Download Audacity 2.3.0

Version 2.3.0 of Audacity has been released. Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, this open source audio editor can record sound, import and export wav, aiff, ogg, and mp3 files. It has an unlimited undo function and also has a large collection of effects on board, such as fade-in and fade-out, echo, tempo change and noise reduction. More effects can be added easily as the program supports both vst and ladspaplugins† New in version 2.3.0 includes Punch and Roll Recording and over 90 issues have been resolved.

New in Audacity 2.3.0:

• New feature – “Punch and Roll Recording”
• Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging
• Play-at-speed now can be adjusted whilst playing.
• Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision
• Macros (formerly ‘Chains’) substantially extended
  • New Macro palette
  • Macros can be bound to keyboard keys
• New commands
  • New ‘Tools’ menu
  • New ‘Scriptables’ commands
• Nyquist gains AUD-DO command
• Nyquist effects are now translatable and translated
• More dialogs have help buttons now
• Increased legibility of track name display
• Half-wave option for collapsed tracks
• sliding stretch
• Dialog (option) for entering labels

Bug Fixes
Over 90 bugs that were fixed in 2.2.2, including:

• Windows: Queen Mary 1.7.1 Vamp plug-ins crash Audacity on opening Plug-in Manager – bug #1244
• Inconsistent behavior when recording with a selection defined – bug #1839
• Ctrl + M does not open label for editing – bug #1852
• Vertical Zoom in by clicking in the vertical Scale, or context menu, in waveform views is inconsistent – ​​bug #1810
• Deletion of all tracks cannot be undone – bug #1845
• Timer Record with a selection present can get a truncated recording with data loss – bug #1851
• Duplicate shortcuts can be created – bug #1786
• Labels longer than 260 characters are now supported – bug #1905
• Using Spectrogram Settings in TCP or using Preferences causes Audacity to reset Project Rate to default rate in Quality Preferences – bug #1977
• Cut Preview should play all selected/sync-locked tracks, respecting Mute/Solo during preview – bug #231