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Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:46 am
by rogrm
Hi everybody.
Is it possible organize audacity (1.3) effects in groups? Just like categories as "Filters", "Delays/echos", "distortions", "pitch", etc.
Thanx
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:50 am
by waxcylinder
In 1.3.6 the effects were organized into groups - for 1.3.7 the developers appear to have reverted to the un-grouped menu.
WC
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:21 am
by Gale Andrews
waxcylinder wrote:In 1.3.6 the effects were organized into groups - for 1.3.7 the developers appear to have reverted to the un-grouped menu.
We will turn grouping back on when we have implemented a way for users to turn it on and off. That's not a priority as the grouping was unpopular, because it increased the navigation effort to get to individual effects.
Gale
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:20 am
by waxcylinder
Thanks for that insight Gale. I personally find it easier to work with the ungrouped list.
WC
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:33 pm
by steve
I personally find it easier to work with grouped lists (lots of plug-ins) but would like to be able to customize the grouping for LADSPA plug-ins as well as Nyquist plug-ins.
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:00 am
by Gale Andrews
stevethefiddle wrote:I personally find it easier to work with grouped lists (lots of plug-ins) but would like to be able to customize the grouping for LADSPA plug-ins as well as Nyquist plug-ins.
We are intending that ultimately but it's likely to be more complex, and would delay reintroducing grouping for longer. In any case grouping of LADSPA plug-ins does not yet work at all on Windows (but does on the other platforms), so that needs to be fixed too.
Gale
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:15 pm
by kozikowski
Part of grouping has to be the ability to assign a hot key.
Noise Reduction is a process where you go back and forth into the tool multiple times to change values. In 1.2 it's a two-step process. In 1.3 it's four or five because of nested groups. You don't need many passes to realize what an intense time waster that is.
Koz
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:51 pm
by Gale Andrews
kozikowski wrote:Part of grouping has to be the ability to assign a hot key.
I agree we should give more consideration to raising the priority of doing that. It's more generally useful than grouping.
Gale
Re: Organizing Effects (Group)
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:36 pm
by steve
A hot key for "Recall last effect" would help a great deal when using Noise Reduction.
("Recall Last Effect" = bring up dialogue screen/GUI for the last used effect)