Stereo Tool

Hm, okay. So testing out Run the Jewels - Walking in the Snow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52lnwP8uX0) between 15 and 30 seconds, the loudness increases substantially. I'll keep looking for stress songs that sound 'off' with this new compressor.

Just brainstorming here. Would it be reasonable to include a Threshold Offset slider in the new compressor architecture (so we can adjust the overall threshold as extremely as 12 db below/above what each band is set at)? BreakawayOne (and presumably Omnia tech) has a type of slider that adjusts multiple sliders at a time and returns to the center as you let go of the mouse button, adjusting each slider by however many db you tried to offset by. I'll capture video of it because it's hard to explain: https://imgur.com/nMoT8Ae

What would the goal of this be? We already have "Density drive" which basically adjusts both the thresholds and the injection levels to go deeper or less deep into the compressors without affecting the output level.

Ah, I guess it was to have a single slider directly affect other sliders rather than relying on a density offset/modifier that doesn't "return to center." I suppose this would be for designing presets and setting up all the modifiers/offsets to be neutral without going deep and adjusting the individual density or threshold sliders per band.

I sorta posted without enough context, as a sleepy me does. And now I can't remember exactly what I had in mind

EDIT: So, I recently learned that the scopes, goniometer, and AZIMUTH rely on legacy code where it's unscalable, and one pixel is 1 pixel. This is becoming an issue at 4k. The AZIMUTH correction line is extremely thin at 4k and doesn't scale with the DPI. Notice how the bottom of the AZIMUTH correction line doesn't draw all the way (circled in green). And the goniometer could use a faint antialiased line connecting the dots. Do I need to send my skin?

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Also would it be possible to antialias the scopes, or is that overkill? It just looks a little incongruous with how smooth the rest of the new UI is.

That's odd. I have a 4K screen and AZIMUTH does draw to the bottom. What's your scaling in Windows set to? 150% (default) or something else?

Connecting the dots in the goniometer can quickly get really heavy in CPU power, because we would need to draw lines instead of separate dots. For the normal scope we can combine things vertically (there's a limiter number of pixels), for the goniometer that will likely take a massive amount of CPU, which would also depend completely on how loud the input is and how many high frequencies are in it.

I like new stuff, i checked latest beta and this preset from Wes. First I thought something was wrong with my output settings, then i checked and all was fine.
Sound is so agressive and almost every little dynamics is not there anymore.
Also on next louder track change, it need great amount time to stabilize and while doing that, distorts even more.
How can i fix that?

It came to my attention that my prior preset had some old settings in it which worked great for build 97, but not 98 or newer. So here's an updated file. The main problem was if you loaded my version 46 preset in build 98 or newer, you were not hearing the fast limiters engaging before Intellilimit, and therefore you were missing a little polishing density as well as overdriving the clipper beyond what I designed.

This updated copy is also built around some SDP fixes found in build 100 or newer.

I have the impression that something is wrong on some systems, On my pc, if I lower the clipper drive at least, this preset is very dynamc and absolutely not aggressive at all, and it appears to fix almost everything that I ever heard which was wrong in other presets. Bojcha sent me a screenshot earlier based on a recording with test tones that looked completely bizarre. So I wonder if something is broken on some systems - that's possibe because different CPU types each get their own code, and we've had weird compiler bugs before.

Can you try lowering the clipper drive, to see what it sounds like?

What CPU do you have?

I'll test the SSE2 version on my end, we have seen issues with that verson in the past - it's the version that you get with an older CPU or with Windows XP.

I've checked this preset with one of my favourite test-tracks: Caroline Polachek - Fly To You. Unfortunately it doesn't sound how it should, I can hear how it goes up and down, I don't think this is the way it is supposed to be (f.e. 1:35 - 2:00 u hear it).

CPU settings: 6 cores (parallel threads), Intel i7-6700HQ