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Version 1.03 - Bug Fix - fixed a low frequency rolloff in filterbank.
Version 1.04 - Bug Fix - program would crash when trying
to save with nothing in the record buffer.
Version 1.05 - Added in a (inaudible) dither signal
to prevent floating point underflow exceptions
which slowed down processing speed when no
input was present. This sometimes caused
sound card hang-ups on slower machines.
- Added in the ability to select the sound card
input and output devices. You must now press the
"DEV" button (or press the "s" key on the keyboard)
and select the i/o devices to start the vocoder action.
When the program starts, moving the cursor around
with the mouse will bring up the device select window.
- You can now run the vocoder with a half-duplex
soundcard by selecting "None" for the input device.
The inputs can then come from wav files
loaded into the carrier and modulator buffers. You
still need to have an soundcard output device.
- When you double-click on the PMod or PCar buttons
both the modulator and carrier wav files are
started (if they have been loaded). This allows
syncing between the modulator and carrier wav files.
- There is now just a single Load button for both the
carrier and modulator wav files. The load dialog
window allows you to select whether to load the
carrier or modulator (or both from a stereo file).
- You can now load mono or stereo wav files having
one of the following sampling rates: 11.025KHz,
22.05KHz, 44.1KHz. The latter two are downsampled
by the program to 11.025KHz.
- You can now save wav files in one of the following
sampling rates: 11.025KHz, 22.05KHz and 44.1KHz.
Note that the audio signal still has a maximum frequency
of 5.5125KHz in each of these cases, so the sound
quality isn't increased by saving at a higher sampling
rate. (note: saving is only available in the registered
version)
- The few memory leaks present have been eliminated.
- The output now saturates instead of wraps around
when the signal is too strong. This leads to a less
objectionable form of distortion.
- The copy protection scheme has been changed slightly, now
file saving is the only thing not available in the
demo version.
Version 1.06 - Fixed bug (only found in V1.05) which resulted in the
lowest 2 channels being garbled.
Version 1.07 - Fixed bug which paused sound output when LSet
and SSet operations were canceled.
Streamlined registration from floppy disk and
backup to disk operations.
Now if one has a valid lic.dat file on a floppy
disk, pressing "x" while running the program
from any directory will create the proper "lic.dat"
file for that directory.
Also, if one is running a registered program in
any directory, pressing "b" will generate a valid
"lic.dat" file on a floppy disk.
Version 1.08 - Fixed bug which generated a Windows error when
exiting the program.
Version 2.00 - Fixed bug which resulted in a high noise level when
saving at 22 or 44 KHz.
- Added MIDI interface. The use can define up to 20
MIDI controller to vocoder control (slider or button)
mappings. MIDI note-on messages can be used to set
the pitch of the internal oscillator.
- The user interface has changed somewhat. Gone are the
channel LEVEL and PAN sliders. These have been replaced
with a single generic set of Channel Operation Sliders.
The user can select one of 8 different channel operations
whose levels are set by the Channel Operation Sliders.
These channel operations act on each channel independently.
- LEVEL - these set the level of the output of
the synthesis filters.
- PAN - these determine the spatial panning of the
output of the synthesis filters.
- DISTORT - these set the level of distortion that
is applied to the output of the synthesis
filters.
- DELAY - these set the amount of delay (0 to about
700 msec) applied the analyzer control signal.
- ECHO - these set the amplitude of the echoes of
the analyzer control signal.
- ETIME - these set the period of the echoes.
- REGEN - these set the amount of regeneration associated
with the echoes. A small regen setting results
in a rapid decay of the echoes.
- SLEW - these set the slew rate of the analyzer control
signals.
- WARP - these set the amount of compression or
expansion applied to the analyzer control signal
- Slave Mode - in this mode, moving one of the channel
operation sliders, while holding down the
left mouse button, will move all of the other
channel operation sliders by the same amount.
If the right mouse button is held down, then
the other channel operation sliders are moved
by amounts proportional to the distance away
from the slider being moved (just try it!).
- Separate Carrier and Modulator Gain Controls. The single
Level control has been replaced by separate
Carrier and Modulator gain controls. This allows
more precise control over the levels.
- Distortion Indicators - the Carrier Gain control slider
will flash red when the carrier is clipped.
Likewise, the Modulator gain control slider flashes
red when the modulator signal is clipped. Finally
the leftmost channel operation slider will flash
red when the left output signal is clipped and
the rightmost channel operation slider will flash
red when the right output signal is clipped.
- The pulse width of the internal oscillator is now adjustable.
- Approximate channel center frequency values are displayed
over top of the channel operation sliders.
- The audio device can be set to use 16 bits for both
input and output. Note: this will only work if the sound
card can support this (e.g. this won't work for
SoundBlaster cards). Also, I haven't tested this myself!
- Registration process has been simplified a little bit
(so get those registrations in!).