Any way to organize my effects list?
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Any way to organize my effects list?
There are over a hundred effects (beyond the built-ins) available in Audacity. And whenever I want to use one, I end up scrolling for several minutes through the list (I usually forget the exact name of what I'm looking for) in order to get what I want. Is there any way to create subfolders (sub-menu items) that could be used to group them in more manageable arrangement?
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kozikowski
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Re: Any way to organize my effects list?
That is a sore point. One of the early versions of Audacity had menus and sub-menus and sub-sub-menus.
Because of the way Audacity applies effects, you have to apply the same one multiple, sometimes hundreds of times. With the effects in one long row, this process is one or two keyclicks. After about the fifteenth cycle, you don't even have to look any more. With the sub-menus, it can take six or eight clicks with the possibility of errors at each click. The heavy effects users put the kibosh on that idea in a big hurry.
The menus will return in good order at the same time as the ability to program an effect into a function key. "Noise Removal -- Shift-F2" and it doesn't matter where in the menus it is, because that's irrelevant to the show.
I do the same four hours of production every week and I would kill to be able to do that.
Koz
Because of the way Audacity applies effects, you have to apply the same one multiple, sometimes hundreds of times. With the effects in one long row, this process is one or two keyclicks. After about the fifteenth cycle, you don't even have to look any more. With the sub-menus, it can take six or eight clicks with the possibility of errors at each click. The heavy effects users put the kibosh on that idea in a big hurry.
The menus will return in good order at the same time as the ability to program an effect into a function key. "Noise Removal -- Shift-F2" and it doesn't matter where in the menus it is, because that's irrelevant to the show.
I do the same four hours of production every week and I would kill to be able to do that.
Koz
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waxcylinder
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Re: Any way to organize my effects list?
My understanding is that the developers are planning to bring back the tiered menus for effects at some stage in the future - but only when thay can make it an option to select the long list in preference to the tierd menu (presumably controlled from a preferences setting).
The ability to bind effects to keystrokes is one that come up often (I personally would like this a lot: amplify, repair, noise removal ...) - but there appears to be some resistance to doing this among the developer community.
But right now the developers (and there aren't a whole lot of them - and they're all part-time volunteers anyway) are mainly focussed on bug-removal so that they can get out a new stable release 2.0 later this year.
WC
The ability to bind effects to keystrokes is one that come up often (I personally would like this a lot: amplify, repair, noise removal ...) - but there appears to be some resistance to doing this among the developer community.
But right now the developers (and there aren't a whole lot of them - and they're all part-time volunteers anyway) are mainly focussed on bug-removal so that they can get out a new stable release 2.0 later this year.
WC
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Re: Any way to organize my effects list?
What'd be great for all concerned, would be a "favorites" section at least, with "more..." listed below. (It'd also be nice if the names were a bit more descriptive in most cases).