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Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm a sound engineer and I use different DAWs for different purposes. There's just no one DAW that does all, so this is a compromise I'm happy to go with.

When I do podcast editing, I use Audacity to split multi-track WAV files and for truncating silence. It's just waaaay easier to do this there than on Reaper. Plus it has a loopback recording feature built-in which I use for Zoom meeting recordings etc.

I use Pro Tools for audio post, but for most of what I do I'm a Reaper guy. It's very powerful as you said and it just works.

I know it can be a hassle switching DAWs (muscle memory on shortcuts can get weird), but for me, I like making the most of the strengths of a tool rather than forcing something to do everything.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

That's awesome!

I learned DAWs with ProTools back around 2006 in college. Dropped out because I didn't want to enter a competitive trade where my best opportunities were moving out of state.

Got sucked into another industry and haven't touched much audio for the past decade. Getting back into it now and started on Audacity but the 2021 buyout had me confused where to land with the Tenacity split. the good/bad of open source I suppose but as a user being in the middle of a split was frustrating and detracting from recording. Finding out about Reaper and talking to people leaving ProTools behind even within the industry was just what I needed when I needed it.

My daughter (11yo) is now getting into DAWs as her current goal is to score an internship at KEXP, being able to share with her all the stuff I learned in school has been so much fun.