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tommyzai · Post by **tommyzai** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:59 pm

AUDACITY - Does it have comping? I searched and searched online for an answer, but no luck.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:27 pm

It does not have comping.
1. If it would, the feature would be advertised, not?
2. Forum discussion here states so
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to ... loop/60282

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:47 pm

I'm dumb - what is comping? That's the third time I've heard that. Plugin Delay Compensation? (Audacity does not, but I've never had any delay issue using a plugin in it)

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:57 pm

What is a comp in music production?
Vocal comping (short for 'compiling') involves recording a few takes of the song and splicing together only the best parts. The end result features the singer's best work, while still sounding like it was done in one take. If this feels like cheating, it's not.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:00 pm

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/comping/

Chances are you'll never need it.

stoopicus · Post by **stoopicus** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:16 pm

Audacity's not a DAW, it's an audio file editor. So, no, it does not support multiple takes.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:10 am

Well, you can of course record multiple takes and select the pieces you like best. Manually.

Comping is the automated flow: play a segment in a loop, record each iteration, let the user select the best segment and mute all others.

Longer explanation: https://www.masteringbox.com/what-is-comping/
And in jazz it means something else: https://jazz-library.com/articles/comping/

tommyzai · Post by **tommyzai** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:42 pm

this is not an unreasonable feature for a multitrack editing software that is widely used for recording voice. DAW? Depends on definition.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:18 pm

Thank you. Now I know. I really thought it was PDC.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:39 pm

tommyzai wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:42 pm this is not an unreasonable feature for a multitrack editing software that is widely used for recording voice.

on you go, then...

https://github.com/audacity/audacity

tommyzai · Post by **tommyzai** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:45 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:39 pm
tommyzai wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:42 pm this is not an unreasonable feature for a multitrack editing software that is widely used for recording voice.
on you go, then...

https://github.com/audacity/audacity

I'm not a user. I'm am almost user who passed due to the lack of this feature.

stoopicus · Post by **stoopicus** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:42 pm

There's nothing wrong with Audacity not being a DAW. There's nothing wrong with having a good audio file track editor.

Historically Audacity worked by making destructive edits to the underlying audio data. Its workflow is very different from a DAW, which never modifies the original data. Comping is a natural workflow for a DAW (and all that I know of support it) but more difficult for an audio file editor like Audacity.

I think Audacity got limited nondestructive editing recently but don't know much about it (it's not something I would use Audacity for as there are tools whose workflow is far more centered around this).

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:38 pm

I'd say Audacity is about to Sound Forge 10 level.