Nyquist Plug-ins

Plug-in Downloads
We host a large collection of Nyquist plug-ins for use in Audacity.

Installation
On Windows and OS X, place new Nyquist plug-ins in the Plug-Ins folder inside your Audacity installation folder and restart Audacity. Your installation folder is usually under on Windows computers, or under  on OS X.

On Linux, place new Nyquist plug-ins in one of the following locations: Restart Audacity then new plug-ins will be visible in either the, , or menu depending on the Nyquist plug-in's defined type.
 * if Audacity was installed from a repository package
 * if you compiled Audacity from source code
 * which is a per-user directory for which super-user privileges are not required (Note: The folder is not created during installation so must be created manually)
 * in a Nyquist directory specified in the environment variable.

Exploring further
To learn more about Nyquist programming, why not load the .lsp files from the Audacity "Nyquist" folder or the .ny files from the Audacity "Plug-Ins" folder into your favorite text editor and try to find out how they work? There is some introductory advice on this page of the main Audacity web site. Additional information about programming Nyquist plug-ins can be found at Nyquist Plug-ins Reference.

If you are especially interested in Nyquist in Audacity, we strongly recommend visiting the Nyquist board of the Audacity Forum (you can subscribe to any board or forum by clicking "Subscribe forum" at the bottom of the relevant page). There is also an audacity-nyquist mailing list that sometimes has topics regarding development of Audacity's Nyquist interface.

There is no Nyquist console in Audacity, but you can use to run a single Nyquist command. Code for Nyquist plug-ins that generate audio can be quickly tested (without having to select audio first) with this Nyquist Generate Prompt. If you can compile Audacity, you can use an Audacity module called Nyquist Workbench to run Nyquist code in a graphical interface.