Newbie Plug-In Help

[TeeFran]

I hope this post is in the right place, please move if not. My problem is I cannot extract zipped .ny files to the Audacity plugins folder.
I receive the error message:

“Confirm Encryption Loss” box pops up and states:
“Do you want to copy this file without encryption?
You are copying the file to a destination that does not support encryption.”

I found some plugins on a website with the .ny extension and none of them will extract. I’m getting the same error message for all of them.
Three of the plug-ins are:
10bandeq.ny
15bandeQ.ny
butterflyramp.ny (I have about 38 others)

Since I’m relatively a newbie to the laptop and Audacity I was wondering if I did something wrong.
I am suppose to click yes to the encryption loss? And if so will it work right in Audacity?

My laptop is Gateway
My operating system is Vista Home Premium, 32-bit.
Audacity version 1.2.6

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, and again if I’m in the wrong place please direct me elsewhere.

[steve]

I hope this post is in the right place,

Audacity 1.2.6 - Windows - yep, looks like the right place

I found some plugins on a website with the .ny

.ny extension - that's the extension for "Nyquist Plug-ins"
Do you remember the website that you downloaded them from?
Perhaps it was here? http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins

I am suppose to click yes to the encryption loss?

I've no idea why you got that message. (but I'm not a Vista user).
Can you unzip them to any location without any warning message? (for example, a folder on your desktop?)
If you can unzip them successfully, then you just need to copy or move them (the .ny files) into the Audacity plug-in folder.
If you are unable to unzip them successfully, you may have a bad download and may need to download them again.

If after downloading again you are still unable to unzip them, then there is another approach you could try.
Nyquist files are simply text files with a .ny extension (instead of .txt). The page I mentioned above has both .zip versions and .ny versions. If you download (Save As) the .ny versions, you should be able to open them in a text editor and they will look something like this:

Code: Select all

;nyquist plug-in
;version 1
;type process
;name "Ten band E Q..."
;action "Applying one band of the Ten Band E Q..."
;info "(1:28) (2:56) (3:112) (4:224) (5:448)  Ten Band E Q by David Skyn(6:893) (7:1.8k) (8:3.6k) (9:7.1k) (10:14k) "

;control band "Band number(1-10)" int "band" 1 1 10 
;control gain "Gain" real "db" 0.0 -24.0 24.0

;; Choose band number 1 - 10 and apply gain to it 
;;  [between -24 and +24 db].

; make sure band is an integer
(truncate band) 

; This plug-in tests the following:

; if band < 1, set band to 1
(setf band (max 1 band))

; if band > 10, set band to 10
(setf band (min band 10))

; set the width of each band in octaves
; [convert to linear scale using octaves]
; [almost ten octaves between 20 Hz and 20 kHz]
(setf width (/ 9.96578428466 10))

; calculate center f of band [in octaves above 20 Hz]
(setf center (mult width 0.5 (- (mult band 2) 1)))

; convert center of band n [in octaves above 20 Hz] to frequency 
(setf f (mult 20 (expt 2 center)))

; apply E Q to the band [f]
(eq-band s f gain width)

Simply put the .ny file in the Audacity plug-in folder. When you restart Audacity you should find that the new plug-ins are available.

[TeeFran]

stevethefiddle wrote:
.ny extension - that's the extension for "Nyquist Plug-ins"
Do you remember the website that you downloaded them from?
Perhaps it was here? http://audacityteam.org/download/nyquistplugins

Yes that is where I got them (at least I‘m pretty sure I was there as it looked familiar).

stevethefiddle wrote:
I've no idea why you got that message. (but I'm not a Vista user).
Can you unzip them to any location without any warning message? (for example, a folder on your desktop?) If you can unzip them successfully, then you just need to copy or move them (the .ny files) into the Audacity plug-in folder.

I tried this suggestion but only about 12 of the 38 extracted and have successfully been added to the audacity plugins folder. Thanks! However, I got the same error message for the rest.

stevethefiddle wrote: If you are unable to unzip them successfully, you may have a bad download and may need to download them again.

OK, I’ve gone back to the site and re-downloaded them again and I’m getting the same encryption error message as before. One of the ones that was invalid before (after being re-downloaded) now gives me the same encryption error message as the others.

stevethefiddle wrote: If after downloading again you are still unable to unzip them, then there is another approach you could try.
Nyquist files are simply text files with a .ny extension (instead of .txt). The page I mentioned above has both .zip versions and .ny versions. If you download (Save As) the .ny versions, you should be able to open them in a text editor.
Simply put the .ny file in the Audacity plug-in folder. When you restart Audacity you should find that the new plug-ins are available.

I have copied the steps in your message and will try them next. Thank you so much for responding and to all of the Audacity Team members I would like to give a big whopping WAY TO GO! For the Audacity software, as it Awesome! (I’m still learning how to use it) but so far I have found it to be outstanding! Thanks a bunch for creating it!