Hi,
I am a musician and YouTuber. I use Audacity mainly for working with the commentary / voice tracks of my videos. I use Audacity since ages.
Until recently I used Version 3.0.5 for years and it worked like a charm. Reliable, fast, and it simply did what I expected it to do . Then I had the bad idea to get the latest version. A VERY bad idea → never change a running system, right?
First I was impressed by the new modern user interface. Then the troubles started:
- Effects, like the compressor did stuff, I can’t really describe, but the results were not what I expected.
- Everything was painfully slow (Windows 10) and that cleanup of the Undo/Redo History took seemingly forever.
- Often, like for example after importing my audio tracks from a FFMPEG file, the application froze and had to be killed in the task manager.
So now I de-installed the new version and reverted back to the old version. Now everything works again, as I like it.
My question is: WHY? Why does a new version “work” a lot worse than an ancient version? Isn’t it supposed to be the other way?
Greetings from Hamburg
Sonny