Re: [Audacity-devel] bugs/rewordings?

[David R. S. <dav...@sh...>]

Hi Vaughan, Gale, et al,

I get confused with all those | and > and whatever signs, so I
don't know who wrote the following (I think it was Gale):

Someone: As regards new ones, I am not sure that TimeShifter really
needs to be in the builds by default, as audio can be shifted
without a mouse with David Bailes' method (or my variant of it in
some cases). Does David S agree?

David: I use my time shifter plug for doing any time shifting, it's
a "one-step" process. If you want to include it do so, if not
don't.

Someone: - We have equalabl which produces regular interval labels
at a user-chosen interval, but lacks the ability to enter directly
the *number* of segments you want, or to separate the segments.

David: You didn't ask for setting the number of segments, I can
modify equalabel.ny to do so.

And it turns out that currently analyze and effect plug-ins cannot
be combined into one - there was a particular limitation which
Edgar Franke pointed out, which I forwarded to the list a couple
months back or so.

Someone: AudioChunker fills that gap, so until such time as
Audacity has its own plug-in for users to create both a given
number of labels *and* labels with a given interval between them,
we need both I think. If we agree, I had better check my email as
I recall David was asking me some questions about equalabl a while
ago.

David: I've also experimented with applying equalabel.ny, then
having the plug-in load a .lsp file to do audio-chunking work. That
didn't work either.

A few days ago I tried the following:

load audio

use equalabel.ny to generate several labels

press tab or shift+tab to go to different label locations, to
insert silence at those locations

tabbing and shift+tabbing didn't position the cursor at different
locations in the audio - did I misunderstand something? Do I need
to use a different way to go to those label locations?

I _assume_ that labels don't necessarily move when audio is
inserted before the label for example - is this correct?

Someone: - I have never gone over it myself but David S had a test
version of a sequencer. If he can get it ready in the near future
that would be a strong candidate.

David: I recently realized there were two improvements I could make
to the sequencer - I need time to work these out.

It works well "as is" if you want to commit it right away - I was
actually reading email just now to clear my head of puzzlement over
one particular improvement.

Someone: - Edgar-RFT's RFT-Vocoder ought to be considered:
http://www.audacity-forum.de/download/edgar/plugins/vocoder/RFT-vocoder.ny as users often ask for a vocoder. David S. would know if
we have permission to include it in builds. We have permission to
put it on our Nyquist plug-ins page (see below).

David: I just sent Edgar an email asking for such permission since
we hadn't discussed that specifically. Edgar's been out of touch
for some time.

Someone: - David's bitone2.ny (Binaural Tones with Surf 2
generator) ought to be considered (might outface another known
violator who sells a version of Audacity tailored towards binaural
beats and subliminal messaging). These "mind-entraining" features
are asked for quite often.

David: Interesting - I had updated my original bitone.ny after a
request from an Audacity user - to bitone2.ny. There was brief
positive response on the users list when I posted the plug, nothing
before or since that I've seen.

Someone: - David's Center Pan Remover (a more automated way of
doing the make mono and invert "vocal removal" trick) could be
considered. I know Markus has suggested we should rebrand this or
something like it as Audacity "vocal removal" in the future.

David: Fine - my original reason for calling it "center pan
remover" was that it was more descriptive of what it does (based on
someone else's request about removing center-panned audio). I
suspect more people will recognize "vocal remover" or however you
call it.

Thanks

David

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