Stereo Tool

Beta 52a, which is beta 53 I see I don't know if this is already known, but got an exception message.
In display two: got NAN input for grey.

This happened after change to another preset. In this case to Centurion FM.

I am now very curious about you come over to the new version

I just discovered that a certain combination of settings caused the new analog MB's to be not flat in frequency response (even if no compression of limiting is taking place).

I have just fixed the issue, but some presets are affected by this. I will compensate the settings for the fix. But, if you are the developer of one of these presets and are still working on it, please keep an eye on this post - I will write here how to compensate.

The problem occurs when you use Flat Frequency Response > 0 and the slider is enabled (it gets disabled when you use Flat Tops).

Niki Vachev - Store Open
Niki Vachev - Squashot
Wes Keene - Liquid
Rhodes54 - The French Touch
Rhodes54 - Fat Bastard
Hans van Zutphen - Analog Pleasure

I wrote about this before, difference in behavior between analog and digital mode related Flat Frequency Response value.

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Urban Junglist

Yes please. The Flat Frequency Response silder is/was very important for shaping the sound of MB2 in analog mode. Would like to know how and what to compensate.

Hans can you put my other skin as well.

Thank you very much and I am very thankful for putting my skin in the new version. Thanks!

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Very proud user of Stereo Tool since 2010. Thanks Hans.

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The biggest effect is that the output level doesn't match. It's too loud, between 1.5 and 3.5 dB depending on settings. Also, the frequency response isn't flat.

I'm still not really sure how to compensate for it and get exactly the same output, so instead - to be able to use all the presets that were made so far - I've added a setting that disables the filtering (which is what was missing); it's only accessibly in Exteme Tweaker mode and I've enabled it for the presets that are using this.

What I found so far to compensate:
1. Increase Drive by 1.5 dB
2. Increase Threshold (compressors only), but I don't know exactly how much. At least 3 dB.

Note: This is for the NEXT beta, not for the current one (053) - the behavior is still wrong in that one.

I think it`s fair when bug found and fixed , user to correct his own preset.

No need to "compensate it" since affected presets are few ones . So let the owners correct them and re-add them

Also veside every preset name can stand, that is for, (vXX.xx) version.

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BETA 761-054

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-054.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-054.exe
VST 32bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 61-054.dll

CHANGES:
- Bug: Flat Frequency Response is broken in Analog MB mode!!! Fix! (And adjust all presets that are using it to compensate)
- Bug: 10 seconds display gets stuck if in bottom left small display
- Bug: Exception NAN in Gray display (Edgar)
- Bug: Start of some presets is bad on load (too much gating) - fixed
- Bug: Memory leak occurs in all plugins

OLD CHANGES:
- Crash reported by Peter Kluyver - Not enough information. Occurred in 761-035, crash in ntdll.dll at 0x5b72E (exception 0xC0000005), not handled by Stereo Tool. No streaming via VLC used.
- Added second Multiband Compressor
- Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings.
- Added resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem (for example FM on sound card and streaming via VAC/VB Cable).
- Added auto-restart behavior if buffers get too full or too empty.
- Added upto 10 seconds of audio delay for HD radio.
- Added support for built-in GUI skins
- Added option to show beta version number in title bar
- RDS: Added RT+ support.
- RDS: Fixed time zone 30 minute offset problem - viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209
- GUI: Improved display for bigger screens.
- GUI: Increased maximum waveform display from 3.2 to 5 seconds.
- GUI: Made line around Phase Delay in bottom display less bright.
- GUI: Bug fix: Composite clipper used but not registered warning wasn't shown.
- GUI: Save settings .ini when saving the settings to any file.
- GUI: Fixed delay of Delossifier in display.
- GUI: Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change.
- GUI: Improved Compressors gate and limiter display (new Analog mode only).
- Singleband Compressors: Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB
- Compressors: Made a new Compressor implementation ('Analog'), based on the behavior of water pressure control systems and hydraulic automatically closing doors. Sounds better and uses far less CPU load.
- Compressors: Made new Limiter (only used in combination with new compressor mode).
- Compressors: Made Limit before Compress switchable in old (Digital) compressors.
- After-AGC Singleband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Final Singleband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Multiband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Multiband Compressor: Band Link did not work in 3-band mode.
- Multiband Compressor: Added Freeze/Gate for all bands combined (Analog mode only).
- Multiband Compressor: Fix frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60).
- Multiband Compressor: Fixed a filtering issue when using Density Drive > 1.00
- Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI).
- Small performance optimizations.
- Optimized synchronization between sound cards code - factor 5 CPU load reduction.
- Multipath Clipper: Made it stricter (use Smoothing mode)
- Bug fix: Linux 32 bit version is working again in Ubuntu 13/14 (was a compiler optimization bug)
- Bug fix: Saving FM sound card issue in VST: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6027&p=29066#p29066
- Bug fix: Compressors: When gate is set to -99 dB, release stops working.
- Bug fix: GUI: Threshold and knee were labeled 'Speeds' instead of 'Levels'.
- Fixed 'uninitialized memory read' warnings (reported by Intel Inspector XE).(
- ProppFrexx integration: Added RDS control via VST (canDo, vendorSpecific)

WAITING FOR FEEDBACK 7.70:
- Wait for Matt Aaron's feedback about HD synchronization

TO DO 7.70:
- Wait for Diggy Down FM (TURN DECLIPPER ON!) and Jesse Graffam's final streaming/AM/FM presets; answer from Nikolay Vachev; include Uptown FM preset, Sjoerd Wijdogen
- Wait for feedback on which presets to keep/remove/reorganize
- Adjust Simple preset levels
- dsp_declipper.dll build fails in IPO -> Not in Visual Studio...
- Fix crash when switching presets -> was caused by Stokkemask clipper variable updates during processing.
- Adjust FM BS412 preset levels
- Check Analog Pleasure FM sound vs. streaming and Unveil and BS412
- Check RDS time zone issue - apparently still not ok in Brazilian time zone
- Release

TO DO 7.71:
- Change default preset (it still uses Classic compressor etc!)
- EQ with 'standard' sliders.
- Make BS412-like graph for levels
- Memory leak in Generic plugin (reported by Franciszek)

TO DO WITH LEIF:
- Clipper issues Leif / Wolf Stahl (probably the same thing)
- Stokkemask: try if I can move the data a few samples to make 2nd smoothing step unnecessary.


How to use RT+ in RadioText
Put \+xx before and \- after an item
where xx is an RT+ type number (00-63).

Instead of a number you can also use the codes
WW or UR for an URL (type 29)
AR for Artist (type 04)
TI for Title (type 01)

So for example:
Now playing \+ArMadonna\- - \+TiLike a Virgin\-

You can use at most 2 codes. For now, codes are transmitted for ALL the texts, so this only works properly if you have a static RT text. I might change that later.