Stereo Tool 8.30 is released!
- Hard Limit: For low latency low Quality settings with low Comp. Clipper strictness could cause big drops in audio level.
- Hard Limit: Changed speeds, especially for lower latency modes, to reduce certain artifacts.
- Hard Limit: Improved response shape for less aliasing.
- Hard Limit: No more (minor) overshoots which cause the output bars to blink in red.
- Equalizer: Added parametric eq, also with high/low shelves.
- Windows version: WASAPI, Kernel Streaming and DirectSound support added. Old WINMM interface removed.
- Linux version: ALSA support added.
- Mac version: CoreAudio support added. Jack is no longer needed.
- Synchronization between sound cards improved.
- Dehummer: Made 'continuous learning' mode. (Very high CPU load, for now).
- Compressors: Made a new limiter mode.
- Multiband compressors: Made a new mode where the slopes actually follow the settings.
Until now, they were compensated for the distance between bands. That might have been useful for some situations,
but made it harder to recreate the sound of other processors.
- Multiband compressors: Improved Flat Tops in this new mode.
- Multiband compressors: Fixed weird jumps in band behavior in this new mode.
- Natural Dynamics: Changed the dB value calculation and range for "Reduce for jump above";
changed default setting to 6 dB (instead of 13). This reduces the effect of ND if the input signal is more dynamic.
- GUI: Now displaying supported sample rates for each sound card.
- Delossifier: Slightly improved the performance.
- Delossifier: Fixed several strange bugs, that I've never seen cause any issues - but they might.
- Stereo Image: Removed some code that wasn't being used anymore but still doing calculatons on uninitialized values.
- Added FM/HD synchronization slider, which doesn't cause complete dropouts (but still glitches) when moving it.
- Improved the input sound card watchdog.
- ARM version: Bug fix: AGC, Multibands, Clipper and Stokkemask sometimes caused silence due to NAN's in output. Caused by differences in calculation results between Intel/AMD and ARM CPU's.
- ARM version: Made 'Ignore high frequencies' work and turn it on by default. Upto 20% CPU load reduction!
- SST: Bigger steps in slider values.
- SST: Made AGC side chain read-only.
- SST: Added Quick Adjust page (also available in the Processing page in Stereo Tool).
- SST: Changed default preset to Ohio Valley.
- SST: Added widget for version number.
- SST: Added widget for current preset name.
- SST: Added built-in help.
- GUI: Sound cards ordering changed, alphabetical.
- GUI: Font: Characters in the word "Głośniki" were not displayed correctly, now displayed as Glosniki.
- Bug fix: AM Transmitter: FM stereo pilot could still be generated if it was enabled.
- Bug fix: AM Transmitter: Restored Headroom slider, needed to avoid overshoots when using asymmetry.
- Bug fix: Daylight saving time didn't work anymore since 8.23.
- Bug fix: Sliders with negative values acted weird due to a rounding issue.
- Bug fix: Glitches in waveform displays due to too small display buffers which were wrapping, for Threads > 1.
- Bug fix: Low latency sometimes used the phase linear HPF. This sounds bad, especially when playing vinyl.
- Bug fix: Web server didn't work in 8.23 due to a typo.
- Bug fix: Hard Limit didn't fully work in asymmetric composite clipping mode, causing (minor) overshoots.
- Bug fix: RDS RadioText via ASCII Telnet mode was splitting strings on / characters.
- Bug fix: Windows command line version was loading setings from a file without .ini at the end.
- Linux Generic plugin: Callback added on window close.
- Linux GUI version now also works if no GUI can be displayed.
- Updated and added some translations.
- Added and removed some presets.