Voxengo SPAN VST 1.8 released

[fgimian]

soundpalace, phase scope and level meters are on my todo list - many people have requested these features so far for SPAN. Linear mode is unfortunately an offspring of Fast Fourier transform. Classis spectrum analyzers never offered it because it is hardly practical.

Ahh, I understand. Well, luckily, I have found that zooming into the high frequencies using SPAN in its current state, gives a very nice view so I may be able to work around this.

I must admit that I never understood what the Slope variable was used for, but after some more examination, I can see that this is incredibly useful ... in fact, I'm starting to wonder why I hadn't started using this earlier. I don't believe any other FFT analyser has this, and to say the least, it is a very very useful feature to assist with getting your mix balanced correctly.

Just out of curiosity, would it be difficulty to implement custom LOW FREQ & HIGH FREQ ranges on the analyser ? i.e. say I wanted from 25 Hz - 49 Hz.

Inspector and the Wavelab FFT meters have a wonderful little magnifier facility that allows you to zoom in on any part of the FFT.

I'm a huge fan of your work Aleksey, keep up the great work
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[DuX]

I know what you mean, Aleksey. By covering the range of 1ms to 1000ms you see everything what's going on and by looking at the difference between peak and lowest average value, you can actually see something like crest factor . I was merely refering to standards because they're here for so long and something to refer to, but Bob Katz showed they're here to break them, by showing 300ms isn't the accurate representation of how we hear and 600ms is somewhat more close to it, for example.

However, personally I would be satisfied with a meter which showed just digital peaks [1ms AIT], peak RMS [50ms?], average RMS [600ms] and the difference between the digital peak and average RMS value would represent the crest factor.

I was just looking at the SPAN and figured you can easily cram Marquis VU-meter there instead of RMS, PRMS and metermode values . You can put metermode up in the menu where it actually belongs to and you gain much space for the meter. Nice. I though Span would have to pass through some serious re-arrangemnt, but you don't have to change it so much IMO .

Look:


It fits perfectly! If you only move the bars a bit closer and change the font orientation from vertical to horizontal. wow!

Cheers!

[Aleksey Vaneev]

soundpalace, frankly saying 25 Hz - 49 Hz won't give you any information at all. When using 2048 point Fourier transform, the resolution is 10 Hz. So, by selecting 25-49 you'll see 2-3 points only (or a smooth interpolated envelope, but without any details). Even switching to 16384 point FFT won't give much benefit.

DuX, thanks for the pic. As for the metering critique, I still do not understand why release times are published while attack times are not. PPM meters do have both as far as I know. When attack = 0ms it is a digital peak meter.

[DuX]

That's right Aleksey. I never thought about it that way. Of course there has to be attack time as well, except for the digital peak meter. How come, nobody mentioned anything about it anywhere.

[fgimian]

soundpalace, frankly saying 25 Hz - 49 Hz won't give you any information at all. When using 2048 point Fourier transform, the resolution is 10 Hz. So, by selecting 25-49 you'll see 2-3 points only (or a smooth interpolated envelope, but without any details). Even switching to 16384 point FFT won't give much benefit.

This was just a very general example, essentially what I'm getting at is, is it difficult to allow custom ranges for viewing ?

Cheers
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[Aleksey Vaneev]

soundpalace, no, it is not difficult - just a bit cumbersome on the UI since I'm not happy to deal with keyboard entry (as it does not work in all hosts it seems - but maybe I'm not precise on that). So, that should be a pair of knobs to choose start and end frequencies.

[fgimian]

soundpalace, no, it is not difficult - just a bit cumbersome on the UI since I'm not happy to deal with keyboard entry (as it does not work in all hosts it seems - but maybe I'm not precise on that). So, that should be a pair of knobs to choose start and end frequencies.

Yep, that would be Excellent ! I think that with the redesign of your GUIs that you are going through, you should seriously consider adding support for entry via keyboard also.

I think this is one of the main reasons the Waves plugins are so popular, if you want a value, you just type it.

The area where Voxengo plugin GUIs shine is the use of the mouse which is VERY very good, but unfortunately, the keyboard aspect lacks a little. The Elemental Audio Plugins also allow typing of values and I find it very useful, especially with EQs when you are trying to zone in on a particular frequency.

Keep up the awesome work, I'd absolutely LOVE !!! to see the custom frequency ranges.

Cheers
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[DuX]

I must admit Soundpalace is right about the keyboard entry of values. When you have to work quickly, and you know what you want to do straight away, there's no time or need for using the mouse, just type the darn values in. He's also right about your excellently brilliant usability of mouse in the GUI . There's no plugin that uses the mouse in such an efficient way as yours do.

Cheers!

[Aleksey Vaneev]

Thanks for your input.

[AKJ]

Hi Alöeksey,
are there also plans for stereo width metering as in instecotr xl? thjat would be really great.

cheers, akj

[Aleksey Vaneev]

AKJ, I think this is already on my 'todo' list.

[AKJ]

great!