10 v24 -- plugin for Audacity

IntermittentGate.ny

I used to use a Chromebook running crouton as a chroot under Chrome OS. Chrome OS would update, but I would forget to update crouton. Sometimes this created a mismatch between the audio drivers in Chrome OS and in crouton. Sometimes this created an interesting glitch. There were two components to the glitch that I could discern, one which I have replicated in a Nyquist plugin (useful in Audacity) called IntermittentGate.ny (right click and "save link as" to download). This component was regular, intermittent silencings of the track (intermittent gatings). Another component was the seemingly random insertion of little "fills", which I haven't figured out how to replicate.

Some of the tracks on my Internet radio station were processed using the glitch, and some with IntermittentGate.ny. Also, if I am not mistaken, there are video poems available made with the glitch, and maybe also IntermittentGate.ny.

IntermittentGate.ny is probably not the best implementation possible of intermittent gating, because it uses a process that's slow. Nothing wrong with patience, of course, but maybe someone else could figure out how to make it faster. Intermittent gating shouldn't require a lot of resources and could probably be implemented in a realtime plugin (perhaps it already has).