Hello, I have been an Audacity users for many years but I have taken a break from sound design and foley, which is one of the main things I used Audacity for. Recently I’ve gotten back to sound design and I’ve been loving the new Audacity features like non-destructive editing and simple drag and drop stuff. I’ve been able to do stuff at light speed it’s incredible. However, there is a major issue with some stuff I’ve been doing, and that when I import some sounds it thinks I’m doing something music related and assigns a BPM when I’m not and slows down/speeds up SFX I’m trying to sample. Perhaps I’m a moron but I’m unable to find anything in the preferences that disables this musical perspective of the SFX. It does tell me that it detected a BPM and asks me if I want to change the project BPM, which is fine, but there should be an option for sound design or whatever that doesn’t care about BPM. this is just extremely frustrating when dealing with sounds that have a sort of ‘bu-dum’ kind of sound(e.g. guns, doors, etc) and you have to manually change the ‘speed change’ back to 100%.
my suggestion is that when importing a new sound into a project is asking if it’s something music related or something else or whatever. music related it’ll automatically adjust the samples to the appropriate BPM, otherwise just import the sound raw as is, and let the user adjust the speed themselves.
I hope I wasn’t too rude.
Kind regards,
anoldretiredelephant.