Stereo Tool

Ok Bojcha ,
will try it later this evening

I've changed the code for the declipper, now I can run it at 97% on 2 cores! So the next version might behave better...

Stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 33-046.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 33-046.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 33-046.dll
Command line: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 33-046.exe

Done:
- Bass shape: Slightly less whistle removal for tighter clipping
- Fix GUI crash in drawing left bar during screen resizes
- CPU usage in declipper should be less, also better divided over 2 cores.

TODO:
- Sound broken after declipper beep. Big drops.
- Mouse placed outside screen during slow dragging
- Move some settings to more logical positions.
- Hide settings such as sound cards in plugin versions

Less urgent for usability:
- Design (several people are working on something)

For later:
- Add 'purpose based' view on settings (for example all settings that affect bass combined).
- Multi-language support
- Add basic/advanced modes
- Add '-6' '-12' etc. beside output bars where possible.
- Context sensitive Help (help button should be next to the preset buttons)
- Drag (resize window parts) lines, also between to/bottom part (scopes/meters).
- Confirm on close (stand alone version)

Audio is broken in latest version. Very bad distortion.

Distortion is where, exactly? I've played several tracks and don't hear said distortion, or at least nothing I'd consider to be "very bad". I'm using the DSP version, but you seem to favor building the Standalone version first, so there might be a problem with a specific build.

Beyond that, there are still problems with displaying presets in the "Recent Preset Files" list. From time to time, the name displayed for the preset is not the preset that was loaded when the app was last closed. It seems like it might be sorting in alphabetical order and displaying the first element in the array / collection.

Bass intermodulation in tracks with deep bass in loud presets with heavy bass, mainly. Version 043 was still ok, I've now reverted the clipper to that version and I'm merging the changes in one-by-one to find the culprit. About 5 changes to go....

I only noticed it because someone sent me a preset this afternoon which I found horrible... Then I loaded it in 6.32 (as he said he was using that version) and it sounded good.... So I loaded it in 043 and it was good there too

Edit: Think I found it... Running some more tests to make sure...
Edit #2: Found 2 causes. One small one (filter was shifted by 10 Hz, fixing that helped slightly), other was that I swapped a few lines of code (don't remember why) which caused a value to be set to 0 before it was used (I needed the previous version there). I'll merge in the rest in one go and see if nothing else breaks...

Edit: It's solved now. Will upload a new version tomorrow morning. Need to go to bed (it's 5:54 AM).

Hmmm. Was the Asymmetric Bass option enabled or disabled? I ask because this sounds very similar to that situation, where some of you heard things that other people did not. I've checked all of my tracks that have the deepest bass, and I'm just as "distortion tone deaf" as I was back then.

Also, as for loading presets, I'm still relatively sure there are issues loading presets, including issues using them interchangably between 6.32 and 6.33. This is in addition to the recent preset files issue I mentioned earlier (alpha sorting).

Finally, with respect to the versioning, in my opinion, since the GUI has changed so significantly, I'd at least call it version 6.4. If there are enough audio changes along with the design changes, then perhaps going to 7.00 is appropriate. 6.33 is just too small of a version increment, in my opinion. Moving to 7.x would differentiate the GUIs, indicating the start point of the new GUI. Remembering that the new GUI started at 7.00 is, in my opinion, easier than remembering it started at 6.33.

Stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 33-047.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 33-047.exe
VST: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 33-047.dll

Done:
- Synchronization of multiple FM transmitters! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQ5CYs0 ... e=youtu.be
- Fixed distortion issue in last 2 beta's

TODO:
- Sound broken after declipper beep. Big drops.
- Turbo mode on synchronization upon start
- GUI redraw issue
- Mouse placed outside screen during slow dragging
- VMware mouse detection based on iteration of identical numbers (x=0, y=different from expected and constant), say 50 times in a row.
- Move some settings to more logical positions.
- Hide settings such as sound cards in plugin versions

Less urgent for usability:
- Design (several people are working on something)

For later:
- Add 'purpose based' view on settings (for example all settings that affect bass combined).
- Multi-language support
- Add basic/advanced modes
- Add '-6' '-12' etc. beside output bars where possible.
- Context sensitive Help (help button should be next to the preset buttons)
- Drag (resize window parts) lines, also between to/bottom part (scopes/meters).
- Confirm on close (stand alone version)

@Brian: This was really something that was very very obvious - but also very much dependant on the input signal and settings. It didn't happen in every track or preset. Others (even including Bojcha ) hadn't even noticed it. Anyway, it's fixed now, and it was really a bug (or actually 2).

Version will be 7.00, 6.33 is just a 'working number'.