This is a work in progress and could be always considerd a beta. It becomes a final, when I stop working on it.
- Cor
15-03-2024: Qmod 24.2 is available
Use a modern PC to run the app. It's tested on a i5-5250, a Steinberg UR22MK2 USB audio card and a Behringer U-PHORIA UMC202HD, so something comparable or newer should be good.
I'm no longer releasing new 32 bit versions. It saves me from keeping a 32 bit computer around. The old 32 bit version stays available but you should migrate to the 64 bit version if you want to keep up with new features and or bugfixes.
Get started with the manual.
Release notes:
===== 24.2 ====
- Changed: The playlist in the main windows now shows the start time.
- Fixed: A bug in the container time calulation fixed. It could crash qmod when you use messages.
===== 24.1 ====
- Changed: Some GUI improvements.
- Changed: Containers have a strict time option now.
- Changed: Improvements of container timings when there is no strict time involved.
- Changed: Replaced the track gap setting because it wasn't working like it should be, with a setting for the fade out gain reduction when a container is set to a strict time.
- Fixed: Message planner selected the wrong day.
===== 23.3 ====
- Added: backup player tab silence has three new sub tabs, one to program containers which are used to group messages, one to program those messages like ads or announcements and one to view the recently played tracks.
- Fixed: Bug in the tta library
===== 23.2 ====
- Fixed: Improved gate handling.
- Fixed: a bug in playing flac files with a block size < 2048
- Fixed: When the tracks repeat value in the player was set to a lower value than available track the program would crash.
- Fixed: Sometimes a light ticking could be heard. The clipper of band 2 caused it. It's fixed now.
- Fixed: When changing the format there would be chance of a crash.
- Changed: The wav, tta, flac and mp3 libraries got some improvements.
===== 23.1 ====
- Fixed: Typo in the leveler lock. Band 4 didn't lock on band 3.
- Fixed: Low max setting didn't work.
- Fixed: An issue with the release of the compressors.
- Fixed: The value of the tracks before repeat wasn't loaded.
- Changed: Some improvement on the end limiter.
- Changed: Some improvement on the composite clipper to get a better fit inside the stokkemask.
- Changed: vumeter input and output now repesent the dbfs value and as a result the output volume has changed, so you should ckeck your settings.
- Changed: Inverted low+ sensitivity because stereo+ and low+ working were reversed to each other.
- Changed: Moved the test signal setup to a separate tab. It now works on AM and FM.
- Added: Crossover frequency control for the end limiter filter.
- Added: Upsampling for the mpx clipper.
===== 22.4 ====
- Fixed: Type error causes a crash when changing the preset.
- Changed: When the playlist on disk is older than 1 hour from the current time the playlist is ignored and a new one is generated. Before the playlist would always be used at startup by the backup player.
- Changed: Reposition the controls in the backup player section
- Added: Control for setting the endlevel of the jingles in the player.
===== 22.3 ====
- Added: Minimal Low+ setting.
- Added: Track seperation setting to prevent crossfading when the sound level drops below the end level threshold.
- Added: Format planner. Check for artist with more than one track in the playlist.
- Changed: A new leveler lock. Now the lock between the bands can be adjusted separately.
- Changed: A rewrite of the gate control code.
- Changed: Classic preset default setting updated.
- Changed: Memory managment of the Go garbage collector. Caused dropouts sometimes.
- Changed: Removed the 3072 and 4096 buffer size because it conflicted with the backup player.
- Fixed: Qmod did crash after a restart when no format was created in de music folder of the main audio folder.
- Fixed: After opening and closing and then reopening the config window, the high presence display wouldn't work anymore.
- Fixed: When a format had to few formats in it could hang.
- Fixed: A bug in the flac playback part produced a huge stacklog.txt when extra info was added to the flac file, like picture and track information.
===== 22.2 ====
Bug fix release
- Fixed: Sometimes wrong ratio calculation.
- Fixed: Leveler was sometimes a bit to agressive in band 4-5 when sudden level peaks occurred.
- Fixed: Gain calculation of the mp3 decoder was sometimes wrong.
===== 22.1 ====
- Added: Backup player now can play WAVE, FLAC, TTA and MP3 files in 2 channel 16bit stereo, with a samplerate of 44100 or 48000kHz (FLAC and TTA files are lossless open source codecs.)
- Changed: Moved the format list to a separate folder. So when you run two Qmod session on the same PC it doesn't conflict.
- Fixed: When no format was made and one format folder entry was empty, the backup player wouldn't play.
- Fixed: With the addition of FLAC, TTA and MP3 files some time problems with the backup player came up and are fixed now.
===== 21.3 ====
- Added: An updated portaudio.dll.
- Added: Selectable audio folder. You'll find it on the setup tap of the silence panel.
- Changed: Minor backup player improvements.
- Changed: Minor leveler attack and release improvements.
- Fixed: A bug in the restart process of the device setup.
- Fixed: Some calculation errors in the fm processing and the composite clipper.
Qmod on Linux or Mac
You can run Qmod also on Linux or Mac by using Wine.
I've tested Qmod 18.5 x64 on Linux Mint 19 (Ubuntu 18.04) and Wine 3.03 stable. I have no Mac available so testing isn't possible by me. Feel free to test it yourself. You'll find more info on: https://www.winehq.org/