My wife uses Audacity for editing conversations for different radio stations/broadcasts (basically zero music mixing/authoring/editing) for a good 20 years coming from CoolEdit… Kind of what we called radio broadcast journalism in the past before podcasts come along. She fixes speech defects or mispronunciations just editing the waveforms, I think it’s magic.
Anyway, in her use-case the waveform has much more signature than the headphones… yes, she uses headphones when working on the road or at home, but in a studio it’s all about those studio monitor speakers. Based on this I thought I might drop my 2¢ here, with the waveform, the capital ‘A’ and some headphones.. it might be too crowded with the gain meters also added. Audacity characters are just std, that should be more unique:
I like what calumk did - here is a slightly updated version:
I’m with this guy. I like the original. If you want to redesign it, at least let me “feel” the lightning or the signal. I want to feel it like a drop, or that dynamic intro blast in Fast as a Shark, or Aldo Nova’s Fantasy, or like this song right before the word “wire”, lol!: https://youtu.be/etyVsPdJCAg?t=177 .
Love the direction–everything about it! When II worked at Synopsys (previously Synplicity) we made the switch from some Windows to Linux porting tool (I’m old and the name slips my mind at the moment–maybe “Win-Something”) to Qt and I LOVED it. Qt was so much better. It was super-well documented and just what I consider code that is a pleasure to peruse! The only thing I hated was the opaque-pointers, but I did (sorta) get the rational–just didn’t think the bang was worth the (what I considered) very steep bucks, lol!
Anyway, it’s been years, but if y’all want any help w/ the Qt stuff or AI stuff, I could lend a hand here and there, although, I’m not the greatest coder in the world. Maybe just tell me to debug something. I’m decent at the detective work for an old man, lol!
Thank you so much for everything you are doing with Audacity 4. I love EVERYTHING I heard in the video. FWIW, I am the minority guy that WOULD like to see more DAW features, but I also totally don’t want to make Audacity any more complicated. When CoolEdit (sp?) first came out, I thought it was VERY kewl! The mouse just did what I expected it to do. I think Audacity 4 is going to feel like that to me, too AFAICT.
Love Y’all!
Mark
My main issue with this is that it says “adudacity”.
It’s a nice logo, but one I want to buy hiking boots and a parka from, not edit my audio with.
Yes, I’ve pointed that out in the full breakdown.
Hey everyone,
Audacity has always been one of my favorite audio tools, so I wanted to try a modern logo concept for fun. As a graphic designer, I felt the current branding could push the audio identity further while still keeping the recognizable vibe.
Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback 
