Stereo Tool

Getting the same error message

For me though does not occur on the fault in the VST version. Maybe it is because I have the old settings still loaded.

But I have another problem: When I use the same settings as before, then I get a completely different result. It all sounds kind of like a bad mp3. In the frequencies of below 10,000 now changes are made, although this should not be touched. Despite these errors but the high frequencies are better completed. It now sounds will also no longer so tinny. But however ridiculous changes are made in Orignal.

Edit: OK, I just have tried a few already existing files with the Exciter. The results were amazing completes with the previous versions. Now some high frequencies are no longer completeted. Here sounded the old version better, in fact. It looks somehow as if these sounds are now filtered out completely.

Old hard coded freqs were 7000 and 8000, new defaults are 10000 and 11025. Beside that I would expect the sound to be the same as before. You didn't lower the freqs? Because if you do it can sound horrible.

No, I have the old frequencies from the previous version:
No generation below: 8357
Max generations above:. 9104

That sounded in Beta 24 really super! But now is also changed under 8000Hz something which was not previously.

Edit: I find out what the problem is: I have reset all settings to factory defaults. And now it works. Sorry .. for my stupidity

I get the same error but even after a factory reset and even if Absolute Highs is the only feature enabled it still throws multiple exceptions.

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Found it - I forgot to add a "__ALIGN(64)" marker to one array.

This won't crash if you have a CPU that supports AVX, and on CPU's that don't, it probably will (there could be a 1 in 4 chance that it doesn't).

I've just ran a test and there are more differences in sound between version 7.84 and 7.03. I have done a lot of optimizations (so it's not easy to compare the code), but I'll take a quick look at it on Monday (it's easier in my office with 2 monitors to compare the code and the behavior of the two versions).

It looks like the voice protection itself was not changed at all - but some other things were. Output of 7.84 is louder and more dynamic, which is probably not good.

7.85 BETA026

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 85-026.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 85-026.exe
Windows VST 32 bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 85-026.dll

CHANGED:
- Exciter: Crash should be fixed.
- Exciter: Sometimes you see darker bars in the spectrum, changing the overlap back and forth removes those, so somehow some levels aren't always calculated when a setting is changed.

OLD CHANGES:
- Fixed crash when closing
- Exciter: Moved to separate page, for now called Absolute Highs.
- Exciter: Added GUI element to show Absolute Highs effect.
- Exciter: Broken at latency 512
- GUI: Fixed hangups caused by tooltips.
- GUI: Remove dots in changed settings for some buttons on top of the screen.
- Exciter: Made frequency range configurable!!! (Old default numbers were 8000-9000 Hz)
- Blog post pre-processing, MP3 and declipping
- GUI: Added tooltips!
- Added exciter (rest of list removed)
- Added (not yet fully ok) Polar Stereo support for OIRT FM stations.
- Error (crash) on some systems should be solved
- Show something in settings that have been changed (for example a dot next to the name of the setting).
- Add license check function: extern "C" bool stereoTool_IsLicenseValid(gStereoTool* st_instance);
- Make scope skinnable
- Bug: i found one malfunction in the BS412 Section: If your switch off the FM Option and leave the BS412 Limiter in On-Position the Advanced Clipper only works in a reduced way: You can´t change the Clipper drive even if you pull the handle. The BS412 Limiter is greyed out instead so maybe someone doesn´t find the failure. If You switch the BS412 to off everything works fine again! Just a small detail, but maybe someone will have problems… -> I think I have fixed it (but there are a lot of different combinations of settings that can impact the result, I hope I haven't missed any). The next version shouldn't have this problem anymore, also, when BS412 is used I have now disabled the Advanced Clipper Drive slider.
I've been busy hiding a lot more deprecated features (if they are set to their default value). This should make the GUI a bit simpler. Stuff that's now hidden (still there and still functional if you really want to use it):
- "Bass AGC (Old)" panel
- "Classic Multiband Compressor" panel
- "Classic Singleband" panel
- "Pre-limiter" panel (in Advanced Clipper)
- "Leif's clipper efficiency modification" checkbox
- "Composite clipping Strictness (CPU)" checkbox
- Phase rotation: ""At start of processing" checkbox
- AGC "Compatibility & behavior" header
- All Singleband and Multiband "Compressor type" (Analog/Digital) pull-downs
- Multiband and Natural Dynamics "Compatibility mode (bad)" for Flat Frequency Response checkbox
- "Bass protection (Deprecated)" header in Advanced Clipper -> Bass
- "Highs gap protection: *" in Advanced Clipper -> Highs
- "Smooth slope" in Advanced Clipper -> Distortion
- "Upsampled highs clipping (useless)" in Advanced Clipper -> Distortion
- Stokkemask: "Force Stokkemask even if not using Composite Clipping (bad for audio)"
- BS412: ""De-basser non-ITU.1770 compatibility mode (bad)"
- Right clicking now restores default again, mid or double right clicking restores last loaded preset (or startup) value.
Bug: If you use FM and Normal output, with separately processed audio for streaming for Normal output, and for FM output enable pre-emphasis but *not* pre-emphasize output, then Normal output is not processed separately!
- What is the pink line in the BS412 display? Maybe remove it. http://i.imgur.com/70mWvqp.png -> Ah no, it's the adjustment of the compressor thresholds. Needs to be added to Help page.
- BS412 has VERY narrow jump on de-basser from 240 to 250 Hz. (Jump of multiple dB's). -> No, brown line jumps but actual output is smooth, so no problem.
- BS412 bass filter doesn't use ITU1770 as it should but some weird other shape that goes up to about 250 Hz.
- Need to support 2 default values and a RESET TO LAST LOADED VALUE reset option.
- Hide not selected deprecated stuff - partially working!
- Move Copyright stuff etc. also to command line version (maybe just copy it?)

TODO:
- Fixed crackle at startup caused by Ignore high frequencies (even if it was disabled!)
- Loading old preset from before Analog mode was added apparently loads in Analog mode! -> Works now, just no idea why??
- Add AM test tone: Sawtooth with pause at 0, asymmetrical. LPF needed?
- Polar stereo: K filter added, but output is not strictly clipped anymore. Waiting for feedback.
- Voice protection in classic MB is broken. Check what changed. (Code should not have changed at all). - Hm, more has changed. Check in which version! -> Waiting for reply to question
- MB: Make Overview window for new Multiband! For main settings.
- MB: Add voice volume protection, don't allow mid bands to drop below surrounding (to some extent), protectes voices and it might help to replicate the sound of certain other processors
- Exciter: Try to improve tone behavior (should also reduce whole area around a spike I think - maybe configurable?)
- Exciter: Improve further, and make it configurable.
- Add Polar stereo viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6233&p=33031#p33031
- MP3?
- Try adding phase delay compensation
- O skin
- Also show tooltips for blocks of parameters.
- Continue with finding parameters to hide

Super Hans,
Problem with the Exciter is here Solved......

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Thanks for looking into it. I use Stereotool almost every week to remaster tracks for my private colection or for my mixes ( https://www.mixcloud.com/LDASTA/ ). Besides the web browser its probably the most used software on my computer for the last couple of years.