Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NY file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NY to another file type
To convert NY plug-ins to another format, you need Audacity or other Plugin software.
Convert a file to NY
To convert other file formats to the "Audacity Nyquist Plug-in" file type, you need software like Audacity or a similar tool.
About NY files
The .NY file format is a plain-text script used as an audio effect plug-in for the Audacity audio editor. It is written in Nyquist, a specialized dialect of Lisp designed for sound synthesis and audio analysis. Users typically encounter these files when downloading custom sound effects, generators, or analyzers from the Audacity community. A major disadvantage of the .NY format is user confusion; because it operates within an audio editor, people mistakenly assume it contains playable sound data. It does not. You cannot play a .NY file in a media player. Standard audio converters will completely fail to process it. Another limitation is that syntax errors inside the script can cause the plug-in to silently fail or crash the audio software. The best conversion targets for a .NY file are standard TXT to safely read the source code or LISP for editing in a dedicated programming environment. Since this is a specialized plain-text script rather than a media file, traditional audio conversion tools are useless.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NY file to DLL, SO, DYLIB, BUNDLE, PLUGIN, XPI, CRX, SAFARIEXTZ, APPEX, KEXT, SYS or DRV, you can use Audacity or similar software from the "Audio Effect Plugin Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LV2, DYLIB, VST, AAX, DRV, TDE, LADSPA, BUNDLE, AU, DLL, RTAS or SO files to NY, try Audacity or another comparable tool in the "Audio Effect Plugin Script" category.
The NY Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our NY converter.