So, I REALLY like Audacity. In fact, I love it. Been working on it for years. It’s just so easy. The light grey and blue interface. I love the click track -How you can just go to “create rhythm track” and it just prints one. It’s actually the only DAW I know of that does it soo simply. BIG drawback of other DAWS is how complicated it is to navigate this basic function. I figured out how to do it in Reaper, but as soon as I did I forgot it. Soo convoluted -All the steps you had to go through just to do something simple like this. Also, my productions are suuuper simple, so all of the fancy capabilities of other daws are kind of lost on me…
I currently do all my pre-pro in Audacity (making click tracks, rough takes, doing quick copy and paste edits, sliding around tracks, etc.) and then I copy paste those tracks into Reaper so I can record drums (14 mics) over them. It absolutely BAFFLES me why you can’t record more than two tracks in Audacity simultaneously. If Audacity could accept 3rd party vst3 plugins and record more than two tracks at the same time, i wouldn’t have ever even have considered messing around with any other day. A friend of mine told me the other night that I can do it by opening multiple instances of Audacity, but that seems like a real pain to me…
A few questions:
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Automation has become increasingly important to me, but I HATE the way Reaper does it -Is the Envelope tool essentially Audacity’s form of Automation??
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Lots of my songs have multiple tempo changes in them. Basically, I just make the track with the tempo I want and use the bpm label maker to make sure that the different tempo portions line up exactly, but I’m wondering -Is there a way to get grid lines with all of this?? Reason I’m asking is because I’m thinking of floating all of my recorded tracks in from Reaper and then editing them in Audacity (-Like, nudging them where necessary etc.) and it would be a whole lot easier if I could see some grid lines during that process…
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Crossfades in Audacity -Haven’t found an easy way to do that, yet…
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Now -If there were some way to parallelly process, then we’d REALLY be in the money… I just love the workflow I’ve developed in Audacity soo much, but some of the drawbacks are BIG. I don’t need much more from Audacity, but just a few more things -Like a way to bus, for example, would really take Audacity into the next level DAW-wise. I really want its’ smoothness of workflow to be equal to it’s features, one day…
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Is there a way to nudge tracks closer to the beat so that they can line up with the grid more perfectly?? -I’m not talking about cutting and sliding around, but actually nudging certain parts of the track so that it lines up a little better. This is a common feature in other DAW, but I don’t really see a way to do this in Audacity…