Geeking venting - the Audacity of it all!

Audacity is a cross platform audio recording program. It's fairly simple and it works really really well. It saves the audio in it's own weird format but you can easily convert it in the program to standard audio formats like wav or mp3. You can only record two tracks but you can layer multiple tracks - but it's a bit of a hack. Still, for recording and editing audio it's very handy.

I only recently discovered that along with it's own built in - and sort of mediocre - plugins, it was capable of using some awesome audio plugins from Calf audio. This added lots of functionality to the program and I was looking forward to using more of them.

And of course, the developers removed that ability in the newer versions.

You know, I get it. The plugins were designed for DAWs - Digital Audio Workstations - which Audacity definitely is not. The devs didn't want to deal with the hassle. However, if they didn't want people to useg the plugin THEN THEY SHOULDN'T SHOW UP IN THE LIST OF AVAILABLE PLUGINS!!!

CROMS BALLS!

It would stop confusing people and having them come into the audio forums BITCHING ABOUT PLUGINS THAT USED TO WORK BUT NOW DON'T.

I still have an older copy of Audacity that I will not be updating. It would be fun if some audio geeks fork the project to let the plugins work. That would be a scream.

-m