Stereo Tool

I can confirm that tooo..!!! beta 27 crashes..!

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Yes, it seems that anything at 44.1 with quality 100% would pass file, but either 48 kHz (with clipper enabled) or some quality settings below 100% will cause crashes. Both issues are fixed here now, so they should be fine in the next version.

In the mean time, I still measure a performance improvement of the clipper of about 8%...

"Crashes" apparently happen in the VST and/or Standalone, as the DSP version does not "crash", but gives clicking audio.

The problem is not exclusively with loudness (clipper) though. Any setting with the DE-clipper enabled *AND* a change of the quality slider below 100% will cause the issue. This is *without* loudness enabled. If DE-clipper is not enabled, you can change the quality slider all you want.

On the bright side, the AGC value is back to -7 for me, the gap protection doesn't cause the clicking / crash, and the CPU load comparing 24 to 27 is down 3-5 points as viewed via Task Manager.

I *think* this version doesn't crash anymore - tested a lot of different presets, quality and sample rate settings. I'm measuring a total CPU load decrease of about 2-5% (relative numbers of course) compared to beta024 - but values seem to fluctuate quite a bit when I load it again so it's a bit hard to give exact numbers.

Stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 04-028.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 04-028.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 04-028.dll


Edit: Finished the optimizations and did some more measurements. Performance gain seems to be about 4%... Not great, but definitely noticeable for people with a high CPU load.

Looks, sounds and works fine for me - the VST version that is.

Couple of things I miss from version 6.32.
i. The interface no longer displays the current sampling rate at which audio is being processed.
ii. No provision to discard buffer after a certain period of inactivity - extremely important for batch encoding.

Just in case they are already there and I happened to somehow miss them, please guide me as to how I can enable these.

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True. I think that was only present in the VST interface (there was some space left). Forgot to include it in the new one!
Is that also useful for VST's? I would expect the VST plugin to be restarted before each file conversion... It's still there in the Winamp plugin because it caused issues when you use ST in Winamp (there's a brief pauze between tracks, so at the start of the new track you briefly hear the end of the previous track); I never expected it to be useful for VST though!

Stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 04-029.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 04-029.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 04-029.dll

Finished the optimizations. Will continue with other things tomorrow again. As I said earlier, the throughput increase is about 4% - most of that comes from the Advanced Clipper so if you turn more filters off (such as the declipper) the throughput gain will be bigger. The CPU load should drop more than 4% since only the clipper and declipper use multiple cores. If you have a single core system the throughput gain will be bigger.

Confirmed...!!!!! Good work Hans. Less Cpu load

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- Something wrong with Bass Boost bars

Maybe it's "by design" but the side chain settings of the new singleband are not saved into a preset.