Re: [Audacity-quality] Shipping more Nyquist Plug-ins WAS Re: analyze.ny

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

On 20 January 2014 04:55, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote:
>
> | From Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
> | Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:06:11 +0000
> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] analyze.ny
>> > On 18 January 2014 22:57, Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> wrote:
>> > Also, I've been conversing with Steve off-list about whether any of the
>> > ones at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins
>> > deserve to be shipped with Audacity (and put in the SVN repository).
>>
>> There are a few that I think would be worth shipping, notably:
>>
>> Channel Mixer
>> Pseudo-stereo
>> Noise Gate
>> Pop Mute
>> Band Stop Filter
>> Peak Finder
>> Pitch Detect
>> (and "Amplitude" - on the forum, not yet on the wiki)
>
> Is "Amplitude" this:
> http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=75677 ?

Yes. From feedback from audacity4blind, probably the second version in
that topic.

>
>> (and "Multi-voice Chorus", which I just now noticed is not on the wiki)
>>
>> The concern about adding more effects is that in the absence of an
>> "Effect Manager" the Effect menu is already rather long.
>
> Right. Until we grapple with that, I feel an extra three plug-ins in
> the Effect Menu is about the most, unless added effects replace
> shipped ones.
>
> My choice of effects from Steve's list would be
>
>   Band Stop Filter
>   Multi-Voice Chorus
>   Noise Gate
>
> We could do with a download count on:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins .
>
> AFAIK there is no safe extension for this.

I agree that a download count could provide useful feedback, though
I've not found any safe extension for MediaWiki either,
One possible way to safely log downloads could be for the downloads to
be hosted separately from the wiki so that all download links are
external links, and the downloads to be counted by the plug-in
repository..

Steve


> To justify shipping Peak Finder I think it should have more options
> than just place a label or labels showing the peak.
>
> * label the top [n] peaks, where [n] is a number?
>
> * label the rms peak?
>
> I also think we may need to develop:
>
> * Trim or add silence at start or end of track (useful in Chains)
>
> * Distortion
>
> * Binaural beats Generator
>    (http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Generate_Plug-ins#Binaural_Tones_with_Surf_2
>
>    is I think too targeted at a specific use case - we had a good
>    Forum discussion about it in the past.)
>
> * Sequencer Generator
>    (http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Audio_Selection_Sequencer_2
>
>    but I think users have had issues with figuring out the
>    required notation.
>
> There are several effects that might come up as replacements,
> including Robert J.H.'s Centre Remover and Isolator (if it's
> trimmed to just that) and a more full featured Sound Finder
> that Steve has in mind.
>
>
>
> Gale
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services.
> Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For
> Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between.
> Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today.
> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
> _______________________________________________
> Audacity-quality mailing list
> Aud...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality