Nyquist Plug-Ins Trudging Along

We’ve been making some progress in our scripting efforts with the Nyquist plug-in for Audacity. Though we’re easily confused by the syntax and explanations in the Nyquist manual, we get magical help when SamR comes to look at the code. Computers may indeed be stupid, sentient, and malicious, but at least they’re terrified of SamR … Continue reading »

Updates for Nyquist

So, after a week of trying to make sense of the Nyquist Reference Manual and some attempts at scripting that were mostly guesswork, Jordan and I realized that there is one big problem with our current approach to Nyquist: this extension is used primarily by profession sound designers who script for ease, not for scripters … Continue reading »

Applying Scripting to a New Domain

Using the MediaScript program implemented by Dr. Rebelsky and past undergraduate research teams, budding coders and designers have been scripting in the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) for years. We’re well aware of the benefits of scripting in an image-editing program (as described by Dr. Rebelsky in our first post). With the success of the … Continue reading »