henrymy
September 22, 2023, 8:41am
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I like the realtime effects on Audacity V3.3. But I didn’t find a smart method of setting the same effect to all tracks in my project.
Today I have to click the effect to every track and the effect itself is always set to the programmers default value. I have to click like a loony for setting the same realtime effect to 10 tracks.
So I would like to set my preferred realtime effect to all tracks (or to a selection of tracks) within one work step. And the effect should offer my last settings instead of the Audacity default (i.e. Audacity Hall with preference “template and default” user defined).
Is there anything planned like this or have I just overlook this functionality?
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I logged this enhancement request on Muse’s GitHub a while back:
opened 02:17PM - 16 Jan 23 UTC
Enhancement Request
P2
Design / UX
Effects
### Bug description
Unlike other parts of Audacity there is no facility to C… opy or Export/Import an effects stack, which means that the user would have to recreate a carefully constructed and tried&tested effects stack by noting it down and recreating it manually.
You can:
a) import and export Macros
b) Effects have **Presets & Settings** where you can: save, deploy, import and export
c) you can store (Save) and retrieve (Load) Metadata settings
But you can't do this with an effects stack
### Steps to reproduce
1. get some audio
2. add some effects on the effects stack
3. tweak the parameters
4. try to save teh stack or export it
5. try to Save or Export
6. Observe: you can't
### Expected behavior
A facility to enable the user to save or export an effects stack with its settings so that it can be shared/replicated with other tracks and other projects
### Actual behavior
No facility to Copy or Export/Import an effects stack.
### Audacity Version
latest stable version (from audacityteam.org/download)
### Operating system
Windows
### Additional context
There is a kludgy workaround:
1. Duplicate the track with the required effects stack
2. delete the audio in the duplicated track
3. place your required audio in the empty track (paste od record)
This however has a nasty bug that will affect this:
The realtime effect settings of a duplicated track are not independent #4169
There is no facility to Copy or Export/Import an effects stack #4194
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opened 02:25PM - 16 Jan 23 UTC
closed 12:57PM - 24 Jan 23 UTC
Enhancement Request
Design / UX
Effects
### Bug description
An Effects stack can only be applied to a single track, it … cannot be applied to a selected group of tracks or the whole project.
This sits in stark contrast with the functionality that we had in earlier Audacity versions with the Real-time enabled destructive effects.
and there is no facility for copying/replicating effects stacks, so applying a preferred stack to a whole project can be hard work:
**There is no facility to Copy or Export/Import an effects stack #4194**
### Steps to reproduce
1. get several audio tracks
2. set up and effects stack for the top one
3. Try to apply that stack to the entire project (or selected group of tracks)
4. Observe: you can't
### Expected behavior
There should be some facility to enable users to duplicate and re-use an effects stack with its settings.
### Actual behavior
No such facility
### Audacity Version
current master / alpha / nightly build
### Operating system
Windows
### Additional context
Triggered by this recent Forum post: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=128710&p=462465
Effects stack is restricted to a single track #4195
If these get implemented it would probably aid what you are trying to do.
If you want to add a further enhancement request (if the above would not be sufficient) then you would need to log an enhancement on Muse’s GitHub:
or you could add your support for the existing issues there
For that you would need a GitHub account, but those are free.
See also this discussion thread that gathers together feature requests and bugs for Real Time effects:
The GUI/UX for Realtime Effects stack could benefit from some extensions and polishing #4198
Peter.
henrymy
September 22, 2023, 8:47pm
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Thanks for the GitHub discussion links. I think that Effects stack is restricted to a single track · Issue #4195 · audacity/audacity · GitHub is exactly that what I described in words of a user.
So I’ll wait and maybe this feature gets the according priority to be realized.
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