Stereo Tool

I think the trend is to simple things, clear images and bright colors, so here maybe it's a good idea

It looks great, very clean and simple. I think it will work well in small screens.

Loading of sound card settings from presets is still going wrong.

Too many things to put on one line horizontally, especially if I'm going to add more things later.

Possible solutions:
- 2 lines.
- Horizontal split: On the left of this bar put 3 options (Config - Input - Audio - Output), then separate as follows:
* Config = Generic and Sound Cards
* Input = Declipper, noise removal, natural dynamics
* Audio = AGC, MB, Bass Boost, Singleband
* Output = Clipping, FM settings
- Scroll bar
- "More >>" at the right of the bar.

Any ideas?

Note: For some thing, it also would make sense to put them inside the display as buttons that open a new set of settings. Also possible: Implement the '+' '-' behavior for sections, and have them all collapsed at start.

I like the horizontal split way. Also some things can be combined i think. Like Freqs and Multiband. And BS412 and FM.

Hm, the names are too short - freqs was the bandpass filter But BS412 and FM is indeed true.


About combining things: There's another issue with that. For example, BS412 has several subsections. The same is true for noise gate and FM Hiss, which is why it's difficult to combine those.

My idea here is that for each filter, by default you get the settings that anyone can change. The other sections are for advanced features. So, each filter gets a 'main' section where all the really important things can be seen. And an 'overview' section that displays everything (same as current interface). But I don't think you want to go more than 1 level deep there, so I don't *think* it's good to have to select first 'Input', then 'Noise', then 'Noise gate' (and not 'FM Hiss'), to get to the noise gate settings. That's why I want to have FM Hiss and Noise Gate separate in the top bar. But.... That also means that BS412 cannot be combined with FM, which is kinda stupid. So maybe I'm wrong here.

Hm........ For FM it would actually make sense to have a 'Main' screen where you can see if it's enabled, and if pre-emphasis, stereo coder and RDS coder are enabled. And BS412 too. So you might be right... But then how do I separate these different BS412 sections? A bar with 'Pre-emphasis' 'Stereo' 'RDS' 'Composite Limiter' 'BS412_target' 'BS412_compression' 'BS412_behavior' is a bit strange. Sounds like a need another sub-level, but it's getting a bit too much I think.

You can put Noise Gate and FM hiss next to eachother. So then it's only Select Input and Select Noise gate. So only 2 steps. Same with FM. You can select FM and adjust basic things but there's a button to go to BS412 to adjust all of that. Same with RDS. So only 2 steps needed FM->RDS. And maybe add more to a page when it's sized differently.

It's starting to make more sense like this:


I can do the same at the 2nd level, and thus combine filters such as AZIMUTH and Stereo into 1.

I'm now working on making everything function so I can post working software here again. Buttons and sliders are already kinda functioning

I hope to have something usable before the start of the IBC (because I'll be away for a few days during it).