Audacity Effects Automation Macros?

Michael

Michael

I Love YTtalk
I use Audacity regularly to edit my audio and I always find myself using similar effects and a lot of the time the same effects. Is there a way to automate the process where you open Audacity and run a macro like feature and have all the effects be applied automatically? It would save me a lot of time and sometimes laziness when I dont fancy editing the audio. I am hoping theres some way to do this but I cant seem to find any feature for it.

Thanks.
 
Interesting.. Well if there is I'm not the man to tell you how but I hope someone will let us both know because man... That would save me a lot of time :P
 
Tarmack said:
Might be time to move to Audition @Michael :) The Effects Rack does much of what you're looking for.
Click to expand...

I have been looking into alternative programs to do the job but I would rather save the cash over the couple of mins it would take in Audacity. There are programs for running macros which would work similarly but not as good as it being built in it seems.
 
You could use a third party macro program to automate Audacity. Take a look at AutoHotKey from ahkscript.org (there is another site that has a fork of the program under the same name). It's a free program. It only works on Windows. It will involve some coding to get it to work, but it will allow you to script out all the actions you need to automate Audacity or any other program. It wont be easy at first. It manipulates the OS, the mouse, and the keyboard to pass the inputs into the program you're trying to control.

I use it at work to do UI testing. You can do all kinds of crazy stuff with it. For example, you can supply an image and it searches the screen return the coordinates where that image appear so you can maneuver the mouse to that spot. You can have it wait until a window with a particular title appears. You can even call external DLLs with it.

If you go on the site, they have some good documentation to get you started.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top