The Story Behind Audacity

Audacity is the world’s most widely used audio editing & recording software. It is free and open source software (FOSS) and maintained by an amazing community. In this video, I’m announcing my own involvement in the project, which I’m very excited about. For those worried about MuseScore (an open source notation & music app that I also lead): don’t be. I’m not going anywhere!
Please consider supporting me on Patreon
/ tantacrul
Twitter
/ tantacrul
Discord
t.co/a3oYi1Rbnc?amp=1
---
Subtitles by Pentameron
---
Any highly experienced developers, designers or product owners interested in a career working with either Audacity or MuseScore, please check out: mu.se/careers
---
Audacity Links
Homepage
www.audacityteam.org/
Forum
forum.audacityteam.org/
Social Media
getaudacity?lang=en
/ audacityteamofficial
---
Other Links
About Logo
forum.audacityteam.org/viewto...
forum.audacityteam.org/viewto...
wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Th...
Roger Dannenberg’s Work
www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/videos.html
Waterfall Spectrogram
wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Pr...
Joe Essay: Review of Paul Licameli’s De-clicker Plugin
• DeClicker For Free In ...
Data Bending example by Max Liberatori
• Databending in 2020
More on Data Bending
• Databending and Datamo...
Use of Audacity in various disciplines
becausebirds.com/visualize-bi...

[@Tantacrul]

Hey everyone! If you liked this video and want to see more like it, I'd be very grateful if you'd consider becoming a Patron. www.patreon.com/Tantacrul. These videos take an enormous amount of time to create and my patrons are the reason I can do it at all! (Both my Eurovision videos which were taken down 2 years ago are Patreon perks by the way) Discord: t.co/a3oYi1Rbnc?amp=1

[@JC20XX]

Will audacity have it's own channel?

[@JHaas117]

woah, that last idea of being able to manipulate the 3 dimensional wave-forms in a VR space with haptic type gloves honestly gave me chills. just imagining how that experience might feel, when all of your senses are able to convergence on a single thing you are actively creating sounds honestly magical. I'm really looking forward to where Audacity goes from here.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

Depends. Can the discord reteach me audacity? It's been like a decade...

[@TheFoo_Fighter]

can you please be in charge of every app out there?

[@realraven2000]

ONe thing I absolutely do not understand is why aduacity creates a new track every time you record a bit - why not allow people to drop in / record over existing audio? Maybe I am just too used to Cubase.... having said that, Cubase ABSOLUTELY needs that karaoke feature!

[@scottonanski4173]

Having a horrible logo is the main staple of any open source project. It's like having street cred.

[@honestlynuts__]

Linux, gnu, vim etc. can confirm

[@yaltschuler]

Except VLC. VLC is too chad to have a bad logo.

[@meatlejuice]

I love the Audacity logo honestly

[@bearman_1826]

This is so true.

[@persona83]

Most open source apps struggle with poor design and bad user experience.

[@Wrswest]

2030: Tentacrul is literally just the entire audio software industry by himself.

[@lemonbread8019]

2031: Tantacrul takes over the world

[@winter2400]

Creating a monopoly and making making money by telling people about it on the internet. Marketing genius

[@goclbert]

Tantarific!

[@pianojay5146]

sounds like Mycroft Holmes

[@OninDynamics]

@@winter2400 i mean... ads?

[@hugoboyce9648]

About unusual uses: I was an intern for a while for a major aircraft engine manufacturer. In one of the maintenance manuals, one of the procedures to diagnose a faulty bearing or gearbox (I can't remember) is literally to record the engine's noise using Audacity, and to look for patterns in the spectrogram view.

[@paullicameli9855]

I love ❤️ this!!!

[@SreenikethanI]

Such a satisfying comment to see how Audacity can be used to the extreme!

[@GeorgeTsiros]

you do know about knock sensors on car engines, right?

[@sphixy8577]

@@GeorgeTsiros no

[@sphixy8577]

@@GeorgeTsiros what is that ?

[@endingsky8271]

If I got a dollar for every time tantacrul took over a Open source project, I had two dollars. Which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@MarceldeJong]

Background singers: Doofenschmirtz comments on a video!

[@theunknown4834]

Well now we know he was in the Paint 3D team too lol

[@klaasbil8459]

@@theunknown4834 But that isn't open source

[@sfurules]

@@klaasbil8459 I think he meant GPL 2 releases

[@klaasbil8459]

@@sfurules If so, then mentioning Paint 3D is moot

[@daviddotorg]

2024: "I am now in charge of all music. I own all of it. It's all mine"

[@ThePondermatic]

His first decree is that all corporate videos must now use covers of Hallelujah that get that descending line right.

[@whoisthispersonagain]

“Wow! Now I have ALL the music!”

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

"But of course I'm letting everyone keep using it under the Tantacrul Super Awesome License of Awesomeness, so really it's just a nominal thing."

[@UmbraVivens94]

the CEO of music

[@elliottaylor9057]

Oh so youre a musician? Okay. Name every song ever. Go on... do it.

[@dangerouscolors]

audacity and musescore were the first 2 infinity stones. now thantacrul needs the rest

[@ostrovnyklinok6165]

Well the Next is FL Studio...

[@Undomaranel]

Followed by Blender. Might have to sacrifice a loved one (or a chair), but hey, man's gotta get what he needs.

[@joyce_rx]

@@ostrovnyklinok6165 nah, needs to be open source. so garageband or ableton edit: ableton live isnt opensource

[@yuvalne]

+

[@illford]

@@joyce_rx is Ableton open source?

[@Beak-man]

Unusual use case: Audacity supports esoteric audio file formats used in old, pre-smarthphone-era cellphones (e.g. for ringtones) and other telephone systems (like voice-over menus in PBXs). That's how I began using Audacity.

[@kornaros96]

Does it support .nrt?

[@graealex]

The reason is probably because it's open source, so it just needs one guy that knows how to program AND has use for the old format, so he can simply implement it himself.

[@sixstringedthing]

(like voice-over menus in PBXs) Management: okay this is a major company-wide project, so we're going to need input from every business group which IT will communicate to our voice services provider and then they will coordinate the implementation in line with company policies. Some of which may need to be updated and rewritten just a little bit. *sweating/shivering intensifies*

[@GuiSmith]

@@sixstringedthingThe moment I read “company wide,” I shivered. It got worse every word. Good job, you could be an office horror writer.

[@luisfernandotapia451]

The original developers are a bunch of lovely boomers. Thank you for everything guys. Audacity is an amazing contribution to humanity.

[@RepentInReprise]

UwU

[@halidox]

was

[@danielvmelim.studio]

why "was"? @@halidox

[@Goodmanperson55]

First, Musecore Now, it's Audacity No piece of free and open source music software is safe from this man.

[@Tdoshok]

It's a little known fact that "tantacrul" means "king of all the free things"

[@wiebemartens1030]

Well, if he has the audacity to citicize all music software, he'll have to prove his worth

[@bootmii98]

LMMS pl0x

[@mirinewman]

Next up: He takes over GIMP

[@analytomaniac]

@@bootmii98 I tried out LMMS, It's nice microsoftware but it's UX design sucks really bad.

[@blacksaltscotland]

I had an audible "wtf" when I saw this notification.

[@Wote89]

Mine was more of a "wait, what"?

[@caramelldansen2204]

no, Audible is a different service.

[@Wote89]

@@caramelldansen2204 Eh, give him two years.

[@cedrick25]

@@caramelldansen2204 who's gonna tell him

[@arunkarthikma3121]

I hummed with intrigue as soon as I saw it. It was the most surprised hum I have ever hummed.

[@chompers5568]

I used to audacity to clean up the answering machine message that my neighbors son left before he was murdered. It's was a simple love you mum,see you tonight. I made a copy from the tape and because audacity is free i was willing to give it a try even with having no knowledge of audio engineering. I asked on a few forums and because audacity is free so many people had some experience with it. Went the message was originally left on the answer machine it would have taken a professional to improve it as much as I did. Thanks to the team for helping a mother hear the voice of her murdered son nearly 20 years later.

[@magusreaver]

this made me very sad.

[@sbp4215]

damn man

[@thetylersherman]

When he said "I carved that pumpkin" ... I felt a deep sorrow in his soul

[@ziggystardog]

Sounded like a Walter White loss of soul moment to me.

[@kadenculp4221]

This madman really went from making random youtube videos about music, to being a figurehead of the FOSS community. Damn

[@syntheretique385]

With some orchestra composition and recording out of the blue for good measure.

[@craigstephenson7676]

Well he’s also a graphic designer

[@Cirlotube]

Well. Did you know he actually designed Ubuntu Touch? That was a loong ago and its design (unlike Android) is still very much contemporary & up-to-date!

[@israellai]

@@Cirlotube wait what Is this man secretly a god

[@InventorZahran]

@@CirlotubeCan you cite a source for this fact?

[@GreatFlamingEyebrows_]

This man started with a hilarious angry rant about Sibelius and ended up in charge of audacity

[@Jwnex]

turns out "complain about stuff enough until they pay you to fix it" is a viable carreer path good to know

[@tituslafrombois1164]

@@Jwnex Well, the thing is, he didn't just complain. Anyone can complain. No, after he was done complaining, he proved he had the talent and the ability to come up with and implement SOLUTIONS. Complaining about things is easy, offering solutions to the things you complain about is much harder and much more noticeable.

[@PeterJnicol]

@@tituslafrombois1164 Well made point.

[@FL2070]

Sibelius crashed.

[@user-gc7gf9ql5p]

As a main Chinese translator for Audacity during 2017 ~ 2020, I’m really happy to see some main community members who I have worked with share their stories and thoughts in an interview!

[@paullicameli9855]

Hi snowwolf!

[@petersampson9673]

Hi Snowwolf

[@harshsrivastava9570]

@@SteveStockmalMusic so? why does that stop them from knowing chinese?

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

@@harshsrivastava9570 he he

[@Blockistium]

God, I've never really conceived that actual people with names and faces were involved in the creation of this free tool.

[@simethigsomethingidfk]

My brain just figured that audacity was one of those ethereal things that has been around since the dawn of time, that everyone knows/uses, and never changes. Like obs, tor, teamspeak, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.

[@joshuaSundeep]

@@simethigsomethingidfk blender

[@8kcompression770]

now actual people with names and faces are involved in the destruction of this tool.

[@eel9]

@@8kcompression770 ?

[@ser_igel]

@@joshuaSundeep not really, many people (at least who use Blender) know about Ton Roosendaal, it's like adding Linux to the list something like Photoshop suits this list more even while it's not FOSS

[@wiesorix]

So Audacity realised it was janky and realised Tantacrul would tear it down in some future design video, so they hired him to prevent that? That's what I call planning ahead...

[@MrtinVarela]

I know that UI and UX are separate issues, but holy shit the current interface looks like dogshit compared to almost everything else in 2021, at least on windows. Not that I would stop using it.

[@someperson8670]

@@MrtinVarela @Martín Varela I mean, I won't argue that it doesn't look dated... because it does. But also, it feels like function over form, something a lot of these newer programs lack (also modern looking programs often force you to do stuff in a certain way, and only in that way... which isn't great if the designers are idiots) So I think I'll also just deal with the 2000s look.. Btw, not meant not meant as an attack, more like an addition I guess (tone sadly gets lost over text...)

[@MrtinVarela]

@@someperson8670 It's hard not to get heat into these discussions so I kind of agree on the sentiment. The part where I kindly disagree is that in this particular instance, the interface has a lot of dated gradients and textures where it would be better off without any of that. In that sense modern flat-style interfaces should be easier to maintain because they only need to worry about solid colors. In other words: I feel they made active effort into giving a look to the program in a way that it accomplishes the opposite of it's intention: make the program not look cheesy and dated head to toes.

[@at_oussama]

Muse Group bought the open source software,

[@pokemonpasta]

Honestly the most shocking thing in this video is the fact that there's apparently a karaoke mode in audacity?????

[@masterpig5s]

I might try using it as an auto queue or teleprompter.

[@UNSCPILOT]

I've been tinkering in Audacity for years off and on and I had no idea

[@Ankstek]

Audacity as a beginner feels like mspaint, but for audio. Then you dig around a little and realise that you have (at least what it feels like) a full blown version of Photoshop. I'm no audio engineer, but there are many times when Audacity has come in handy for me, both for education, work and for fun. I'm really looking forward to see what the future holds for it! :)

[@Zappygunshot]

It's kind of true to the name 'Audacity' that you stick to the logo in spite of what those claiming to be knowledgeable in the field of logo making tell you. That, and the bold colours that some might consider "ugly" and "unrefined", I don't know, it's just poetic. I'm a fan.

[@Chris_Cross]

I just hope they don't make it oversimplified.

[@jsihavealotofplaylists]

@@Chris_Cross Agree. Simplified is fine. OVER simplified is awful. But this logo is already simple. Headphones and some audio. Can't simplify that without taking things away.

[@UnseenEternalStudios]

I honestly just hope they keep it the same.. lol or at least offer legacy versions if things change drastically

[@LiEnby]

I hate basically every modern logo in existence, so

[@spacefacts1681]

It didn't click in my head for a while that he's using a Zoom background of the ISS; I just automatically accepted he lived there

[@eidrag]

"oh, the guy that made this app cool enough to live in space, of course"

[@8bitwiz_]

I could tell the difference because the Earth wasn't moving at 0.011 rpm.

[@technophobian2962]

@@biggusmunkusthegreat Well that's fucked up, hopefully someone with the time to manage it will fork it.

[@YusuffYT]

I mean, his lightning helps you to buy he's in space

[@gohan5400]

@@8bitwiz_ based

[@commodore7331]

All this time I though Audacity was made by literally no one and just manifested itself on the internet and everyone kinda just went along with it

[@MarioLuigi0404]

Tbf that's kinda how a lot of FOSS stuff likes to present itself. It's a tool made by the people, for the people. It's not tied to any people or for-profit businesses.

[@pyeltd.5457]

It's Steve Jobs baby. Not that pesky iTunes and Mac OS X

[@lucyx3008]

i really like the crazed look in paul licameli's eyes as he describes the "triple synesthesia of sight, sound, and touch" at 14:15, 10/10 mad scientist vibes

[@magusreaver]

Ron Swanson's techy brother on good drugs?

[@tiagobelo4965]

Also the menacing delivery of "I carved that pumpkin"

[@Shalalacls]

I don't really use Audacity at even half of its capacity, because I can't, but it's something I love to have on my PC and always find new uses for. I downloaded it in high school to cut my ringtones, then I used it to cut together audio projects for language classes, and just last year I found it extremely useful when my master's linguistics class required us to do spectrogram analysis! Long live Audacity, by someone who barely knows how to use it ❤️

[@magusreaver]

Every fresh install Audacity is part of my install package.

[@somedumbhoe7123]

See guys, this is why you always start out doing what you love. Tantacrul went from “That guy who criticized musescore” to “Hey, I’m head of Musescore’s design team” to “Hey, now i’m in charge of Audacity” and he can really only go up from here

[@joestevenson5568]

I mean he already worked on some pretty major design projects, like Ubuntu mobile and Paint 3d. He started out doing professional software UI/UX design and is now doing....software UI/UX design. Not a huge mystery how that happened.

[@somedumbhoe7123]

@@joestevenson5568 Oh

[@cheer90099]

"I'm now in charge of Spotify. Seriously..."

[@stevenharder308]

If only the entertainment industry worked like this.

[@tams805]

@@somedumbhoe7123 Yeah, the KZbin thing is just a hobby for him. He has a professional career as well.

[@adrianfernandez7930]

The “global media empire” joke from the previous video really wasn’t a joke

[@Firepal3D]

It was foreshadowing

[@Mr.Marbles]

this fucker is gonna take over ableton and FL studio as well. then he changes the conditions to all so that you have to give him 10% of all the music sales where u used these programs. OuO

[@lfox02]

@@Mr.Marbles LoL I'd like to see him try. Except not really, I love my piano roll.

[@ihatethatyoutubedisplaysyo8106]

The audacity of this guy.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

yup, it sure is

[@thecountbassy_]

Audacity definitely needs “New All” and “Quit Sibelius” buttons to truly revolutionize the experience.

[@conoroneill8067]

"Have you seen the Audacity pumpkin." "I have. Oh, god, it's terrifying." "...I carved that pumpkin." I nearly spat coffee all over my laptop.

[@JV-uq9cf]

The slowed down cricket sound that immediately follows is really the cherry on top.

[@balahaasdf2219]

12:49

[@derkeksinator17]

I'm so excited for Audacity VR, lol!

[@mosesje]

same xD

[@philippschmitt4142]

I start using musescore for my scores, he becomes chief graphic Designer. I start using audicity for some of my recordings, he works there too. This is... concerning.

[@jorionedwards]

He'll own you at this rate.

[@yuvalne]

Quick, pick other open-source stuff to work with

[@philippschmitt4142]

@@yuvalne im gonna start making some games with unity now

[@rynabuns]

Can you start using Adobe stuff?

[@electroflame6188]

QUICK START USING LMMS

[@usernamenumber]

Back in the mid 2000s I helped produce a 20 hour long full cast audio drama entirely in audacity. It was a life of pain because audacity is not the tool for that, BUT at the time, with no budget, it was the only reason I was able to do it at all and audacity will always have a soft spot in my heart as a result. Great to hear it's getting some love!

[@eirikmelum]

“Audacity - the city where Auda lives” Dead.

[@gfrewqpoiu]

It is at 3:31 if you want to watch it again.

[@kumoyuki]

there's always Ardour. But that is a massively more complex beastie

[@fongus6420]

wait, auda died??

[@GeorgeTsiros]

nono it is the water of the city au da city get it? you now know what an aneurysm feels like, _you're welcome_

[@OrangeC7]

Man, the Audacity of his statement....

[@YostPeter]

One day Tantacrul is going to be in charge of my entire creative workflow and I don't mind one bit.

[@Tdoshok]

Yup. I'm expecting him to join the Blender and Godot teams in June.

[@alex15095]

he'll replace Linus Torvalds by next quarter

[@HappyNBoy]

Tantacruel is just going to slowly take over all creative endeavors... One day it'll all be Disney and Tantacruel.

[@painthing98]

Just wait for the inevitable Disney-Cruel merger...

[@Necris94]

I like what you did there.

[@israellai]

He needs to make Tentacruel his mascot, the moment he takes over Nintendo ...unless Disney gets there first

[@Javier-qk7ms]

Yeah, his evil Tentacles reach all over the free audio software.

[@actualhyena]

Adobe pacifist route.

[@HareDeLune]

That 'Metro' style dark skin near the end looked amazing! One way to get around the controversy of how the app looks is to just make it skinnable, with custom user skins available on the forum, similar to the 'Music Bee' music player app. : D

[@ThrillSeekerVR]

I never knew I’d have this sort of deep connection to an application I use every day. It feels even better launching that app knowing the hands behind it. Thank you!

[@youallnine]

didnt expect to see thrill here

[@ourosaquavaringas6061]

@@youallnine lol same

[@___xyz___]

Ayy sup VR seeker. Remember to check out the new Oculus👍

[@Kin-bd2vd]

THRILL

[@kumoyuki]

how does it feel to know that they are making moves to make it un-free?

[@ZytrikX]

IT WAS ALMOST CALLED AUDIO MONKEY?!?! I love that

[@theybot522]

I think we are missing the obvious, THEY CHOSE AGAINST AUDIO MONKEY?!?!?!

[@f5xs757]

@@theybot522 The AUDACITY of those who petitioned against the name Audio Monkey...

[@Firepal3D]

Reject audio, embrace monke

[@TimothyReeves]

But I used to have audio player software called Media Monkey. But it only handled audio, so it could have been called....

[@stanrogers5613]

Monkey's Audio (a lossless compressor - you may have seen the APE format/file extension) launched at about the same time.

[@certifiedpossum8655]

"I carved that pumkin." The conference on the man is something else

[@IHateNumbersOnNames]

"Have you seen the audacity pumpkin?" *Violently calm reminescing* "i carved that pumpkin"

[@dumpsockpuppet5619]

* confidence

[@charliekahn4205]

@@bacicinvatteneaca *convergence

[@boofr]

@@charliekahn4205 circumvent*

[@werdwerdus]

he speaks, looks, and carries himself exactly like Ron Swanson

[@AGenericMoron]

The man who carved that pumpkin has a hell of a voice.

[@markgriskey]

Audacity has been invaluable in Videogame audio for decades now! I'm glad to hear you are keeping this great software alive!

[@jelleverest]

Martin "hold on, let me take over the entire open source music ecosystem" Keary. What an absolute mad lad.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

Ardour and LMMS are still holding out.

[@nolankanski9116]

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 boy, I would love a uiux overhaul on lmms It always just feels funky and weird to use that app, and I don't really know what I'm doing

[@Fighter_Builder]

@@nolankanski9116 agreed

[@wiltedangel]

im waiting for tantacrul to tackle lmms

[@thetree7403]

My man is just accidentally becoming fhe god of open source audio

[@adamschmidt6386]

I have no complaints

[@oicmorez4129]

I use Audacity, because we used it in the primary school. We have "music classes" and every student needs to learn some audio editing there. Teachers usually teach us Audacity

[@meriwoo7382]

That is soo cool! In my school they would only teach us how to use Notepad and MS Paint

[@oicmorez4129]

@@meriwoo7382 We had "Computer classes" that taught us stuff like Excel, Office etc. and "Music classes" that mostly taught us the music theory, but also the last 4 semesters (4 halfs of a year) were specialized (We voted on the order of said specializations), one of which was Audio Editing More details if you're interested: The specializations were: - Dancing. - Singing. - Playing an instrument. - Audio editing. We ofc. learned for an entire semester, but each part had a practical "final exam". For dancing, we had to dance in a pair with someone of the opposite sex. The dance was set in stone (so everyone knows the same one, to make finding a partner easier). A fun thing is, while most girls in my class disliked me, they all picked me as their "grading partner" cuz I was surprisingly good at it. Then they were dancing with other guys for them to earn a mark. For singing, you had to basically select a song (there was a list of songs in both our native language, and English, and you could take your own song if you informed your teacher about it beforehand) and sing it to the class. For playing an instrument, we had a piano at school, so most people learned that, but if you had your own different instrument, that worked too (You also had to inform the teacher about it) And for Audio editing, you had to use Audacity to record yourself reading a poem, remove noise from your recording, and then add some background music, make it louder before you started, make the music "dodge" your voice, maybe change the pitch in a few spots, and have it fade out at the end. I really enjoyed our music classes.

[@senseisecurityschool9337]

Too bad it's now illegal for primary school students to use Audacity. That's in their terms because they collect information about users and send it to their servers, which is illegal to do if the user is under 13.

[@ab-bx4xz]

I can't belive he had the audacity

[@DarkSharingan21]

Underrated.

[@tobleroni]

“Have you seen the Audacity pumpkin?” “I carved that pumpkin.”

[@moffittmusic]

Man absolutely radiates Ron Swanson energy in that clip

[@Kamel419]

that dude was the star of the show

[@ronnetgrazer362]

* C R I C K E T S *

[@YukonHexsun]

I didn't hear shame in that voice. I heard determination, from a man declaring that he indeed carved that pumpkin. His voice is great, the man speaks with clarity and interest. It reminds me of the better words from scientists and such in documentaries.

[@sabbiewabbiewasabi]

i was looking for this comment HAHHAAH

[@thecorbohole3637]

I have never heard a man so professionally and seriously talk about caring pumpkins before

[@griind]

"Have you seen the audacity punpkin?" "I have, oh god it's terrifying" "..." "I carved that pumkin." 😂😂😂 I laughed so hard there 😂😂😂

[@maiguris5407]

12:21 Mom! look!, my icon its in the Tantacrul´s Audacity video! (the square BigSur look-a-like icon) :D

[@penguinfun123]

This man is like the disney of music software

[@Tantacrul]

Haha. Also... ouch!

[@magnopere]

Don't do him dirty like that lol

[@penguinfun123]

He's doing great as long as he doesn't do some sketchy copyright deals or freeze his dead body in a theme park.

[@JGree]

but disney is like the opposite of open source

[@supersonictumbleweed]

He's a music princess

[@Draidzeven]

YES! YES YES YES! If Audacity pulled a Blender and suddenly turned into an industry standard, that would tear down a bunch of barriers. Looking forward to this.

[@gayusschwulius8490]

I'd really welcome this. Fuck Adobe.

[@kebman]

@@gayusschwulius8490 Now if they could only fix GIMP so that it's actually usable...

[@ilokikoval]

@@kebman check out GIMP 3! They fixed a lot of stuff, like proper layer controls! I think you will find it an interesting update.

[@ileutur6863]

@@gayusschwulius8490 adobe is not the industry standard for audio, avid is. And fuck them too

[@monospacev2945]

Thing with Blender is an unintuitive steep learning curve.

[@thomaszedderman]

"Have you seen the Audacity pumpkin?" "Yes, oh god, it's terrifying." "...I carved that pumpkin."

[@DanStormVO]

I use Audacity for my voice over work, and seeing implementation for a non-destructive workflow is fantastic. Also, having support for 64-bit plugins and just having a 64-bit version for Windows would be nice

[@EDoyl]

"Select the audio for Zoom to Selection to use" is a great sentence. It doesn't make sense but it does but it looks like it doesn't.

[@AFMTAG]

They could put quotations around "Zoom to Selection" to make it look better, but why fix the jank? Embrace the jank instead!

[@NabsterHax]

So... a bookmark?

[@bobzmuda9603]

@@NabsterHax No, a selection that discretely controls the amount of zoom applied commensurate with the timeline's space. Not a bookmark.

[@hallamhal]

"It doesn't make sense but it does but it looks like it doesn't" is a great sentence. It doesn't make sense but it does but it looks like it doesn't.

[@jeroenl8352]

5:27 When someone on the internet calls you a 'pretty good guy' you know you've made it

[@amateurprogrammer25]

When someone in the _open source community_ calls you a "pretty good guy" you know you've REALLY made it.

[@MiguelCarvalhoMusic]

I’m just here waiting for Tantacrul to be in charge of Sibelius’ design

[@xolagix]

Quit Sibelius

[@Robot257onlinehue]

Tentacrul 1 year later: I'm now the CEO of FL Studio

[@NebulonRanger]

Maybe then he could make gol fix some of his weird design decisions LMAO

[@milkyproduxions]

@@NebulonRanger Just dont take out fruity dance. DONT TAKE OUT FRUITY DANCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@GuiSmith]

@@milkyproduxions Fruity Dance is a feature, you don't remove features to make a nicer UI!

[@stardustspirit]

image-line

[@asandax6]

Noob: Audacity is a recording app Pro: Audacity is an Audio app Legend: Audacity is a wave analysis app (proceeds to analyze satellite signals)

[@autohmae]

If they ever do a remake of the movie Contact, they could use Audacity :-)

[@nullone3181]

God: Audacity is a terrain editor

[@bionictryhard2272]

@@nullone3181 Ur mom: Audacity is fart

[@marchdarkenotp3346]

@@bionictryhard2272 Your username suits you.

[@d9zirable]

@@bionictryhard2272 Comedy Award

[@purplehaze47]

i did my first recordings in audacity as a teenager, and have subsequently made recording and music production my career i genuinely wonder what my life would be like if audacity wasn't around, very glad to see it in safe hands

[@janglausercomposer]

Same here! It was the only audio free application I found for my 1998 iMac with OS 9... good times!

[@Testgeraeusch]

i used it to debug the java code that would compile to an .exe that would produce a single .wav file when clicked. That's how i started writing music: hard coded into the .exe. It was horrible, but Audacity helped me keeping track of the waveshaped i needed to generate, when to shift everything slightly to avoid clipping or reduce volume... i still use it nearly everyday for these things. Except now i use a self developed RegEx based syntax for music notation and an .exe a friend of mine had written instead of hard coding every single ostinato as a for-loop...

[@adhillA97]

I think that for tradition's sake, we need a roast of Audacity.

[@patrickmarkduffy8286]

Audacity has one of the more accessible FFT analysis tools going (plot spectrum). It provides a really solid introduction for people looking to visualize sound in a new way, record voice overs/music, analyse sounds, conduct research, mess around with plugins. Great stuff.

[@Michoss9]

Tentacrul, I will give you the soul of my firstborn child if you could only make the audacity UI comprehensible to a human being.

[@Subzearo]

It's Tantacrul, stupid

[@phoebeaurum7113]

@@Subzearo Two souls for getting the name wrong.

[@banjoemily3852]

My first encounter with audacity was as an undergrad working in a biology lab recording cricket calls. I found this video very relatable

[@paullicameli9855]

Audacity for zoology too!

[@Sidicas]

The fact that it's so intuitive, select, copy, paste, insert. Is what makes it so that pretty much anybody can pick it up and start using it. One of the things I love moved about Audacity and why I still support the project.

[@YukonHexsun]

I love Paul Licameli's way of speaking. He sounds like he would make a great professor, KZbinr, or a speaker in general. He just seems friendly, either he really enjoys his work with Audacity, or he's just one of those cool people who's fascinated with the world. Imagine him voicing a nature documentary. Heck, he could even integrate Audacity into that by editing the sounds creatures make to show interesting results. I would watch a 30 minute video of him analyzing the call of a creatures to try and determine the size and shape of their vocal tract, and noting general trends in that behavior across various kinds of animals. Dang, now I want to see if that video exists.

[@CasualAlbiniAppreciator]

Tantacrul - from spiralling into insanity on his YT channel to being an omnipresent music software mogul by 2025. Dream career path if I've seen one, especially if they let you keep the insane bits for channel's sake ;)

[@kathrynelrod5570]

I want an audacity plugin that just changes every UI button to a magnifying glass

[@RedMeansRecording]

Dude this is raddddd

[@numbers7097]

@@username6338 needs more red

[@sfulibarri]

T E R R I F I C

[@user-df5yl6bw9k]

What does red mean?

[@oh...hi.]

@@user-df5yl6bw9k mm. red.

[@user-df5yl6bw9k]

@@oh...hi. yes

[@captianbubble]

Audacity was my first recording software ever used! I am very happy for you for being in charge of this amazing audacity app! Free and open source are awesome! And I’m still going to use audacity from time to time.

[@sbonfiglioli]

So no one's gonna mention that the computer music professor decided to flex by doing his whole-ass interview with a spaceship background?

[@nikkoa.3639]

Tantacrul really collecting the infinity stones of the FOSS music community

[@Cobalt985]

LMMS next! :)

[@UNSCPILOT]

One can only hope he doesn't abuse his [open source] powers

[@recklessroges]

@@UNSCPILOT Power corrupts absolutely. (So it's only a matter of time.)

[@nikkoa.3639]

@@biggusmunkusthegreat At first I was skeptical about the validity of this, but turns out it was true. I'll just see in the future though

[@chenx97]

I just can't believe that audacity will become pretty looking and user friendly

[@Bobylein1337]

Yea damn, it will lose all its charme! Seriously though, I hope this will all go well because it would be great

[@Danger-Tater]

It's already pretty user friendly, I just hope it doesn't become really complex and hard to navigate

[@Mr.Marbles]

yeah its like the "paint" of music. oldschool, and not pretty, but simple as hell, straight forward and free.

[@LKRaider]

@@Mr.Marbles well yeah but Paint costs 200 quid and comes with a whole OS bundled in its installer!

[@PotaraP]

I like the old UI design, but it can get confusing

[@fungi331]

a carp is a fish that will eat anything as long as it is edible

[@fungi331]

it will even eat things like dirt mud or trash

[@fungi331]

THERES A CARP IN THE TUB THERES A CARP IN THE TUB N EVERYBODY SINGIN THERES A CARP IN THE TUB THERES A CARP IN THE TUB AND NOBODIES TAKIN A BATH

[@ntgm8]

Alright

[@Poodle666]

Get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head

[@hidinginyourcloset]

Le Carp

[@Playeroffaceless]

This somehow was my favorite video on this channel and I have no connection to Audacity besides using it like once or twice a year for the past ten years. Just hearing the passion and the personalities of the community which I never knew was such fun.

[@dafunktrunk]

You gotta love Paul, he's so passionate and funny

[@juanjosearcanista-gamermus2676]

Paul is the best.

[@BoopyTheFox]

Since you're involved now, and you're a UX/UI designer, PLEASE MAKE SOMEONE DEVELOP A PROPER DARK THEME FOR IT. Or at least a theme that isn't really dependent on system settings too much, as it can break in many ways (and it does). Audacity itself is amazing, FOSS for the win!

[@zekiahcantanimate447]

Yeah, audacity as it is sometimes can look a bit dated, hopefully they change this though

[@alex15095]

Audacity has worked pretty well for me on Linux with a dark GTK theme

[@juliahenriques210]

@Nunya Business third this

[@Argosh]

Damn, this is history for me. I did my first jingle in audacity 15 years ago.

[@mr.skeltal8687]

This is a godsend! I've been battling with this program for years trying to find little work arounds for ui glitches, effects stacking, and don't even get me started on tracks that mysteriously corrupt or disappear mid project

[@adamandom]

"Our program is so cool it can afford to be audacious" First order of business is to make that the new tagline.

[@KingBobXVI]

The new old tagline :P

[@viridianloom]

Next video: "I'm now a UI designer for Reaper"

[@anothercrappypianist]

I think Satan would skate to work on that day.

[@QuickQuips]

Omg. That would be amazing. I'd love to see an interview with Tantacrul and the developers of Winamp.

[@jamesbrown8766]

Seriously, I clicked “like” and was about to leave when your subscribe jingle hit. I enjoyed that little 5 seconds so much, I subscribed! I’ve been using Audacity pretty much from its beginning, and I’m constantly amazed at its quality and features. I recently was asked to record a musical performance for a funeral because live singing was not allowed due to the Pandemic. When I discovered at the last minute that my DAW was no longer supported by the latest version of Mac OS, I turned to Audacity. It worked like a champ and did everything I needed it too. It saved my bacon. Welcome aboard.

[@mintcream7017]

This is a shock. I’ve had audacity since the mid oughts and it was my introduction into music software and I’m now a music producer. I actually still use it when I need to edit a file in a quick way. I’m really excited to see how it develops with new leadership

[@schulenheimer]

one of the few youtubers who not only complain about stuff but also genuinely tries to fix it

[@thatanimeweirdo]

Yes, I'm eager to see where audacity will end up in a few months/years

[@CupoChinoMusic]

can't wait for Tantacrul to take over the whole recording industry

[@Kiido11]

Can we please get that video about Ludovico Einaudi though? That would make my YEAR.

[@chrissxMedia]

a year later: i‘m now in control of every foss that is in any way related to music creation

[@NeenanJones]

"It's been used by seismologists to measure earthquakes and cardiologists for heart issues" "This guy wanted a reverse audio feature to look for secret UFO messages" Glad to see Audacity has a use for everyone!

[@uranium54321]

Yeah I literally used it as a vocoder bc my video editing software doesn’t have any good free vocoder plugins

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

But has anyone ever found a secret UFO message in an earthquake?

[@GizzyDillespee]

I used it to create a "Borg transmission". You know with the noise reduction plugin, how you have to give it a sample of the noise first? Well, you don't have to highlight noise - you can use anything as a sample. You know how you can preview and listen to the sound that the plug-in removes? And then, you keep what remains? Well, you can also keep only what the plug-in removes, and throw away the rest. Then you can normalize and maybe limit the result, to bring the volume up, and then swap its stereo channels, and then layer it with the original audio, so the mix down is the phase interference of the original audio and its abused noise reduction residue. It sounds as if your original audio is intermodulated by the Borg transmission. I'll post an example tomorrow called DMT at the Ballgame, featuring some Rammstein chords, to illustrate what I mean.

[@GeorgisTrying]

"I carved that pumpkin." This man cannot be stopped

[@SkiftyKitty]

My dude evolving like pokemon, I'm so happy for you man!

[@sebsterbl]

Non destructive editing! The one feature I really wish audacity had. Will be happy to see that one in.

[@loihertz8161]

a year later: i became the prime minister of education for real

[@bobbob8543]

legit do think it's brand recognition that makes audacity so popular. ppl loved it when it first came out and spread it aorund through word of mouth. i used it in middle school and i still use it in university because i remember it and how easy it is to use

[@thatanimeweirdo]

I personally love that it is easy to use and opens up almost immediately

[@dcurry7287]

@@thatanimeweirdo I feel like that instant gratification, even on not great hardware, is a big part. I've had the luck to work stage production on some very large shows and at the best of times name-dropping a software will provoke friendly discussion, at the worst it will end with someone cussing out someone else's favorite piece of gear lol. But everyone's who heard of Audacity reacts like a cute dog just wandered on stage "Ayyyy, yeah! Audacity!". I've heard so many variations "Dude, you know you can do that in Audacity?!"

[@BizarroBravo]

Thank you for saving me a search for "Slowed down cricket noises"

[@MastermindAtWork]

That is awesome, maybe we'll get an updated UI and UX for Audacity. Now, even though this not music related, all we need now is for someone to update GIMP's UI and UX and my open source suite complete

[@cupcakegirljen7]

I never thought I would learn that Tantacrul would make a video on a DAW program I frequently use now. Especially that he's now closely involved in its development. If you're reading this, Tantacrul, you're a freaking madman. And I love it.

[@itogi]

What's next? Inkscape?

[@jtgoldman6221]

Dream weaver

[@OninDynamics]

oh, please

[@Alex-nl5cy]

Inkscape is already pretty good, much easier to do something quick and intuitive with inkscape than with audacity for instance.

[@neildawson6274]

and GIMP...?

[@OninDynamics]

@@Alex-nl5cy even vs. Illustrator, well for me at least

[@INADRM]

I just redownloaded audacity to do some databending and was looking up how to do it again and I saw this in recommended videos. What a time!

[@gamechannel1271]

My biggest problem with audacity is the lack of non destructive editing. Though I agree the interface could be more modern, that's never really been a concern.

[@shapshooter7769]

I have a feeling that would require an entire code rewrite to support the feature

[@trainspite9612]

>Is vaguely familiar with Audacity >Is vaguely familiar with Tantacrul A surprising crossover for sure, but a welcome one.

[@christiancaballero6716]

can y'all imagine how simply beautiful a Tantacrul x DankPods collab would be

[@cescimes]

oh gosh...

[@eidrag]

oh my puckcell...

[@_mossy_8520]

oh my word...

[@Youchubeswindon]

AA... AAA... AAAA!

[@chatboss000]

terrible. Their best common ground would literally just be listening to music.

[@uzefulvideos3440]

I don't know if you are willing to make another review of music notation software, but I would love hearing your opinion about Forte. I haven't used it in many years due to switching to Linux (now a Musescore user), but I have very fond memories of it. It might very well be the most intuitive to use music notation software (among the full-featured) and has some great design choices that I haven't found in any other music notation software. So it might still be interesting for you even if you don't plan on making a video about it.

[@sploomfussy]

how was switching to linux though? i'm thinking about doing the same but i'm afraid the lack of windows only apps will do me dirty

[@uzefulvideos3440]

@@sploomfussy Well, the only software I'm currently missing is a proper Audio CD ripping tool, like EAC or CUERipper, which are Windows-only. Fre:ac will get that functionality in the future though. When I moved to Linux I didn't really miss anything since most of the software I used was multi-platform. Foobar2000 was pretty much the only software I regularly used that does not run natively on Linux. I now use Strawberry for my music collection and Audacious to play files from the file manager. The best way to find out if Linux is something for you is to try it. For a Linux beginner I'd probably recommend Feren OS. It's an Ubuntu distribution with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. I can also recommend Manjaro or some Arch Linux distribution like RebornOS, they allow you to choose between lots of different desktop environments and offer great software support because of the Arch User Repository (AUR).