[Audacity-devel] Real-time effects stacks
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From: Jorge R. <jro...@ma...> - 2008-05-04 06:31:01
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There have been two things I've always wanted out of Audacity that I could never get. The first one is a way to cut out a section of music while leaving the rest of it undisturbed. That was implemented recently, "Split Delete." (Should be default behavior in my opinion, deleting a section of sound shouldn't move other stuff around. But anyways!) The other one was real-time effects stacks, or the ability to apply effects non-destructively, realtime, during play. This transforms Audacity from a powerful sound editing tool into a multitrack recording studio. So, I hear that 1.3.5 is coming out and then is the time to start putting new stuff in Audacity and it's important to me that this to be one of them, so I'm pretty sure I'm willing to spare a couple of hours of my week to make sure that this feature is part of the next Audacity release. Questions. At a high level, what would be required to get this feature working? Audacity already supports applying effects, they just need to be applied during playback instead of immediately. I think you would need a UI for managing effects, and the order that they are processed in, and a mechanism for controlling the effects. The current dialogs that do this can probably be reused. And then of course, the code for applying the effects in realtime instead of destructively. Can someone elaborate on exactly what needs to happen? What I specifically want to know is even a vague estimate of how many man hours is this going to be? I've done things tangentally related to this, but not really the same thing, so who is going to help me when I invariably run into a wall? PS. CVS? -- Jorge Rodriguez Matrieya Studios, LLC Email: jro...@ma... Phone: (919) 757-3066 |