Stereo Tool

May be i`m wrong about the 10% . If i look right it`s not more than 3% . But i`m seeing in the Task Manager, so.. it`s not just like that. Also i correct the post after some time.

So no worry at all Hans.

I think I found it. A compiler flag should have been set by the compiler but it's not, for some reason. And this can cause problems in both the stand alone and the DSP version, but apparently it only causes problems in the stand alone. Running a new build now...

BETA017:

Compiler flag was set incorrectly in BETA016 which might lead to crashes on some (actually, many) OS/CPU combinations. Should be fixed now.

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 51-017.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 1-017A.exe

Windows 64 bit:
http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 51-017.exe (NOTE: NOT AN INSTALLER - this is the executable).

CHANGES:

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


OLDER:
- Added faster processing paths for SSE3, SSE4.1/2, AXV and AVX2.
- Optimized Stokkemask filter (so far only in Faster mode, will optimize the other modes later). Filtering is slightly less good, although I don't see it in the measurement results.
- Changed band steepness minimum values for multiband from 6 to 3 dB/octave. (Ooh. I hope i changed MB and not ND...).
- Added a bunch of new presets. Some need to be updated again. And the Jeroen Platenkamp HvZ mod version is currently identical to the original.
- Web interface drawing of equalizer fixed
- Crash when loading some presets fixed
- Bug fix: Prelimiter acted up at certain latency settings.
- 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.
- 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.

Woops! I just discovered that my installer was taking the wrong DLL file for the Winamp plugin. So, if you're testing the Winamp plugin, make sure you download the (just uploaded) 17A version, not 17.

- Changed band steepness minimum values for multiband from 6 to 3 dB/octave. (Ooh. I hope i changed MB and not ND...).

The change is to ND . MB is still with 6db lowest value. The oposite to what you hope

Both need to be "to 3"
And for the record I still don't get "affinity"

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2 things I noticed with the Winamp DSP version:
- CPU affinity shows FFFFFFFF on a hexacore with HT (12 logical cores in OS)
- If I change the pre-limiter from the default 128 bands, ST crashes.

I don't know if these bugs are already known, just thought I should mention them.

For now it always shows FFFFFFFF. I might at some point change it so you can turn on specific cores... Or maybe even read the value in case someone has already placed the process on certain cores from within Task Manager or other things. Actually I never intended to put this in the interface, I just added it for my hardware version. But then I noticed that I could really make it work much better at lower latencies without hiccups with this, so I enabled them in the software version interface as well. But it's not particularly user friendly now... Ow, that's a new one. And I don't see it here... Stand alone or DSP?

Just uploaded the 64 bit stand alone version (see post above). It's slightly more efficient than the 32 bit version.

The winamp DSP version. OS is Win 8.1 x64
The error message I get when changing from 128 to 256:

EXCEPTION OCCURED IN ProcessingChain F(Exception 0xc0000005 at address 0x597a90c5,read/write0,r/w location=0xffffffff