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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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[โ€“] popcar2@piefed.ca 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Audacity isn't a DAW, it's an audio editor which makes it very different from Reaper.

[โ€“] mayst0ne@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

True, but you could argue that supporting VST plugins, which audacity does, makes you some kind of a DAW. As for the editing (stems, clips etc) Reaper works on a very similar way and is pretty lightweight too. To each his own ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 13 hours ago

Audacity is like a tape recording studio. It doesn't support midi programming and VSTi as far as I know.

Everything is a DAW if you're brave enough, and there's no strict definition, but for something to be a full DAW, it should have both recording and virtual instruments IMO.

As of now, there's very few free ones that does both and Reaper beats all of them as the cheapest paid option. However Reaper doesn't do everything. Some paid DAWs still have features that Reaper doesn't.