What's new in Photosounder 1.11.2
Oct 30, 2022
- Fixed controls being reset to default after adding an image to a layer
- Fixed problem with loading files with long paths
New in Photosounder 1.11.0 (Jul 21, 2022)
- License validation dialog
- Audio output dialog for selecting an API, device, sample rate and buffer size
- Save dialog for selecting the file format
- Dialog to extend or cut the project's duration
- Save non-lossless mode sound files now uses live synthesis which gives better output and solves previous problems with trying to save when live synthesis mode on
- A crash report file is generated and revealed when Photosounder crashes on Windows
- Faster graphics thanks to SIMD optimisation
- Restored road-roller and magnet and mask erasing functionality
- and mask erasing (as opposed to one for the whole project)
- Each layer can now have its own original copy used for road-roller and magnet
- logfile.txt on Windows is now in the AppData folder, like config.txt
- Fixed the Save command when scripting an image save
- Fixed "Merge all to new layer" in scripting
- Fixed PHA file saving for the status type
- Fixed WAV file loading for some cases
- Floating window manager so windows don't have a fixed order anymore
- Fixed an issue with program not launching due to restoring window position, now the window always starts maximised
New in Photosounder 1.10.1 (Mar 1, 2020)
- Fixed mouse zoom on macOS
- Reenabled Page Up/Down zooming
- Fixed issues with loading RGB TIFF files
New in Photosounder 1.10.0 (Feb 9, 2020)
- Ability to import more files to a single project, each on its own layer
- New interface system that adds dialogs for creating a new project, opening/importing files, analysis options, and more
- Drag and drop of files
- Console you can bring up using F3 to enter commands
- Volume limiter
- Much faster FFT-accelerated and GPU-accelerated convolution between layers
- Can save images to linear 32-bit per channel TIFF
- Can analyse ultrasounds up to 192 kHz
- Fixed issues with the Gamma and Intensity knobs as well as various other issues
New in Photosounder 1.9.5 (Sep 3, 2018)
- Visualisation overlays now remain when a menu is open
- MP3 files with out of range samples don't get clipped anymore
- Issues with silent blocks in lossless mode on Windows should be resolved
- Fixed a possible post-loading crash
New in Photosounder 1.9.4 (Aug 2, 2018)
- Fixed the sometimes extremely slow analysing of sound files. Loading sounds is now consistently fast.
- Fixed a potential source of crashes when loading MP3 files on Windows. The libmpg123 DLL is not needed anymore.
New in Photosounder 1.9.3 (May 25, 2018)
- Moved config.txt (Mac and Windows) and logfile.txt (Mac only, Windows keeps it in the program's folder) to the proper Photosounder files folder
- Open Manual on Mac now opens the manual in the website (instead of not doing anything)
- Fixed the Reload function
- Changed what was incorrectly called "pink noise" to "brown noise"
- Added an Operation to generate proper pink noise
New in Photosounder 1.9.2 (Mar 12, 2018)
- Fixed issues with launching on macOS 10.11 and later
- 64-bit only, which means no more "out of memory" problems
- Fixed the occasional loading of sound that was 10x slower than usual
- Changed the way paths are handled internally, Unicode paths are now handled properly on macOS
- Added option in the Help menu to locate where Photosounder now puts files (like history.pha)
- Can now load MP3s out-of-the-box on Windows since all MP3 patents have expired
New in Photosounder 1.9.0 (Jun 22, 2013)
- Live Synthesis mode added, it makes any change to the image heard instantly with no interruption
- Cursor-controlled playback
- Option to dump/save live synthesis output to an audio file
- Image rotation has been changed to make the image keep the same dimensions, can be applied on individual layers in multi-layer images
- Layers and groups of layers can be disabled
- Fixed layer list in menu in the Mac version to display more than just the names of the layers
- Various bug fixes, improvements and optimisations
New in Photosounder 1.8.3 (Apr 6, 2011)
- History/Scripting function: All actions done in Photosounder are saved to a human-readable history file (history.pha) which when opened redoes every action. It also allows for writing elaborate scripts interpreted by Photosounder.
- Resume Last Session function
- Option to suspend processing
- Waits for synthesis to complete before saving sound to file
- Changed the windows compiler, more optimisations, larger address space
- 4/4 rhythm overlay
- Semitone overlay
- Constant Time Resolution Analysis option
- Linear knob control option
- Added option to only view/edit/hear the current group of layers
- Optional History menu to set history recording options
- Fixed freeze when checking for updates (Windows)
- logfile.txt always created in the Photosounder folder (Windows)
- Added new View menu
- Fixed crash in Group to Nearest Semitone
- Made Escape key not quit but select the cursor instead
- Remembers window size and tool size and intensity
- Asks to save before opening a new file
- Made drawing smoother, Gamma and Intensity knobs much more responsive
- Improved harmonics drawing
- Menus extend to the side when they reach the bottom of the screen (Windows)
- Improved behavior of left/right arrow keys
- Extended support for high precision slow mouse movement
- Changed which layer is selected after a Merge Down operation
New in Photosounder 1.8.2 (Sep 11, 2010)
- Saving whole session to a Photosounder Archive (.pha) file
- Speeded up responsiveness/image display speed on multi-layer images
- Blending optimisation (useless operations removed)
- New Group to Nearest Semitone operation
- Fixed silent/messed up block of sound bug
- Blending 'tags' in layers list
- Option to set convolution centre
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Photosounder 1.8.1 (Jul 7, 2010)
- New convolution/propagation blending modes
- New layer intensity knob
- New Fill to Left and Bottom, Horizontal/Vertical Normalisation and Horizontal/Vertical Curves operations to manipulate horizontal and vertical envelopes
- Layers can all be merged into one new layer
- Gamma knob has real-time preview
- Fixed spray tool offset issues
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Photosounder 1.8 (Jun 2, 2010)
- New basic stereo support
- New layer system
- Interface made more responsive
- New move tool
- Changed WAV and AIFF output to 32-bit float
- Toggleable loop playback
- Added option for large synthesis block sizes
- New single-row interface layout for large windows (1400+ pixels wide)
- Fixed sound saving so that it uses less memory/is less likely to crash
- Fixed lack of basses on high res images
- Setting tool size to 0.0 draws thin but strong lines instead of invisible lines
- Smoother lines
- Options to change image display mode
- Option to view layer only
- Fixed leaks and crashes
New in Photosounder 1.7.3 (Apr 12, 2010)
- Chunks of sound in view get processed first
- New interface layout for lossless mode
- Faster image display
- Fixed a large memory leak in lossless mode
- Up and Down arrow move views to the end and beginning of sound
- Altered harmonics on white spray
- Sound laid out in memory differently to make crashing with extreme time stretching harder
- Fixed resampling on MP3 loading
New in Photosounder 1.7.2 (Mar 1, 2010)
- Speed improved by 100%
- About 20% of RAM saved on large sounds
- Fixed open dialog on Windows 2000
- Improved idle CPU usage
- Fixed RGB display on sounds
- Fixed RGB colours
- Fixed positioning of magnet cross when zoomed
- Fix bug in the synthesis progress display when zooming
- Fixed Invert to invert original copy
- Changed vertical size of New to reflect the BPO setting
- Improved drag scroll at high zoom levels
New in Photosounder 1.7.1 (Feb 18, 2010)
- Zoom
- Waveform display updates while loading sound
- Fixed/improved the non-gradient image display
New in Photosounder 1.7 (Feb 12, 2010)
- Menus added
- Online update checking added
- New image creation
- Got rid of the mask system, improves the behaviour of Mask Invert and makes everything roughly 8% faster (even synthesis and analysis)
- Vertical flip added
- Manual opening implemented on Mac
- Set the minimum PPS to 0.01
- Fixed a crash that would occur after having resized the window
- Clearer error message when gfx/ files not found
- Fixed spray tools to work in subpixel precision
- Solved sounds output for sound cards that didn't support mono output
- Fixed crashes when unsupported files would be opened
- Fixed a crash that would occur when the time bar was placed at certain positions before rotation
New in Photosounder 1.6.6 (Oct 23, 2009)
- New "road roller" tool for smart erasure
- Faster (optimised) spray tools
New in Photosounder 1.6.5 (Oct 19, 2009)
- Harmonics modifier for spray tools
- Magnet modifier for spray tools
New in Photosounder 1.6.4 (Oct 5, 2009)
- Mask invert
- Improved spray tools
- Precision mouse cursor function
- Mouse cursor for tools
- Fixed lack of mouse position updating after sound loading
- Fixed block range to resynthesise after spray tools are used
New in Photosounder 1.6.3 (Aug 27, 2009)
- New configuration options that allow changing several default parameters
- Perfected calibration in analysis
- Optimised the redraw of the frequency scale
- Fixed range of affected blocks for the rectangle tool
New in Photosounder 1.6.1 (Aug 17, 2009)
- Uses new configuration file to set audio buffer size (used to fix stuttering issues)
- Doesn't crash as easily anymore when running low on memory
New in Photosounder 1.6 (Jul 28, 2009)
- New waveform display
- Reprocesses only modified areas
- Fixed opening with Open With..
- Sound moved back to SDL
- Minor interface rearrangements
- Processing stops faster when cancelled
- Fixed crash when loading a sound after another that existed since 1.4
- Fixed behaviour for when loading an unrelated image when the lossless mode is on
- Adjusted audio volume so there can be clipping only above +0.0 dB
- Fixed mask range bugs
New in Photosounder 1.5.5 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Rectangle tool added
- Fixed window issues at loading time
- Fixed after-rotation crash
New in Photosounder 1.5.4 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Undo/redo function added
- Fixed invert on masks
New in Photosounder 1.5.3 (Jul 9, 2009)
- Added dialogs and checks to make lossless mode less confusing
New in Photosounder 1.5.2 (Jul 9, 2009)
- Beep every 6 seconds in demo replaced with silence every 12 seconds
- Holding a Control key while pressing the left mouse buttons acts like a right mouse click
New in Photosounder 1.5.1 (Jul 7, 2009)
- Fixed display issues such as interface choppiness and white windows
- Fixed support for audio files with non-44.1 kHz sampling rates
New in Photosounder 1.5 (Jun 13, 2009)
- Image redraw made much faster, spray tools no longer lag
- Vision Mode doesn't change when an image is loaded
- The selected tool's button stays down
- INV button is toggleable
- Time-frequency cues appear when the spray tools are used
- Window is maximisable
- Interface rescales automatically when the window becomes too small
- Most libraries have been replaced with new ones
- Various bugs fixed
- Original audio file name now indicated in lossless mode
- New lossless mode
- White paint spray added
- New backwards and ping-pong playback modes
New in Photosounder 1.4.3 (Jun 13, 2009)
- Time resolution knob crash fixed
- Click bug at the end of a sound in lossless mode fixed
New in Photosounder 1.4.2 (Jun 13, 2009)
- Crash in lossless mode fixed
- Original audio file name now indicated in lossless mode
New in Photosounder 1.4.1 (Jun 13, 2009)
- Spray tool delay bug in lossless mode during processing fixed
New in Photosounder 1.4 (Jun 13, 2009)
- New lossless mode
- White paint spray added
- New backwards and ping-pong playback modes
New in Photosounder 1.3 (Feb 21, 2009)
- Fixed freezes and various minor bugs
- The image is now displayed progressively as the sound is being analysed
- Files can now be opened through Windows' Open With..
- MP3 input (optional)
- Added support for more WAV formats, FLAC, AIFF, AU and every other
- format supported by libsndfile
- Sounds can be saved to WAV, AIFF and FLAC
- Input sound samplerates other than 44.1 kHz are now correctly supported
- Open dialog re-opens instead of quiting the program when an invalid file is opened
- Multi-threaded parallel synthesis
- Time display changed to MM'SS"XXX instead of only seconds
- Frequency and pitch at the mouse cursors position is indicated in the lower left corner of the window
New in Photosounder 1.2 (Feb 17, 2009)
- Calibrated and equalised analysis for a higher fidelity in sound reproduction
- Pitch resolution in the analysis increased to up to 60 pixels/octave
- (instead of 24 pixels/octave)
- Synthesis now about twice faster
- Interface now keeps updating properly when out of focus
- Looped playback added
- New colour gradient