Real-Time Effects in Audacity 3.2 

Thanks!

It is pretty amazing.

You're welcome!

Glad it helped!

I'm not sure. You CAN do that with Reaper - applying effects to inputs. Just not sure you can with Audacity. You might want to check the Audacity forum.

You can still use those effects, but NOT in a non-destructive way. Yeah, this is a weird shortfall, IHMO. But you can still apply all of Audacity's own effects to the audio itself the same way you always have been able to.

I don't think you can do this in Audacity. But you CAN do it in Reaper. And you can use Ambeo in there also. Reaper is only $60 and is much more capable than Audacity for music. That might be the best way to go.

@@HomebrewAudioRecording Thank you for the advice!

@@Garciaformica You're welcome!

Those are all individual plugins from different companies I have loaded. Here are a few of the sources: acondigital.com/, www.antarestech.com/, www.waves.com/, valhalladsp.com/, www.izotope.com/. I've added them over the years and they are all paid plugins.

In order to have the effects actually "attach" to the audio, you'll need to Export that audio as a new file. Then you can import that file back in with the effects printed onto it. You export the audio the same as with any audio in Audacity - File>Export. The "Save As" menu item will just save the project and NOT an audio file.

No. And I am WITH YOU on that one. It would be super helpful. Not sure why either.

I don't think so. But I honestly have not tried that, since that isn't really the main use of Audacity. My advice would be to just give it a try. If you don't have any, look here: plugins.audacityteam.org/

No I must have missed it to, real time means real time to me as in as you are recording, this is post recording processing which you can do anyway in Audacity so I'm confused.

Are you using a Mac or Windows?

I'm having the same problem, did you figure it out?

Whats the answer

I just looked at this. You download MuseHub, yes. Then you install it. It becomes a program/app on your computer. But THEN you have to open the app and actually "Get" each effect you want. So Audacity will not see these effects until you individually click the "Get" button under each one. Once you do that, then open Audacity and you'll see it as available as a VST3 when you click Add Effect under Effects on the track panel.

@@HomebrewAudioRecording thank you very much. I'll do that. Good job.

This is a bit involved. So you should probably follow the steps here: support.audacityteam.org/basics/customizing-audacity/installing-plugins But if you already have VST effects on your computer, the new version will scan for them and add the ones you can use as Real-Time effects automatically. So when you click that Add Effect button on the track control panel on the left, you'll be able to see them.

What is gsnap?

The ones I installed are not free. But there ARE free ones. Check this site to start: plugins.audacityteam.org/

@@HomebrewAudioRecording I really appreciate your efforts to educate and share. I know that's the official page for plugins, but it currently just provides 3 page links to huge lists of strange plugin names that I assume I would have to be an audio engineer to understand. For example SpikeQ Frequency transient shaper, or LALA Optical limiter/compressor. I'm sure that means something to a lot of people but I really just want to use the built-in Amplify, Truncate Silence, and Change Tempo in Real Time. Does anyone have a suggested list of plugins that parallel the built-in effects for Real Time use? I realize it's free software so I don't want to complain, but they made a lot of noise about their Real Time feature in 3.2, then left newbies and users with simple needs with no clear path to take advantage of this great new feature.

@@MatterLabz Yeah, I get what you're saying. I think this was geared more toward folks who already have experience using non-destructive multi-track DAWs like Reaper, Adobe Audition, and even Pro Tools, but who also like the simplicity (and price of "free") of Audacity. So they are likely to already have 3rd party plugins and experience using them. Like I show in the video, there are disadvantages to both ways of doing things (destructive and non-destructive editing). And I don't quite understand why they didn't make their standard effects like you mentioned usable for the new real-time feature. Is there a specific reason you want to use the amplify, truncate silence, and change tempo effects as track effects instead of how they've always been used before?