Re: Changes, changes, changes

On 27 Apr 2007, at 00:29, Jan Depner wrote:

>     I've made some changes to the interface that I think might be
> useful.
>
>     First, the bypass state will now be saved for each piece of the
> interface with the exception of the global bypass (that would make no
> sense).  I've used this to update the RIAA_EQ.jam file in the examples
> directory so that the compressors are bypassed when you load it.
> Important note - bypass states will NOT be saved if you are running  
> with
> the -d option since the "actual states will not get updated to the
> "pending" states unless the transport is running.  That drove me nuts
> until I figured it out ;-)
>
>     Second, the precision of the EQ sliders in the 30 band GEQ had  
> been
> set to 1dB due to GUI real estate limitations.  I have removed the
> slider value display from the top of each slider and added a pair of
> labels under the GEQ.  These labels are updated whenever the cursor
> moves over a slider or whenever a slider is moved.  You can take a  
> look
> at the end of src/callbacks.c to see how this was done.  There is also
> an interesting comment there about how objects are passed to the
> callback.  The sliders now have a single step size of .1dB and a page
> step size of .2dB.  I realize that this is overkill but it was  
> useful in
> getting the right EQ values for the RIAA curve and then smoothing out
> the curve.

Sounds good.

>     If there is no objection to this I will commit.  If I don't hear
> anything back within a week I'll commit anyway ;-)
>
>     Isn't it about time to go to 1.0?  Ardour is just about ready to
> release and the only thing that I've seen recently that would be  
> useful
> was the addition of RMS to the meters (waiting for Steve ;-)  Anyone,
> anyone, Beuhler...

Sampo Savolainen was working on an improved limiter, from what I can  
tell it is a lot better, and reduces distortion when pushing. I'd  
like to get that supported as the main limiter (possibly with the old  
one as an option) before we go 1.0. He's waiting on me getting my SVN  
server up again, which should also happen this weekend.

I'm hoping to have my studio unpacked and running this weekend, so I  
will finally have a linux box that can build and run JAMin again :)

- Steve

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