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Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming
There is also a standalone version of Nyquist available from the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Music Project. Contents Nyquist Nyquist allows you to use the Nyquist programming language to write your own plugin effects for Audacity.
Audacity also provides additional features and commands for Nyquist, including the ability to create plugins. Note that you don't need to download Nyquist in order to write simple plugins to use with Audacity. In Lisp (and therefore Nyquist), everything is an S-Expression, which is just a list of tokens (words) separated by whitespace and enclosed in parentheses.
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