Stereo Tool

Coming soon

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how cool!

/Martijn

Hi Hans,
That looks great, more of simplified and user friendly too.
Abdul

Yeah I think I'm going to make this the "main entry" window, with the current window as a pop-up of that window. (Or even better further in the future: Different windows for different things).

Here's another preview - now with an MPX spectrum added. (I'm planning to turn this off if FM output is disabled).

looks excellent Hans

If you have this one working it might be nice to make an analyser with it using the input of the audiocard

wow, that what we should call it now ' a true professional tool', as every thing is there.
Hans,
I just want to comment on stereo tool ver.3.53 in regards to the frequency response. I have being comparing the sound of both ver.3.53 and the earlier ver.3.40. You need to excuse me please hans to tell you that i was mistaking when i asked to increase the 5.5KHz slide a little bit, i did noticed for sure that the sound became life and open, but i think it is not that natural, especially when you want to listen to a sound with a flat frequency response. My idea for increasing the treble and also a little bit of base was to compare the sound of Stereo Tool with Breakaway Broadcast using one of its presets, as you know that all the presets included in Breakaway Broadcast are somehow using equalizer or tone controls.
May be you need to add separate presets involving equalizer settings for various type of music in your future version, as i feel the existing presets for various type of music are not so effective.
Thanks and kind regards,
Abdul

Abdul, I think what you are hearing is in fact that loud highs are killing the low and mid frequencies.

It's not yet completely finished, but I have added an extra filter that reduces very loud highs. The sound has really improved. For 75 us the highs are reduced too much right now (I'm using the same value regardless of the other settings, I'll fix that later). The highs at 75 us are about 1 dB softer than before, the lows are 0.5 dB louder.

Can you verify if this new version doesn't have the "unnatural" sound you were talking about?

Winamp DSP plugin: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... r_BETA.exe
Stand alone version: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... r_BETA.exe
Command line: UNAVAILABLE for now
VST version: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... l_BETA.dll

This version also contains the new output graphs. To see the big version of those graphs as displayed above, click on "Hide settings". I'm also curious how these new displays affect the CPU load of older PCs. (If needed you can reduce the "screen update" speed under CPU.)

Notes:
- This is NOT a fully working version. Among others, the output wave window does not always work. And sometimes it is delayed compared to the input wave window.
- I have added an extra filter to handle loud high frequencies, but this isn't finished yet. The audio quality for FM transmitters with high Loudness settings is a lot better, but for 75 us the high frequencies are reduced a bit too much. I expect to have a fix for that in a day or two.

I'm considering adding an in-between release for the audio processing because I think the audio quality has really improved, and the new interface (see * below) might take some time to finish. IF the output displays don't cause any problems, I'll include those in the in-between release.

* I'm planning to use this window as the main window from the next version on, because the current main window is getting far too crowded and it limits what I can add (bypass buttons etc.). In the next version I want to put every filter in a separate window, and use this window as an overview.

[Edit: If you see a completely green/blue window where the MPX signal should be, restart Stereo Tool... Will look into that on too!]

i just want to give a submission on that .. so you can put a smaller window with "tabs"
and each tab is named .. Sound Config, Stereo Imaging, Pre Limiter, Multiband, .. etc...
in every window can be meters, graphs, most wanted bypass button, and others ...

so ST window will be much smaller and functional at the same time.

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Bojcha: I could do that, but I think it has two disadvantages:
- I still would have to make the window big enough to contain the biggest tab. And if I use tabs, that would probably be the size of the RDS configuration or the multiband filter plus something extra - because if I use a bigger window for those two I can make them less crowded.
- It would not be possible to open different tabs at the same time - which is possible with separate windows.