Stereo Tool

Yeah! Riviera with subtle changes.

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Aha.

Subtle changes ?
Classified information ?

Great sound on the last beta! The highs sound impressive and overall the sound is warm.

I like the modification to Section Loudness.

One suggestion is indicated in the Final Clipper, which only works as such when the Loundness is equal to 1.

Another is the "Low Latency Phase Rotation Accuracy", it makes sense keep them that way or you could have fixed values​​?

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It's better here too. Using Bojcha's Neodymium for USA FM.

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In Brasil is 75us ?

Yep, here in Brasil we use 75us.

Changes in this version:
- Some minor improvements
- Important: Sensitivity values in Loudness are changed. If you load an existing preset in this new version, the value for mid sensitivity is multiplied by 1.33, the value for highs sensitivity is multiplied by 2. This was done to match the behavior of version 6.31, however if you are loading a preset that was made with the last few beta's, you need to compensate for this! Multiply the mids sensitivity value by 0.75, the highs sensitivity value by 0.5.

Stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 32-018.exe
DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 32-018.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 32-018.dll
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Older changes:
- Bass sensitivity clipping level drop: If there are both mids and highs, the drop is a bit less strong than before
- Bass sensitivity clipping level drop: Determining more precisely when the clip is needed. So instead of dropping the bass the whole 4096-samples block, it's now only dropped at the locations of this block where there really are mid/high freqs
- Bug reported by Phoenix ( viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4235 ) should be fixed.
- BS412 also needs a max deviation (+/- 75 kHz) display --> Added
- BS412 sometimes caused drops of upto 2.5 dB. This is preset dependent. --> Adding a slider with which you can specify the amount of headroom; by lowering the output level by 0.05 dB the margin for error is already increased by 50% which seems sufficient. Test if adjustment adjust compressors properly.
- Also adding a BS412 slider with which the max deviation can be lowered; this way you can create a denser sound (apparently many commercial stations like that even though they don't gain any loudness) and it protects against spikes when the sound card or path to the transmitter isn't perfect (reason: Many current processors usually clip the signal at around +/- 50 kHz instead of 75, so in many cases the path to the transmitter doesn't have to be perfect). (Partially done, to be added: BS412 must take clipping into account; clipping level adjustment for pilot/rds).
- Something is broken in latency 512.
- Different up speeds for louder end result
- Sound card adjustment for low freqs needed (that was on my todo list anyway, but I'm moving it to the top now).
- Slightly changed sensitivity behavior (les steep drops and rises of bass). Not sure if this is the best possible solution: Alternative might be to let the bass drops start and end INSIDE the area where loud bass is present, or do the same as now but limit the maximum change speed.
- Made tilt configuration a bit easier (less steep changes at the extremes)
- 2nd RC slider is saved now
- Added displays so you can see what is being sent out to the sound card (including calibrations)
- Changed clipper distortion masking filter, this version should have slightly less distortion than the previous one but almost the same amount of highs.
- Added 2 extra sliders to control the distortion masking. Increasing the 1st or decreasing the 2nd increases the amount of highs. The goal is to find a combination of values which allows the highs to pass without adding (too much) distortion.
2nd slider determines how fast something is determined to be a tone instead of hiss - for tones I don't allow more distortion than before. First slider multiplies the calculated effect (that is, it multiplies the allowed amount of distortion, which doesn't mean that it will actually be used or lead to louder highs).
- Found and fixed several bugs in the clipper (hole punching by loud highs should be reduced).
- Allowing some extra very brief distortion to reduce hole punching by loud highs.
- Improved behavior of Highs Priority to avoid volume drops.
- Improved de-esser
- Cleaned up Loudness panel (removed some things that are no longer needed).
- Added de-esser slope slider. Set it higher to reduce the de-esser effect for highs that are not very loud.



Note about tilt: High frequency square waves are NOT good for testing. Use square for low freqs, normal for high (above approx. 100-200 Hz).

Coming up: Tilt setting switches to non-square for freqs above approx. 3500 Hz, and below that are filtered much better.