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Tenacity 1.4 Alpha 1

Several months in the making, Tenacity 1.4 alpha 1 has finally been released! In this release come not only many new changes, but also quite a few missing things because we recently completed a rebase and, well, this is an alpha release.

Before we get any further, we want to address the biggest feature missing from this version: our themes. This is intentional because our theme system is pending a rewrite. We've had the rewrite planned for years (dating back to before Saucedacity and Tenacity merged) and we are about ready to replace the current theme system pending a few rebases and revivals. By the next alpha, we will have a new theme system in place. Please do not report any issues about missing themes. We already know and are already working on it. Good things come to those that wait :)

The primary highlight of this pre-release is Tenacity being rebased on Audacity 3.7.5. This was done to bring the latest features and changes from Audacity, including realtime effects, beats and bars support, native support for Opus and WavPack, a new toolbar layout and new toolbars, and plenty others, into Tenacity. Of course, all networking bits, including telemetry, update checking, error report sending, and audio.com features, were removed. Aside from the rebase, we also have a new Windows on ARM build. Note that the new Windows on ARM build may not work, but we are accepting issue reports on it as we plan to ship a Windows on ARM build for the final release.

The other highlight of this release is the fact that our CI has been restored, which means two things: nightly builds are back and there is a new Windows on ARM build! To make things getting nightly builds easier, we have a new nightly builds link: https://tenacityaudio.org/nightly. At the moment, there are only Windows and Linux nightly builds, but we will begin working on macOS nightly builds pending a theme system rewrite (macOS builds currently fail due to theme system related issues).

Meanwhile, the Windows on ARM build has a few notes:

Only Windows 11 or later is supported.
FFmepg builds will not be provided in this release but in the next release.
This build is untested. We hope that interested people will report any issues to us.
Since this is a pre-release, we will not be providing any FFmpeg builds nor any GPG signatures. This is intentional. Only stable releases get those things, and this will go the same way with the later beta releases now that we have a stable release out. The only exception for this release, however, is that the final release will not have FFmpeg builds for Windows on ARM. That will be saved for the next release, 1.5.

IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE RUNNING!
This alpha version of Tenacity is still in development and may contain (un)known bugs. You are advised not to use this version with any critical data.

As with any alpha release, back up your settings. This version may not have the appropriate settings migration added yet and can mess up your configuration.

Known Issues
Themes have not been implemented yet. We are going to complete a theme system rewrite first before we port them over.
Due to an issue with the current theme system, macOS builds are broken. Work fixing them is pending the rewrite finishing.
Tenacity might refer to itself as "Audacity" in some places.
Preference migration is incomplete. Please backup your settings in the meantime.
VST3 support is currently disabled as we find a way to use the VST3 SDK with our build system.
Tenacity cannot be built as GPL v3 or later yet. We will enable this soon.
Tenacity's app icon might show a generic Wayland icon under Linux if on Wayland.
Despite the VU meter toolbars having sliders, those currently do not work.
Changelog from 1.3.4
Note: Subsequent changelogs for newer alpha releases will compare themselves
against the latest stable version of Tenacity. You can think of these
changelogs as a public draft :)

New
From Audacity
Full realtime effects support
Beats and bars support, including musical recognition
Improved track panel performance
Native support for Opus and WavPack files
A slightly changed track panel layout
New Audacity themes
New audio setup layout
...and plenty more!
From Us
Thanks to our newly restored CI, we now provide nightly builds again for easy testing of fixes and other pre-release builds.
A new Windows on ARM installer is provided.
Windows on ARM requires at least Windows 11 or later.
FFmpeg is not available for Windows on ARM yet, but we look forward to providing them once we get our own FFmpeg distribution setup.
When packaging Tenacity yourself, SHA256 sums are now generated automatically. Consequently, hashes are also now produced for nightly builds.
Windows installer improvements (#625). Thanks @bovirus!
The language dialog is now shown
Improved reset preferences string for Italian
New build options for enabling AVX-equipped builds (note: preference is in the order as listed, and none are enabled by default)
-DAVX512 - Enables AVX512
-DAVX2 - Enables AVX2
-DAVX - Enables AVX
Translation updates from Weblate (thanks to all the translators from Weblate!).
Fixes
Fixed a crash in spectrogram rendering (#600). Thanks @hails!
Changes
From Audacity
On Linux, Tenacity configuration directories have changed to better comply with XDG standards.
The default toolbar layout has changed:
The device selection toolbar is now hidden by default.
A new audio setup toolbar has been introduced.
A new beats and bars toolbar has been introduced
The snapping toolbar has been reworked to provide real snapping like you would see in a DAW.
From Us
wxWidgets 3.3+ is now supported, while increasing the minimum required version to 3.1.5 or later.
Nyquist support can now be disabled at build time.
All packaging is done via CPack now and also produces additional .sha256 files for easier verification of built packages.

Features

Recording
from audio devices (real or virtual)


Export & Import
a wide range of audio formats (extendible with FFmpeg)


High Quality
including up to 32-bit float audio support


Plug-Ins
providing support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins


Scripting
in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl and other languages with named pipes


Editing
arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline


Accessibility
including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support


Tools
useful in the analysis of signals, including audio