Complete, tested and known to work Audacity / Nyquist plug-ins
One thing that is quickly learned about Audacity, is that it is NOT a DAW* (digital audio workstation), and is NOT a wave editor. It is a full featured multi-track audio recorder and editor. When “opening” an audio file for editing, the file itself is never modified by Audacity – the audio data is copied … Continue reading Editing and Overwriting an Audio File
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
Sometimes we may want to be able to quickly find extreme peaks in a recording so that we can treat them in some way. Often we can find the peaks easily by just looking at the waveform. In the example below, we can clearly see that there is a large peak in the left channel … Continue reading Label Peaks
Audacity has the ability to export label tracks as a text file, and/or import labels from a text file. More information about this is available in the Audacity manual. A limitation of this feature is that it is not available to use in batch processing. There is a macro command ImportLabels: but it only opens … Continue reading Import Labels
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)
This plug-in generates a tone at specified intervals into an existing track. This process is sometimes used as a watermark or spoiler to deter unauthorised copying / fraudulent claims of copyright. Before deciding to use watermarks / spoilers, take a few moments to consider: Should I add spoilers to my audio? Types of watermark There … Continue reading Beeper.ny (audio spoiler)
Whether synchronising an audio recording with a video recording, or synchronising recordings made from each side of a zoom / Skype / telephone conversation, synchronising multiple recordings is a fairly common task. To aid accurate synchronisation, a clapperboard (or simply a couple of hand claps) at the beginning of the recording can provide clear visual … Continue reading Align Tracks
A feature request was logged on Audacity’s GitHub pages: Proposal Label Track Info #2410 When there are more than a handful of labels it’s often difficult to determine their exact number and type (point or region); one must either visually count them or open the Label Editor dialog, scroll to the bottom of the dialog, … Continue reading Label Track Info
A “peak limiter” is a kind of dynamic range compression effect that “pushes down” on peaks so as to reduce their level. Unlike other compressor effects, limiters have little or no effect on the surrounding audio (except for a few milliseconds either side of the peak). They are particularly useful for reducing “transients” (very short loud … Continue reading Peak Limiter
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