Re: [Audacity-devel] FFTW ... Is it really all that?

[Markus M. <me...@me...>]

Dominic Mazzoni schrieb:
>    a. Focus on adding a few of the most-requested effects into  
> Audacity.  That would include a good reverb and multiband  
> compressor.  (Note: Monty's "libpostfish" would address much of this;  
> I'm waiting for him to release the first library version!)
>   
I pretty much agree with everything you wrote, Dominic. I have one
additional note: We have to look at the reasons why people download VST
plugins for use with Audacity, and I think it relates to the fact that
the effects currently built into Audacity are not sufficient for many
tasks. Most users would not really need plugin support at all if the
built-in effects were sufficient. E.g. it would be much better if we
just had a decent Reverb built into Audacity than refferring people to
an additional download which has to be manually installed, which can
then be controlled by a more than sub-optimal auto-generated UI without
sensible default settings. If Audacity had a decent compressor, limiter,
reverb, and maybe duck-fader, most people would be satisfied with that.
And those that would need advanced effects are probably better off using
something like Ardour/Jack anyway. I strongly believe that Audacity
would benefit a lot if we would decide on a set of effects and then try
to incorporate code from existing plugins (Freeverb, Steve's Limiter
etc.) into Audacity and write a decent (i.e. easy-to-use) user interface
with templates and the like.


Markus