Stereo Tool

One way to deal with that is to start them at no gain reduction but with a very fast attack speed/shape that interpolates to the preset's attack speed/shape within a few hundred milliseconds.

The ideal way would be to do preset blending, but since Stereo Tool's topology is so customizable it couldn't work without a hideous amount of effort/redesign.

Starting at no GR would be preferable to the current implementation for almost everyone. High bands, in particular, can end up stuck with full gain reduction for a very long time, currently.

Should only be in Extreme Tweaker mode... I'll check to make sure.

Edit: Oops! Ok, will add changing those names to the todo list.

Ah, that's probably the mode I'm in.

BETA 761-049

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-049.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-049.exe
VST 32bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 61-049.dll

CHANGES:
- Compensate for Singleband Drive/Output Level in Analog Singleband DIFF mode.
- The digital post-AGC wasn't fixed and is still faster than all the other compressors.
- Waveform display can be set to 10 sec here. If I do so it gets stuck only when it is shown on the lower left with a standard ST window. If I maximize the ST window or click the arrows to display the waveform at the right side it works just fine.
- Added support for built-in skins
- Check difference in sound with a few beta's ago - Unchanged since BETA041, but there are changes before... -> Ah, that's the new compressor/limiter, no problem.
- Change Attack/Release Oil Temperature names!
- Bug fix: GUI: Threshold and knee were labeled 'Speeds' instead of 'Levels'.
- Fixed a bug in the new compressors (piece of code used SSE3 instruction but was also run on pc's with only SSE2 support)

OLD CHANGES:
- 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.
- Added second Multiband Compressor
- Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings.
- Added resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem (for example FM on sound card and streaming via VAC/VB Cable).
- Added auto-restart behavior if buffers get too full or too empty.
- Added upto 10 seconds of audio delay for HD radio.
- Added option to show beta version number in title bar
- RDS: Added RT+ support.
- RDS: Fixed time zone 30 minute offset problem - viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209
- GUI: Improved display for bigger screens.
- GUI: Increased maximum waveform display from 3.2 to 5 seconds.
- GUI: Made line around Phase Delay in bottom display less bright.
- GUI: Bug fix: Composite clipper used but not registered warning wasn't shown.
- GUI: Save settings .ini when saving the settings to any file.
- GUI: Fixed delay of Delossifier in display.
- GUI: Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change.
- GUI: Improved Compressors gate and limiter display (new Analog mode only).
- Singleband Compressors: Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB
- Compressors: Made a new Compressor implementation ('Analog'), based on the behavior of water pressure control systems and hydraulic automatically closing doors. Sounds better and uses far less CPU load.
- Compressors: Made new Limiter (only used in combination with new compressor mode).
- After-AGC Singleband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Final Singleband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Multiband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Multiband Compressor: Band Link did not work in 3-band mode.
- Multiband Compressor: Added Freeze/Gate for all bands combined (Analog mode only).
- Multiband Compressor: Fix frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60).
- Multiband Compressor: Fixed a filtering issue when using Density Drive > 1.00
- Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI).
- Small performance optimizations.
- Optimized synchronization between sound cards code - factor 5 CPU load reduction.
- Multipath Clipper: Made it stricter (use Smoothing mode)
- Bug fix: Saving FM sound card issue in VST: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6027&p=29066#p29066
- Bug fix: Compressors: When gate is set to -99 dB, release stops working.
- Fixed 'uninitialized memory read' warnings (reported by Intel Inspector XE).(
- ProppFrexx integration: Added RDS control via VST (canDo, vendorSpecific)

WAITING FOR FEEDBACK 7.70:
- Wait for Matt Aaron's feedback about HD synchronization

TO DO 7.70:
- Add/update presets
- Wait for Diggy Down FM and Jesse Graffam's final streaming/AM/FM presets
- Wait for feedback on which presets to keep/remove
- Release

TO DO 7.71:
- EQ with 'standard' sliders.
- Make BS412-like graph for levels
- Memory leak in Generic plugin (reported by Franciszek)

TO DO WITH LEIF:
- 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.


How to use RT+ in RadioText
Put \+xx before and \- after an item
where xx is an RT+ type number (00-63).

Instead of a number you can also use the codes
WW or UR for an URL (type 29)
AR for Artist (type 04)
TI for Title (type 01)

So for example:
Now playing \+ArMadonna\- - \+TiLike a Virgin\-

You can use at most 2 codes. For now, codes are transmitted for ALL the texts, so this only works properly if you have a static RT text. I might change that later.

Hi Hans,

My preset: Levels is not working in the current beta. (And can you maybe add my new preset Double Pleasure? )/

Thanks!

While browsing the large list of presets, I wonder if there is a way to indicate that a preset has been submitted or updated for the latest version?

In order to save screen landscape, perhaps adding a single dot to the start of each new/updated preset name would work?

Example (under WEB/DAB/HD section):
Jeroen Platenkamp - Spidey's Web
.Jesse Graffam - Minnesota (input at -16 LUFS)
.Jesse Graffam - Minnesota (inout at 0 LUFS)
PowerSound - C-City
etc.

Just a thought. The 10 second 'scope display looks great, by the way.

BETA 761-050

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 61-050.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 61-050.exe
VST 32bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 61-050.dll

CHANGES:
- Added more presets. There are a few candidates left and I'm waiting for a few presets...

OLD CHANGES:
- 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.
- Added second Multiband Compressor
- Added new Dequantizer filter to increase the bit depth of recordings.
- Added resampler for normal output to fix 2 output on different sound cards problem (for example FM on sound card and streaming via VAC/VB Cable).
- Added auto-restart behavior if buffers get too full or too empty.
- Added upto 10 seconds of audio delay for HD radio.
- Added support for built-in GUI skins
- Added option to show beta version number in title bar
- RDS: Added RT+ support.
- RDS: Fixed time zone 30 minute offset problem - viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5941&p=28209#p28209
- GUI: Improved display for bigger screens.
- GUI: Increased maximum waveform display from 3.2 to 5 seconds.
- GUI: Made line around Phase Delay in bottom display less bright.
- GUI: Bug fix: Composite clipper used but not registered warning wasn't shown.
- GUI: Save settings .ini when saving the settings to any file.
- GUI: Fixed delay of Delossifier in display.
- GUI: Fix 'Load default values' question for MB #bands change.
- GUI: Improved Compressors gate and limiter display (new Analog mode only).
- Singleband Compressors: Don't allow Threshold values below 0.5 dB
- Compressors: Made a new Compressor implementation ('Analog'), based on the behavior of water pressure control systems and hydraulic automatically closing doors. Sounds better and uses far less CPU load.
- Compressors: Made new Limiter (only used in combination with new compressor mode).
- After-AGC Singleband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Final Singleband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Multiband Compressor: Added new Analog compressor mode with new limiter.
- Multiband Compressor: Band Link did not work in 3-band mode.
- Multiband Compressor: Added Freeze/Gate for all bands combined (Analog mode only).
- Multiband Compressor: Fix frequency band shift (10%, since 7.51 or 7.60).
- Multiband Compressor: Fixed a filtering issue when using Density Drive > 1.00
- Improved CPU performance a bit, on multiple places (clipper, GUI).
- Small performance optimizations.
- Optimized synchronization between sound cards code - factor 5 CPU load reduction.
- Multipath Clipper: Made it stricter (use Smoothing mode)
- Bug fix: Saving FM sound card issue in VST: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6027&p=29066#p29066
- Bug fix: Compressors: When gate is set to -99 dB, release stops working.
- Bug fix: GUI: Threshold and knee were labeled 'Speeds' instead of 'Levels'.
- Fixed 'uninitialized memory read' warnings (reported by Intel Inspector XE).(
- ProppFrexx integration: Added RDS control via VST (canDo, vendorSpecific)

WAITING FOR FEEDBACK 7.70:
- Wait for Matt Aaron's feedback about HD synchronization

TO DO 7.70:
- Old ("Classic") singleband compressor is broken - fix -> woops, there was some test code for the new compressor in it
- Add/update presets
- Wait for Diggy Down FM (TURN DECLIPPER ON!) and Jesse Graffam's final streaming/AM/FM presets; answer from Nikolay Vachev; include Uptown FM preset.
- Wait for feedback on which presets to keep/remove
- Release

TO DO 7.71:
- Change default preset (it still uses Classic compressor etc!)
- EQ with 'standard' sliders.
- Make BS412-like graph for levels
- Memory leak in Generic plugin (reported by Franciszek)

TO DO WITH LEIF:
- 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.


How to use RT+ in RadioText
Put \+xx before and \- after an item
where xx is an RT+ type number (00-63).

Instead of a number you can also use the codes
WW or UR for an URL (type 29)
AR for Artist (type 04)
TI for Title (type 01)

So for example:
Now playing \+ArMadonna\- - \+TiLike a Virgin\-

You can use at most 2 codes. For now, codes are transmitted for ALL the texts, so this only works properly if you have a static RT text. I might change that later.

Hi Hanz !

A few preset louder.
you can upgrade and add this in the 7.70 version

Thanks

presets I like: Any one with the word 'clean' in it, especially Bob Hawkins'.