What's new in LASTAR 1.9.3.1
Jun 4, 2022
- Fixed : Error in 1.9.3 version packaging, album cover was not correctly saved
New in LASTAR 1.9.3 (Apr 28, 2022)
- New option to process all input files together as a single input file
New in LASTAR 1.9.2.2 (Oct 13, 2020)
- Italian translation updated (thanks to Roberto)
New in LASTAR 1.9.2.1 (Oct 12, 2020)
- Fix for manual release times settings
New in LASTAR 1.9.2 (Oct 11, 2020)
- Automated limiter release time when setting is 0
- Several algorithm improvements
New in LASTAR 1.9.1 (Jun 21, 2020)
- Custom autoeq settings were not saved properly
New in LASTAR 1.9.0 (Mar 15, 2020)
- Improvements :
- Auto equalizer can learn new profiles from input audio files
- Graphical analysis display, showing spectrum and segments
- Command line (batch) processing
- Default ID tags (including cover image) can now be different for each preset
- Quality of cover image can be adjusted
- Analysis pass are redone only if necessary
- Minor GUI improvements
- Fixes :
- Minor bug fixes
- Internal software architecture improvements for better maintainability
New in LASTAR 1.9.0 Beta (Feb 3, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Auto equalizer can learn new profiles from input audio files
- Graphical analysis display, showing spectrum and segments
- Command line (batch) processing
- Default ID tags (including cover image) can now be different for each preset
- Quality of cover image can be adjusted
- Analysis pass are redone only if necessary
- Minor GUI improvements
New in LASTAR 1.8.4.1 (Jan 12, 2020)
- Italian translation updated (thanks to Roberto)
New in LASTAR 1.8.4 (Jan 1, 2020)
- Weighting can now be (de)activated in advanced parameters
- Mastering with Auto Eq is done in 3 pass (RMS stats are recomputed applying the Auto Eq setting)
- Auto Eq applied corrections are now displayed in the log window
New in LASTAR 1.8.3 (Jan 1, 2020)
- New italian translation (thanks to Roberto for his help !)
- Translation loader reworked
- Use of Qt 5.13
New in LASTAR 1.8.2 (Apr 23, 2019)
- Fixed non ASCII characters handling in tags. Better tags handling in FLAC, OGG, WAV files thanks to taglib usage.
New in LASTAR 1.8.1.1 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Fixed :
- Pre-listen function didn't start
- Problem with msvc2015 runtime installation (installer version)
- The last 150 ms (at 44.1 KHz) of audio were not processed
- Added :
- Button to reset artwork
- Button to disable noise estimation
New in LASTAR 1.8.0 (Nov 5, 2018)
- In mp3 files, artwork image in input file is now copied in the output
- Ability to define a default artwork for mp3 output
New in LASTAR 1.7.1 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Incorrect accent handling in mp3 tags
- Problem in Noise Gate
- Random problem in mp3 output
New in LASTAR 1.7.0 (Jun 5, 2018)
- New:
- Automated equalization algorithm
- Embedded version check
- New embedded FFT algorithm. Dependency to FFTW removed.
- Minor fixes and algorithm improvements
New in LASTAR 1.6.1 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Fixed:
- ID Tag track number sometimes incorrectly read from mp3 files
- Minor fixes
New in LASTAR 1.6.0 (Jun 5, 2018)
- New:
- Output in flac and ogg vorbis formats available
- Output tags available for all formats
- Improvements:
- A-Weighting filter for loudness estimation
- Better error reporting
- Fixed:
- Regression in last version of AGC algorithm leading to unexpected results
- Bug when dropping multiple directories on the window
New in LASTAR 1.5.2 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Some internal redesign of RMS amplifier and limiter with better behaviour in some situations, in particular when gain control is enabled
- Ported to Qt 5.5 and now natively compiled with MSVC compiler, with better performances
- Fixes:
- Split function was not working correctly when trimming was enabled
- Several minor corrections of potential crash or malfunction
New in LASTAR 1.5.1 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Fixes:
- Random crashes while pre-listening
- Incorrect exit sequence (no visible consequence)
- Blank error message on system error while opening files
New in LASTAR 1.5.0 (Oct 29, 2014)
- New:
- A "Trim output" function that suppresses start and end
- silences of each processed track. See advanced parameters.
- Progress bar for multiple files processing
- Fixes:
- Directory selector for selecting input or output directories
- did not work properly on Win XP.
- Several minor bugs in file management options
New in LASTAR 1.4.2 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Improved gain control on track end (special fade-out detection and overall noise threshold).
New in LASTAR 1.4.1 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Fix:
- Problem opening wav files with accents in the name or path
New in LASTAR 1.4.0 (Oct 1, 2014)
- New features:
- Improved gain control algorithm and directory tree processing.
- Ability to process all the files of directory tree and save the processed files in another location keeping the same structure
- When processing several files, ability to skip processing if destination file exists. This allows to update an output directory with only the new files. This option is selected by default when processing directories
- 2 new factory presets "Mobile Pop/rock/metal" & "Mobile Classical/Jazz" to process a collection with automatic gain control.
- Additional command line arguments for problem diagnosis
- Fixes:
- Process didn't exit properly when closing the windows while pre-listening
- When process is interrupted, incomplete output file is removed
- Several problems in the compression algorithm leading to distortion or bad amplification
- Bad handling of filenames containing non ascii characters
- ID3V2 Track number tag is now copied to the output
- Parallel processing would hang in certain situations
- (internal): bad unsigned cast leading to distortion in mp3 reading if the program is compiled with recent g++
- Others:
- Ported to QT5 for future maintenance
- Rewritten command line arguments management
- vc redistributable integrated to the installer
- upgraded intaller => better integration of uninstaller in Windows 8
New in LASTAR 1.3.1 (Jan 21, 2012)
- Added : integer 8 to real 64 bits support in Wav output. The bit depth of output is now the same as the input for Wav files.
New in LASTAR 1.3.0 (Jan 13, 2012)
- Added: 3 bands semi-parametric equalizer
- Added: pre-listening function, with real-time parameters adjustment
- Correction: issue in compression mode, which was leading to audible distortion when combined with multiband mode.
- Correction: Noise gate release is now null
- Updated and more detailed user manual
- Access to PDF help from menu
New in LASTAR 1.2.9 (Dec 12, 2011)
- Added : adjustable noise gate on output
New in LASTAR 1.2.8 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Ability to add user settings
New in LASTAR 1.2.7 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Amplification is now made on 2 bands if min freq. = max freq. in parameters
New in LASTAR 1.2.6 (Sep 8, 2011)
- Output file type is now saved in settings
New in LASTAR 1.2.5 (Sep 8, 2011)
- Max. output peek parameter added
- ID Tag window doesn't appear anymore for wav output
New in LASTAR 1.2.4 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Default Titile ID Tag is initialized with file name
New in LASTAR 1.2.3 (May 25, 2011)
- Tag window is displayed at processing launch when there are no input tags
- Parameters tweaking
New in LASTAR 1.2.2 (May 25, 2011)
- When launched on a batch of files (nb>1), the last processed file is closed after processing.
- Help tooltip added in File list.
New in LASTAR 1.2.1 (May 25, 2011)
- Correction : Better memory management
- Correction : File not properly closed when some new are dropped in log tab
New in LASTAR 1.2.0 (May 25, 2011)
- More flexible output file management
New in LASTAR 1.1.2 (May 25, 2011)
- Correction : bad music type initialization from user settings
New in LASTAR 1.1.1 (May 25, 2011)
- Added 0.5s before and after each region in file splitting
- Better file list presentation
- Display returns to log after simple file analysis
- Delete protection in file list while processing
New in LASTAR 1.1.0 (May 25, 2011)
- Better file list management
- Ability to parameter output bitrate for compressed formats
- Redesign of parameters panel
- Parameter changes are stored, for each music kind
- Default tags are stored
- Front panel settings are stored
- New default multiband parameters to gain transparency
New in LASTAR 1.0.2 (Mar 14, 2011)
- Output keeps id3 tags (V1 and V2) from input
- Ability to edit default tags used when there are none in input
- Ability to add files to the current list with ctrl+drop
- Ctrl+O allows now to open several files at once
New in LASTAR 1.0.1 (Mar 14, 2011)
- Correct handling of various sample rates
- Correct handling of mp3 mono files
- Minor parameters tweaking