Difference between revisions of "Download Nyquist Plug-ins"

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Contents

1. Downloading or viewing plug-ins
2. Installing plug-ins
3. List of available plug-ins
4. Nyquist plug-ins shipped with current Audacity
5. Plug-in authors
6. Related articles

Downloading or viewing plug-ins

• Download the plug-in:
  • Left-click the download link to download the file in almost all web browsers. If this only displays the plug-in code, right-click the download link and select "Save Link As...", Save As..." or some similar "Save" or "Download" command. For further information, please see the documentation for your web browser.
• View the plug-in code:
  • Chrome: Download any plug-in once, then right-click over the download button at the bottom of the browser and choose "Always open this file type".
  • Firefox: Open Options or Preferences, then click the "General" section at the top. In the "Downloads" section, choose "Always ask me where to save files". When you click the download link, you now have an extra option to open the file in a chosen application instead of save it.
  • Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge: Right-click the download link, choose any of the "Open" options then in the box that appears, click the "Open" button. In Edge, this also downloads the file.
  • Safari: Downloaded plug-ins will automatically open in your default text editor after download. You can disable automatic open after download in Safari Preferences.

Installing plug-ins

To install a Nyquist plug-in, place its ".NY" file in the Audacity "Plug-ins" folder. In Audacity 2.1.1 or later, use Effect > Manage... or Effect > Add / Remove Plug-Ins... to open the Effect Manager. Select the plug-in(s) you want to install, then click Enable and OK. {{Hint|1=

• On Windows the "Plug-Ins" folder is in the directory where Audacity resides - usually C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86)
• On Mac place them in Audacity's "Plug-Ins" folder at ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/Plug-Ins.
• On Linux, the "plug-ins" folder is in usr/share/audacity if you installed an Audacity package supplied by your distribution, or usr/local/share/audacity if you compiled Audacity from source code. Alternatively, create a directory called .audacity-files in your home folder and then create a plug-ins or plugins folder inside that. Audacity can currently load Nyquist plug-ins from other locations, but it is recommended to use the Linux locations listed above. In particular, ~/.audacity-data/Plug-Ins is now deprecated as a location for Nyquist plug-ins, but at the moment can still be used for these.

For further details please see https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/effect_menu.html#nyquist_effects in the Manual.

Use the latest Audacity version

More recent Nyquist effects may not appear in old versions of Audacity or may not work correctly. It is recommended to use the current version of Audacity which is always available on the Audacity website.

If you do use an older version of Audacity there may be no Effect Manager. In that case you must place the NY file in the "Plug-ins" folder as above, then restart Audacity.

List of available plug-ins

Feedback and bug reports: All new plug-ins added to this list are tested in the Audacity 2.x version current at the time, but many of the older plug-ins are still in need of testing. Please report any bugs to the Nyquist section of the Audacity forum (or alternatively to our feedback email address) so they may be fixed. Some Nyquist plug-ins are unsuitable for processing long audio tracks. If a plug-in causes excessive memory use and causes Audacity to freeze or crash when used on long tracks, please let us know so that we can either limit the plug-in to short selections or add a note to the plug-in description so as to warn other users of the possibility. Please also let us know which plug-ins you like and find useful as that will help us to develop the types of plug-ins that users want.

Generate plug-in downloads

These plug-ins usually appear towards the bottom of the Generate menu in Audacity.

1. Tone Generators
   1. Buzz tone generator
   2. DTMF Tones (random)
   3. DTMF Tones
   4. PWM
2. Noise Generators
   1. Harmonic Noise
3. Special Effects
   1. Binaural Tones with Surf 2
   2. Surf-lfo
   3. Surf-oxy
4. Instruments
   1. Fire and Explosion sounds
   2. KLSTRBAS
   3. Pluck (Hz)
   4. Risset Bell
5. Sequence Generators
   1. Rndtone
   2. SQ1 Generator Sequencer
6. Generator Utilities
   1. Nyquist Generate Prompt
   2. Tuning Fork
   3. Variable Duration Silence Generator

Effect plug-in downloads

These plug-ins usually appear towards the bottom of the Effect menu in Audacity.

1. Amplify, Mix and Pan Effects
   1. Amplify Left or Right Channel
   2. Bass to Center
   3. Center Pan Remover
   4. Channel Mixer
   5. Cross Fade In
   6. Cross Fade Out
   7. Fade In and Out
   8. Panning
   9. Panning (LFO)
   10. Panning (random)
   11. Pseudo-Stereo
   12. Ramp Panning
   13. Repair Channel
   14. Stereo Butterfly (static)
   15. Stereo Butterfly (LFO)
   16. Stereo Butterfly (ramp)
   17. Stereo Widener
2. Delay and Reverb
   1. Bouncing Ball Delay
   2. Bouncing Ball Delay with Panning
   3. Bouncing Ball Delay with Tone Shift
   4. Reverse Bouncing Ball Delay
   5. Reverse Bouncing Ball Delay with Tone Shift
   6. Chimes delay
   7. Delay with High Pass Filter
   8. Delay with Low Pass filter
   9. Delay with Pitch Change
   10. Delay with Stereo Flip
   11. Delay with Tone Shift
3. Distortion Effects
   1. Harmonic Enhancer
   2. Tape Saturation Limiter
4. Dynamics Processing
   1. Broadcast Limiter II
   2. Broadcast Limiter III
   3. Hyperexp
   4. Limiter
   5. Limiter (2)
   6. Noise Gate
   7. Pop Mute
   8. Text Envelope
5. Filters
   1. Band Stop Filter
   2. Chebyshev Type I Filter
   3. Classic EQ
   4. Comb Filter
   5. Customizable EQ
   6. Desk EQ
   7. High Pass Filter with q
   8. High Pass Filter (LFO)
   9. Hum Remover
   10. Low Pass Filter (LFO)
   11. Low Pass Filter with Q
   12. Multiband EQ
   13. Mutron
   14. Notch Filter
   15. Parametric EQ
   16. Random Low Pass Filter
   17. Resonant Filter
   18. Shelf Filter
   19. Ten Band EQ
6. Modulation Effects
   1. Dual Tape Decks
   2. Flanger (linear)
   3. Isochronic modulator
   4. Random Amplitude Modulation
   5. Random Pitch Modulation
   6. Ring modulator
   7. Variable Tremolo
7. Sequencer Effects
   1. Audio Selection Sequencer 2
8. Time, Pitch and Tempo
   1. Change Speed by Semitones
   2. Extract Audio
   3. Insert Silence
   4. Regular interval audio splitter
   5. Tempo Change
   6. Time Shifter
   7. Trim / Extend
   8. Trim Silence
   9. Turntable Warping MS

Analyze plug-in downloads

These plug-ins usually appear towards the bottom of the Analyze menu in Audacity.

• All plug-ins
  1. ACX Check
  2. Peak Finder rft
  3. Pitch Detect
  4. Regular Interval Labels
  5. Selection Duration

Nyquist plug-ins shipped with current Audacity

The following 26 Nyquist plug-ins are shipped with the current Audacity version. You can read about what each plug-in does on Index of Effects, Generators and Analyzers in the Audacity Manual.

Plug-in authors

These plug-ins have been contributed by:

• Steve Daulton
• Edgar Franke
• Steven Jones
• Paul Licameli
• David R.Sky
• Jvo Studer
• Will McCown.

Related articles

• Introduction to Audacity Nyquist
• Nyquist Plug-ins Reference
• Ask questions in the Audacity Nyquist Forum
• Test-drive new Nyquist Plug-ins that are still under development
• Other pages in our Plug-ins category

Links

|< Nyquist