Topic: audacity plugins?

[justink]

anyone have some useful plugins to pass around?

[Gene Poole]

I've been thinking of writing some.  What are you looking for?

[justink]

I've been thinking of writing some.  What are you looking for?

a declicker that actually worked would be nice.

[thunderbolt]

I'd be so happy if it had real-time EQ. 

[2manyrocks]

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins 

I don't do much with audacity, but I seem to remember that it can run some VST plug ins.  The wiki has a list of them.  I don't know if you can use one of the EQ plugins in real time or if you have to deal with it as an effect that has to process first before it will run.  Reaper, for example, will process the plugin in real time and might be worth considering. 

[buckster]

I see Ambience is on the wiki list - it's a really nice reverb plugin. 

[thunderbolt]

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins 

I don't do much with audacity, but I seem to remember that it can run some VST plug ins.  The wiki has a list of them.  I don't know if you can use one of the EQ plugins in real time or if you have to deal with it as an effect that has to process first before it will run.  Reaper, for example, will process the plugin in real time and might be worth considering.

I downloaded Reaper awhile back, and the features look great, but it also looked way too complicated for me.  I think the learning curve would involve more time than I have available to learn it, even though I think I would produce better recordings with it.

[page]

I'd be so happy if it had real-time plugin support.

fyp. That's the real issue, it won't pass data through the plug out to the monitor routing. It's process or bust, and the "preview" function blows. It's one of the few modern editors that does that so I abandoned ship a couple years ago for that reason, I just use it to track on sector boundaries anymore.

I downloaded Reaper awhile back, and the features look great, but it also looked way too complicated for me.  I think the learning curve would involve more time than I have available to learn it, even though I think I would produce better recordings with it.

A solid weekend with Reaper is about all it takes to learn it. Audacity works great for just tracking and amplification. For everything else, use a different editor as plugin support is underwhelming in Audacity. 

[Sloan Simpson]

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins 

I don't do much with audacity, but I seem to remember that it can run some VST plug ins.  The wiki has a list of them.  I don't know if you can use one of the EQ plugins in real time or if you have to deal with it as an effect that has to process first before it will run.  Reaper, for example, will process the plugin in real time and might be worth considering.

I downloaded Reaper awhile back, and the features look great, but it also looked way too complicated for me.  I think the learning curve would involve more time than I have available to learn it, even though I think I would produce better recordings with it.

IMO Reaper is worth the effort. Lots of things it can do can be ignored for our purposes.

[2manyrocks]

http://www.groove3.com/str/reaper-4-explained.html

This download tutorial on sale for $20 will get you up and going with Reaper quickly.  Reaper has so many features buried under the hood that it's worth either buying this tutorial or watching the ones available for free on the internet.  You want to set Reaper up to use the mouse modifiers as demonstrated in the tutorial.  Why Reaper isn't set up this way by default I have no clue, but they are huge time savers once you change the default mouse settings.  As I recall, the tutorial also explains how to use plug ins on each channel which is very easy.   

Next thing you want to do is grab some of the favorite free plug ins listed on Gearslutz.  https://www.gearslutz.com/board/low-end-theory/733514-post-5-your-most-used-free-plugins.html

[Scooter123]

+1 on the Groove 3 Videos for Reaper.  Stupidly simple after watching about 6 videos.  Kenny Gioia is a really good teacher and knows his stuff about Reaper and ProTools.  What surprises me is that for being a ProTools expert, the guy is really high on Reaper