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Author:  JesseG [ Tue May 26, 2015 7:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
Quote:
Hans - when StereoTool is first turned on, the gains of gated multiband compressors default to full scale gain reduction. That's sort of nuts. You should make a guess as some sane amount of gain reduction (perhaps based on the drive setting to that MB section), and then fix the gains of all bands there until the gate finally releases.
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.
Author:  weskeene [ Tue May 26, 2015 7:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
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.
Author:  hvz [ Wed May 27, 2015 12:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
Quote:
Also, Hans, you're still showing "oil" related things in a couple places you probably mean to remove. I've noticed them on the Attack and Release tabs, but it's probably worth you having a look, too.
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.
Author:  weskeene [ Wed May 27, 2015 12:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
Ah, that's probably the mode I'm in.
Author:  hvz [ Wed May 27, 2015 1:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
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.
Author:  wiele [ Wed May 27, 2015 2:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
Hi Hans,

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

Thanks!
Author:  Doctor_Technical [ Wed May 27, 2015 2:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
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.
Author:  hvz [ Wed May 27, 2015 4:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
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.
Author:  VFR750A45 [ Wed May 27, 2015 9:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
Hi Hanz !

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

Thanks

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Author:  beej6 [ Thu May 28, 2015 3:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Stereo Tool 7.61 BETA
presets I like: Any one with the word 'clean' in it, especially Bob Hawkins'.
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