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Re:Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting by DizzyDoo on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:58AM (#31907081)
One feature that audio editing software really needs, if you're working with voice over or podcast audio, is a decent range of basic compression filters to apply. Whether it's just one person's voice or multiple people's, you need to shift the dynamic range of all the inputs into a sensible range, and with a sensible average loudness - just your basic management of levels. This is the first thing I look for, does teapodo have this?

Adobe Audition (not free) and Davinci Resolve's Fairlight (free, but obviously packaged with the rest of Resolve) have a bunch of filters, effects and even some helpful presets that make this straightforward.

Re:Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting by ZoomZoomZoom on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:17PM (#31913128)
To weigh in with an opposite opinion: if you make audio software, please, don't spend your time on reimplementing audio filters. It takes time and focus from things your program just has no way of doing with 3d party plugins. There's an over-abundance of audio processing plugins of various kinds and it's much easier just to support LV2 or VST (or, maybe, Clap, if you're optimistic about its future).

If you must bundle something, just add a JSFX interpreter and bundle a bunch of JSFX scripts. Your power users will thank you for it.

Re:Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting by eyeplum on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:35PM (#31925999)
This is indeed a very interesting idea - taking advantage of the existing ecosystem. Like what the Language Server Protocol has done to the text editing world.

Thanks for the suggestion and we will definitely consider it.

Re:Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting by xiaoxing on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:04AM (#31916667)
VST/AU plugin support is in our roadmap. So yeah, you bet that we will take advantage of the plugins ;-). In the meanwhile, you can use do further editing on top of Teapodo's output with other power tools.
Re:Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting by michelb on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:18AM (#31907301)
To answer your question; no this app does not have any filters (yet?)
Re:Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting by xiaoxing on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:05AM (#31916671)
Correct. But it's in the roadmap.