very few effect available

[odaibanet]

I am on Linux Mint 8 (derived from Ubuntu 9.10)
Audaciity 1.3.11 Beta

this install of Audacity has few effects, I notices when I tried to use "hard-limit", it's nowhere to be found

I have reinstalled, same result.

How do I get all effects available?

[steve]

What you appear to have there is the standard set of effects that are distributed with Audacity. Other effects may be installed separately.
If you think that you have other effects (for example LADSPA effects) installed but they are not showing up, check in "Edit menu > Preferences > Effects" to ensure that you have (LADSPA) effects enabled. (Nyquist effects are clearly enabled because you have some Nyquist effects listed).

[odaibanet]

Dear Steve.

All effect under Edit > Preferences > Effects, are checked, I tried unchecking them all, restart, check bacK them all, restart, same result!

How do I manually add effects?

[steve]

Mint - that's Ubuntu based isn't it?
Have a look in Synaptic for "swh-ladspa" - that will install a good bundle of useful LADSPA plug-ins (not all of them work with Audacity, but most of them do and there's some really nice ones).

To install additional Nyquist plug-ins, you just download them and copy them into the Audacity plug-ins folder.
My plug-ins folder is /usr/share/audacity/plug-ins (your's may be different)
For a list of Nyquist plug-ins see here: http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins

[odaibanet]

Yes, Linux Mint is Ubuntu based.

and Yes! now I have effects (at least hard limiter was the one I nedded the most)

Thank you very much!

[odaibanet]

More plugins!, I found them installing via synaptic the "ubuntustudio-audio-plugins" 0.64
It installed a ton of plugins.


...and to think all I wanted was the "hard limiter"

[dinosaur]

Hello,

Is it possible to move an add on Ladspa effect up to the main Effects menu?

Thank you.

[steve]

No it's not currently possible. The built in effects are listed above the line, all plug-in effects are listed below the line.
When the experimental "category view" of effects was enabled in Audacity, effects were organised according to the type of effect (provided that the effect contained a category descriptor). It is hoped that an improved, customisable version of that may make a return at some point (though the first attempt was cumbersome and generally unpopular, so it will require a major improvement before it comes back).