Miscellaneous posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Well it’s been quite some time since my last post here, but now we’re back 🙂 So what have I been doing all this time? Other than being locked down in the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve mostly, working on Audacity, providing technical support, writing cool new plug-ins, and making music. There have been several updates to … Continue reading AudioNyq Returns
There are many reasons why we may want Nyquist to know the current date or time. We may want to add the date to an exported file name, or we may want to measure how long it takes for a plug-in to run. In Nyquist 3.16 we can do this with (get-real-time). For timing a … Continue reading Get Time Now
This is an experimental “proof of concept” plug-in for FM encoding and decoding. It was written as a bit of fun for the Audacity community – a competition in September 2016 for Audacity users, developers and support crew, and posted to the official Audacity facebook page. The plugin can be download here (right click to … Continue reading FM Encoder Decoder
I’m very pleased to announce the release of an update to Isochronic Modulator. “IsoMod 2” has all of the features of the original effect, with the addition of alternative pulse shapes. Right click to save : isomod2 (For Internet Explorer “Save Target As”)
Audacity includes a wide range of built-in effects, but surprisingly there is no distortion effect. Time to remedy that… Here is a simple distortion effect with 10 types of distortion. Each preset modifies the shape of the waveform in its own particular way. There is also a slider control to set the amount, or “drive”. … Continue reading Distortion Effect
It’s incredible that an article can be written about what options are available when XP is dead and buried, with not a single mention of other operating systems, but that is exactly what is happening in much of the mainstream press. I’m not suggesting that the likes of computerweekly are getting backhanders from Microsoft, but … Continue reading Windows XP end of support: What to do next
This was one of my first attempts at modifying a Nyquist plug-in (so please don’t expect good coding style 🙂 Someone asked me about how to fix some badly clipped audio. Repairing clipped audio is bad enough at any time, but in this case the problem was exacerbated because not only were some of the … Continue reading Clipfix mod
A common problem for people that are new to Nyquist is how to modify audio samples, for example, to set certain sample values to zero (silence). The temptation may be to read the audio sample by sample and modify them as necessary. In the vast majority of cases this is NOT the best approach as … Continue reading Silence part of an audio track (part 1)
A newline, also known as a line break or end-of-line (EOL) marker, is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. The actual codes representing a newline vary across operating systems, which can be a problem when exchanging text files between systems with different newline representations. Windows uses … Continue reading New Line CR+LF
Nyquist contains a function “ENV” (envelope) that is a special form of the pwl (piece-wise linear envelope) which is very useful when synthesizing sounds. There is a good description of the Envelope function and how to use it in the Nyquist manual. It works in a similar manner to the traditional ADSR envelope that is … Continue reading Fix for bug in “Envelope” function.