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Release Info / Qmod 21.3 released

« on: October 24, 2021, 09:42:40 am »

Release info
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- 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.

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Release Info / Qmod 21.2 released

« on: June 16, 2021, 02:45:37 pm »

===== 21.2 ====
- Fixed: GUI error in formatplanner window. Formats at the bottom of the control coundn't be edit.
- Fixed: Added an extra channel to the backup player. In some cases the player could hang when a very short jingle was played.
  Origanaly the player had two playback channels which afterwards was not enough. Now there are three but in the qmod.ini you change this with the line: nrofchan=:=.
- Changed: Improvements on the compressor adaptive release control.

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Release Info / Qmod 21.1 released

« on: May 25, 2021, 10:25:18 am »

What has changed?

- New: Added a control to set the player output.
- Changed: Some improvements on the processing core
- Changed: Some changes in the fm part to have a better bandwidth control. If you're using the fm part please check your output signal.
- Changed: When in FM or AM mode the line peak control is forced on, It gives some extra delay but better peak control.
- Changed: Improved the composite clipper.
- Fixed: Update check didn't work.
- Fixed: Some problems that stayed behind after the 20.4 release.
- Fixed: Problem in the leveler lock.
- Removal of old and disabled code.

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Release Info / Wrong version of Qmod 20.4 was released. New one available

« on: November 06, 2020, 11:03:34 am »

For about an hour a wrong version of Qmod has been on-line.
Please download the update 20.4.1. Sorry for the mishap.

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Release Info / Qmod 20.4 released

« on: November 06, 2020, 10:00:07 am »

===== 20.4 ====
- New: Show the playlist in the main window when the backup player is running. Does need special formatting of the track name. See the manual for more info.
- Changed: The way restart process operates so that it doesn't kill the backup player when changing the device setup.
- Changed: It's now possible to add more alternative frequencies when using RDS.
- Fixed: A few bugs in de GUI part that were introduced in 20.3 that caused a crash.
- Fixed: A few bugs in the backup player.

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Release Info / Qmod 20.3 released

« on: September 21, 2020, 04:12:49 pm »

Release notes:

- New: Bass clipper added to the output limiter chain. Selectable are three options: off, soft and hard.
- New: Added a simple format planner to the backup player. Music as well as jingles can be ordered in a format. Read the manual for setup and use.
- Configuration GUI changes.
- An updated manual.
- Update of the default presets.
- Fixed: In the GUI/ The mix parameter was not updated when the preset was changed.
- Fixed: When you changed "the minimum tracks before repeat" in the backup player, Qmod would crash.
- Fixed: Expander part of the leveler didn't time correctly.
- Fixed: Bug in the API selection.

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Release Info / Qmod 20.2 released

« on: July 09, 2020, 11:55:13 am »

Release note 20.2
===========
- New: Auto release on the levelers, compressors and end limiter. When the release time is set to 0 the auto release is on.
- Some problems with the soundcard selection so I did a rewrite of the soundcard selection and detection of the device parameters. Thanks to ParelduikerFm for pointing it out.
- Rewrite of the fm peak control.
- Rewite of the end limiter. It's now a two band limiter.
- Added a buffersize of 3072 and 4096 samples to buffersize selection.
- Fixed the password showing in plain text on the silence panel.
- Fixed a bug in the ratio calculation that could crash Qmod.
- Fixed a bug in loading the config setup for a new install.
- Fixed a bug in the backup player. After input was restored the backup player didn't stop.
- Changed the logging. The newest entries are displayed first now.
- GUI changes. It's now possible to show level meters from the top down or bottom up, the setting for it is on the device panel and the leveler part is now on a separate panel. More changes in the next release.
- Some GUI fixes.

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Questions and Bugs / Re: Virtual audio cabels

« on: May 17, 2020, 09:11:54 pm »

Helemaal mee eens. Het beroerde is alleen dat de opstelling bij mij werkt en ik de klacht niet kan reproduceren. Ik vermoed een combinatie van factoren die bij mij niet optreden. Ik zal mij er verder in moeten verdiepen. Jammer dat je Qmod niet kan gebruiken zoals je wilt.

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Questions and Bugs / Re: Virtual audio cabels

« on: May 15, 2020, 07:07:57 pm »

Wat gebeurt er wanneer je default als in en out instelt in Qmod en de Behringer als standaard in- en output kiest in Windows? Werkt dat wel?

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Questions and Bugs / Re: New User - No Audio Output

« on: May 15, 2020, 09:16:49 am »

Do you have maybe some cheap I/O usb audio interface at hand you could try to see if that works? Such devices useably don't need any drivers installed. I've used one or two of those for different setups.
Picture shows my current setup

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Questions and Bugs / Re: Virtual audio cabels

« on: May 15, 2020, 08:43:05 am »

Aan de hand van de foutlog zie ik dat qmod als input en output default heeft gekozen omdat er blijkbaar iets mis is met de in- en uitgang.
Ik heb de software van portaudio doorzocht maar nergens is de term <Undefined external error> terug te vinden.
Ik ben niet bekend met de Beringher kaart maar kan het zijn dat je als output device de uitgaande poort OUT 1-2 van de Beringher moet kiezen?
Ik zie dat je de IN 1-2 hebt geselecteerd.

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Questions and Bugs / Re: Virtual audio cabels

« on: May 12, 2020, 07:20:48 pm »

Test resultaat Playout -> Breakaway Pipeline -> Qmod
Ik had in eerste instantie moeite om mijn playout op de pipeline werkend te krijgen, deze werkt ook met Breakaway Pipeline. Daarom de oude portaudio DLL geinstalleerd.
en opnieuw opgestart. Daarna werkte het zoals het hoort. Qmod draait er ook op. Alles draait op MME. Daarna de nieuwe portaudio DLL teruggezet en ook draait het  nu. Geen idee waarom het eerst niet werkte.
Dus als je de oude portaudio DLL gebruikt zou het moeten werken.
Ik heb de oude DLL op de downloadpagina gezet.
Laat het mij weten of je succes hebt.

Update: plaatje toegevoegd

Cor

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Questions and Bugs / Re: Virtual audio cabels

« on: May 11, 2020, 09:47:07 pm »

Hallo Parelduiker,

Gebruik je voor je opstelling the portaudio DLL van versie 20.1? Het is al een tijdje terug dat ik getest heb met Breakaway pipeline, dat werkte met MME goed WASAPI niet. Die test was met de oude portaudio DLL.
Ik zal morgen (12-05-2020) even een test opzetten en laten weten of ik de fout kan reproduceren.
Cor

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Questions and Bugs / Re: New User - No Audio Output

« on: May 11, 2020, 09:39:40 pm »

Hi Panache,
Didn't know there's Facebook group that talks about Qmod.

1. Screen shot. What stands out is the high amout of the output peak control (bar 3 of the output display). Normaly it should be <= 5dB. It could be caused by the strange sound.

2. Sound sample. Just guessing now but could it be an unwanted feedback?
I noticed you're selecting the sound card directly. Did you try setting the M-Audio Audiophile 192 Sound Card as default audio interfacein Windows and set the Qmod audio I/O device to default?

Cor

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Release Info / Qmod 20.1 released

« on: May 01, 2020, 02:06:51 pm »

===== Release info ====
- New: Silence detector and backup player. When there's a loss of input signal the silence detector will start a backup player and can send an email.
  It includes a samplerate convertor. So when using a samplerate of 192000 and the backup player starts playing a WAV file with a samplerate of 44100kHz it's going to take more processing power.
  On my system its ~20%.
- Addressed some internal timing problems. The changes effect the leveler release setting  below 4s. You might want to check settings.
- Added a new portaudio dll that includes fixes.
- There's no longer a console version. The dll doesn't give audio card information anymore. If a crash happens, the error is saved in the Errorlog subdirectory.
- Some minor changes on the fm section. Still not completely satisfied but it will do for now.
- Fixed some bugs.