Aixcoustic Creations updates Electri-Q to v1.8.5

9th September 2008

Aixcoustic Creations has updated Electri-Q to v1.8.5.

Detailed Change Log

General:

Bypass (Curve Ignore): sound was muted - Fixed
Bypass (Curve Ignore): freeze in some versions after stop and start playback - Fixed.
Bypass (Curve Ignore): filters sometimes stopped working after stop and start playback - Fixed.
Bandwidth lock didn't work - Fixed.
Adjusting Q by pressing left + right mouse buttons didn't work in v1.8.x - Fixed.
Adjusting Q by pressing ALT could lead to accidental filter switching - Fixed.
Redo didn't work - Fixed.
Curve node transparency didn't work in some 1.8.x versions - Fixed.
GUIs was scaled wrong in Sequoia/Samplitude with some versions/skins - Fixed.
Host dependent settings introduced to avoid crashes related to some hosts only.
Popup Menu button integrated into the GUI (not available in every skin).
Minimum and maximum phase filter kernel calculation speed-up.
Standalone: random crashes during close - Fixed.
Standalone: graphic glitches - Fixed.
Skin: color reset made most colors black - Fixed.
Skin: added 'Default Skin' to reset old/broken skins to default.

Phase Linear mode:

Curve wasn't updated after typing in values manually - Fixed.
Curve wasn't updated after switching of filter type - Fixed.
Curve wasn't updated after switching the algorithm - Fixed.
The 'Round' High/Low pass filters were switched if sorted by Category - Fixed.
Freeze during preset fixes with at least one linear phase mode - Fixed.
Curve drawing/update is accelerated multiple times to overcome problems with graphic "spikes".
Filter kernel calculation is accelerated as well.

Linear IIR mode:

Latency reporting was wrong/off by 12288 samples - Fixed.
Sound from previously played material was heard on next playback/bounce - Fixed.
Switching between Phase Linear and Linear IIR mode decreased the curve gain values - Fixed.
Bypass (Curve Ignore) caused increased curve gain values - Fixed.

New general feature:

Band/filter gain reset to zero (Lasso select multiple nodes and hold ALT while double clicking).

Samplitude/Sequoia related issues:

Random host crash/termination after removing Electri-Q 1.8.x from track/object inserts - Fixed.
Reproducible crash/termination after removing Electri-Q from Sam/Seq's main plugin dialog - Fixed.
The crash didn't occur when deleting Electri-Q, but upon closing Sam/Seq's plugin dialog - Fixed. This is a Sequoia/Samplitude specific issue and requires a special patch in order to fix it. The patch has been integrated as an option in the Electri-Q installer.