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Audacity And Effects
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Thought I'd try out Audacity as a quick sketchpad for recording.
Problem as follows
Record a few tracks add some effects
Save as Audacity project .aup , no re-rendering as far as i'm aware
Re-open project and decide to remove/change effects.
How do I: 1 see what effects are active ? Is there no indicator of whats being used on the effects list ?
2: Remove effects if i'm lucky enough to find what effects are on?
I usually use Cubase but i wanted something quick and dirty on a seperate PC that I can setup and leave without all the changing of devices and VSTi inputs that I have to do with Cubase for all my different equipment and I/o devices
Did a search and found nothing of any use, from what I can make out it cant be done, have un-installed and re-installed but no difference.
Please prove me wrong
Problem as follows
Record a few tracks add some effects
Save as Audacity project .aup , no re-rendering as far as i'm aware
Re-open project and decide to remove/change effects.
How do I: 1 see what effects are active ? Is there no indicator of whats being used on the effects list ?
2: Remove effects if i'm lucky enough to find what effects are on?
I usually use Cubase but i wanted something quick and dirty on a seperate PC that I can setup and leave without all the changing of devices and VSTi inputs that I have to do with Cubase for all my different equipment and I/o devices
Did a search and found nothing of any use, from what I can make out it cant be done, have un-installed and re-installed but no difference.
Please prove me wrong
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Audacity doesn't work like a DAW such as Cubase or Reaper, which run the effects "live" while the track is playing. Audacity is more of a "sound editor". It uses destructive processing. That is to say, it processes the track while you wait, and once processed the original track can only be regained by using undo.
Don't claim to be an expert on Audacity but recently been experimenting with it.
Once you have a recorded project open, clicking onto the Effects tab displays that long list of possible effects (about 15 of them - from Amplify to Wah-wah). So any of the effects can be activated (unless perhaps you have a lite version where you are locked out of some?). It confused me for a while - the effects list are greyed-out if you don't have a live project open.
Once you've used an effect, you have to save the project again. Having saved, you can't go backwards unless you 'save as'. That's the way I test it - keeping 2 versions and compare. But keeping more than two versions is a no-no because of the humungous amount of disk space the programme uses to record, until one downloads the output to .wav or whatever.
Can't answer your 2nd question.
Once you have a recorded project open, clicking onto the Effects tab displays that long list of possible effects (about 15 of them - from Amplify to Wah-wah). So any of the effects can be activated (unless perhaps you have a lite version where you are locked out of some?). It confused me for a while - the effects list are greyed-out if you don't have a live project open.
Once you've used an effect, you have to save the project again. Having saved, you can't go backwards unless you 'save as'. That's the way I test it - keeping 2 versions and compare. But keeping more than two versions is a no-no because of the humungous amount of disk space the programme uses to record, until one downloads the output to .wav or whatever.
Can't answer your 2nd question.
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