Audacity 3.4.0: What's new in the latest released version?
Audacity It is, without a doubt, one of the favorite apps on our website Ubunlog, and that is why we tend to address many of their releases promptly and regularly. Being, the last time we did it, when the launch of its previous version Audacity 3.3.
And since, said open source audio editing software A few days ago (November 02) it released the long-awaited next version, that is, «Audacity 3.4.0»Today we will take the opportunity to address its new features and see what is so interesting and useful about such a great, free and open multimedia application.
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track, cross-platform audio editor and recorder
But, before starting this post about the news of this new version called "Audacity 3.4.0", we recommend you explore the previous content related to previous version, at the end of reading it:
Audacity 3.4.0: The multimedia app now has a musical view
Important new features in Audacity 3.4.0
While is true that, Audacity is a useful and very complete audio editor, still falls short of being fully digital audio workstation (DAW) software like Ardor. However, it is always in constant and frequent development and innovation.
And according to the official launch announcement from version 3.4.0 It now has the following important and notable new features:
- Music Workflows: Audacity incorporates a new music view that presents various music-related functions, including the ability to switch between normal time (hh:mm:ss) and Beats & Measures (Beats & Measures), and being able to lengthen the time. timing of clips to align them with the tempo of a song.
- Time Stretch: From now on, you can change the length of audio clips without damaging their tone. To do this, hold down the Alt key (or the Option key on macOS) while hovering over the top third of a clip's edge to stretch it.
- New exporter: A new export window has been added to its GUI with easier access to options such as sample rate and custom mapping (for 5.1 or 7.1 audio). Additionally, the “Browse” button now uses the native file explorer.
Other minor news
Finally, it is also worth highlighting other minor and no less important changes, among which are, the one that now manages MP3 files, Audacity will always use Joint Stereo mode, to achieve the best possible quality. Also, another related to the colors of the spectrogram, which are now perceptually uniform and the color map has been named Roseus. And finally, simplified stereo tracks have been included, and the left and right channels now always have synchronized clip starts and ends and the same sample rate on both channels.
While, for downloading you can explore its Downloads section corresponding in your Official website or on website on GitHub, so you can try it and enjoy it on GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS.
Summary
In summary, «Audacity 3.4.0» incorporates timely, useful and long-awaited news for the benefit of its users. Therefore, it will surely continue to be a first, better option than others that are more robust and equally free, whether commercial (paid) or not. Above all, because today, it continues to be a free and multi-platform alternative, which allows it to be used by many more users in many more work environments.
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