Stereo Tool

The block diagram would be identical to the order in which they are listed in the menu on the left. There are a few exceptions:

- If you use the non-phase linear highpass filter, it's done at the start (directly after declipping)
- If you enable 'At start of processing' in Phase Rotation, it's done directly before Natural Dynamics.
- Pre-emphasis is done directly before clipping.
- Lowpass filtering is done before the multiband compressor at about 500 Hz above the configured frequency, to avoid drops caused by high pitched tones (which are constantly there in some recent songs).

BETA012:

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 51-012.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 51-012.exe


Note: Yesterday evening I had the equalizer-drawing widget working on my phone - for some reason it didn't work anymore a bit later. I don't know why. I'll try to fix it again.


CHANGES:
- Improved web interface a lot more ("1000" is gone, more displays are working, right part of display auto-scales to device width)
- Fix MPX Power calculator
- Fix resetting of tilt calibration when loading a preset
- Add volume meters which show > 100% modulation for IBC demo
- Bug fix: Single-channel file in plugin version caused crashes when using the composite clipper.


TO DO:
- Improve web interface further.
- Fix RDS clock on 64 bit
- Add presets


OLDER:
- Compressor/limiters: Moved limiter before compressor. This slows down the attack speed when limiting occurs, which gives a more stable sound.
- Improved web interface. (Not yet finished).
- There's some weird sound audible when you enable 'DIFFERENCE' mode. Even if nothing happens. This means that the audio is somehow damaged. It's worse at lower latency settings. FIXED
- Make highs clipping level configurable. DONE
- Fix composite clipper mode. DONE
- See a few posts up. I've now added 2 sliders that can be used to reduce the effect when there's not clearly a tone present. Tones only reduces the effect when there isn't a single tone that clearly sticks out - basically it checks how loud the strongest band is vs. the total of all bands, and adjusts the effect based on the result of that calculation. Since there are almost always also other tones present, setting this too high will even reduce tones that do clearly stick out. Tones threshold can be used to turn the filter off completely if there isn't a single tone that clearly sticks out (it makes the slope of the Tones only effect steeper).
- Changed some things back to how they were in version 005 - Bojcha reported (and I confirmed) some weird artifacts in version 006. If you enable METHOD2 you get the 006 behavior, that's for my own tests and I will remove METHOD2 later.
- Added Smother filter. The higher you set it, the more it will ONLY affect the loudest sounds. If you have multiple loud tones (for example a bass and a loud voice), setting this very high might cause only one of the two to be effected - setting it very low will affect everything though.
- Added multiband pre-limiter/phase optimizer to the Advanced Clipper.
- Trying a different multiband limiter in the Advanced Clipper. This time without phase optimizer. I'm very curious which version you guys prefer!

Using lower limiting levels lowers the loudest sounds in the mix. Since bass is often the loudest sound it tends to reduce bass more than other sounds.

Top menu ( load/ save presets) is not working

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The Power of Sound

''Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.'' - Plato

May be the Blue color in the web interface for the indicators must be some more dark blue ? It`s not good recognize-able on the white background let`s say for the MB levels.

P.S: Pre-limiter diff issue still there.

After 20 minutes BLUE SCREEN

While editing this post, it froze again. Will do some test to make sure it's not my computer causing the problem


edit #2:

bluescreen #1: BCCode: 7a

memory issue..


bluescreen #2: BCCode: f4

bluescreen #3: BCCode: f4


Some extra info:

Total CPU 40% (stereotool 30%)
Total memory usage 23%

_________________
The Power of Sound

''Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.'' - Plato

Hans one esthetic thing... Make the FM Mpx meter Green (like the level meter) and place in after the Level meter...+ Make clear the db and % in both Mpx and left/right meters (under the fm tab). That is what i think about.

Thanks Hans for you work.... (and the new web interface is perfect)

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

My radio station
http://amradio.ddns.net

Here on DSP version working proprely, no blue screens

Win 7 64, no FM, 34-38% load

Given your description I'm pretty sure that there's an issue with your system. You could try the previous version - I expect it will also cause blue screens... If not try the next beta (that I'll post in a few minutes) - there was a bug that might have caused ST to crash when using the web interface (but not a BSOD). Are you using the web interface on the same system? That causes the CPU load and memory usage to go up - which might have triggered something in your system.

BETA013:

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 51-013.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 51-013.exe


Note: Yesterday evening I had the equalizer-drawing widget working on my phone - for some reason it didn't work anymore a bit later. I don't know why. I'll try to fix it again.


CHANGES:
- Web interface dragging fixed.
- Bug that caused sliders and top menu to stop working fixed.
- Calculation of FM MPX left/right peaks was wrong when using Composite LIMITER, fixed.
- Made left/right display green (with above 100% yellow) as suggested by mpex2006km.


TO DO:
- Improve web interface further.
- Fix RDS clock on 64 bit
- Add presets


OLDER:
- Improved web interface a lot more ("1000" is gone, more displays are working, right part of display auto-scales to device width)
- Fix MPX Power calculator
- Fix resetting of tilt calibration when loading a preset
- Add volume meters which show > 100% modulation for IBC demo
- Bug fix: Single-channel file in plugin version caused crashes when using the composite clipper.
- Compressor/limiters: Moved limiter before compressor. This slows down the attack speed when limiting occurs, which gives a more stable sound.
- Improved web interface. (Not yet finished).
- There's some weird sound audible when you enable 'DIFFERENCE' mode. Even if nothing happens. This means that the audio is somehow damaged. It's worse at lower latency settings. FIXED
- Make highs clipping level configurable. DONE
- Fix composite clipper mode. DONE
- See a few posts up. I've now added 2 sliders that can be used to reduce the effect when there's not clearly a tone present. Tones only reduces the effect when there isn't a single tone that clearly sticks out - basically it checks how loud the strongest band is vs. the total of all bands, and adjusts the effect based on the result of that calculation. Since there are almost always also other tones present, setting this too high will even reduce tones that do clearly stick out. Tones threshold can be used to turn the filter off completely if there isn't a single tone that clearly sticks out (it makes the slope of the Tones only effect steeper).
- Changed some things back to how they were in version 005 - Bojcha reported (and I confirmed) some weird artifacts in version 006. If you enable METHOD2 you get the 006 behavior, that's for my own tests and I will remove METHOD2 later.
- Added Smother filter. The higher you set it, the more it will ONLY affect the loudest sounds. If you have multiple loud tones (for example a bass and a loud voice), setting this very high might cause only one of the two to be effected - setting it very low will affect everything though.
- Added multiband pre-limiter/phase optimizer to the Advanced Clipper.
- Trying a different multiband limiter in the Advanced Clipper. This time without phase optimizer. I'm very curious which version you guys prefer!

Using lower limiting levels lowers the loudest sounds in the mix. Since bass is often the loudest sound it tends to reduce bass more than other sounds.

my friend my sound card dosent work burned !!!! why ?