What's new in Wavosaur 1.8.0.0
May 21, 2023
- New VST dialog box for plugin GUI:
- Resizing bug fixed
- Plugin name and dll name display
- Status bar, menu and toolbar for plugin control
- Mute button fonction to disconnect plugin
- Load & save banks and presets
- Resizable VST GUI full support
- New "VST/Midi bridge":
- VST parameter are now management via midi CC (see manual for more detailled infos)
- Update of midi configuration dialog box
- New "VST Tweaker":
- Display of all VST parameters
- Support of VST without GUI
- Parameter value, label and name displayed
- Usable with mouse wheel
- Configurable view for low/high res screens (saved in ini file)
- New "VST Scanner":
- New scanner with independant processing of plugin to avoid crash with unstable plugins
- Use of WavosaurVSTScan.exe mandatory (same directory)
- VST Rack:
- Mute added in popup menu (mute the selected plugin)
- VST plugin properties dialog box
- No window close on 'return' key pressed
- Renaming of plugin in rack and list
- Host support for open/save dialog
- Support of parameter automation
- Option to keep VST rack (saved in wavosaur.sor) to reload it at startup
- MP3 decoding bug with corrupted files fixed
- Playbar resynchro during selection change for loop
- Vu meter, Widget and VST processing bug fixed (for file closed)
- New Wavosaur debug features:
- New dialog box in help menu
- Code from Wavosaur support to activate debug functions
- Optimisation audit & task force for timing and speed:
- Player, widget global graphic interface
- Full display for zoom
- New recent file dialog box:
- New dockable (left/right) and reziable dialog for recent file
- All recent files are saved in wavosaurrecentfiles.ini file
- Name and path views
- New file browser dockable dialog box:
- Simple and efficient file tree with audio
- Double click to load file
- Path saved wavosaurbrowser.ini file
- File filters fully editable in ini file
- Editor frame rate is now available un cfg file for advanced users
- Sampling rate and audio device are now on the main frame pane
- Double click on dB bar (channel solo) change without select all
- Audio driver:
- Relaunched after audio configurations
- ASIO:
- Bug corrected for 24bits drivers (LSB)
- Compatibility improvement for ASIO4all change of buffer size
- Correction for multichannel drivers
- Sample rate frequency detection
- Midi:
- Midi panning correction
- Midi commands are now in fully editable "wavosaurmidicommand.ini"
- Evolution UC33 midi controller compatibility improvement
- New toolbar size, buttons added for oscillo & sonogram
- Main frame: filter to aifc, aff and snd added in open dialog box
New in Wavosaur 1.7.0.0 (Jul 24, 2020)
- New realtime resampling algoritm for sampling different frequency of player
- Offline resampling:
- New dialog box management
- New downsampling options: medium and high band limited quality
- Memory leak bug fixed
- Vu-meter widget bug fixed
- Progress dialog box:
- Time remaining added
- Sonogram:
- New logarithmic scale option
- Display optimisation
- Progress bar during computing
- Horizontal marker value display behavior improved
- NEW realtime Oscilloscope v2:
- Ouput waveform analysis with electronic oscillocope philosophy
- Color of most common oscillo
- Trigger run and pause
- Synchro on falling or rising edge
- Trigger value and position with mouse
- Reminder popup bug fixed in case of undo
New in Wavosaur 1.6.0.0 (May 15, 2020)
- Host VST transport changed flag bug solved)
- Synthesis:
- Linear sweep
- Exponential sweep
- Sonogram:
- Black/white and white/black color added
- Better management of saturation level
- Sample display avoid recalculation
- Button sample display on by default
- Computation optimisation
New in Wavosaur 1.5.0.0 (Apr 21, 2020)
- "View Widget" added (in View menu)
- Redo:
- Full support for all features
- All in RAM option (recommended for x64), option in editor configuration dialog
- VST Rack:
- Popup menu on right click on VST rack
- Add VST with double click on VST list
- Popup menu on right click on VST List: suppress & add to rack
- Bug fix for Idle message from some old VSTs
- Support of keyboard keys (suppr)
- Select from start or stop menu added (in Edit)
- Batch processor VST processing bug fixed
- Progress bar:
- Percent progression added
- Bug fix for global display for Windows 10 resizing
New in Wavosaur 1.4.0.0 (Mar 20, 2020)
- Normalize menu bug fixed
- New Widget: player chronometer
- Convert to stereo bug fixed
- New Sor file format
- Data extract/write optimized
- Time bar: click on time bar to change current position
- AU file support: 24 bits, 32 bits, A-law, float & double
- VOC file support: 8 bit import
- Batch processing:
- normalize -3dB added
- mp3 320 kbit/s
- directory path saved for folder browsing dialog box
- DBbar:
- double click support to select entire channel
- simple click to select/deselect the channel
- AIFF file support:
- Sampling frequency bug fixed
- 12, 24 & 32bits file support
- AIFC file support: (AIFF with AIFC file format):
- Edition
- Batch processing
- Import binary:
- 32 bits & 64 bits float big endian byte order support
- 8 bits u & A law support
- Export binary:
- 32 bits & 64 bits float big endian byte order support
- 8 bits u & A law support
New in Wavosaur 1.3.0.0 (Feb 26, 2017)
- Lot's of bug corrections/optimizations x86 & x64 bits
- Channel processing
- Auxiliary left and auxiliary right channel convertion to mono
- Convertion to mono optimized with mix of only selected channels
- New "Select all" feature on right click
- New FXP and FXB management with strong support of Steinberg VST program and bank files
- Discover new Wavosaur Widgets: Widgets are plugings completely dockable windows with high performance measurements for various audio parameters:
- Real time ouput FFT (multichannel)
- RMS power measurements
- Scope mode for output signal visualization
- Panning for stereo analysis
New in Wavosaur 1.2.0.0 (Aug 13, 2016)
- New spectrum analysis: with precise real time display
- Output routing is in cfg file
- New option to keep *.rec files (in case of crash)
- Oscilloscope bug fixed for sample view
- Mp3 decoder bug fied (synchro during decoding, without user impact)
- Transport playing flag for VST plugins
- New time bar:
- Selection
- user view
- flickering improved
- New keyboard control:
- to avoid switch to mainframe view for spectrum analysis/sonogram & 3d view keyboard shortcuts
- wavosaur.keys : lot's of wavosaur shortcuts are now customizable in this "ini" format file (editable)
- new "Keyboard shortcuts" configuration dialog box: in menu "Option"
New in Wavosaur 1.1.0.0 (Dec 3, 2013)
- 64 bit version : Wavosaur now runs natively on 64 bit Windows systems, and load 64 bit VST plugins, the 32 bit version of Wavosaur is also available
- VST Host bugfix : fixed bug with "input pin", it was causing "Izotope" VST plugins to stop working
New in Wavosaur 1.0.9.0 (Jul 2, 2013)
- New VST Host:
- VST is now full compliant with 2.4 Steinberg SDK
- VST Host lots of bugs fixed
- Scan options added: VSti filter, sub directories, add VST to the current list
- Suppression of items inside the VST list
- New VST rack and list visualisation
- Drag and drop between list and rack, and inside the rack
- VSTi different icons between instruments and effects
- Apply bug fixed
- Batch processor bug fixed for VST Chain feature
- Audio input:
- New record menu
- Hot plug support
- buffer loses bug fixed
- visual indication during recording: duration indication and record button blinking
- Audio ouput:
- hot plug of audio devices support
- Volume dialog updated with purcentage display
- Vumeter:
- more precise display for 30dB scale
- 120dB scale added
- Display options: thin, medium and large
- Color change
- Audio critical section added to improve stability
- Buffer out block size up to 4096 samples
- Cfg file format change (always editable in text editor like notepad)
- Auto update check added: this option could be deactivated in configuration dialog box
- Aiff file bug fixed
- DC remover selection bug fixed
New in Wavosaur 1.0.8.0 (Dec 28, 2012)
- Frequency editor:
- New memory manager: different type of curves (channel, buffer size) are displayed
- New FFT computation, with selection of buffer size
- zoom in zoom out with button, mouse and keyboard
- navigation inside the wave file with keyboard and toolbar
- Find peak tool
- Open and save as feature to load and write computation files to hard drive
- Selection bug fixed
- New Sonogram:
- Saturation level added
- Window is now stand alone
- Window is resizable
- Windowing, data size, et FFT buffer size are configurable in a new dialog
- Effects:
- New high performance filter added: with new dialog box for customizations of frequency, type and precision
- Band pass and notch recursive filter with new dialogbox for property choice
- more:
- VST GUI dialog box size bug fixed
- VST properties diplayed in the VST rack manager
- High precision FFT pitch shift added in process menu
- Color configuration added: all the colors of Wavosaur are modifiable
- Volume dialog box is now dockable in the right or the left corners of the mainframe
New in Wavosaur 1.0.7.0 (Nov 6, 2012)
- VST update:
- VST host interface changed
- Arrows added to change the position of the VST
- new button disposition at the left of the dialog box
- Support for deprecated VST Idle message increased
- MP3 import:
- Mp3 decoder optimization
- RAM usage during import
- file decoding improved
- Real time sonogram: saturation level could be change with mouse wheel
- 3D frequency editor: mouse wheel support added for zoom in/out
- Frequency editor:
- New windows with status bar and tool bar
- Window can be toogled to mainframe
- Cursor added with mouse control
- Lowercase file name bug fixed
- time bar display changed:
- minute format added
- dynamic display
- New dialogbox for new file: possibility to choose duration or sample number
- Synthesis: new dialog box with note choice with octave and semitone choice
- New tool: note frequency calculator
New in Wavosaur 1.0.6.0 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Batch processor has been entirely rewritten.
- Subdirectories are now processed too
- RAM usage optimized
- Memory leak removed
- CPU usage improvements
- Minor bugfixes
- VST:
- VST plugin compatibility improved
- Fixed crash with some VST plugins when scanning
- Popup menu added on time bar (right click) to change time format
- Resample check box memorized
New in Wavosaur 1.0.5.0 (Jun 7, 2009)
- Display engine ram usage optimized
- Memory leakage removed
- Paste mono is now supported for multichannel files
- Export file as binary added:
- 8,16,24,32,64 bits support, float, pcm and little and big endian
- no header or chunk added, just raw datas
- New 3D frequency editor:
- independent window with menu, toolbar and status bar
- new 3D and color representation
- increase computation speed and display
- mouse support to rotate the current view
- zoom in/out
- Time format (time bar and status bar) is now global and saved in cfg file
- VST:
- VST host tempo added in editor configuration dialog box
- VST rack slot full replaced by replacing command
- Various icon bugs fixed
- SamplePos now supported (VstTimeInfo)
- Amplitude zoom short cut added Ctrl+up or down arrow
- Undo:
- unlimited undo!
- behavior and ram usage improved
- lots of action are now "undoable": marker and loop position, volume enveloppe etc.
- Bit depth converter dialog box bug fixed
- Save and Save as engine recoded
- Modified flag added: reminder dialog box is now after file modifications (option still exist to deactivate, but only for advanced user)
- Unlimited marker number
New in Wavosaur 1.0.4.0 (Dec 15, 2008)
- Shift + click behavior added
- Playbar bug fixed
- MP3 bug fixed (truncated files)
- Check box on Time bar added
- Middle button bug fixed (scroll bar and time bar)
- Unselect shortcut added : Ctrl+Shift+A
- Output volume dialog box added to control general output volume ('View' menu), saved in cfg file
- Reset button added in audio out routing dialog box
- Multiple document could be now opened in command line
- BPM calculator added in tools menu
- Delay Calculator added in tools menu
- Reset to default colors added in skin configuration
New in Wavosaur 1.0.3.0 (Aug 27, 2008)
- Resampling:
- Downsampling filter/interpolation bug fixed
- Various type of interpolation added: polynome 2, 3, 4 degrees
- Band limited resampling added (for down sampling)
- Various anti aliasing filter qualities added
- More file formats supported
- Ogg Vorbis support added : see our forum for more information about support setup
- WavPack decoder added : see our forum for more information about support setup
- Spectrum analysis improved:
- -200dB floor level added
- Calculation precision improved
- Color changed to have better visualization
- Multichannel support
- Sonogram:
- Calculation precision improved
- Sonogram is now in color! (black and white is always possible in "Settings" menu)
- Multichannel support
- VST rack:
- VST GUI dialog box is now resizable (bottom right corner)
- Directory scan added
- 'wavosaur.vst': vst file list created with full open and editable format
- Oscilloscope:
- Sonogram view is now in color!
- Various improvements and bug fixed...
New in Wavosaur 1.0.1.0 (Dec 3, 2007)
- Audio configuration dialog bug fixed (happening with RME Asio)
- Middle button on mouse is now active for moving sound file when right-click is used for contextual menu. Otherwise this is the right button that is used for dragging the waveform.
- Zoom on mouse pointer added : use the F3 and F4 keys to zoom on mouse pointer.
- Selection, markers and loop behavior improved (dragging and moving).
- Multimedia keyboard keys support:
- Use you keyboard to command Wavosaur playing : Play, stop, next and previous command added
- It could be desactivated in editor configuration dialog
- Add marker by midi command added (MIDI CC 39): see .cfg file to configure the midi CC
- Sample edition added in 'Tools' menu: you can change the value of a single sample with the mouse.
- Add loop command added in batch processor: automatically add loop points at start and end of the processed files.
- VST Rack updated:
- Up and down added to change the VST order ; use these button to move up or down the VST plugins in the effects chain.
- Mute, solo & reset function added for each VST plugin : you can now bypass or solo the plugins in the effects chain.
- Apply bug fixed
- Autoscrolling during play added: the feature could be desactivated in configuration dialog box
- Vu meter added:
- Dockable
- Menu 'View'->Vu meter
- Configurable scale (popup menu for right click, saved in ini)
- Gapper effect updated: possibility to change gap frequency (start frequency and end frequency)
- Frequency editor parameters saved in ini file, check button added (menu)
- Option toolbar added:
- Various configurations
- Show on/off selection grid lines & horizontal marker added
- Import binary bug fixed (frequency reset)
- ALAW & ULAW saving bug fixed
- Playbar behavior updated (arrow key and page up&dn)
- Grid lines automatically turned off for small selection
- Frequency editor updated with -60dB level
- Red noise synthesis added (brown(ian) noise by white integration)
- Main window positions and sizes are now memorized (ini file): it's always
- possible to show the window maximized at startup in Editor configuration
- dialog box.
- Reminder on close modified
- Ctrl E added to zoom on selection
- Ctrl R added to zoom out full
New in Wavosaur 1.0.0.9000 (Jul 2, 2007)
- New : volume automation added!
- You can insert and edit a multi-point volume enveloppe, edit the volume enveloppe while listening to your sample in real time.
- Double click to add point
- Double click on point to delete
- Right click on points to select point type and other features
- Linear, Smoothy, Hold and Curve point added
- Apply volume automation on current file
- Reset list of points to 0dB
- Kill all automation points
- Real time playing of automation
- Volume automation is saved to wav file (SDK available soon for dev: contact us for more details)
- Volume automation toolbar added
- Full support of GUI less VST:
- VST without GUI can be tweaked now.
- VST rack updated to support tweaking with slider
- Parameter display in text field
- VST rack news:
- Toolbar bug fixed
- Rack dialog box is now minimizable
- VST plugin GUI is now minimizable
- Double click added to open VST GUI in plugin list
- Only selected channel are processed (unselected channel are ignored)
- All wavosaur toolbars are movable, dockable and positions are memorized
- First version of french translation available Wavosaur.1.0.0.9000(fr).dll : copy this file inside your wavosaur directory
- Loop properties dialog box added: possibility to change midi note, type etc.
- 64 bits wav file support:
- Import binary
- Batch processor
- 'New' dialog updated
- Display bug at end of file fixed
- Skin file name added in editor configuration dialog
- Unselected channel are now grayed in dB bar
- Open file dialog and save as dialog has now explorer style
- Horizontal marker added in Options menu
- Most recent file number (in File menu) is now configurable in cfg file
- Loop points toolbar added
- Lock loop and marker added in toolbars
- Scrollbar bug fixed (resizing)
- Delete marker and loop added: right click on the marker or loop point to display popup menu
- Pause button behavior changed
- VST compatibility improved
New in Wavosaur 1.0.0.8000 (May 2, 2007)
- MP3 encoder 'lame_enc.dll' support: go to our web site for more installation informations
- Export as mp3 added in File menu with customisable options (select bitrate)
- Batch processor updated with convert to wav
- Batch processor updated with convert to mp3
- Crossfade loop added in Tool->Loop menu : first version of the Crossfade loop option is with "equal volume law" and fixed fades at 100 or 50%.
- Playbar behaviour modified in case of double Click
- Paste and mix at marker feature added
- Out of screen selection behaviour added: speed is configurable in cfg file
- 'Paste & mix' and 'Mark Selection' added in right click popup menu
- ASIO kx driver compatibility improved (16 bits MSB): Wavosaur now can work with ASIO KX drivers.
- Selection grid line bug fixed
- Big file displaying optimisation
- Loop points & markers saved when copy/cut/paste
- Custom truncate added in Effects menu
- Play from midi command bug fixed
- 8, 16, 24 & 32 bits file IO optimized: saving operations should be faster.
- Synthesis update : "Advanced" option added -> possibility to sum and multiply different synthesis
- Absolute square added in synthesis dialog
- Scrool bar bug fixed
- Delta (selection start minus selection end) added in statistics and properties box
- Custom insert silence added : insertion at end, start & cursor
- Auto detect region engine updated: possibility to set marker at start,end, middle and both positions
- Copy: only selected channel are copied
- Insert channel added in Process->Channel processing menu
- Selection grid line option is now for all samples and saved in cfg.
- Multichannel VST: apply function improved
- Apply VST bug fix (at end of file or selection)
- Process bit depth converter added: possibility to apply quantization
- "Gapper effect" added in "Effects" menu
- RC filter added : simulation of electronic first order RC filter
- Chebyshev filter added in Effects->Filter menu: recursive filters with frequency, ripple, pole number and type
- Possibility to load multiple file in dialog box for open funtion
- Delta added in status bar
- * Editor configuration dialog added:
- VST, chain files (*.sor) and sound path could be configured here (saved in cfg file)
- Reminder on close can be desactivated
- Always create new file when recording option added
- Popup menu on right click
- Selection grid line number
- Forward/Rewind speed
- Out of screen selection speed
New in Wavosaur 1.0.0.7000 (Mar 7, 2007)
- - MDI (Multiple Document Interface) implemented allowing:
- Copy & paste between different opened audio files
- Paste in new document
- Change file by Ctrl tab or with midi control command (ToggleWindow)
- ASIO driver implemented for audio output.
- Audio routing implemented
- Powerful real time resampling: this option is available in 'Audio configuration' menu
- Skin support: possibility to change all colors of Wavosaur! ENJOY!
- Possibility to have context menu on right click (option editable in cfg file)
- Export all region added: each region delimited by markers is flushed in wav file.
- AKAI S1000 Sample support
- SUN au and snd file support
- ADPCM Dialogic vox support
- AIF bug fixed
- File saved from record or cut datas are named "new" (no more ~tmp.wav)
- Recording when there's no opened file creates automatically a new file
- "Always create new file when recording" option (in .cfg)
- File writing improved : saving is faster
- Better VST compatibility
- GUI related bug fixed (no more CPU spikes when tweaking parameters)
- VST rack size reduced
- Options menu updated with time format and loop
- Reminder on close editable in cfg file
- 24 bits recording added for MME driver compatible in cfg file only
- Amplitude zoom enlarged
- Midi & audio configuration are now separated
- Batch processor dialog: path are now saved in ini file
- Import binary dialog: parameters are now saved in ini file
- Synthesis dialog: parameters are now saved in ini file
- New file dialog: parameters are now saved in ini file
- Playbar behaviour updated
- Statistics updated: in case of no selection, the entire file is computed
- Custom volume added
- Custom normalize added
- Custom auto detect region added
- Auto-trim added with customisable value
- Simple bit-depth converter added
- Properties added in File menu
- Export as text added in file menu
- Silence remover added in 'tools' menu
- Set selection range added in Edit menu
- Moving average filter added
- Frequency impulse train generator added in synthesis menu: useful for testing filters, a good complement to white noise analysis
- Set marker as BPM in Tools->Markers: it allows to place a marker for BPM and mesure
- Pitch shift added in Process menu
- Reload from file feature added
- Truncate feature added in Effect menu
- Scroll bar behaviour improved
- "Flower panning" visualization added!!!!
- Real time sonogram added in Oscilloscope tool
- Loop status is correctly showing in option menu
- "L" shortcut for "create loop" labeled in loop menu
- Display time options per file
- No submenu for DC remover
- "Channel mismatch paste error box" added for paste & mix
- Channel deselect now mute output
- Batch processor : output windows scrolling bug fixed
- Statistics now shows the total duration in h:m:s