#audacity

#Audacity, the open-source audio editor has released version 4.0, a complete overhaul of the codebase which now uses the best UI toolkit, Qt. Really fantastic work here: https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4/ There's a handy AppImage download as well for #Linux users.

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz

Can you recommend a simple tracker or something for doing some simple musical things?

For which OS? At one time I'd enthusiastically recommend Audacity, which is cross-platform, but;

https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/

Fortunately, the GPL license on the code enabled the community to release spyware-free forks. Here's one, called Tenacity;

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

Also #TIL that LMMS is now cross-platform too;

https://lmms.io/

#Tenacity #Audacity #LMMS #MusicProduction

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