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Audacity 4.0 is finally out! (www.audacityteam.org)
submitted 1 day ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR this is a huge overhaul of the popular open-source audio editing app. The UI specifically has been the biggest overhaul, making it a lot more modern and friendly to use.

Hopefully, one day, GIMP will get some kind of update like this.

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's the same lead designer. I thought the reception to the changes done to musescore was positive. Wasn't it archaic as shit before?

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that is concerning. I'll try it, but hearing that I'll probably stay with version 3.7, or switch to Tenacity if it adds realtime effects.

Muscore 3 is only archaic according to the lead developer of Musescore 4, and he is rather biased. In my experience it completely broke my workflow and supposedly added a new playback engine that doesn't seem to exist.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The new playback engine is proprietary; you need to download MuseSounds to use it. It does sound good FWIW and many use MuseScore 4 as a primitive DAW 😬

I personally enjoyed the UX and engraving changes. Said designer also introduced draggable sound clips to Audacity 3 so I trust him on design.