Category Archives: Code Samples

Useful code snippets and interesting coding ideas.

Ukulele Tuning Tones

A simple “tuning fork” plug-in for Audacity, specifically for tuning a ukulele. This plug-in just generates a tone of the specified note, which is basically what a tuning fork does, except that a real (mechanical) tuning fork is restricted to just one frequency, whereas this plug-in allows you to select the required note. Ukuleles are … Continue reading Ukulele Tuning Tones

Find Label (plug-in)

This plug-in can be helpful in situations where you have a project that has a lot (possibly hundreds) of labels, and you want to locate one specific label quickly by searching for the label text. While it is perfectly possible to scroll through the Label Editor window and look for the label text, the Label … Continue reading Find Label (plug-in)

Three band crossover filter (part 1)

What are crossover filters? Due to mechanical / physical constraints it is near impossible for a single speaker cone to accurately reproduce the full audio range. Carefully designed small speakers may work adequately for low power use such as portable radios, but for larger, higher power and higher sound quality speakers, multiple “driver” units are … Continue reading Three band crossover filter (part 1)

Synthesizing musical notes

This is a short tutorial about generating sounds and shaping the sound with an envelope. Nyquist includes a number of oscillators and other simple sound generators that may be used as building blocks. In this tutorial we will be using the triangle waveform oscillator as the basis of a simple piano-like “ding” sound.We’ll start with … Continue reading Synthesizing musical notes

Arrays as function arguments

When calling a function we commonly pass one or more parameters to that function. In most cases these are simple variables; integers or floats, but could be lists or arrays. In the case of passing arrays there is a hidden danger. Let’s consider a simple function:

To use this function we pass two values, … Continue reading Arrays as function arguments

Changing the speed and length very accurately

Audacity has a “Change Speed” effect, but it is only accurate to three decimal places. For greater accuracy a short Nyquist script can be used in the Nyquist Prompt effect. In this example the length of the selected audio was 599.999 seconds and I wanted to stretch it to 600 seconds duration.The durations may be … Continue reading Changing the speed and length very accurately