The big news this week is the commit from David Corrales of a redesigned effects system with a polished easy to use interface and the (sometimes cryptically named) effects divided into categories by what they actually do.

Combined with the pipeline changes commited previously you can now tinker around adding and removing effects, changing and tweeking settings while the track is playing, and hear the results as you make the changes. This is (in my opinion at least) a huge step forward in ease of use.

Initial testing has shown this to be pretty solid and stable, some areas such as the reordering of effects are still in development but its very much ready for beta testers and early adopters to get to work, so give it a try and report any issues back to us.

Add in some performance enhancements to the waveform drawing, and changes to the ALSA device code to allow multiple similar soundcards and you have another busy week in the life of your favourite audio editor.

Lastly I’ve decided to hold a competition (no prizes, just for glory) “How many pieces of spam and associated user acounts will have to be deleted for the forums this week (22-28th Jan)”? The rules are that nearest vote wins, and deleted acounts are disqualified (so no rigging the results by posting your own spam). To give you a hint the running total so far (as of 09.15GMT 22-01-07) 15 posts and 3 users deleted, its a busy morning. Winners and answers to be anounced next week.

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