Re: [Audacity-nyquist] extreme newbie question about abs function

[David S. <dav...@vc...>]

Hi Jeff,

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jeff Robertson wrote:

> Do conditionals work? So could you write something that owuld be equivalent
> to this C code (I don't trust my Nyquist/Lisp skills enough yet to try
> writing it in Nyquist):
>
>    x > 0 ? x : x * -1
>
> How would you go about applying that to every sample in a selection?

I don't know, either working with individual samples nor with C.
>
> I am trying to simulate the effect of full wave rectification on a guitar
> sound, like the 60's octave fuzz boxes. This involves turing this:
>
I can't see, word images will help. However, you may be interested in the
plug-in I worked out for a guitarist on the Audacity list, Jimi Photon. I
don't play guitar myself though. clipper4.ny , Clipper with 4 band EQ in
the effects menu (version 4 that I was working out for Jimi), is attached.

Hope that's useful somehow.

David