Tutorials and Examples for Nyquist programming
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
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)
*Scratch* is a very useful Nyquist variable (in Audacity). It has the unique property that it survives from one call of Nyquist to the next. This allows, for example, a plug-in to perform sequential operations on a series of tracks, or for one plug-in to analyse a track and then another plug-in to process the … Continue reading *SCRATCH* – the variable that lasts
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
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:
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To use this function we pass two values, … Continue reading Arrays as function arguments
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
It is a common misconception that Audacity’s Nyquist plug-ins must be slow because they are written in an interpreted programming Language. Nyquist is an interpreted language, meaning that it runs directly from the code rather than being compiled first, but the inner loops of many DSP functions are pre-compiled in highly optimised compiled C code. … Continue reading Are Nyquist Plug-ins slow? (Compiled vs Interpreted languages)
For a shorter display when hours [or hh:mm] are not required, set the ‘short’ parameter to 1. To display hh:mm:ss without milliseconds, set the second parameter [places] to 0. The ’round’ parameter can be set to round up, round down or round to the closest whole number of seconds. For full details of all options, … Continue reading Display time as hh:mm:ss
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