The Story Behind Audacity 

Will audacity have it's own channel?

woah, that last idea of being able to manipulate the 3 dimensional wave-forms in a VR space with haptic type gloves honestly gave me chills. just imagining how that experience might feel, when all of your senses are able to convergence on a single thing you are actively creating sounds honestly magical. I'm really looking forward to where Audacity goes from here.

Depends. Can the discord reteach me audacity? It's been like a decade...

can you please be in charge of every app out there?

ONe thing I absolutely do not understand is why aduacity creates a new track every time you record a bit - why not allow people to drop in / record over existing audio? Maybe I am just too used to Cubase.... having said that, Cubase ABSOLUTELY needs that karaoke feature!

Linux, gnu, vim etc. can confirm

Except VLC. VLC is too chad to have a bad logo.

I love the Audacity logo honestly

This is so true.

Most open source apps struggle with poor design and bad user experience.

With some orchestra composition and recording out of the blue for good measure.

Well he’s also a graphic designer

Well. Did you know he actually designed Ubuntu Touch? That was a loong ago and its design (unlike Android) is still very much contemporary & up-to-date!

@@Cirlotube wait what Is this man secretly a god

@@CirlotubeCan you cite a source for this fact?

I love ❤️ this!!!

Such a satisfying comment to see how Audacity can be used to the extreme!

you do know about knock sensors on car engines, right?

@@GeorgeTsiros no

@@GeorgeTsiros what is that ?

Does it support .nrt?

The reason is probably because it's open source, so it just needs one guy that knows how to program AND has use for the old format, so he can simply implement it himself.

(like voice-over menus in PBXs) Management: okay this is a major company-wide project, so we're going to need input from every business group which IT will communicate to our voice services provider and then they will coordinate the implementation in line with company policies. Some of which may need to be updated and rewritten just a little bit. *sweating/shivering intensifies*

@@sixstringedthingThe moment I read “company wide,” I shivered. It got worse every word. Good job, you could be an office horror writer.

2031: Tantacrul takes over the world

Creating a monopoly and making making money by telling people about it on the internet. Marketing genius

Tantarific!

sounds like Mycroft Holmes

@@winter2400 i mean... ads?

Well the Next is FL Studio...

Followed by Blender. Might have to sacrifice a loved one (or a chair), but hey, man's gotta get what he needs.

@@ostrovnyklinok6165 nah, needs to be open source. so garageband or ableton edit: ableton live isnt opensource

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@@joyce_rx is Ableton open source?

UwU

was

why "was"? @@halidox

Background singers: Doofenschmirtz comments on a video!

Well now we know he was in the Paint 3D team too lol

@@theunknown4834 But that isn't open source

@@klaasbil8459 I think he meant GPL 2 releases

@@sfurules If so, then mentioning Paint 3D is moot

It was foreshadowing

this fucker is gonna take over ableton and FL studio as well. then he changes the conditions to all so that you have to give him 10% of all the music sales where u used these programs. OuO

@@Mr.Marbles LoL I'd like to see him try. Except not really, I love my piano roll.

"oh, the guy that made this app cool enough to live in space, of course"

I could tell the difference because the Earth wasn't moving at 0.011 rpm.

@@biggusmunkusthegreat Well that's fucked up, hopefully someone with the time to manage it will fork it.

I mean, his lightning helps you to buy he's in space

@@8bitwiz_ based

Hi snowwolf!

Hi Snowwolf

@@SteveStockmalMusic so? why does that stop them from knowing chinese?

@@harshsrivastava9570 he he

this made me very sad.

damn man

Just wait for the inevitable Disney-Cruel merger...

I like what you did there.

He needs to make Tentacruel his mascot, the moment he takes over Nintendo ...unless Disney gets there first

Yeah, his evil Tentacles reach all over the free audio software.

Adobe pacifist route.

I know that UI and UX are separate issues, but holy shit the current interface looks like dogshit compared to almost everything else in 2021, at least on windows. Not that I would stop using it.

@@MrtinVarela @Martín Varela I mean, I won't argue that it doesn't look dated... because it does. But also, it feels like function over form, something a lot of these newer programs lack (also modern looking programs often force you to do stuff in a certain way, and only in that way... which isn't great if the designers are idiots) So I think I'll also just deal with the 2000s look.. Btw, not meant not meant as an attack, more like an addition I guess (tone sadly gets lost over text...)

@@someperson8670 It's hard not to get heat into these discussions so I kind of agree on the sentiment. The part where I kindly disagree is that in this particular instance, the interface has a lot of dated gradients and textures where it would be better off without any of that. In that sense modern flat-style interfaces should be easier to maintain because they only need to worry about solid colors. In other words: I feel they made active effort into giving a look to the program in a way that it accomplishes the opposite of it's intention: make the program not look cheesy and dated head to toes.

Muse Group bought the open source software,

Sounded like a Walter White loss of soul moment to me.

It's a little known fact that "tantacrul" means "king of all the free things"

Well, if he has the audacity to citicize all music software, he'll have to prove his worth

LMMS pl0x

Next up: He takes over GIMP

@@bootmii98 I tried out LMMS, It's nice microsoftware but it's UX design sucks really bad.

Mine was more of a "wait, what"?

no, Audible is a different service.

@@caramelldansen2204 Eh, give him two years.

@@caramelldansen2204 who's gonna tell him

I hummed with intrigue as soon as I saw it. It was the most surprised hum I have ever hummed.

Ron Swanson's techy brother on good drugs?

Also the menacing delivery of "I carved that pumpkin"

My brain just figured that audacity was one of those ethereal things that has been around since the dawn of time, that everyone knows/uses, and never changes. Like obs, tor, teamspeak, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.

@@simethigsomethingidfk blender

now actual people with names and faces are involved in the destruction of this tool.

@@8kcompression770 ?

@@joshuaSundeep not really, many people (at least who use Blender) know about Ton Roosendaal, it's like adding Linux to the list something like Photoshop suits this list more even while it's not FOSS

I mean he already worked on some pretty major design projects, like Ubuntu mobile and Paint 3d. He started out doing professional software UI/UX design and is now doing....software UI/UX design. Not a huge mystery how that happened.

@@joestevenson5568 Oh

"I'm now in charge of Spotify. Seriously..."

If only the entertainment industry worked like this.

@@somedumbhoe7123 Yeah, the RU-vid thing is just a hobby for him. He has a professional career as well.

Tbf that's kinda how a lot of FOSS stuff likes to present itself. It's a tool made by the people, for the people. It's not tied to any people or for-profit businesses.

It's Steve Jobs baby. Not that pesky iTunes and Mac OS X

Every fresh install Audacity is part of my install package.

didnt expect to see thrill here

@@youallnine lol same

Ayy sup VR seeker. Remember to check out the new Oculus👍

THRILL

how does it feel to know that they are making moves to make it un-free?

His first decree is that all corporate videos must now use covers of Hallelujah that get that descending line right.

“Wow! Now I have ALL the music!”

"But of course I'm letting everyone keep using it under the Tantacrul Super Awesome License of Awesomeness, so really it's just a nominal thing."

the CEO of music

Oh so youre a musician? Okay. Name every song ever. Go on... do it.

The slowed down cricket sound that immediately follows is really the cherry on top.

12:49

I'm so excited for Audacity VR, lol!

same xD

I just hope they don't make it oversimplified.

@@Chris_Cross Agree. Simplified is fine. OVER simplified is awful. But this logo is already simple. Headphones and some audio. Can't simplify that without taking things away.

I honestly just hope they keep it the same.. lol or at least offer legacy versions if things change drastically

I hate basically every modern logo in existence, so

yup, it sure is

"Have you seen the audacity pumpkin?" *Violently calm reminescing* "i carved that pumpkin"

* confidence

@@bacicinvatteneaca *convergence

@@charliekahn4205 circumvent*

he speaks, looks, and carries himself exactly like Ron Swanson

I might try using it as an auto queue or teleprompter.

I've been tinkering in Audacity for years off and on and I had no idea

Yup. I'm expecting him to join the Blender and Godot teams in June.

he'll replace Linus Torvalds by next quarter

turns out "complain about stuff enough until they pay you to fix it" is a viable carreer path good to know

@@Jwnex Well, the thing is, he didn't just complain. Anyone can complain. No, after he was done complaining, he proved he had the talent and the ability to come up with and implement SOLUTIONS. Complaining about things is easy, offering solutions to the things you complain about is much harder and much more noticeable.

@@tituslafrombois1164 Well made point.

Sibelius crashed.

It is at 3:31 if you want to watch it again.

there's always Ardour. But that is a massively more complex beastie

wait, auda died??

nono it is the water of the city au da city get it? you now know what an aneurysm feels like, _you're welcome_

Man, the Audacity of his statement....

I think we are missing the obvious, THEY CHOSE AGAINST AUDIO MONKEY?!?!?!

@@theybot522 The AUDACITY of those who petitioned against the name Audio Monkey...

Reject audio, embrace monke

But I used to have audio player software called Media Monkey. But it only handled audio, so it could have been called....

Monkey's Audio (a lossless compressor - you may have seen the APE format/file extension) launched at about the same time.

He'll own you at this rate.

Quick, pick other open-source stuff to work with

@@yuvalne im gonna start making some games with unity now

Can you start using Adobe stuff?

QUICK START USING LMMS

Man absolutely radiates Ron Swanson energy in that clip

that dude was the star of the show

* C R I C K E T S *

I didn't hear shame in that voice. I heard determination, from a man declaring that he indeed carved that pumpkin. His voice is great, the man speaks with clarity and interest. It reminds me of the better words from scientists and such in documentaries.

i was looking for this comment HAHHAAH

Ardour and LMMS are still holding out.

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 boy, I would love a uiux overhaul on lmms It always just feels funky and weird to use that app, and I don't really know what I'm doing

@@nolankanski9116 agreed

im waiting for tantacrul to tackle lmms

That is soo cool! In my school they would only teach us how to use Notepad and MS Paint

@@meriwoo7382 We had "Computer classes" that taught us stuff like Excel, Office etc. and "Music classes" that mostly taught us the music theory, but also the last 4 semesters (4 halfs of a year) were specialized (We voted on the order of said specializations), one of which was Audio Editing More details if you're interested: The specializations were: - Dancing. - Singing. - Playing an instrument. - Audio editing. We ofc. learned for an entire semester, but each part had a practical "final exam". For dancing, we had to dance in a pair with someone of the opposite sex. The dance was set in stone (so everyone knows the same one, to make finding a partner easier). A fun thing is, while most girls in my class disliked me, they all picked me as their "grading partner" cuz I was surprisingly good at it. Then they were dancing with other guys for them to earn a mark. For singing, you had to basically select a song (there was a list of songs in both our native language, and English, and you could take your own song if you informed your teacher about it beforehand) and sing it to the class. For playing an instrument, we had a piano at school, so most people learned that, but if you had your own different instrument, that worked too (You also had to inform the teacher about it) And for Audio editing, you had to use Audacity to record yourself reading a poem, remove noise from your recording, and then add some background music, make it louder before you started, make the music "dodge" your voice, maybe change the pitch in a few spots, and have it fade out at the end. I really enjoyed our music classes.

Too bad it's now illegal for primary school students to use Audacity. That's in their terms because they collect information about users and send it to their servers, which is illegal to do if the user is under 13.

Haha. Also... ouch!

Don't do him dirty like that lol

He's doing great as long as he doesn't do some sketchy copyright deals or freeze his dead body in a theme park.

but disney is like the opposite of open source

He's a music princess

I have no complaints

Underrated.

They could put quotations around "Zoom to Selection" to make it look better, but why fix the jank? Embrace the jank instead!

So... a bookmark?

@@NabsterHax No, a selection that discretely controls the amount of zoom applied commensurate with the timeline's space. Not a bookmark.

"It doesn't make sense but it does but it looks like it doesn't" is a great sentence. It doesn't make sense but it does but it looks like it doesn't.

@@username6338 needs more red

T E R R I F I C

What does red mean?

@@user-df5yl6bw9k mm. red.

@@oh...hi. yes

Quit Sibelius

I'd really welcome this. Fuck Adobe.

@@gayusschwulius8490 Now if they could only fix GIMP so that it's actually usable...

@@kebman check out GIMP 3! They fixed a lot of stuff, like proper layer controls! I think you will find it an interesting update.

@@gayusschwulius8490 adobe is not the industry standard for audio, avid is. And fuck them too

Thing with Blender is an unintuitive steep learning curve.

I want an audacity plugin that just changes every UI button to a magnifying glass

Audacity for zoology too!

Same here! It was the only audio free application I found for my 1998 iMac with OS 9... good times!

i used it to debug the java code that would compile to an .exe that would produce a single .wav file when clicked. That's how i started writing music: hard coded into the .exe. It was horrible, but Audacity helped me keeping track of the waveshaped i needed to generate, when to shift everything slightly to avoid clipping or reduce volume... i still use it nearly everyday for these things. Except now i use a self developed RegEx based syntax for music notation and an .exe a friend of mine had written instead of hard coding every single ostinato as a for-loop...

Paul is the best.

When someone in the _open source community_ calls you a "pretty good guy" you know you've REALLY made it.

LMMS next! :)

One can only hope he doesn't abuse his [open source] powers

@@UNSCPILOT Power corrupts absolutely. (So it's only a matter of time.)

@@biggusmunkusthegreat At first I was skeptical about the validity of this, but turns out it was true. I'll just see in the future though

Maybe then he could make gol fix some of his weird design decisions LMAO

@@NebulonRanger Just dont take out fruity dance. DONT TAKE OUT FRUITY DANCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@@milkyproduxions Fruity Dance is a feature, you don't remove features to make a nicer UI!

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second this

Yeah, audacity as it is sometimes can look a bit dated, hopefully they change this though

Audacity has worked pretty well for me on Linux with a dark GTK theme

@@nunyabusiness3786 third this

If they ever do a remake of the movie Contact, they could use Audacity :-)

God: Audacity is a terrain editor

@@nullone3181 Ur mom: Audacity is fart

@@bionictryhard2272 Your username suits you.

@@bionictryhard2272 Comedy Award

I have a feeling that would require an entire code rewrite to support the feature

Yes, I'm eager to see where audacity will end up in a few months/years

Yea damn, it will lose all its charme! Seriously though, I hope this will all go well because it would be great

It's already pretty user friendly, I just hope it doesn't become really complex and hard to navigate

yeah its like the "paint" of music. oldschool, and not pretty, but simple as hell, straight forward and free.

@@Mr.Marbles well yeah but Paint costs 200 quid and comes with a whole OS bundled in its installer!

I like the old UI design, but it can get confusing

it will even eat things like dirt mud or trash

THERES A CARP IN THE TUB THERES A CARP IN THE TUB N EVERYBODY SINGIN THERES A CARP IN THE TUB THERES A CARP IN THE TUB AND NOBODIES TAKIN A BATH

Alright

Get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head

Le Carp

It's Tantacrul, stupid

@@Subzearo Two souls for getting the name wrong.

Thankfully the PR was rejected

@@darltrash yeah... until it wasn't

@@eilidhmm RIP audacity

how was switching to linux though? i'm thinking about doing the same but i'm afraid the lack of windows only apps will do me dirty

@@sploomfussy Well, the only software I'm currently missing is a proper Audio CD ripping tool, like EAC or CUERipper, which are Windows-only. Fre:ac will get that functionality in the future though. When I moved to Linux I didn't really miss anything since most of the software I used was multi-platform. Foobar2000 was pretty much the only software I regularly used that does not run natively on Linux. I now use Strawberry for my music collection and Audacious to play files from the file manager. The best way to find out if Linux is something for you is to try it. For a Linux beginner I'd probably recommend Feren OS. It's an Ubuntu distribution with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. I can also recommend Manjaro or some Arch Linux distribution like RebornOS, they allow you to choose between lots of different desktop environments and offer great software support because of the Arch User Repository (AUR).

a sort of free version of AbletonLive, as it were - i've been using Audacity since the time you could only get it on a CD in a magazine, and it has consistently beaten just about anything and everything out there. it hasn't fallen over once, not matter how hard i've pushed it, and i can only imagine that under the guiding hand of @Tantacrul it will become more user-friendly and intuitive - can't wait

Yes!! I'm super excited. One of the most widely used pieces of free/libre software is about to get way better and I can't wait.

Isn't it already the greatest audio program of all time?

@@PiotrBarcz yeah but... Tantacrul... :D

So long as there’s no tracking or advertisement in the program, absolutely! Not every app needs to talk to the internet, aside from checking for updates.

I think Satan would skate to work on that day.

Omg. That would be amazing. I'd love to see an interview with Tantacrul and the developers of Winamp.

I personally love that it is easy to use and opens up almost immediately

@@thatanimeweirdo I feel like that instant gratification, even on not great hardware, is a big part. I've had the luck to work stage production on some very large shows and at the best of times name-dropping a software will provoke friendly discussion, at the worst it will end with someone cussing out someone else's favorite piece of gear lol. But everyone's who heard of Audacity reacts like a cute dog just wandered on stage "Ayyyy, yeah! Audacity!". I've heard so many variations "Dude, you know you can do that in Audacity?!"

Yeah I literally used it as a vocoder bc my video editing software doesn’t have any good free vocoder plugins

But has anyone ever found a secret UFO message in an earthquake?

I used it to create a "Borg transmission". You know with the noise reduction plugin, how you have to give it a sample of the noise first? Well, you don't have to highlight noise - you can use anything as a sample. You know how you can preview and listen to the sound that the plug-in removes? And then, you keep what remains? Well, you can also keep only what the plug-in removes, and throw away the rest. Then you can normalize and maybe limit the result, to bring the volume up, and then swap its stereo channels, and then layer it with the original audio, so the mix down is the phase interference of the original audio and its abused noise reduction residue. It sounds as if your original audio is intermodulated by the Borg transmission. I'll post an example tomorrow called DMT at the Ballgame, featuring some Rammstein chords, to illustrate what I mean.

oh gosh...

oh my puckcell...

oh my word...

AA... AAA... AAAA!

terrible. Their best common ground would literally just be listening to music.

The new old tagline :P

Dream weaver

oh, please

Inkscape is already pretty good, much easier to do something quick and intuitive with inkscape than with audacity for instance.

and GIMP...?

@@Alex-nl5cy even vs. Illustrator, well for me at least