During testing, virtually no modifications that I failed to save before the crash were lost.Īudacity also uses the interface available on Windows and Mac OS X PortAudio for the connection to Jack. The automatic recovery feature opens a dialog when you launch Audacity for the first time after a crash. Automatic recovery took effect each time Audacity was unresponsive when an error occurred. Other plugins reacted badly to extreme settings: TAL-Reverb crashed as soon as the section playing live reached the end.
The Carla VST plugin did not work at all and caused Audacity to crash. Whenever things went wrong in the lab, the problem appeared to be a problem with a plugin. Despite the many new functions, the new version is still remarkably stable. Packman offers packages for openSUSE back to version 12.3.Īudacity 2.1 launched quickly in my tests, which ran on Ubuntu 14.04 with the KX Studio extensions. Fedora is introducing the version to the official package sources from Fedora 20. LV2 effects (still without the GUI and not adjustable in real time).Īudacity 2.1 is also available for other common distributions.LADSPA and Linux VST ( lxvst) effects in real-time (lxvst with graphical user interfaces).Built-in effects, Nyquist console plugins, and Vamp plugins (for visualization).Jack as an audio interface via PortAudio,.The most important components included with the package are: However, because the new PPA version only contains daily builds, you might want to use the PPA maintained at the blog : $ sudo add-apt-repository \ The new version was online in the Audacity team's PPA repository a few days after the release. Other Ubuntu administrators have obviously had more luck. When I tried to build Audacity from the source code on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the configure step worked, but the Make build process aborted with an error.
The complex Audacity with its cross-platform functional interface has a long list of dependencies. You'll find installer packages for Windows and Mac OS X Linux users will find only source code at the Audacity site check your distro's software repository to see if the latest version is available in package form. Figure 1: Audacity 2.1 lets you configure effects while the editor is playing the track.Īudacity 2.1 has been available on the project website since the end of March 2015.
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