There is a rapidly growing number of users who are editing audiobooks for Audible. Their ACX submission requirements have several standards that must be met - max peak of -3dB, max.min range of avg RMS for file, min noise floor, etc. There are SOOO much easier after editing an audiobook to have a tool that tells you if your audio passes the "ACX Check." It could be added to the Amplitude Statistics Window. Currently the only way to do this is to use the long-running free plugin that only works in Audacity (a 3rd party wrote this and thousands of people use it), and more recently, Sound Forge Pro 15, who have just added that capability.

I'm not sure if I've missed something, or made a mistake.

But I noticed that the HUD is not showing up in the waveform editor, in the upgrade to 14.1

I noticed this first in the upgrade to 14, and then today, I upgraded to 14.1 - but it is still not displaying, during a time selection, even though I have it ticked (View > Show HUD).

When I go into the Preferences Menu > General and untick "Show HUD for selection ranges only" - then it does appear.

So this made me think it was possibly a bug, for why it isn't showing up in the standard setting.

Thanks.

When making edits to an individual clip it would great if it would save the changes as a recipe as in Lightroom Classic, or transparently render a new file into media cache or RAM and change the pointers to reference it. This would operate safely the way Lightroom Classic, Premiere Pro and other professional apps operate.

Additionally, the users shouldn’t be promoted to manually save changes to clips. This should be done automatically in the background and the multitrack editor and Dynamic Link partners should reference the newest clip version without manual file reference / save as changes.

Perhaps in the past, it made sense to do destructive editing to save on storage but now NVMe storage, RAM, and powerful processors are cheap enough that it is no longer logical to edit dangerously.

I edit podcasts using the waveform editor, and sometimes have 3 or more people in a conversation that necessitates having an audio file with 3 or more channels, in order to keep everyone separate. I also have Snap to Zero Crossings enabled under Snapping, so that edits are smoother and there isn't a loud pop or click every time I hit play when the playhead does not start on a zero crossing. I only now realized that the Snap to Zero Crossings feature only works on mono and stereo files - anything more than 2 channels and it's greyed out.

It would be great to have this feature on files with 3 channels or more. The Adobe support person I spoke with told me that for, as an example, a 5.1 file it would be nearly impossible to find a zero crossing on all 6 channels at the same time, but I only ever have one channel with audio on it at a time since it's an interview podcast, so the other channels are blank at any given moment.

Even if that is impossible to implement, maybe an option to have a fade in/fade out on playback when pressing the play and pause buttons, to avoid clicks?

When processing a highlighted section, that section is being playback. This is in my case not what i want. When editing a part of a sample, let's say the punch of a kick drum, the playback is about 50 ms and that sound like a machine gun. But without playback i can't hear what i'm doing. I would like to see a function where you can loop the whole sample for playback while also hearing the highlighted part your processing. In this way you can hear what your processing does to the whole sample. Then when you're happy with the result, the apply button should still only apply on what you've highlighted.

If there is a function like this, please let me know! If not, please implement.