
You can then repeatedly click ‘noise reduction’. Within the app itself noise removal and repair allows you to clean up audio by selecting a piece with only the noise you want removed to get the ‘noise profile’. This only works for spoken-word recording, however. The ‘get more effects’ for noise removal and repair takes you to NVIDIA Broadcast which only works on Windows machines with a NVIDIA RTX GPU.
Good clean-up tools, which show potential for automation. You can find out more about this update here, and download the latest version of Audacity here.Noise Reduction takes out unwanted background, as long as you can separate it (Image credit: Audacity) The Audacity Manual HTML pages no longer are included in the installation. More information can be found in the announcement post. Most code files remain GPLv2-or-later, but VST3 support required this license update. Audacity binaries are now licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3. Audacity has been added to the Windows Package manager (winget). Switched from mad to mpg123 as MP3 importer. Note: If you are upgrading from a previous version, Audacity will keep using the ~/.audacity-data and ~/.audacity folders until you delete them. Audacity now uses XDG directories on Linux. On Linux, Audacity can now be compiled without JACK present. FFMPEG 5.0 (avformat 59) is now supported, in addition to avformat 55, 57 and 58. Plugins for x86-64 (Intel macs) will not load.įor the time being, Audacity will continue to offer x86-64 versions by default to avoid these incompatibilities, but you can download an arm64 version from Github releases. Note: When using an arm64 Audacity, you must use arm64 FFMPEG and plugins. Apple Silicon (arm64) is now supported on macOS. Plugins now automatically get scanned, tested and enabled when Audacity starts. VST3, LV2, Audio Units and LADSPA are now realtime capable.
Other sorting and grouping options can be found in the Effects preferences.
The Effects menu has gotten a new sorting.
The device toolbar can be re-added via the View > Toolbars menu. Added a new Audio Setup button, replacing the Device Toolbar by default.Merged the mixer bar with the meter bars.Added a new Effects button to the tracks menu, allowing you to place realtime effects.The full changelog for Audacity 3.2 looks like this: