Audacity Forum

Moosepathian wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 28, 2018 4:31 pm

Is there some way to change this in preferences

Yes. "Tracks Behaviors > Auto Select if selection required"
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tra ... ences.html

Here's the noise gate plug-in in a ZIP file. Hopefully being in a ZIP file will prevent macOS from mangling it. Before you extract "Noisegate.ny" from this ZIP, I'd highly recommend that you delete all other copies of Noisegate.ny from your machine so at to avoid confusion.

Are you at all familiar with Python?
Perl "should" still work, but I am not at all familiar with it.

TTPDrew wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 28, 2018 2:25 pm

Noisegate.ny attached, thanks.

That file is trash (corrupt).

Do you know how to extract a ZIP file?

TTPDrew wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 28, 2018 2:38 pm

Seems odd that when I search for Noisegate

When you search how?

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (in "Transport menu > Transport Options").

Please attach the plug-in file to your reply so that I can check it.

Perhaps Koz can comment (he's more familiar with Mac than I am), but I think the location is wrong.

On my Mac, the shipped plug-ins are in:
Macintosh HD/Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/plug-ins/

My custom plug-ins are in:
/Users/<my-user-name>/Library/Application Support/audacity/Plug-Ins/

I'll look on out "feature requests" list to see if we have that logged, and if not, I'll add it. I didn't see anything like this, so I've added: Audio clip library manager (built in): Many audio editors / DAWs have some sort of "library manager" that allows quick and convenient ...

About the clip library. ... I have used extra audio tracks to store clips but better solution would be nice I sometimes do that too, and I agree that a proper built-in clip library could be very useful for some jobs. I'll look on out "feature requests" list to see if we have that logged, ...