Stereo Tool

32 bit stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 44-002.exe

List of changes:

THIS VERSION:
- Fixed VLC synchronization behavior (now synchronizes to input, before it turns out it synchronized to an internal VLC timer). This means that synchronization will be much more precise now on short term, and drifting apart which could happen before should also be gone.
- Fixed VLC crash in 32 bit version introduced in previous beta 744-001.
- Loading a preset no longer resets Auto-start with Windows, Detect and attempt to fix sound card/VLC timeouts, Restart on crashes or unsolvable sound card timeouts

OLDER:
- Lost audio when playing with MB flatness levels at maximum steepness, exceptions logged on 64 bit - SOLVED.
- AGC bugs reported by Action (page 2 of this discussion), solution is to change range of parameters. SOLVED.
- Error message must be changed: "I had that restart ST error as well when I had loaded a settings file which had another audio card defined. I just selected the right audio card and it was OK." DONE (not yet in next beta)
- Speedup building by removing stuff from Param.h
- Changed AM presets (now enable "AM" mode, and pre-emphasis for US).
- Juli@ sound card problem nelson c. - BAD TIMER RELATED - FIXED by doubling timeout time.
- AM MPX display does not work - sometimes -> oddly I cannot get it to 'not work' anymore... -> Seems sample rate related. Now hiding the display when sample rate is low.
- Remove exception message when loading a preset with a non-existent language setting (from a different pc). -> Hm, I can't reproduce it anymore...
- 64 bit restarting twice behavior: When I click the “TEST ERROR (CRASH)” button, an ST-dialog box show up, and after clicking OK, Stereo Tool crashes and restarts itself, runs for about 10 seconds, and then it crashes and restarts once again. So far unable to reproduce it, and after restarting twice everything is ok again.

Thank you very much Hans. Let me check the ST 7.44 002

EDIT: It runs ok now

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RELEASE CANDIDATE 744-002:

Windows 32 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 4-002A.exe
Winamp DSP: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... 44-002.exe
Windows VST 32: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 44-002.dll
Windows 64 bit:
Windows stand alone: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 4-002A.exe
Windows VST 64: http://www.stereotool.com/download/vst_ ... 44-002.dll
Linux 32 bit:
Linux command line: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... ETA744-002
Linux GUI/Jack: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... ETA744-002
Mac OS X:
Mac stand alone (Jack): http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 44-002.zip
Mac VST 32 bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 02.vst.zip
Mac VST 64 bit: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... 02.vst.zip
Mac command line: http://www.stereotool.com/download/ster ... ETA744-002

- Error message about bad sound card ID's changed (it does not always require a restart).
- Bug fix: FM transmitter synchronization did not function properly in stand alone version.
- Bug fix: Setting some AGC settings to 0 could 'lock' the AGC. Setting to 0 no longer possible.
- Bug fix: Changing MB flatness or frequency sliders no longer causes weird noises.
- Bug fix: Invalid (NAN) values sent to compressor and clipper are now handled gracefully.
- Bug fix: Loading a preset turned auto-start with Windows and watchdog off.
- Bug fix: Sound card watchdog sometimes kicked in too soon - changed the timing.
- Bug fix: AM frequency display is now hidden when no updates are calculated.
- Presets: AM presets now turn on AM mode, US AM presets also turn on AM pre-emphasis.


Edit: Something seems to be wrong with the 64 bit stand alone version. It does not start at all.

And this beta must be 003 , not 002 . We have already 002

For some time now (no, I haven't gone back through versions, but I can later if you need me to), when scrolling the preset list, CPU usage gets pegged and I get stuttering audio. Financials are still such that I did not get a new computer, so this is still the Athlon64 with XP. At any rate, might be GUI thread stuff or new CPU display. Dunno. Generic presets. 35-40% per Task Manager, until scrolling the list.

Is there an override for turning off the CPU display, or can an option for it to be disabled be added in?

There are much better alternatives anyway, even if sleep did work how it should. Glad you're switching.

Can you compare the version just before I added it with the first one that has it? I really don't think it has much effect - but I could be wrong. If I have to guess I would rather expect the limiter improvements to be expensive.

True, but in this case I simply needed a thread that would do something after not being triggered for a certain amount of time - a sleep seemed a simple solution...

The AM frequency window won't show real time audio like the FM does? I was hoping to see how much (if any) spectrum pollution happened when using excessive clipping, turning the low pass filter up, etc.