@Hans
do you have found the compiling error in the vst version? it would be really great if you can provide us another beta in future.
i hope the error you wrote is solveable. the last useable beta was 32 i think 
. maybe i am wrong. 
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| Author: | hvz [ Sat May 09, 2015 6:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Retry: BETA 761-038 Windows 32 bit: Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-038.exe Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-038.exe VST 32bit: ----://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_stereo_ ... 61-038.dll (NOT AVAILABLE) Note: Something is wrong with the VST build (the compiler exits with an out-of-memory error, and my build system has 16 GB of memory - I need to check what changed). Note #2: I have enabled the NAN checks again (which means that you might see error messages - if so please tell me - and the CPU load is a bit higher). CHANGES: - Limiter crash on older CPU's fixed (previous beta) - GUI issue reported by Modulator fixed OLD CHANGES: - Fixed GUI bug (display of declipper detection was bad when Delossifier was enabled). - Optimized Limiter code for CPU usage - Add Density parameter for each MB band - Partially optimized limiters (if limit threshold is high, it's disabled). - Fixed another GUI bug - Fixed Exception that several people reported when changing Gate Freeze settings (was caused by a GUI issue) - Improved gate GUI display - Made after-AGC compressor switchable as well - Fixed delay of Delossifier in display - Improve limiter GUI display - Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB (singleband, others are already ok) - Optimize gating (turn off if not needed) - Made 'limit before compress' again, switchable - Add Gate for new compressor release (also GUI) - Band Link etc. does not work in 3-band mode, and it should for AGC-type behavior. - Simplify interface (remove Oil Speed Adjustment sliders etc, move some things to Extreme Tweaker mode) - Adjust limiter level for Band Mix - Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change - Make Shape value small for high speeds - TO BE DONE: Test if the border value is chosen correctly (shape effect is deminished below 40 ms, reduced to '1' for 0 ms; not sure if 1 is low enough?) - Fixed some more GUI crashes. They should all be fixed now... - Check if audio is still the same as in older versions (!) - Set MB2 default settings ok for NAB demoing (very fast) - Fixed some (but not yet all!) GUI crashes - Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI). - GUI crashes from previous beta's are probably fixed (?) - Changed some GUI things (for big displays) - Small performance optimizations - Limiter behavior visible in meters - Fixed MB ITU mode. - Fixed Median display in Analog mode - Made final SB compressors switchable, parameters are also shared between analog and digital now. - Added limiters to singleband and multiband Analog compressors. Warning: Meters are not yet visible in the GUI! Which makes it kinda difficult to setup (you can use Monitor to see the output of a single band and then adjust the limiter setting). - I fixed something in the GUI but I had a situation where I couldn't start it earlier tonight so it's probably not completely fixed yet. - Some settings from the 2nd MB overruled the 1st, causing all kinds of effects. That has been fixed now, and I verified that the audio of Digital mode in the 1st MB is (nearly) identical to that of BETA761-016 (nearly because in 016 the frequencies still were 10% off). New quickly put together preset (NICE2) attached. Fix MB frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60) - Appears to be gone but I don't remember fixing it (!) Fix RDS time issue! viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209 Added 2nd Multiband compressor! Example preset is attached below. To me, turning it off makes the sound boring/empty. I think this is exactly what some people were missing in Stereo Tool. And with 2 steps the audio is also more consistent than before. RMS/ITU based preset would probably be even better... To increase or decrease the effect, adjust the Density slider of the 2nd Multiband compressor! - Optimized CPU load. CPU load now strongly depends on the settings, for the settings that I posted earlier it's now less than half that of Digital mode! On my system it went down (single core mode, CPU load on that core) from 12.3% to 2.5%! (Again, depending on settings). Digital uses 9.1%. - Merged more parameters (Peak vs RMS setting) with old ("digital") compressor. - Slower Release speed in Analog compared to Digital - Removed Shape Enable settings. - Fixed Knee in Analog mode - Fixed Aggressiveness slider behavior for Analog (!), made it behave the same as Digital mode (acts only on release speeds). - Merged more parameters (Attack Time, Release Time) with old ("digital") compressor. Adjusted numbers in Digital compressor to match the (correctly calculated) behavior in Analog mode. - Merged parameters (threshold, knee, ratio, feedback, channel separation, band mix) with old ("digital") compressor, I noticed that I was switching back and forth all the time to copy settings, so this seems easier. Threshold is now also displayed in dB's. Made Multiband version of the new compressor! Choose 'Analog' mode to switch to the new one. See attached preset for an example! - Made new Traditional Peak mode which behaves more like normal Peak. - Added Lookahead, removes huge spikes at start of attack for fast attack times and reduces IMD. - Fixed Ratio behavior - Fixed 'Density Drive' slider in Analog mode - Fixed no audio with certain combinations of filters - Fixed a filtering issue in the Digital compressor (!) when using Density Drive > 1.00 - Added lowpass filter to control signal to smooth out bad effects and remove distortion - Added ITU-1770 mode to reduce pumping and improve level control - Added Channel separation - Rewrote all code - Fixed Ratio - Channels are not processed separately (wasn't the case before, and that was a bug) - Fixed attenuation display - Attack and Release times must be set to half the numbers of the previous beta's. Oil change speed must be doubled. - Restored old Shape behavior from version 009 - Replaced 'Nonlinear Release' by 'Exponential Release', which works better and only needs 1 parameter. Use this to go up FASTER if you're down DEEPER. - Added Ratio - Added Feedback mode - Fixed out-of-control behavior for certain extreme settings - Fixed some more weird behavior things if the difference between Attack and Release is REALLY huge (behavior was bumpy and caused clicking sounds). - Known issue: both Shape On settings must be enabled. I will probably remove them in the next build anyway so I'm not going to fix it. Fixed a lot of bugs, will type the details here later. Oil Temperature is now in % and didn't work properly before. PLEASE LOAD THE DEFAULT SETTINGS for the new compressor or it will sound horrible. Changed Attack Time, Release Time, Attack Speed Threshold, Release Speed Threshold to understandable values. Made 1.0 the 'standard' behavior for Shape. - Added smoothing to oil temperature behavior for both attack and release. Added Oil temperature behavior which was missing from my automatic (hydraulic) door model. Will explain below... - Added another Peak mode slider in "New Singleband". The old one (from yesterday) works mainly on release, but in some cases the volume didn't go down fast enough on a loud sound. The new one works mainly on attack (higher value makes attack continue AFTER a peak. - Changed Peak mode behavior in "New Singleband". - New Singleband: Split Speed into Attack and Release Speed - New Singleband: Made Attack and Release Speed Threshold relative to Speed - so you don't need to adjust it to change the shape. - Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings. TO DO COMPRESSOR: - Moe as much code as possible out of templated functions to reduce executable size and compile time - GUI: Decide which settings are visible in which mode - Stop moving down way too far - new compressor, fast attack, slow release, mainly in RMS mode. It goes down way too far, then moves up slowly, then when it gets 'hit' again moves down way too far again. Reason: Attack doesn't stop after the loud sound stops. Need to talk to Joop again... --> EDIT: Solution is higher Attack and Release shape!!! More testing needed! Should I make this defeatable? - Make Overrule option for auto-Shape sliders. Probably move them all to Expert or Extreme Tweaker mode. - Check Auto Shape effect on audio (!) - Freeze only for all bands combined. Still not sure if this is really a good idea... -> No, need both - Maybe add downward expander -> Not now I think... TO DO: - Display warning when composite clipper used but not registered. - "Just remove the about and help plus the "Registered to" text in license and buy or upgrade and that should be it." -> new version with different name (see Skype with Ken) - EQ with 'standard' sliders. - Add RDS control via VST typedef VstIntPtr (VSTCALLBACK *AEffectDispatcherProc) (AEffect* effect, VstInt32 opcode, VstInt32 index, VstIntPtr value, void* ptr, float opt); for Bernd N - Clipper issues Leif / Wolf Stahl (probably the same thing) - Improve Dequantizer by combining data from different block sizes - Add HD delay (upto 10 seconds? Check Matt Aaron's drawing). Also finally make resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem. Move Resample setting from input to output. Let's ignore using 2 inputs for now... |
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| Author: | near05 [ Sun May 10, 2015 8:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
@Hans do you have found the compiling error in the vst version? it would be really great if you can provide us another beta in future. i hope the error you wrote is solveable. the last useable beta was 32 i think . maybe i am wrong.
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| Author: | hvz [ Mon May 11, 2015 10:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Quote: @Hans
Yes, I've found it yesterday. I'm now rewriting the new compressor code to compile faster and generate less executable code.
do you have found the compiling error in the vst version? it would be really great if you can provide us another beta in future. i hope the error you wrote is solveable. the last useable beta was 32 i think . maybe i am wrong. |
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| Author: | hvz [ Mon May 11, 2015 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Retry: BETA 761-039 Windows 32 bit: Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-039.exe Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-039.exe VST 32bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 61-039.dll Note #2: I have enabled the NAN checks again (which means that you might see error messages - if so please tell me - and the CPU load is a bit higher). CHANGES: - Moe as much code as possible out of templated functions to reduce executable size and compile time - GUI: Decide which settings are visible in which mode - Stop moving down way too far - new compressor, fast attack, slow release, mainly in RMS mode. It goes down way too far, then moves up slowly, then when it gets 'hit' again moves down way too far again. Reason: Attack doesn't stop after the loud sound stops. Need to talk to Joop again... --> EDIT: Solution is higher Attack and Release shape!!! More testing needed! Should I make this defeatable? NOTE: THIS MAY CHANGE THE SOUND. WILL TEST THAT TOMORROW. Edit: Ok, this version does sound different from before! Seems worse!  might be a matter of tweaking, I'll test it tomorrow.OLD CHANGES: - Limiter crash on older CPU's fixed (previous beta) - GUI issue reported by Modulator fixed - Fixed GUI bug (display of declipper detection was bad when Delossifier was enabled). - Optimized Limiter code for CPU usage - Add Density parameter for each MB band - Partially optimized limiters (if limit threshold is high, it's disabled). - Fixed another GUI bug - Fixed Exception that several people reported when changing Gate Freeze settings (was caused by a GUI issue) - Improved gate GUI display - Made after-AGC compressor switchable as well - Fixed delay of Delossifier in display - Improve limiter GUI display - Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB (singleband, others are already ok) - Optimize gating (turn off if not needed) - Made 'limit before compress' again, switchable - Add Gate for new compressor release (also GUI) - Band Link etc. does not work in 3-band mode, and it should for AGC-type behavior. - Simplify interface (remove Oil Speed Adjustment sliders etc, move some things to Extreme Tweaker mode) - Adjust limiter level for Band Mix - Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change - Make Shape value small for high speeds - TO BE DONE: Test if the border value is chosen correctly (shape effect is deminished below 40 ms, reduced to '1' for 0 ms; not sure if 1 is low enough?) - Fixed some more GUI crashes. They should all be fixed now... - Check if audio is still the same as in older versions (!) - Set MB2 default settings ok for NAB demoing (very fast) - Fixed some (but not yet all!) GUI crashes - Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI). - GUI crashes from previous beta's are probably fixed (?) - Changed some GUI things (for big displays) - Small performance optimizations - Limiter behavior visible in meters - Fixed MB ITU mode. - Fixed Median display in Analog mode - Made final SB compressors switchable, parameters are also shared between analog and digital now. - Added limiters to singleband and multiband Analog compressors. Warning: Meters are not yet visible in the GUI! Which makes it kinda difficult to setup (you can use Monitor to see the output of a single band and then adjust the limiter setting). - I fixed something in the GUI but I had a situation where I couldn't start it earlier tonight so it's probably not completely fixed yet. - Some settings from the 2nd MB overruled the 1st, causing all kinds of effects. That has been fixed now, and I verified that the audio of Digital mode in the 1st MB is (nearly) identical to that of BETA761-016 (nearly because in 016 the frequencies still were 10% off). New quickly put together preset (NICE2) attached. Fix MB frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60) - Appears to be gone but I don't remember fixing it (!) Fix RDS time issue! viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209 Added 2nd Multiband compressor! Example preset is attached below. To me, turning it off makes the sound boring/empty. I think this is exactly what some people were missing in Stereo Tool. And with 2 steps the audio is also more consistent than before. RMS/ITU based preset would probably be even better... To increase or decrease the effect, adjust the Density slider of the 2nd Multiband compressor! - Optimized CPU load. CPU load now strongly depends on the settings, for the settings that I posted earlier it's now less than half that of Digital mode! On my system it went down (single core mode, CPU load on that core) from 12.3% to 2.5%! (Again, depending on settings). Digital uses 9.1%. - Merged more parameters (Peak vs RMS setting) with old ("digital") compressor. - Slower Release speed in Analog compared to Digital - Removed Shape Enable settings. - Fixed Knee in Analog mode - Fixed Aggressiveness slider behavior for Analog (!), made it behave the same as Digital mode (acts only on release speeds). - Merged more parameters (Attack Time, Release Time) with old ("digital") compressor. Adjusted numbers in Digital compressor to match the (correctly calculated) behavior in Analog mode. - Merged parameters (threshold, knee, ratio, feedback, channel separation, band mix) with old ("digital") compressor, I noticed that I was switching back and forth all the time to copy settings, so this seems easier. Threshold is now also displayed in dB's. Made Multiband version of the new compressor! Choose 'Analog' mode to switch to the new one. See attached preset for an example! - Made new Traditional Peak mode which behaves more like normal Peak. - Added Lookahead, removes huge spikes at start of attack for fast attack times and reduces IMD. - Fixed Ratio behavior - Fixed 'Density Drive' slider in Analog mode - Fixed no audio with certain combinations of filters - Fixed a filtering issue in the Digital compressor (!) when using Density Drive > 1.00 - Added lowpass filter to control signal to smooth out bad effects and remove distortion - Added ITU-1770 mode to reduce pumping and improve level control - Added Channel separation - Rewrote all code - Fixed Ratio - Channels are not processed separately (wasn't the case before, and that was a bug) - Fixed attenuation display - Attack and Release times must be set to half the numbers of the previous beta's. Oil change speed must be doubled. - Restored old Shape behavior from version 009 - Replaced 'Nonlinear Release' by 'Exponential Release', which works better and only needs 1 parameter. Use this to go up FASTER if you're down DEEPER. - Added Ratio - Added Feedback mode - Fixed out-of-control behavior for certain extreme settings - Fixed some more weird behavior things if the difference between Attack and Release is REALLY huge (behavior was bumpy and caused clicking sounds). - Known issue: both Shape On settings must be enabled. I will probably remove them in the next build anyway so I'm not going to fix it. Fixed a lot of bugs, will type the details here later. Oil Temperature is now in % and didn't work properly before. PLEASE LOAD THE DEFAULT SETTINGS for the new compressor or it will sound horrible. Changed Attack Time, Release Time, Attack Speed Threshold, Release Speed Threshold to understandable values. Made 1.0 the 'standard' behavior for Shape. - Added smoothing to oil temperature behavior for both attack and release. Added Oil temperature behavior which was missing from my automatic (hydraulic) door model. Will explain below... - Added another Peak mode slider in "New Singleband". The old one (from yesterday) works mainly on release, but in some cases the volume didn't go down fast enough on a loud sound. The new one works mainly on attack (higher value makes attack continue AFTER a peak. - Changed Peak mode behavior in "New Singleband". - New Singleband: Split Speed into Attack and Release Speed - New Singleband: Made Attack and Release Speed Threshold relative to Speed - so you don't need to adjust it to change the shape. - Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings. TO DO COMPRESSOR: - If needed, make Overrule option for auto-Shape sliders. Probably move them all to Expert or Extreme Tweaker mode. Also check extreme values. - Check Auto Shape effect on audio (!) -> Result: It has some effect and it can sound slightly worse (fixable by reducing release speed, in the preset that I tested so far, which makes sense because without Shape there's something like release hold happening.). - Freeze only for all bands combined. Still not sure if this is really a good idea... -> No, need both - Make Shape values closer to 1 at lower Attack/Release time settings. - Maybe add downward expander -> Not now I think... TO DO: - Display warning when composite clipper used but not registered. - Save settings .ini when saving - "Just remove the about and help plus the "Registered to" text in license and buy or upgrade and that should be it." -> new version with different name (see Skype with Ken) - EQ with 'standard' sliders. - Add RDS control via VST typedef VstIntPtr (VSTCALLBACK *AEffectDispatcherProc) (AEffect* effect, VstInt32 opcode, VstInt32 index, VstIntPtr value, void* ptr, float opt); for Bernd N - Clipper issues Leif / Wolf Stahl (probably the same thing) - Improve Dequantizer by combining data from different block sizes - Add HD delay (upto 10 seconds? Check Matt Aaron's drawing). Also finally make resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem. Move Resample setting from input to output. Let's ignore using 2 inputs for now... |
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| Author: | weskeene [ Tue May 12, 2015 8:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
I'd like to reiterate that I would be interested in having the gate slowdown UI and limiting UI from the new MB2 implementing in the original multiband section, as well. |
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| Author: | hvz [ Wed May 13, 2015 1:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Retry: BETA 761-040 Windows 32 bit: Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-040.exe Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-040.exe VST 32bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 61-040.dll Note #2: I have enabled the NAN checks again (which means that you might see error messages - if so please tell me - and the CPU load is a bit higher). CHANGES: - Made Auto option for auto-Shape sliders (Extreme Tweaker mode). Turn off to get old behavior. - Check Auto Shape effect on audio (!) -> Result: It has some effect and it can sound slightly worse (fixable by reducing release speed, in the preset that I tested so far, which makes sense because without Shape there's something like release hold happening.). - Freeze/Gate now also available for all bands combined. - Display warning when composite clipper used but not registered (wasn't displayed earlier). - Save settings .ini when saving the settings to any file. OLD CHANGES: - Moe as much code as possible out of templated functions to reduce executable size and compile time - GUI: Decide which settings are visible in which mode - Stop moving down way too far - new compressor, fast attack, slow release, mainly in RMS mode. It goes down way too far, then moves up slowly, then when it gets 'hit' again moves down way too far again. Reason: Attack doesn't stop after the loud sound stops. Need to talk to Joop again... --> EDIT: Solution is higher Attack and Release shape!!! More testing needed! Should I make this defeatable? NOTE: THIS MAY CHANGE THE SOUND. WILL TEST THAT TOMORROW. - Limiter crash on older CPU's fixed (previous beta) - GUI issue reported by Modulator fixed - Fixed GUI bug (display of declipper detection was bad when Delossifier was enabled). - Optimized Limiter code for CPU usage - Add Density parameter for each MB band - Partially optimized limiters (if limit threshold is high, it's disabled). - Fixed another GUI bug - Fixed Exception that several people reported when changing Gate Freeze settings (was caused by a GUI issue) - Improved gate GUI display - Made after-AGC compressor switchable as well - Fixed delay of Delossifier in display - Improve limiter GUI display - Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB (singleband, others are already ok) - Optimize gating (turn off if not needed) - Made 'limit before compress' again, switchable - Add Gate for new compressor release (also GUI) - Band Link etc. does not work in 3-band mode, and it should for AGC-type behavior. - Simplify interface (remove Oil Speed Adjustment sliders etc, move some things to Extreme Tweaker mode) - Adjust limiter level for Band Mix - Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change - Make Shape value small for high speeds - TO BE DONE: Test if the border value is chosen correctly (shape effect is deminished below 40 ms, reduced to '1' for 0 ms; not sure if 1 is low enough?) - Fixed some more GUI crashes. They should all be fixed now... - Check if audio is still the same as in older versions (!) - Set MB2 default settings ok for NAB demoing (very fast) - Fixed some (but not yet all!) GUI crashes - Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI). - GUI crashes from previous beta's are probably fixed (?) - Changed some GUI things (for big displays) - Small performance optimizations - Limiter behavior visible in meters - Fixed MB ITU mode. - Fixed Median display in Analog mode - Made final SB compressors switchable, parameters are also shared between analog and digital now. - Added limiters to singleband and multiband Analog compressors. Warning: Meters are not yet visible in the GUI! Which makes it kinda difficult to setup (you can use Monitor to see the output of a single band and then adjust the limiter setting). - I fixed something in the GUI but I had a situation where I couldn't start it earlier tonight so it's probably not completely fixed yet. - Some settings from the 2nd MB overruled the 1st, causing all kinds of effects. That has been fixed now, and I verified that the audio of Digital mode in the 1st MB is (nearly) identical to that of BETA761-016 (nearly because in 016 the frequencies still were 10% off). New quickly put together preset (NICE2) attached. Fix MB frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60) - Appears to be gone but I don't remember fixing it (!) Fix RDS time issue! viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209 Added 2nd Multiband compressor! Example preset is attached below. To me, turning it off makes the sound boring/empty. I think this is exactly what some people were missing in Stereo Tool. And with 2 steps the audio is also more consistent than before. RMS/ITU based preset would probably be even better... To increase or decrease the effect, adjust the Density slider of the 2nd Multiband compressor! - Optimized CPU load. CPU load now strongly depends on the settings, for the settings that I posted earlier it's now less than half that of Digital mode! On my system it went down (single core mode, CPU load on that core) from 12.3% to 2.5%! (Again, depending on settings). Digital uses 9.1%. - Merged more parameters (Peak vs RMS setting) with old ("digital") compressor. - Slower Release speed in Analog compared to Digital - Removed Shape Enable settings. - Fixed Knee in Analog mode - Fixed Aggressiveness slider behavior for Analog (!), made it behave the same as Digital mode (acts only on release speeds). - Merged more parameters (Attack Time, Release Time) with old ("digital") compressor. Adjusted numbers in Digital compressor to match the (correctly calculated) behavior in Analog mode. - Merged parameters (threshold, knee, ratio, feedback, channel separation, band mix) with old ("digital") compressor, I noticed that I was switching back and forth all the time to copy settings, so this seems easier. Threshold is now also displayed in dB's. Made Multiband version of the new compressor! Choose 'Analog' mode to switch to the new one. See attached preset for an example! - Made new Traditional Peak mode which behaves more like normal Peak. - Added Lookahead, removes huge spikes at start of attack for fast attack times and reduces IMD. - Fixed Ratio behavior - Fixed 'Density Drive' slider in Analog mode - Fixed no audio with certain combinations of filters - Fixed a filtering issue in the Digital compressor (!) when using Density Drive > 1.00 - Added lowpass filter to control signal to smooth out bad effects and remove distortion - Added ITU-1770 mode to reduce pumping and improve level control - Added Channel separation - Rewrote all code - Fixed Ratio - Channels are not processed separately (wasn't the case before, and that was a bug) - Fixed attenuation display - Attack and Release times must be set to half the numbers of the previous beta's. Oil change speed must be doubled. - Restored old Shape behavior from version 009 - Replaced 'Nonlinear Release' by 'Exponential Release', which works better and only needs 1 parameter. Use this to go up FASTER if you're down DEEPER. - Added Ratio - Added Feedback mode - Fixed out-of-control behavior for certain extreme settings - Fixed some more weird behavior things if the difference between Attack and Release is REALLY huge (behavior was bumpy and caused clicking sounds). - Known issue: both Shape On settings must be enabled. I will probably remove them in the next build anyway so I'm not going to fix it. Fixed a lot of bugs, will type the details here later. Oil Temperature is now in % and didn't work properly before. PLEASE LOAD THE DEFAULT SETTINGS for the new compressor or it will sound horrible. Changed Attack Time, Release Time, Attack Speed Threshold, Release Speed Threshold to understandable values. Made 1.0 the 'standard' behavior for Shape. - Added smoothing to oil temperature behavior for both attack and release. Added Oil temperature behavior which was missing from my automatic (hydraulic) door model. Will explain below... - Added another Peak mode slider in "New Singleband". The old one (from yesterday) works mainly on release, but in some cases the volume didn't go down fast enough on a loud sound. The new one works mainly on attack (higher value makes attack continue AFTER a peak. - Changed Peak mode behavior in "New Singleband". - New Singleband: Split Speed into Attack and Release Speed - New Singleband: Made Attack and Release Speed Threshold relative to Speed - so you don't need to adjust it to change the shape. - Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings. TO DO COMPRESSOR: - Make Shape correction values closer to 1 at lower Attack/Release time settings. That will also restore the sound for existing presets but keep behavior ok for AGC-like settings. - Maybe add downward expander -> Not now I think... - no, should still be a separate step (so current noise gate before AGC is better). TO DO 7.70: - Increase 3.2 to 6.4 seconds view -> made it 5 seconds (doesn't require allocating more memory). - Make line around Phase Delay less bright? - Add RDS control via VST typedef VstIntPtr (VSTCALLBACK *AEffectDispatcherProc) (AEffect* effect, VstInt32 opcode, VstInt32 index, VstIntPtr value, void* ptr, float opt); for Bernd N - Add HD delay (upto 10 seconds? Check Matt Aaron's drawing). Also finally make resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem. Move Resample setting from input to output. Let's ignore using 2 inputs for now... - Add auto-restart when buffers are too full or too empty. - RT+ TO DO 7.71: - EQ with 'standard' sliders. - Improve Dequantizer by combining data from different block sizes - Clipper issues Leif / Wolf Stahl (probably the same thing) |
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| Author: | JesseG [ Wed May 13, 2015 3:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Exception with 040 standalone, pointer 
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| Author: | hvz [ Wed May 13, 2015 1:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Quote: Exception with 040 standalone, pointer
Whoops. Natural Dynamics is partially using the same code as the compressors (the multiband code), and I was calculating the gate values there as well - based on data that doesn't exist in Natural Dynamics. It's fixed now, next build will be ok again. For now, if you want to test it you'll have to turn ND off.
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| Author: | hvz [ Thu May 14, 2015 2:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
BETA 761-041 Windows 32 bit: Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-041.exe Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-041.exe VST 32bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 61-041.dll Note #2: I have enabled the NAN checks again (which means that you might see error messages - if so please tell me - and the CPU load is a bit higher). CHANGES: - Make Shape correction values closer to 1 at lower Attack/Release time settings. That will also restore the sound for existing presets but keep behavior ok for AGC-like settings. - Increase 3.2 to 6.4 seconds view -> made it 5 seconds (doesn't require allocating more memory). - Make line around Phase Delay less bright? - Maybe add downward expander -> Not now I think... - no, should still be a separate step (so current noise gate before AGC is better). - Started working on RT+ (parsing is implemented, but nothing is done with the data yet - more info later). OLD CHANGES: - Made Auto option for auto-Shape sliders (Extreme Tweaker mode). Turn off to get old behavior. - Check Auto Shape effect on audio (!) -> Result: It has some effect and it can sound slightly worse (fixable by reducing release speed, in the preset that I tested so far, which makes sense because without Shape there's something like release hold happening.). - Freeze/Gate now also available for all bands combined. - Display warning when composite clipper used but not registered (wasn't displayed earlier). - Save settings .ini when saving the settings to any file. - Moe as much code as possible out of templated functions to reduce executable size and compile time - GUI: Decide which settings are visible in which mode - Stop moving down way too far - new compressor, fast attack, slow release, mainly in RMS mode. It goes down way too far, then moves up slowly, then when it gets 'hit' again moves down way too far again. Reason: Attack doesn't stop after the loud sound stops. Need to talk to Joop again... --> EDIT: Solution is higher Attack and Release shape!!! More testing needed! Should I make this defeatable? NOTE: THIS MAY CHANGE THE SOUND. WILL TEST THAT TOMORROW. - Limiter crash on older CPU's fixed (previous beta) - GUI issue reported by Modulator fixed - Fixed GUI bug (display of declipper detection was bad when Delossifier was enabled). - Optimized Limiter code for CPU usage - Add Density parameter for each MB band - Partially optimized limiters (if limit threshold is high, it's disabled). - Fixed another GUI bug - Fixed Exception that several people reported when changing Gate Freeze settings (was caused by a GUI issue) - Improved gate GUI display - Made after-AGC compressor switchable as well - Fixed delay of Delossifier in display - Improve limiter GUI display - Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB (singleband, others are already ok) - Optimize gating (turn off if not needed) - Made 'limit before compress' again, switchable - Add Gate for new compressor release (also GUI) - Band Link etc. does not work in 3-band mode, and it should for AGC-type behavior. - Simplify interface (remove Oil Speed Adjustment sliders etc, move some things to Extreme Tweaker mode) - Adjust limiter level for Band Mix - Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change - Make Shape value small for high speeds - TO BE DONE: Test if the border value is chosen correctly (shape effect is deminished below 40 ms, reduced to '1' for 0 ms; not sure if 1 is low enough?) - Fixed some more GUI crashes. They should all be fixed now... - Check if audio is still the same as in older versions (!) - Set MB2 default settings ok for NAB demoing (very fast) - Fixed some (but not yet all!) GUI crashes - Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI). - GUI crashes from previous beta's are probably fixed (?) - Changed some GUI things (for big displays) - Small performance optimizations - Limiter behavior visible in meters - Fixed MB ITU mode. - Fixed Median display in Analog mode - Made final SB compressors switchable, parameters are also shared between analog and digital now. - Added limiters to singleband and multiband Analog compressors. Warning: Meters are not yet visible in the GUI! Which makes it kinda difficult to setup (you can use Monitor to see the output of a single band and then adjust the limiter setting). - I fixed something in the GUI but I had a situation where I couldn't start it earlier tonight so it's probably not completely fixed yet. - Some settings from the 2nd MB overruled the 1st, causing all kinds of effects. That has been fixed now, and I verified that the audio of Digital mode in the 1st MB is (nearly) identical to that of BETA761-016 (nearly because in 016 the frequencies still were 10% off). New quickly put together preset (NICE2) attached. Fix MB frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60) - Appears to be gone but I don't remember fixing it (!) Fix RDS time issue! viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209 Added 2nd Multiband compressor! Example preset is attached below. To me, turning it off makes the sound boring/empty. I think this is exactly what some people were missing in Stereo Tool. And with 2 steps the audio is also more consistent than before. RMS/ITU based preset would probably be even better... To increase or decrease the effect, adjust the Density slider of the 2nd Multiband compressor! - Optimized CPU load. CPU load now strongly depends on the settings, for the settings that I posted earlier it's now less than half that of Digital mode! On my system it went down (single core mode, CPU load on that core) from 12.3% to 2.5%! (Again, depending on settings). Digital uses 9.1%. - Merged more parameters (Peak vs RMS setting) with old ("digital") compressor. - Slower Release speed in Analog compared to Digital - Removed Shape Enable settings. - Fixed Knee in Analog mode - Fixed Aggressiveness slider behavior for Analog (!), made it behave the same as Digital mode (acts only on release speeds). - Merged more parameters (Attack Time, Release Time) with old ("digital") compressor. Adjusted numbers in Digital compressor to match the (correctly calculated) behavior in Analog mode. - Merged parameters (threshold, knee, ratio, feedback, channel separation, band mix) with old ("digital") compressor, I noticed that I was switching back and forth all the time to copy settings, so this seems easier. Threshold is now also displayed in dB's. Made Multiband version of the new compressor! Choose 'Analog' mode to switch to the new one. See attached preset for an example! - Made new Traditional Peak mode which behaves more like normal Peak. - Added Lookahead, removes huge spikes at start of attack for fast attack times and reduces IMD. - Fixed Ratio behavior - Fixed 'Density Drive' slider in Analog mode - Fixed no audio with certain combinations of filters - Fixed a filtering issue in the Digital compressor (!) when using Density Drive > 1.00 - Added lowpass filter to control signal to smooth out bad effects and remove distortion - Added ITU-1770 mode to reduce pumping and improve level control - Added Channel separation - Rewrote all code - Fixed Ratio - Channels are not processed separately (wasn't the case before, and that was a bug) - Fixed attenuation display - Attack and Release times must be set to half the numbers of the previous beta's. Oil change speed must be doubled. - Restored old Shape behavior from version 009 - Replaced 'Nonlinear Release' by 'Exponential Release', which works better and only needs 1 parameter. Use this to go up FASTER if you're down DEEPER. - Added Ratio - Added Feedback mode - Fixed out-of-control behavior for certain extreme settings - Fixed some more weird behavior things if the difference between Attack and Release is REALLY huge (behavior was bumpy and caused clicking sounds). - Known issue: both Shape On settings must be enabled. I will probably remove them in the next build anyway so I'm not going to fix it. Fixed a lot of bugs, will type the details here later. Oil Temperature is now in % and didn't work properly before. PLEASE LOAD THE DEFAULT SETTINGS for the new compressor or it will sound horrible. Changed Attack Time, Release Time, Attack Speed Threshold, Release Speed Threshold to understandable values. Made 1.0 the 'standard' behavior for Shape. - Added smoothing to oil temperature behavior for both attack and release. Added Oil temperature behavior which was missing from my automatic (hydraulic) door model. Will explain below... - Added another Peak mode slider in "New Singleband". The old one (from yesterday) works mainly on release, but in some cases the volume didn't go down fast enough on a loud sound. The new one works mainly on attack (higher value makes attack continue AFTER a peak. - Changed Peak mode behavior in "New Singleband". - New Singleband: Split Speed into Attack and Release Speed - New Singleband: Made Attack and Release Speed Threshold relative to Speed - so you don't need to adjust it to change the shape. - Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings. TO DO 7.70: - Hide Wideband gate in Digital mode - RT+ (only single text supported for now) - Sound card issue in VST: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6027&p=29066#p29066 - Make Multipath Clipper stricter (use Smoothing mode); - Crash reported by Peter Kluyver - Not enough information. Occurred in 761-035, crash in ntdll.dll at 0x5b72E (exception 0xC0000005), not handled by Stereo Tool. No streaming via VLC used. - Add auto-restart when buffers are too full or too empty. - Add RDS control via VST typedef VstIntPtr (VSTCALLBACK *AEffectDispatcherProc) (AEffect* effect, VstInt32 opcode, VstInt32 index, VstIntPtr value, void* ptr, float opt); for Bernd N - Waiting for feedback - Add HD delay (upto 10 seconds? Check Matt Aaron's drawing). Also finally make resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem. Move Resample setting from input to output. Let's ignore using 2 inputs for now... TO DO 7.71: - EQ with 'standard' sliders. - Improve Dequantizer by combining data from different block sizes - Clipper issues Leif / Wolf Stahl (probably the same thing) - Stokkemask: try if I can move the data a few samples to make 2nd smoothing step unnecessary. |
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| Author: | djtek184 [ Thu May 14, 2015 4:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA |
Question. In anticipation of Windows 10 launch, will stereo tool be compatible to the new OS? If so, does this mean it will work on any device? Such as iPads, smartphones ect.. |
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