Stereo Tool

Your whole computer froze? It could just be a hardware issue, that's completely unrelated to Stereo Tool. I've seen that before this week when someone had lots of NAN errors every few seconds. After trying to debug it on that pc it turned out to be coming from lots of places in the code. But eventually we found out that it was some sort of weird hardware problem in that pc (logging in via TeamViewer also failed half of the time because the password was incorrect, but it wasn't).

Minor GUI glitch: When maximizing the GUI the green level meters leave the gray box enclosing them at the bottom.

Stereo Tool 8.54 BETA008

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 54-008.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 54-008.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 54-008.dll

Windows 64 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 54-008.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 54-008.dll

CHANGES:
- Check if goniometers take latency into account
- RMS compressor mode fails in 8.53??? Just dies, no more compression, but audio output and limiters still there. (Possibly fixed, waiting for feedback)
- Omnia.9: Give more output values for smoother meters
- SST installer
- SST web gui fixes Koek
- Check report of VST crash in ProppFrexx (does not reproduce here, more info needed) ==> Solved, was not a Stereo Tool bug.
- Dropout when playing MPX2.flac in Winamp plugin
- Add MP3 detection sensitivity for variance to avoid detecting lowpassed audio as lossy

OLD CHANGES:
- Check MB1 Digital mode, reported to not work anymore
- Add Goniometer level compensation (in fact, just moved Pre Amp further in the chain)
- *Probably* fixed crash reported by Wunjo (CPU related, so I can't easily test it).
- Combined and reorganized Compressor calls for better cache behavior and fewer separate threading calls.
CPU load with identical settings: 6.7% before combining threads, 6.5% after, 6.4% after improving cache.
- Omnia.9: Clean up L-R area when AutoPilot is active -> L-R should not even be demodulated in that mode.
- Optimize Peak mode as well? -> No, but Average is possible (and done now).
- Add goniometer More places?
- Finished optimizing performance Auto EQ etc. DONE, 9.5 times faster than in version 8.52!
- Finished optimizing performance of AGC
- Optimized performance of Multiband 1, Multiband 2 and Singleband in RMS mode (factor 3).
- Buffer issue Triple
- SCA was broken - only for threads > 1
- Gray screen Wolf
- Optimized Auto EQ and new AGC performance (partially done) -> Output can be slightly different with 'Low CPU' enabled (possibly even better!)
- Added MagicRDS remoting support (Pira program)
- Auto EQ was missing in main page
- Increase NAN detection thresholds (test with new AGC with insane input levels)
- Omnia.9 return clipped audio via callback
- Omnia.9 logging remove time and \n
- Scheduler killed new AGC setting!
- MicroMPX decoder web interface could hang on right click on tray icon
- Buffer issue Generic plugin - needs to be tested.
- SST increased contrast
- SST wrong word in MicroMPX settings

TODO:
- SST update installer
- SST & ST update Matt's preset (Dense 3)
- Check merge use_ [1] from 8.54 to 8.53?
- Run SST release build

- Matt's MB1 NAN behavior (does not reproduce here, more info needed)
- Octavafm's crash -> Happened once, didn't kill the audio (beside at the moment itself), recovered, message could be closed. Happened while changing parametric eq settings, but it crashed in Absolute Highs. Nothing suspicious according to Valgrind....
- Check compressor levels further, see also feedback on next page
- Would a times 32 version be useful? (Or at least for ARM-based?)
- WatchCat website
- Set maximum to L-R asymmetry?

- Extra AGC?
- Compressor/limiter on input before AGC to handle extreme sounds?
- uMPX 24x2ch interface
- One bass page
- New bass effect
- Revisit new Hard Limit / Final Limiter with Matt
- Report of Linux Jack version crashing - since 8.52

- GUI: Hide disabled stuff, far less confusing / much cleaner interface.
- Talk to chip
- 2 jaar
- Fardau
- Remote control via web interface doesn't work anymore for some people due to SID.
- -24 dB side chain range?
- Dummy data sturen om initialisatie te doen voor geluidskaart openen.
- 2nd AGC with higher threshold for voice tracks
- Bigger font on 4K screens

i think you uploaded a wrong file, the 32-bit vst version is the one from beta 007

i tried the dsp version and the goniometers properly account for the latency setting now (i'd use a thumbs-up emoticon here if there was one)

dsp 854-008 cannot load a preset or i get this error

@fario: In which program are you using it? Are you using multiple copies? I just checked the code and I don't see how this could happen *unless* you're running out of memory..... Which could mean that your program (since the DSP is 32 bits) is using more then 2 GB or memory.

If that's not it, could you please try the following?
- Turn the Dehummer on and off, and check if the error occurs. Please try this both with "Before Declipper" enabled and disabled.
- Try the same thing with some other filter (for example the multiband compressor).

I'm using radiocaster.
Indeed there where more then just 1 copy loaded, but unchecked. I've deleted the .ini file of radiocaster and started over with just the latest beta of stereotool. Now it works without that error, but i can't load another preset anymore it hangs and i have to close radiocaster.


I've tryed the things you said, but that didn't do much.
By the way, it is only with the 2 latest beta's. Never happend before.

Possible things to try:
1. Rename (not remove! Because if this fixes it i want to have the old file) the Stereo Tool .ini file (in c:\users\<username>\).
2. Does it work if you load it in another program (eg Winamp)?

I assume that this pc is used for an actual station? If not and option #1 didn't help, it would possibly help me a lot to have remote access to it try to figure out what's happening. (If #2 works i'll install RadioCaster here)

@fario: to make sure: was BETA006 still good? And 007 broke it? Because then there are only 2 changes that could be causing this so that would greatly simplify things for me. (In fact, it would almost have to be the goniometer time compensation).

Or switching between analog and digital compressor mode... could you try that too?

Tryed differend things you said, but nothing worked, only errors. Finally i removed radiocaster from my pc and installed it again.
Copyed the dsp into the plugin directory and start it. Now it works without any error. The only difference with before is that there is now just one dsp in the directory of radiocaster. So it seems the problem is that there were too many dsp's /vst's in the plugin directory of radiocaster.