Audacity 4.0

Sep 03, 2026 05:53 PM - 1 week ago 4

Audacity 4.0

Audacity 4 rebuilds the exertion interface connected Qt and introduces galore caller quality-of-life improvements, including a caller clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows stay available, but immoderate controls person moved aliases changed.

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Editing clips

Clips tin beryllium selected directly. Click a clip header to prime it, aliases Shift-click to prime aggregate clips.
Several clips tin beryllium edited together. Moving, trimming and clip stretching use to each selected clips.
Clips tin beryllium grouped. Groups stay together erstwhile moved, copied, pasted aliases duplicated.
Clips tin beryllium placed much freely. They tin move betwixt mono and stereo tracks. Moving a clip complete different replaces the overlapped portion alternatively of blocking the move.
Splitting has a dedicated tool. Press aliases clasp S, past click the waveform aliases clip header. Split, split-cut, split-delete, divided astatine silences and divided to a caller way are besides disposable arsenic commands.
Paste handles much cases automatically. Audacity tin create a way erstwhile needed, accommodate compatible transmission layouts and paste audio files from the operating-system clipboard.
Alignment guides, sample-boundary snapping and per-project threat settings person been added aliases expanded.

Interface and tools

The interface has been rebuilt connected Qt, pinch autochthonal high-DPI rendering.
Toolbars and panels tin beryllium moved, docked, floated, shown aliases hidden.
UI layouts tin beryllium saved arsenic Workspaces. Audacity includes Modern, Classic and Music workspaces.
Light, acheronian and high-contrast themes are available, on pinch accent colors, way colors and respective clip styles.
The caller Home surface shows caller projects pinch preview thumbnails.

The abstracted Select, Envelope, Draw and Multi-tool modes person been removed. Their functions are now context-sensitive:

Volume envelopes are displayed successful the Clip gain mode.
Sample drafting becomes disposable erstwhile the waveform is zoomed to individual samples.
Splitting is disposable by holding S.
Track and effect parameters usage accordant rotary controls pinch good accommodation and double-click reset.
Sync-Lock has been removed. Delete, trim and paste now person definitive variants for either leaving a spread aliases moving later worldly to sphere timing.

Playback and recording

The playhead remains visible during navigation and tin beryllium dragged to a caller position.
Playback tin activity to different position without stopping.
Recording tin commencement anyplace connected the timeline and creates a clip astatine that position.
Loop boundaries and the relationship betwixt playback, selections and loops person been revised.
Punch and Roll, lead-in recording, latency compensation, package playthrough and per-track input monitoring person been rebuilt for the caller interface.
Audio Setup now includes system-default devices, refreshable instrumentality lists and civilization transmission mapping. Audacity tin travel operating-system instrumentality changes automatically.
Official Windows builds see ASIO playback and signaling support.

Tracks, meters and effects

Track headers now incorporate unrecorded playback and signaling meters.
Preset handling is accordant crossed built-in, destructive and realtime effects.
Built-in effects, generators and analyzers person been rebuilt for the Qt interface.
Supported plugin formats are VST3, Nyquist, LV2 connected Linux and Audio Units connected macOS. Audacity tin show generated controls erstwhile a plugin's ain interface is unavailable.
Spectrogram has been redesigned pinch clearer guides and rulers, and faster rendering.

Projects, import and export

Audacity 4 uses the caller .aup4 task format.
.aup3 projects unfastened and person to .aup4 without changing the original file. Converted projects cannot beryllium saved backmost to .aup3.
Older .aup projects tin beryllium imported.
Project files shop preview thumbnails and Audacity 4's further clip and quality data.

And past but not least, we had the audacity to alteration the Audacity logo.