Nyquist

A Sound Synthesis and Composition Language

How to get Nyquist

Executables

setupnyqiderun3□□.exe This is an installer for XP, Vista, and Windows 7. This release is missing drum samples that you can download separately from the pl-drums release (also on SourceForge). nyqsrc3□□.zip This is the source code. If you are running Linux or any Unix that's not OS X, you should get this and see the Readme.txt file about installation. This source release is missing drum samples that you can download separately from the pl-drums release (also on SourceForge). nyqosx3□□.tgz This is a complete compiled universal binary application for Mac OS X that includes drum samples.

plight100.zip These are the drum samples mentioned above. They are in the pl-drums package and are a supplement for non-Mac OS X systems. (They are included in the OS X release of Nyquist.) To install the samples into your Windows or Linux installation, uncompress the download, and move the entire plight folder into nyquist/demos, resulting in nyquist/demos/plight/.

Source Code

Developers: for read/write access, you need SVN write permissions for the Nyquist project at SourceForge to commit changes, but you can use the following with or without write permissions to initialize and maintain a working copy of the latest Nyquist sources:



svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/nyquist/code/trunk/nyquist nyquist

Reference

Roger B. Dannenberg, “Machine Tongues XIX: Nyquist, a Language for Composition and Sound Synthesis,” Computer Music Journal, 21(3) (Fall 1997), pp. 50-60.

Examples

roger.dannenberg at cs.cmu.edu