12-16-2024, 05:50 AM
Thank You, it seems to work now
While there have been some surprising bugs along the way, I'm always amazed by your fast fixes..
While we are at it, I thought I'd share some ideas as I've been working on some track mastering recently.
For the frequency analysis panel:
1. Allow using (editable) overlay names on the display for shown snapshot / responses, matching the spectrum coulour. Typical use for this would be that you have several file versions of the same master plus some reference tracks and you want to compare them. Without overlay names it's quite impossible to separate them. See attached image as an example.
1.2 Once a snapshot is created, do not overwrite it by left clicking. Make the user use the right click menu for snapshot button to overwrite so spectrums won't be accidentally overwritten. Use left click to show / hide a spectrum once it's written.
2. Allow scanning whole files by drag & drop from windows file manager. Create new snapshot to an empty slot when the file is scanned and show the respective overlay name. Use file name for overlay name and allow editing it. This will make comparing frequency plots for several files much much faster.
3. Allow exporting spectrum (frequency plot) straight to files and also importing these files to slots. See if there already is a suitable standard for the file type so those files could be opened in other programs as well (REW for example).
4. Add a favourites drop down menu for spectrums (with basic management like add current selected spectrum to favourites and delete one by one) so you can quickly show your favourite reference spectrums in any situation.
5. Add a button for leveling all shown spectrum around 1 kHz (perhaps a some kind of average value around 1kHz should be used rather than the exact dB value @ 1 kHz) so you can compare them regardless of the amplitude
6. Add a dialog to enter dB +- value for an individual selected spectrum in order to match it manually with others or make separation / adjustment. Add a way to first select individual spectrum, if needed
7. Add a button for rendering the selected file (creating a temp file which is not saved or showed, just internally used) with the current FX rack in order to just show how applying current FX rack will affect the frequency plot. This would be just like "Scan selection" but first the FX rack is rendered to the temp file and then that file is scanned. The button could be named something like "Predict FX rack" or so, for the lack of better suggestion.. You might want to also add a button for "add changes (or prediction) to file" which would replace the used file or file segment with the new temp file, after the plot is shown. This would streamline experimenting with final eq settings during the mastering process.
8. I'm a bit confused of the Octet value used in smoothing spectrums. What does this refer to? I think the standard value is Octave. If you smooth a spectrum by 1/3 octave, you will not see any sharp deviations in the plot. If I use the 1/3 Octet value in Soundop, there is a lot of deviations / details in the spectrum and it's nothing like 1/3 octave smoothing. Could smoothing be changed so that it would meet the industry standard? Octave / smoothing is a very standard thing considering audio software and gear in general. One good example for research would be the Voxengo span freeware analyzer, to see what kind of values should be supported. I will add an image of a 1/3 octave smoothing.
9. Hire me as a part time UI adviser

While we are at it, I thought I'd share some ideas as I've been working on some track mastering recently.
For the frequency analysis panel:
1. Allow using (editable) overlay names on the display for shown snapshot / responses, matching the spectrum coulour. Typical use for this would be that you have several file versions of the same master plus some reference tracks and you want to compare them. Without overlay names it's quite impossible to separate them. See attached image as an example.
1.2 Once a snapshot is created, do not overwrite it by left clicking. Make the user use the right click menu for snapshot button to overwrite so spectrums won't be accidentally overwritten. Use left click to show / hide a spectrum once it's written.
2. Allow scanning whole files by drag & drop from windows file manager. Create new snapshot to an empty slot when the file is scanned and show the respective overlay name. Use file name for overlay name and allow editing it. This will make comparing frequency plots for several files much much faster.
3. Allow exporting spectrum (frequency plot) straight to files and also importing these files to slots. See if there already is a suitable standard for the file type so those files could be opened in other programs as well (REW for example).
4. Add a favourites drop down menu for spectrums (with basic management like add current selected spectrum to favourites and delete one by one) so you can quickly show your favourite reference spectrums in any situation.
5. Add a button for leveling all shown spectrum around 1 kHz (perhaps a some kind of average value around 1kHz should be used rather than the exact dB value @ 1 kHz) so you can compare them regardless of the amplitude
6. Add a dialog to enter dB +- value for an individual selected spectrum in order to match it manually with others or make separation / adjustment. Add a way to first select individual spectrum, if needed
7. Add a button for rendering the selected file (creating a temp file which is not saved or showed, just internally used) with the current FX rack in order to just show how applying current FX rack will affect the frequency plot. This would be just like "Scan selection" but first the FX rack is rendered to the temp file and then that file is scanned. The button could be named something like "Predict FX rack" or so, for the lack of better suggestion.. You might want to also add a button for "add changes (or prediction) to file" which would replace the used file or file segment with the new temp file, after the plot is shown. This would streamline experimenting with final eq settings during the mastering process.
8. I'm a bit confused of the Octet value used in smoothing spectrums. What does this refer to? I think the standard value is Octave. If you smooth a spectrum by 1/3 octave, you will not see any sharp deviations in the plot. If I use the 1/3 Octet value in Soundop, there is a lot of deviations / details in the spectrum and it's nothing like 1/3 octave smoothing. Could smoothing be changed so that it would meet the industry standard? Octave / smoothing is a very standard thing considering audio software and gear in general. One good example for research would be the Voxengo span freeware analyzer, to see what kind of values should be supported. I will add an image of a 1/3 octave smoothing.
9. Hire me as a part time UI adviser
