Audacity 2.4.2
Windows 10
Hi
Is it possible to get back the Equalizer from previous Audacity builds? I used the presets in there quite often. Or is there anywhere to get those preset settings?
Thanks in advance
Bob
Audacity 2.4.2
Windows 10
Hi
Is it possible to get back the Equalizer from previous Audacity builds? I used the presets in there quite often. Or is there anywhere to get those preset settings?
Thanks in advance
Bob
I don’t know that they’re all that different. They’re called different things. Effect > Graphic Eq and Effect > Filter Curve.
Koz
Basically what I’m looking for are the factory presets from the old Equalization settings
I suppose I can just download an earlier version of Audacity and use the Equalization from that.
Bob
Manage > Factory Presets.
I suppose I can just download an earlier version of Audacity and use the Equalization from that.
That is an option.
Koz
But then you do lose a lot of bug-fixing that we’ve done since the older version …
WC
For some reason, I could not find any equalizers in my Effects menu. I was able to correct the problem by going to Tools > Add/Remove Plug-ins (Why is it called Add/Remove Plug-Ins in the menu, but “Manage Plug-ins” in the title window?). Then I located “Filter Curve” and “Graphic Equalizer” and “Enabled”.
Then these two effect appeared in the Effects Menu.
(Why do the Filter Curve and Graphic EQ have different sets of Presets? - Should they be the same?)
The Graphic Eq has a maximum boost / cut of about 20 dB, so it cannot produce Eq settings such as “Low Roll-off for speech” which has close to 100 dB attenuation at 50 Hz.
I could not find any equalizers in my Effects menu.
Oh, I can make that worse. Research and find an effect, download it, launch Audacity > Tools > Nyquist Plug-In Installer.
Now launch the job and use the plug-in, right? … Right? … No?
No, now I have to Effect > Add/Remove Plugins, find the new effect > Enable it > OK. Don’t forget the Enable step, because then the other steps are for naught. Sort you made the mistake. Go back into Add/Remove Plugins, Find the new effect > Enable it > OK.
Back to the performance > Effect > “New Plugin.”
By then it’s lunch time so go heat up that left-over Arby’s roast beef sandwich and make fresh coffee.
I recognize hold-over programming. This is what happens when a simple decision in the dim, distant past gets added onto, stepping-stoned, and enhanced instead of burned off, hosed down and started over (said the non-developer).
I know someone is going to bring up the editors who bulk-install thousands of effects and plugins and then cherry pick the ones they want on a day-to-day basis. They are the special case, not the poor new user trying to get one custom plugin to work.
There shouldn’t be anything between Tools > Installer, above, and open the work > Effect > use the new plugin. The Unicorns with thousands of plugins can have Nyquist Bulk Plug-Ins Installer.
Koz
Missed one.
Why do I need to know what kind of plugin it is? Audacity should tell me if it can’t figure it out.
“I have no idea what you have there, but it’s not a plugin type I recognize.”
Koz
Yes, I think Steve said the Nyquist Plug-in Installer was written in Nyquist and he was unable to Enable it there…
Consider my question solved and closed
Bob H