Stereo Tool

About date/time in RDS:

\Dd - date - day
\Dm - date - month
\Dy - date - year
\Th - time: hours
\Tm - time: minutes
\Ts - time: seconds
\Tu - US based hours (1 - 12 instead of 0-23)
\Ta or \TA display 'a' or 'A' for AM and 'p' or 'P' for PM. So use \TAM for AM/PM or \Tam for am/pm

If you always want to use the same number of digits for one of these values, add it between the 2 characters. So for example to display the day of the month using 2 characters:
\D2m

This shows (for today): ' 9'.

If you want '09' instead, use: \D02m

So, for the current date and time, use:
Date as dd/mm/yy: \D02d\/\D02m\/\D02y

Or, if you want yyyymmdd:
\D04y\D02m\D02d

Time as hh:mm.ss:
1s:\T02h\:\T02m\.\T02s
or (no leading zero for the hours):
1s:\T2h\:\T02m\.\T02s
(Note the '1s' because the seconds are invalid after one second! So you might want to refresh it each second...)

Or you might want to leave the seconds out (they change very rapidly):
\T2h\:\T02m

US time format:
1s:\T2u\:\T02m \TAM

Note the \: instead of : - because : is already used to separate timing information from display information. Similarly, for the date note that \/ is used instead of / because otherwise every field would be shown separately...

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rds time/date ...nice Hans...

i am back with my final testing about AMD vs Intel DualCore CPUs.

AMD dualcore 2.7GHz on my transmitter can't work with final-limiter + fm overdrive is off.
so i fire up intel E5200 at 2.5GHz .. pc ready to replace my AMD pc..
and works perfectly. .. more then that i turn on final-limiter, fm overdrive and compressor .. all for maximum cpu load.. and even TWO sterotools are working in the same time .
tested another amd dualcore pc with 2.8GHz cpu... and same thing .. simly can't handle all processes. (on high)

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Version with RDS clock is now available.

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: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... d_BETA.exe
VST version: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... l_BETA.dll


Apparently AMD's @ 2.8 GHz are a lot slower than the Intels. That can be caused by either the CPU processing speed, the cache size or the memory speed. I'll see if I can increase the speed in later versions - but for now I'm just leaving it as it is.


Status:
- OK Add "warm and smooth" preset DONE
- Go through the presets and see if I should make any changes
- OK Check if I can improve the performance of Normal and Low quality mode if both Loudness and Pre Limiter are turned on by ALWAYS bypassing the final limiter in that case. NO (doesn't work that well in Normal quality mode, should be a manual action), but: Reduced the Loudness CPU load and latency instead.
- OK Fill in a default value for the "clean highs/deep bass" slider. DONE, slightly reduced the bass (less than 0.1 dB) with a clearly audible effect on the distortion. Should now be identical or less than before the deep bass level was increased...
- OK Check how the RMS-based pre limiter handles deep bass sounds: It seems to respond too strong on very low frequencies. NO
- OK Add RDS clock stuff.

Don't bother.. we will use intels. Later i'll test clock/date for ps in rds. Thanks Hans.

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AMD just now with their Phenom II's have started to compete with the speed if the intel core 2 duo as far as multicore threading. I have to use an Intel myself to keep the CPU at a reasonable usage %. With everyting enabled on high qual my CPU sits at 40-50% on both cores. Intel E7200 Core 2 Duo.

Time and Date for PS in RDS works super

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Good news and bad news.

To start with the bad news: I won't release version 4.0 today....

Then the good news: ....Because I think I have solved the AMD problem! But because I had to change quite a lot of code and because I want some feedback first to know if it helps, I'm postponing the release a bit.

The processing is now better divided over multiple (well, two actually...) cores. On PCs with only one core, nothing has changed (this is detected and an alternative code path is used).

I'll upload the new version in about 30 minutes.

Now i will be guilty.

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Update: Processing better spread over multiple CPU's. Should run better on multi-core PCs with a relatively slow CPU.

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: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... d_BETA.exe (uses only one core)
VST version: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... l_BETA.dll

W00H000!
it works!

Both cores on my amd pc are now at ~60%.



Hans u r the MAN !

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