 47:510:11Sample-level editing with the Pen toolThe narrator shows how the pen tool automatically activates when zooming into the sample level for precise audio corrections.AAudacity· AI Audio Editor
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1. 22:520:11Moving audio clips with handles in Audacity 3.1The narrator demonstrates how the addition of visual handles allows users to drag and move audio clips horizontally without switching to a dedicated 'Time Shift' mode.Tantacrul
2. 23:030:14Non-destructive clip trimmingThe video shows how users can grab the edges of audio clips to trim them while preserving the underlying audio data for later recovery.Tantacrul
3. 24:490:17Applying real-time effects stacksCurrentThe narrator demonstrates opening the effects panel on a track to stack VST or Audio Unit plugins non-destructively.Tantacrul
4. 27:300:28Snapping to beats and measuresThe demo shows the new snapping settings and the ruler display for beats and measures, allowing for musical sample alignment.Tantacrul
5. 34:470:38Customizing the Audacity 4 UIThe narrator demonstrates the new dockable top bar, custom meters, and the button used to toggle specific feature visibility in the interface.Tantacrul
6. 37:270:27Multi-clip selection and time-stretchingThe demo shows the rebuilt clip system in Audacity 4, where multiple clips are selected and moved or time-stretched simultaneously using new UI handles.Tantacrul
7. 43:120:38Using the redesigned Graphic EqualizerThe demo shows the improved legibility of the equalizer, including decibel popups when dragging sliders and the ability to draw curves across multiple sliders.Tantacrul
8. 47:510:11Sample-level editing with the Pen toolThe narrator shows how the pen tool automatically activates when zooming into the sample level for precise audio corrections.Tantacrul
9. 0:240:44Configure Audacity interface and audio settingsThe narrator walks through the Audacity interface, demonstrating how to navigate to Preferences to change themes and adjust Audio Settings for speakers, microphones, and sample rates.Skills Factory
10. 1:520:38Capture system audio using Windows WASAPIThe narrator demonstrates how to change the Audio Setup host to Windows WASAPI to record internal computer sounds directly into Audacity.Skills Factory
11. 5:160:20Repair waveforms with the Draw toolThe demonstration shows how to zoom into individual audio samples and use the Draw tool to manually reshape the waveform to remove clicks.Skills Factory
12. 5:360:39Manage track controls and Spectrogram viewThe narrator demonstrates using track-level controls for Mute, Solo, Gain, and Panning, as well as switching to the Spectrogram view.Skills Factory