The gear and dropdown is where you can save any useful settings for a plugin as presets. When the eye is closed, you are bypassing your plugin to hear your audio as it was before you opened this window (very useful if you’ve been playing with settings for so long that you’ve forgotten what the original audio sounded like).

When the eye is open (as in this picture, your plugin works normally. The next icon is an eye (which can either be open or closed). You can select just a portion of the audio to test your settings on (also useful). The waveform (in blue in this image, shows you a miniature version of the waveform of the audio in the file.

This is really helpful if you are experimenting with different settings. The arrow is a playback control allowing you to hear how your plugin will make the audio sound before you apply it. Below the standard interface of your plugin (in this case Loudmax), there are a few buttons. See updated Manual and Release Notes for details.Our last stop for today is to take a closer look at the Plugin Window. Improved recovery from full file system errors in case of recording, Audacity 2.2.0 will preserve as much of the recorded data as possibleĬomplete support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) correcting the problems that were in 2.1.3 Thorough update of the Manual with new images, more hover texts, and more cross-referencesġ98 bugs/annoyances in 2.1.3 fixed, most importantly:

Help link buttons in many dialogs lead to the relevant Manual pages (James Crook and Steve Daulton) Playback of MIDI files (fully automatic on Windows requires cooperating software synthesizer programs on macOs or Linux special thanks to Audacity co-founder Roger Dannenberg and new contributor “pokechu22”) November 2nd, 2017: Audacity 2.2.0 Releasedįour supplied user interface themes, and customizability of themes for advanced users (thanks to James Crook and the Dark Audacity project) Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.

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