Real-Time Noise Gate for Linux?

[digitalextremist]

Hello, world;

Love Audacity, and left Pro Tools / Logic / Ableton / Garageband to stick with that. Feels like forever… but just signed up to the forum here, and here’s my first post:

I am looking for a realtime Noise Gate plugin. Most realtime plugins seem to be for Windows and MacOS. The defaults are music oriented on Linux, as far as I see.

I did find this Noise Gate recommended, but it seems to be the one already preloaded into Audacity in the Linux Mint package:

Dynamics Processing | Audacity Plugins

I normally use a Noise Gate then Compressor and then Noise Suppressor and possibly Normalizer for spoken audio tracks.

It would be great to be able to have those as a realtime effects stack rather than need to manually do post-production beyond just cutting errors or trimming out long pauses, etc.

Would be very grateful for a clue on where to begin to use Realtime Effects on Mint Linux beyond the music tending defaults, versus speech situations.

Thanks, world!

[steve]

LSP Gate is good, but it does not work in Audacity (Audacity 3.7.1 crashes when trying to use it).

There’s also abGate available from the Ubuntu/Mint repository, but Audacity crashes with this one as well.

For real-time processing, using a proper DAW like Ardour or Reaper is a much better option than Audacity. The Muse Group team are aiming to give Audacity good real-time effect support, but currently real-time effect support is not very stable.