The Tenacity Manual

Table Of Contents:

• Motivation and History of Tenacity
  • Definition of “tenacious”
  • History
• System Requirements
  • OS
  • Hardware
  • Sound Devices
• Migration From Previous Versions
  • Upgrading From Betas
    • Builtin Effects Are Disabled
• Installing Tenacity
  • Installation on Windows
  • Installation on Linux
    • Flatpak
    • AppImage
  • Advanced: Building
    • Building an AppImage
• Basics
  • Getting Started
  • Editing Basics
  • Using Effects
  • One More Thing
• FFmpeg in Tenacity
  • General Compatibility Notes
  • FFmpeg on Windows
  • FFmpeg on Linux
  • Locating FFmpeg Libraries
• Preferences
  • General Information
  • Migrating from Audacity Preferences
  • Devices
  • Playback
  • Recording
  • MIDI Devices
  • Quality
  • Interface
  • Tracks
  • Import/Export
    • Extended Import
  • Libraries
  • Directories
  • Warnings
  • Effects
  • Theme
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Modules
• Differences Between Audacity and Tenacity
  • System Requirements
  • Editing and Playback
  • Analysis
  • UI
  • Preferences
  • Exporting
• ASIO in Tenacity
  • Distributing Builds
• Scripting
• Tips and Tricks
  • Latency Compensation

Welcome!

Welcome to the Tenacity Manual! This manual details everything about Tenacity, from general concepts to the very technical details of how something works.

Tenacity is a free and open source audio editor forked from the popular audio editor Audacity. Tenacity is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. It contains the following features:

• Recording from audio devices, real or virtual.

• Support for importing from and exporting to a wide range of audio formats, extensible with FFmpeg.

• High quality audio processing, including up to 32-bit float audio support.

• Extensibility with support for plug-ins, providing support for VST 2, LADSPA/LV2, and AU plugins.

• Support for 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.

Tenacity does not have a single application when it comes to audio processing. Musicians recording real instruments can make a song in Tenacity, podcasters can edit their episodes in Tenacity, and even academic researchers can analyze signals using Tenacity. We don’t intend to focus Tenacity on a single area of audio processing, but rather, we intend to focus Tenacity over audio processing in general, including the aforementioned applications. Therefore, we intend to focus this manual on all possible use cases and applications of Tenacity.

License

This manual is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You are welcome to contribute to the manual in order to improve it so long as your contributions are made available under this same license.

Tenacity is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.