Audacity Forum

We have discussed this idea for a long time, and have a good idea of how to do it. The key problem comes whenever we want to fork out to an editor that doesn't have any concept of "just edit part of this file" (i.e. all of them). If the source file is small, then having ardour write it all out, or j...

Absolutely correct. We are just not interested in trying to provide an architectural framework for altering the data in existing files, particularly when there are several other excellent free/libre tools that can do (most) of the required task. What we are interested in is providing a way to fork-o...

As lead developer of Ardour, I'd just like to note that Ardour has always run plugins in realtime and was developed for years on a 400MHz system (admittedly dual processor). Realtime plugin support doesn't imply substantial processor usage - it depends entirely on what the plugin does. There are plu...