Stereo Tool

If anyone is interested in this, I have just made the scope skinnable. So you can make it a different color than the standard blue/greenish.

Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 85-006.exe

How:
- File is called scope.png
- Shape is same as for meters, so 3x256 pixels. So you can copy one of the meters .png files as a starting point.
- First column is main color.
- Second column is red color
- Third column gets added to the first for the white line in the MPX display (so 1st + 3rd may not overflow).

Note: Not the whole range is used. Values upto 207 are used, so 49 pixels at the bottom are ignored.
Edit: That was incorrect. Top 48 pixels are ignored. Pixel 48 is the lightest one, pixel 255 is the darkest (usually black). Note: You can of course also swap the colors (light background).

I have problems loading the png files from the folder . Even when i Switch to the original skin.

Thanks A lot Hans

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Try this.
Still can't match working on it..

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No it doesn't read any .png file like the old versions did.

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Make sure that you place the .png files in the directory from which you run Stereo Tool.

Got it working and now a question how is the color of a pixel calculated ?

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I'm have questions regarding several of these features listed as depreciated. I was always under the impression that features listed as "depreciated" or "bad" for example are the only depreciated/not recommended features in ST. Several of these listed such as the digital/analog option for the MB and SB compressors and the adv clipper pre-limiter I was not aware of being depreciated. Does this mean the analog style compressor is recommended instead of the digital? Should Leif's efficiency always be used or not used for best sound (if CPU usage is not a concern)?

Best regards,

I would prefer to remove the "Input amplification" slider in the BS.412 section and let the "Adv. Clipper drive" always stay active. Cause the Input amplification slider does actually the same as the adv Clip drive slider with BS.412 off. In Addition it is more convinient to adjust always "dB's" instead of a multiplicator value...
So you would have to use the adv. Clip drive to drive the BS.412 Limiter into Saturation if activated.
Regards,
Robert

Hi, Yes, I think the Ananog version sounds better, so I would definitely recommend using Analog for any new presets. Also I'm not really planning to make any changes to the Digital compressor anymore. If anyone disagrees, let me know... Well, it was needed a while ago because certain sounds caused pumping effects (for example loud voices), but with the changes that I made when Leif was here, those effects are gone (Leifs clipper didn't have this issue so I had to work on mine until I didn't have it anymore either). So, I think it's not needed anymore. It has nearly no effect (and definitely no noticeable effect) on the sound.

Beside other things, I need to focus my new developments - if I keep improving all these old filters as well it will take more time. For example, the code for Digital compressor mode is much more complex than that for Analog mode, it also contains a few bugs (certain settings don't work in all combinations of settings), and the CPU load is 3-4 times higher than that of Analog mode. And I really wanted to make the GUI less difficult because the more settings there are, the more confusing it is to users.

That makes it difficult to make a preset that can be used both with and without BS412. Which is the reason why both sliders need to exist. Now, when you disable BS412, the Advanced Clipper Drive becomes enabled and active. If it would be a single slider, then turning BS412 off wouldn't affect the audio level.