Release Notes

Release Notes

Version 3.0.5

• Panel and GPU performance improvements
• Shrink binary file sizes a bit more

  Version 3.0.4

• Shrink binary file sizes, add bundle installer
• Defer trial start until explicitly activated (limiter/compressor/optimizer)

  Version 3.0.3

• Limiter threshold + ceiling configuration (limiter/compressor/optimizer)

  Version 3.0.2

• Limiter layout improvement (limiter)
• Consistent font for tabs

  Version 3.0.1

• Performance optimizations
• Fix integrated statistics for file load (meter)

  Version 3.0.0

• Set channel-split LUFS channels as dual-mono for consistent loudness
• Look-ahead performance improvement (compressor/optimizer)
• Remove negative look-ahead for limiter (optimizer)
• Fix rare source max percentile range detection inaccuracy (optimizer)
• Fix expansion ratio text parsing (compressor)
• Support lower visualizer delta field decay rates
• Filename in title bar (optimizer/meter)
• Initial limiter release (limiter)

  Version 2.9.2

• Fix panning issue for channel-linked modes w/output gain (compressor/optimizer)

  Version 2.9.1

• Fix target histogram not always refreshing (optimizer)
• Minor fixes and improvements

  Version 2.9.0

• Integrated loudness types (compressor/optimizer)
• Fix for True Peak limiter (compressor/optimizer)
• Fix for bypass not bypassing limiter (compressor/optimizer)
• Apply output gain post-limiter (compressor/optimizer)
• Apply output gain post-dry/wet (compressor/optimizer)
• Match limiter linked/unlinked to loudness type (compressor/optimizer)
• Parameter refresh optimization
• Improved peak mode visualizer auto range
• Improved target visualization accuracy in some cases

  Version 2.8.9

• Painting optimization
• Condense user interface layout

  Version 2.8.8

• Minor visual improvements

  Version 2.8.7

• Fix distribution range type min/max (optimizer)

  Version 2.8.6

• Support configurable momentary window duration
• Fix dithering for some cases (compressor/optimizer)
• Option to show/hide parameter change context text bubbles
• Tweak transfer function location (compressor)

  Version 2.8.5

• Input gain mapping for DAWs which support it
• Group outlines for better visibility

  Version 2.8.4

• Fix file open for certain cases

  Version 2.8.3

• Enable ASIO support in standalone applications

  Version 2.8.2

• Fix panning startup glitch in certain cases (compressor/optimizer)

  Version 2.8.1

• Fix tab issues (meter)

  Version 2.8.0

• Built-in limiter (compressor)
• Load limiter settings from target ranges (optimizer/compressor)
• Playback loop option (optimizer)
• Look and feel improvements

  Version 2.7.2

• Fix WaveLab crash on startup (compressor/meter)

  Version 2.7.1

• Improve history scrolling smoothness
• Possible fix for manual range flicker

  Version 2.7.0

• Enable Windows Trusted Signing

  Version 2.6.5

• Fix crash on export/playback with certain channel count combinations (optimizer)

  Version 2.6.4

• Add resize handle to plug-in window
• Add option to disable velocity sensitive knobs

  Version 2.6.3

• Fix exporting silence (meter)
• Optimize reset, avoid glitching (meter)

  Version 2.6.2

• Fix annoying combo-box loading glitch

  Version 2.6.1

• Update JUCE version
• Drop shadow for knobs and sliders

  Version 2.6.0

• Add peak meter w/built-in gain reduction meter (compressor/optimizer)
• Apply output gain and dry/wet pre-ballistics (compressor/optimizer)
• Remove OfflineHD, not applicable to optimizer (optimizer)

  Version 2.5.9

• Normalize histograms across panels
• Fix bypass applying output gain (compressor/optimizer)
• Fix gain reduction rendering during silence (compressor/optimizer)

  Version 2.5.8

• Support dynamic audio playback changes (optimizer)

  Version 2.5.7

• Fix axis lines visibility
• Load meter statistics per-loudness type

  Version 2.5.6

• Fix occasional audio glitch on export (optimizer)
• Improve button layout (optimizer, meter)
• Bring back default delta field

  Version 2.5.5

• Target range can be set using loudness + range (optimizer)
• Smoother bypass via gain ramp matching using ballistics params (optimizer, compressor)
• Improve histogram bucket interpolation
• Improve peak history rendering
• Enable target range combo-box for peak loudness types
• Switch to velocity-based rotary dials

  Version 2.5.4

• Configurable RMS window duration
• Move statistics away from axis (meter)

  Version 2.5.3

• Look-ahead modes now fully functional (optimizer)
• Look-ahead improvements for peak and floor (compressor)
• Source and target learn now use Integrated + LRA w/400ms startup (compressor)

  Version 2.5.2

• Fix sample rate issue during export (optimizer)
• Flip axis to right side for better visibility

  Version 2.5.1

• Fix target range presets glitch (optimizer)

  Version 2.5.0

• Initial release (optimizer)
• Switch default settings to look-ahead momentary (compressor)

  Version 2.4.9

• Improved handling of silence in history metering
• Separate loudness type and channel-link
• Max range parameter for alternate dynamics types (compressor)
• Source learn now yields far more accurate target average (compressor)
• Bypass output gain and dry/wet for delta output type (compressor)
• More sensible source range presets (compressor)

  Version 2.4.8

• Look-ahead link modes for attack/release (compressor)

  Version 2.4.7

• Improved audio quality for low block sizes

  Version 2.4.6

• Fix ranges loading incorrectly on open/close in some cases

  Version 2.4.5

• Fix channel-split auto-range jitters
• Show normal output history/histogram when delta enabled (compressor)

  Version 2.4.4

• Add ballistics dither strength parameter (compressor)

  Version 2.4.3

• Fix input/output loudness alignment
• Fix integrated history while stats disabled (meter)

  Version 2.4.2

• Fix delay compensation, gain ramp glitch (meter)

  Version 2.4.1

• Fix macOS universal binaries not being built

  Version 2.4.0

• De-clutter user interface layout
• Fix axis when resizing
• Performance optimizations
• Re-enable AUv3 builds
• Sample-accurate ballistics dithering, improved gain ramp (compressor)
• Hide look-ahead when no budget (compressor)

  Version 2.3.9

• Re-fix macOS stand-alone microphone permissions
• Disable AUv3 to prevent conflicts and confusion

  Version 2.3.8

• Small performance improvements
• Fix macOS stand-alone microphone permissions

  Version 2.3.7

• Support gain reduction metering in more DAWs
• Fix axis flowing over knobs
• Show transfer function even with thresholds disabled

  Version 2.3.6

• Update JUCE module versions
• Super-sampling applies to panel and widgets
• Fix coloring on audio hardware settings buttons
• Improve font rendering
• Manual range fixes

  Version 2.3.5

• Quick light/dark mode switch, replace theme presets
• Fix BPM incorrect evaluation in some scenarios
• Improved buttons etc

  Version 2.3.4

• Gain reduction meter under Layout options (compressor)
• Fix shader param 2, other minor improvements

  Version 2.3.3

• macOS Sonoma support
• Performance optimization (meter)
• Smoother history rendering w/large block sizes
• Report gain reduction and output for some supported DAWs
• Shader tweaks for visualizer clarity
• Disable delta field by default

  Version 2.3.2

• Finally, good light themes

  Version 2.3.1

• Ballistics type parameter supporting natural, inertial, dithered variations (compressor)
• Fix target delta visualization (compressor)
• Fix host BPM toggle behavior (meter)

  Version 2.3.0

• Improve range axis ticks/labels
• Improve consistency of look-and-feel
• Show axis lines setting in layout options
• Fix Integrated + LRA calculations (meter)
• Fix statistics resetting at wrong time (meter)
• Reset meter on timeline discontinuity (meter)
• Pause meter on timeline idle (meter)
• Automatically show stats during file load (meter)

  Version 2.2.2

• Improve font and other UI elements
• Disable adaptive edges by default

  Version 2.2.1

• Reduce CPU usage at adaptive window edges
• Bring back preset theme hints (themes are better now)

  Version 2.2.0

• Improve knob layout (compressor)
• Improve ballistics when dipping below threshold (compressor)
• Improve default presets (compressor)
• Improve history/histogram clear behavior
• Improve visualizer range chasing
• Improve combo box look and feel
• Added combined history + histogram raster type
• Fix theme changes not refreshing some UI elements
• Fix gate low level type behavior
• Lots of other minor fixes and improvements

  Version 2.1.5

• Upgrade JUCE platform version
• Fix history output types (meter)

  Version 2.1.4

• Smoother rendering with large audio buffer sizes
• Improve histogram rendering
• Improve surround channel type detection
• Reset histogram on loudness type change
• More consistent channel split visuals
• Tone down default delta field settings
• Fix Layout Options popup menu coloring in some DAWs

  Version 2.1.3

• Fix preset delta fields (compressor)
• Improved peak loudness types auto-range behavior

  Version 2.1.2

• Fixes for channel-linked adaptive window measurements
• Layout and transfer function improvements (compressor)
• Save dynamics type with presets (compressor)
• Default to downward compression layout (compressor)

  Version 2.1.1

• Performance optimization for adaptive window sizes
• Performance optimization for RMS calculations
• Improve rendering of below range loudness history samples
• Fix adaptive window behavior during file load

  Version 2.1.0

• Introducing adaptive window sizes for LUFS/RMS measurements

  Version 2.0.3

• Fix panel shading glitch in zoomed mode
• Fix channel split histogram threshold
• Clear history on loudness type change
• Merge output type into 2 toggles (compressor)

  Version 2.0.2

• Switch knee to bezier interpolation for smoother transitions (compressor)
• Constrain effective knee to avoid overlapping knee artifacts (compressor)
• Switch to center-threshold knee positioning (compressor)
• Panel shader visualization parameters
• Recreate all themes based on hue rotation

  Version 2.0.1

• Fix and improve knee behavior (hermite interpolation) (compressor)
• Soft Limiting dynamics type now also utilizes knee (compressor)
• Radio button output type for quicker access (compressor)
• Reduce flicker on parameter changes

  Version 2.0.0

• Redesign much of visualizer into GLSL for improved quality and accuracy
• Configurable visualization layout
• Theme improvements, much improved ‘light’ theme variations
• Visual range presets for manual visualization range
• Introducing ‘milk mode’ parameter and presets (meter)
• Fix glitch when loading saved look-ahead settings (compressor)
• Overlap target+output to utilize more screen real estate (compressor)
• Theme hints removed from presets
• Various fixes and improvements

  Version 1.9.15

• Replace look-ahead dial w/slider (compressor)
• Fix sidechain layout (compressor)
• Improve dials layout (compressor)
• Fix notification coloring

  Version 1.9.14

• Drag & drop file open support (meter)
• Look and feel improvements

  Version 1.9.12

• Lots of cosmetic improvements

  Version 1.9.11

• Improve visualization rect cropping glitch
• Update tab for checking latest product versions
• Additional minor fixes and improvements

  Version 1.9.10

• Fix transfer function visualization for gate (compressor)
• Detect all loudness types for file i/o (meter)
• Improve quick-access layout
• Improve panel and other layout elements

  Version 1.9.9

• Fix look-ahead behavior in some cases (compressor)
• Transparent statistics group (meter)

  Version 1.9.8

• Improve visualizations

  Version 1.9.7

• Logo update

  Version 1.9.6

• Add Soft Limiting dynamics type (compressor)
• Extend source/target min to -70.0 to match LUFS gate
• Adjust default range/threshold settings

  Version 1.9.5

• Fix license key displaying incorrectly (compressor)

  Version 1.9.4

• Add makeup/bypass/gate low-level modes for source:target dynamics type (compressor)
• Panel texture and shadowing improvements

  Version 1.9.3

• Update default theme
• Various minor fixes

  Version 1.9.2

• Fix single-value slider thumb offset, improve coloring

  Version 1.9.1

• User interface improvements
• Revert maximum loudness range change, causing issues with sliders

  Version 1.9.0

• Expand maximum loudness range
• Improve Atmos histogram alignment
• Fix histogram bucket range end text

  Version 1.8.9

• Fix auval validation failure
• Minor fixes and improvements

  Version 1.8.8

• Transfer function raster type (compressor)
• Fix layout issues, give manual range its own row
• Exclude threshold from manual range
• Center histogram buckets for channel-linked

  Version 1.8.7

• History and histogram rendering quality improvements
• Fix settings tab parameters not updated in some cases

  Version 1.8.6

• Add Save as Default preset/theme manager buttons
• Fix missing tooltips for preset/theme manager buttons
• Fix histogram hold toggle location in visualization tab

  Version 1.8.5

• Fix missing threshold for alternate dynamic types in peak modes (compressor)
• Minor gui improvements

  Version 1.8.4

• Reduced CPU usage for LUFS calculations
• Reduced CPU usage during source/target range changes
• Switch from bucket count to bucket size for consistency
• Support manual BPM configuration in settings tab
• Flip histograms to be vertical
• Minor fixes and improvements

  Version 1.8.3

• Possible fix for OpenGL compatibility issues
• Add error message when OpenGL >= 3.2 is not available

  Version 1.8.2

• Switch OpenGL from compatibility profile to core profile
• OpenGL related performance optimizations
• Layout improvements, auto/manual range configuration, show/hide thresholds (meter)

  Version 1.8.1

• Learn function for source/target ranges

  Version 1.8.0

• Fix default preset/theme migration
• Cleanup button corners

  Version 1.7.12

• Various user interface improvements

  Version 1.7.11

• Improvements to visualization / threshold rendering (meter)

  Version 1.7.10

• Improvements to parameter defaults
• Display ratio as source/target instead of target/source

  Version 1.7.9

• Improve texture compatibility

  Version 1.7.8

• Relocate side-chain to fix layout glitch
• Fix normal color slider thumb contrast
• Tweaks to panel texture
• Improve performance with automation w/editor open
• Fix potential deadlock during rendering

  Version 1.7.7

• Add show thresholds option (compressor)
• Various minor fixes and improvements

  Version 1.7.6

• Fix panel rendering when delta field is disabled

  Version 1.7.5

• Style toggle buttons
• Improved panel texturing

  Version 1.7.4

• Increase the font size

  Version 1.7.3

• Loudness axis ticks/labels
• Enable minimize/maximize window buttons for standalone
• Fix loudness range text box editing (compressor)
• Fix ordering on delta histograms (compressor)
• Quick-access manual range slider when auto-range disabled (compressor)
• Exclude threshold from manual range, except when changing (compressor)

  Version 1.7.2

• Fix A/B buttons showing over zoomed visualization (compressor)
• Fix some text elements not fully displaying
• Fix visualization area clicks not always registering
• Fix minor layout issues
• Textured panel background shader

  Version 1.7.1

• Textured meters
• Quick-access buttons for auto-range & breath residual (compressor)

  Version 1.7.0

• User interface cleanup

  Version 1.6.16

• Simplify switching between raster types and dynamics types

  Version 1.6.15

• Support Dolby Atmos/SMPTE channel orderings

  Version 1.6.14

• Fix sidechain output! (compressor)

  Version 1.6.13

• Improve license input visibility (compressor)

  Version 1.6.12

• Small improvements to context sensitive help (compressor)

  Version 1.6.11

• Disable output gain during bypass! (compressor)

  Version 1.6.10

• Support traditional compression/expansion configuration types in addition to source => target (compressor)

  Version 1.6.9

• Knobs, dry/wet, output gain (compressor)
• Aesthetic improvements

  Version 1.6.8

• Support for Pro Tools
• Support mouse wheel for combo-boxes
• Condense user interface a little

  Version 1.6.7

• Support for macOS Mojave (10.14)

  Version 1.6.6

• Output types: Standard, Bypass, Delta (compressor)
• Fix output offset in extreme cases (compressor)

  Version 1.6.5

• Improved preset save
• Fix missing source knee threshold drawing
• Fix missing font characters

  Version 1.6.4

• Default manual reset, with a reasonable general-purpose default loudness range
• Default breath residual mode enabled

  Version 1.6.3

• Aesthetic improvements

  Version 1.6.2

• Fix mono channels when using stereo loudness types

  Version 1.6.1

• Fix discontinuities at compression curve extremes (compressor)

  Version 1.6.0

• Presets & Themes management
• A/B comparison buttons (compressor)

  Version 1.5.2

• Minor graphical improvements

  Version 1.5.1

• Fix Logic Pro validation failure
• Darken the shading a bit outside the visualizer HUD

  Version 1.5.0

• Improve/fix breath residual feature (compressor)

  Version 1.4.9

• Support loading from file for analysis (meter)

  Version 1.4.8

• Many cosmetic & visualizer improvements, configurable bit-depth

  Version 1.4.7

• Fix mutex double-lock freeze on latency change in Cubase (compressor)

  Version 1.4.6

• Additional optimizations and re-fix plug-in resize

  Version 1.4.5

• Fix FLStudio crash on startup (meter)

  Version 1.4.4

• Fix plug-in resize AU JUCE bug

  Version 1.4.3

• Reduce overlay redraw overhead

  Version 1.4.2

• Reduce CPU usage when editor is closed (meter)

  Version 1.4.1

• Fix rare crash due to text rendering race condition
• Fix settings apply/discard buttons sometimes enabled unnecessarily
• Apply look and feel to standalone application audio settings dialog
• OpenGL performance improvements

  Version 1.4.0

• Improve sound quality (compressor)
• Improve performance (especially meter)
• Smoother history rendering
• Improve various minor visual elements
• Fix stereo RMS reset in certain cases
• Support offline license activation (compressor)

  Version 1.3.1

• Improve performance via more reasonable default block size (meter)
• Minor aesthetic improvements

  Version 1.3.0

• Fixes & improvements to stereo and integrated LUFS
• Fix for combo-boxes closing themselves.
• Fix for trial/license activation glitches while offline (compressor).

  Version 1.2.2

• Updated EULA: Added a commitment to provide unprotected builds in the event the business ceases operations or goes offline, ensuring long-term access to the software for licensed users.

  Version 1.2.1

• Support LRA, improvements to peak/min history (meter)

  Version 1.2.0

• Initial release of APU Loudness Meter
• Bug fixes and quality improvements (compressor)

  Version 1.1.0

• Fix knee boundary artifacts (compressor)

  Version 1.0.4

• Eliminate visual discontinuity during history length increase (compressor)
• Improve target range behavior (compressor)

  Version 1.0.3

• Reduce pixel shader artifacts (compressor)

  Version 1.0.2

• Fix license status text not updating in certain cases (compressor)

  Version 1.0.1

• Enable sandbox safe for audio unit compatibility (compressor)

  Version 1.0.0

• Initial release of APU Loudness Compressor