# Changelog ## [Unreleased] ## [4.8.7] ### Added - Improved compatibility with `Boost 1.79` ## [4.8.6] ### Fixed - Fixed a crash that happened when the compressor plugin was initialized with LSP `1.2.0` ## [4.8.5] ### Added - Improved compatibility with dconf 0.40. Now our plugins should be enabled when using this version. ## [4.8.4] ### Added - Added Allpass filter in Equalizer plugin. ### Fixed - The equalizer UI is now correctly shown when a profile with 30 bands is loaded at startup. - Added a workaround for systems that were crashing because the locale is not correctly set at system level. ### Note to packagers - This is the last release supporting Pulseaudio. The following PulseEffects releases will be based on the new Pipewire multimedia server and only fixes to critical bugs will be backported to the legacy pulseaudio branch https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/tree/pulseaudio-legacy. ## [4.8.3] ### Added - New Noise Reduction plugin based on the RNNoise library. - Band Quality factor exposed in the Equalizer main interface. - A new settings was added to the general section of our settings menu: `Activity Timeout`. It is the time during which PulseEffects monitors if there is any application playing audio. If there is none we stop our playback stream in order to save cpu usage. This timeout has been in place for a long time but until now its value could not be configured by the user. - When no application is playing audio PulseEffects pipeline is now put in the ready state instead of the paused state. This should help to reduce cpu usage in situations like the ones described in https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/829 - Updated Chinese translation. ### Fixed - Values outside GTK widgets are now shown according to system locale settings. - Applying APO Equalizer preset when locale is different than "C" is now working properly. - Equalizer and Crystalizer UI redesigned: band wrapper is extended to fit all the available horizontal space; homogeneous property has been applied to get the same space between band sliders. - App info and plugin interfaces made scrollable: now PulseEffects window does not change its size when switching beetween plugins. - Loudness plugin: removed reference signal button (test signals can be used in its stead); input value is now saved to preset. ### Note to packagers - The Noise Reduction is an optional plugin. For it to be available to the user the library RNNoise https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise has to be installed when PulseEffects is compiled. ## [4.8.2] ### Fixed - When importing Equalizer APO presets the bands were not being set to the APO mode. ## [4.8.1] ### Added - `Blocklist` adopted and related command modified as a checkbutton inside the app info ui. - Pulseaudio's media name property is shown for each application in the `Applications` section. - Deesser UI redesigned and applied homogeneous property to all plugin UI to get same space between controls and make them fit all the available horizontal space. - Modified `Applications` row in the left side plugin list to show an icon according to input/output effects while the pipeline global level meter is only shown when something is recording/playing. - The feature that shows the last used preset in the preset menu button label was improved. When seeing input effects. widget it shows the last used input preset. And when seeing output effects widgets it shows the last used output preset. - New application icon. ## [4.8.0] ### Added - Loudness plugin has been replaced with the new Loudness Compensator by Linux Studio Plugins. - The Stereo Tools and the Maximizer plugins can now be used when applying effects to microphone signals. - New parameters have been added to the following plugins: Compressor, Gate and Limiter. - Plugin user interfaces have been redesigned with checkbutton list and new global output level meter for both output and input pipelines. - The user has now the ability to change the minimum and maximum frequency in the spectrum user interface. - New command line that allows to hide the window when running PulseEffects in service mode. This will allow tray applets to hide our window. - Initial support to Equalizer APO presets. - Improved Slovak and Czech Translations. ### Removed - The spectrum scaling feature was removed as it leads to wrong mouse hover values when used https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/733. And fixing this will require the addition of an amount of code complexity that does not seem worth it. ### Note to packagers - This release is using GTKMM 3.24 features and Linux Studio Plugins >= `1.1.24`. If you can not use any of these libraries do not upgrade to PulseEffects 4.8.0! - MDA is not needed anymore as optional dependency. ## [4.7.3] ### Added - PulseEffects now searches for presets in /etc/PulseEffects and directories specified by \$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variable. - Our interface now shows third party Plugins credits. - Each plugin now has a reset button - Improved convolver impulse response files plot - Applications entry now have a blacklist button to make it easier to blacklist an application the user does not want effects to be applied. ### Fixed - Fixed a severe memory leak that happened whenever the window was closed. - PulseEffects no longer crashes when an empty or corrupted preset is provided. - Fixed laxity setting not being applied in the deesser ## [4.7.2] ### Added - Compatibility to Linux Studio Plugins `1.1.14` - The convolver plugin now accepts the wav extension in the impulse files. - Checking exceptions in the main function. - Headers deprecated in Boost 1.72 were replaced. ### Notes to package maintainers - As the `bypass` property in Linux Studio Plugins `1.1.14` was renamed to `enabled` this new PulseEffects version won't work with older Linux Studio Plugins versions. Although I could add checks and somehow try to support both versions this makes the code ugly. And I think that nowadays upgrading LSP should not be hard. If it is do not upgrade to PE `4.7.2`. ## [4.7.1] ### Added - Improved Italian and German translations. - Spanish translations for Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela were added. ### Fixed - Global bypass state was not being applied when PulseEffects was restarted. This bug was fixed. ## [4.7.0] ### Added - Improved Italian translations. ### Fixed - Do not open the main window when listing the available presets through command line options. This will also help third party tools like https://github.com/boomshop/pulseffectstray ## [4.6.9] ### Added - Our built-in manual now has a guide about laptop sound enhancement. It was written by Markus Schmidt from Calf Studio. Thanks Markus! :-) - There is now a bypass button that can be used to temporarily disable all effects. It is also possible to do this through a command line option. Take a look at the output of pulseeffects --help. - The autogain plugin now offers the option of estimating the loudness value through a geometric mean of the momentary, short-term and integrated loudness. ## [4.6.8] ### Added - It is now possible to set different buffer and latency values for the pulsesrc and the pulsesink plugins. This means that there is more room to reduce the overall latency. Pulsesrc is at the start of the effects pipeline and pulsesink at its end. - Updated Slovak, Italian and Turkish translations. ### Fixed - The auto gain `detect-silence` key was not being correctly saved to the preset file. ## [4.6.7] ### Added - The autogain plugin now has a button to reset its history and another that allows silence detection to be disabled. Disabling this detection helps with issues like the ones in https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/550. ### Fixed - Fixed a bug that prevented loopback devices from being shown in PulseEffects Applications section. Now it is possible to apply effects for audio sent from mobile devices through a bluetooth connection. It should work for other kinds of loopbacks too. ## [4.6.6] ### Added - Improved preset auto loading. This should fix https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/520 - Improved built-in applications blacklist. We now use the applications id where possible as they are not changed by translations. This should avoid Pavucontrol probes being shown in PE window. ## [4.6.5] ### Added - Delaying preset auto loading by 3 seconds. This should help to fix the issue reported at https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/520 ### Fixed - When PE was executed in an environment without Pulseaudio executable in the system path(like flatpak) a crash would happen because of unhandled execeptions. This was fixed PE should not crash anymore when Pulseaudio exe is not found. ## [4.6.4] ### Removed - The reset settings popup was removed. It does not work reliably outside of Gnome. On other desktops the popup may be shown whenever PE is started. Even if the user select yes or no. As resetting settings after an upgrade hasn't been necessary for a while I removed this feature. ## [4.6.3] ### Fixed - Depending on the hardware we could crash when trying to show the channel mapping in use by Pulseaudio. See https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/pull/522. This was fixed. ### Changed - Maximizer plugin now uses 25 ms as default release value. ## [4.6.2] ### Added - Improved Pipeline state switching when audio applications alternate between the playing and paused state or skip tracks. These operations should cause less problems like the ones saw here https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/504. ### Fixed - Loading presets using the command line does not result in a crash anymore. - Fixed a bug that made PulseEffects crash in systems with custom Pulseaudio version string. - Changing the blocksize while our pipeline is playing should not freeze PulseEffects anymore. - The command line option used to list available presets was not working properly. This was fixed. ## [4.6.1] ### Added - Pulseaudio avoid-resampling feature is now supported. You will need Pulseaudio 13 or later for that. - We now show in the interface Pulseaudio information that you would usually need to use command line tools or opening its configuration files to see. Things like which modules are loaded and the current configuration that its daemon is using. ### Fixed - Changing convolver files should not make us crash anymore. - Changing applications volume will not result in noises anymore. You will need Pulseaudio 13 or later for that. ## [4.6.0] ### Added - Updated Indonesian and Italian translations. - Presets can now be automatically loaded when wired headphones are plugged in the sound card jack. This did not work before because wired headphones do not create a new output device. They are shown as a port in the current default output device. This feature comes with a price. People may have to redefine their automatic preset loading settings. - Ctrl+Q closes the window. ## [4.5.9] ### Added - Drag and drop can be used to change effects order. Take a look at https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/447 for more information. - Improved maximizer and compressor help - Improved Italian translations ### Fixed - fixed wrong release unit in maximizer interface ### Removed - Removed the destructive-action class from the "remove buttons". This used to make them red but in recent GTK versions this has been a little buggy. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't... ## [4.5.8] ### Fixed - Fixed problems in pt_BR translation that could make installation fail in some systems. ## [4.5.7] ### Added - Updated Czech and Turkish translations. - Linux Studio Plugins `1.1.7` has new filters in its parametric equalizer that are implemented just like the biquad filters found in Equalizer APO. A very popular equalizer used in Windows. This will help PulseEffects users to properly use headphone correction curves that were designed with Equalizer APO filters in mind. Just choose `APO (DR)` as mode in each band menu. You can have more information about why this is a useful feature here https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/421 and here https://github.com/sadko4u/lsp-plugins/issues/29. ### Note for packagers - PulseEffects will probably still work with older Linux Studio Plugins versions. But I would expect some errors printed in the system log if the user tries to choose the APO filter. ## [4.5.6] ### Added - Chinese and Turkish translations. - Improvements to the Crystalizer plugin. It now shows the loudness range before and after processing. Some improvements to its algorithm were also done. Latency and memory usage were reduced and it now has a toggle button to turn on/off an "Aggressive Mode". ## [4.5.5] ### Fixed - Fixed a memory leak that could happen in the crystalizer plugin in some cases. ## [4.5.4] ### Added - Improved crystalizer algorithm. Some noises that could be created in a few cases do not happen anymore. - Improved Italian translations. ## [4.5.3] ### Added - Improved crystalizer algorithm. Its CPU usage was reduced. - Improved Italian translations. ## [4.5.2] ### Added - Improved crystalizer algorithm. It should preserve more of the original wave shape when increasing the dynamic range. ## [4.5.1] ### Added - Updated help and translations. - Reworked crystalizer plugin. It now has more band filters. - Block size is again a global setting because besides the convolver crystalizer now also needs audio buffer sizes following a power of 2. As before higher block sizes will increase latency but will reduce cpu usage in plugins like the autogain. - The spectrum now has line mode and a switch to enable/disable linear gradient. ### Changed - The compressor(not the multiband) is now from the Linux Studio Plugins package. ## [4.5.0] - Warning: This is not one more of the typical harmless updates I usually do. A few of the many features introduced required a few changes to the preset format. It is not a total break like the last time(still using json) but manual intervention will be necessary in order to use values from the old format. With the exception of the equalizer it is just a matter of doing some copy and paste in a text editor. ### Added - It is now possible to make a preset autoload when an input or output device is plugged in the system. - The Crystalizer plugin now splits the frequency spectrum in three regions. This allows the application of a smaller intensity to high frequencies. - Remember window size. - Updated help and translations. - Added options to show/hide bars borders in the spectrum and to change their line widths. - Improved dynamic pipeline. ### Changed - We now use Linux Studio Plugins "Parametric Equalizer x32 LeftRight" (LV2 version) http://lsp-plug.in/?page=manuals§ion=para_equalizer_x32_lr instead of the one from Gstreamer. Reason: it has more features and supports different settings for each channel natively. Besides the usual high-pass and low-pass it has a notch and a resonant filter. It is also possible to mute each band on the fly and change its filter slope. There is also a "solo" mode where we can easily listen to the effect caused by a specific band without having to manually disable all the others. - The `Enable All Apps` function was split in two. We now have `Process All Outputs` and `Process All Inputs`. This way the user can choose to automatically apply effects to the output of all apps while manually choosing which ones will have their input processed. ### Fixed - Icon is properly rendered in QT environments - Custom spectrum height is applied on startup ## [4.4.7] ### Added - Updated Indonesian and Czech localizations. - Added the delay compensator plugin from Linux Studio Plugins (LV2 library). It is an optional plugin. We used it in the past but it was removed because its license was not as friendly as I would like. Now that their license has changed we are using it again. ## [4.4.6] ### Fixed - When the user loaded a preset file pointing to a impulse file that did not exist the convolver would consume memory crazily while trying to do its setup multiple times. This should not happen anymore. ## [4.4.5] ### Fixed - In some situations where audio devices were added and removed repeatedly very fast a crash would happen when updating the device list in the interface. Read this issue for more information https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/408 This should not cause a crash anymore. ## [4.4.4] Last release of 2018! Happy new year! :D ### Added - The pitch plugin can be used in the applications output too besides the microphone. - Updated Italian translations. ## [4.4.3] ### Added - Added a few preprocessor directives to disable at compile time api that only exists on Linux. Now it should compile on Freebsd. ## [4.4.2] ### Added - It is now possible to change the realtime priority or the niceness value. We do this using RealtimeKit just like Pulseaudio. By default we do not change any of these values. It is up to the user to enable this in the settings menu. Only the Gstreamer threads responsible for the audio processing have their priorities changed. Users wanting to verify if the changes took effect can do this using `ps -m -l pid` where pid is PulseEffects process pid. - Now the user is able to apply different equalizations for the left and the right channels. Just enable the option `Split Channels` in the equalizer menu. This feature is particularly interesting for people with hearing loss. Take a look at this issue opened in our page https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/353 to know more. - The spectrum has more customization options. - The applications blacklist is saved to the user preset. - When alternating presets a large disk activity was generated. In order to avoid this we now check if each gsettings key really needs to be updated. As gsettings does not do that we had to implement our own checks. - Our interface should be a littler closer to the Gnome HIG guidelines. ### Changed - Effects are by default switched on to all audio applications. This can be disabled in the settings menu. ### Fixed - When installed under /usr/local PulseEffects would crash because of not found plugins. This was fixed. ## [4.4.1] ### Added - Updated translations - Improved dynamic pipeline. Alternating presets while playing should cause less crashes. - Improved the adapter plugin used internally by PulseEffects - Using std::async instead of std::thread to do a few background tasks like loading an impulse response file ### Fixed - Fixed presets menu button label not being translated after a reset. It was always being changed to the english label "Presets" ## [4.4.0] ### Added - Better error handling and logs. This will help to remove to remove the segmentation faults a few people were having and with lucky it will be easier to find the source of others. ## [4.3.9] ### Fixed - Fixed a bug that could cause our pipeline to crash when changing the effects order. ## [4.3.8] ### Fixed - Fixed a few sources of segmentation faults I could verify and hopefully a few others that do not happen in my computer. ## [4.3.7] ### Fixed - Using GST_PAD_PROBE_TYPE_IDLE instead of GST_PAD_PROBE_TYPE_BLOCK_DOWNSTREAM. This seems to fix a rare and hard to find bug where our pipeline crashed with a no linked error when the user switched presets while PulseEffects was paused. ## [4.3.6] ### Added - When no application is playing audio our GStreamer pipeline is now put in the paused state instead of the null state. This should remove undesired choppy sounds that could be listened whenever we restarted the audio processing. ### Fixed - Sometimes the wrong sampling rate could be shown in the headerbar info. It was fixed. ## [4.3.5] ### Added - More space at the right of the up/down buttons used to change effects order. In a few systems GTK is configured to always show the scrollbar. In this case the down button would be partially hidden. - PulseEffects can be reset from the command line "pulseeffects -r". ### Removed - The app menu with the entries quit, about and help was removed. This menu was deprecated by GTK developers so we are just following their guideline. The about button can be found in the general section of the main menu (hamburger). ## [4.3.4] ### Added - PulseEffects is now dbus activatable. Besides improving user experience with gnotifications this also brings the benefit of making the first contact of the user with PulseEffects better. Usually they expect the effects to keep running when the window is closed. But up to now you had to enable "Start Service at Login" and do a logout for this to happen. Now that we are dbus activatable PE will be launched as service and show its window when the user clicks in the PE icon. Effects will remain when the window is closed. But note that enabling "Start Service at Login" is still necessary for autostarting PE in the next login. - A verification was added to verify if the current plugin list has any invalid plugin name. If there is the list is reset to its default value. ## [4.3.3] ### Added - A system notification (gnotification) is show to the user asking if he/she wants to reset PulseEffects settings after an update. ## [4.3.2] ### Added - Settings are automatically reset after an upgrade. If you want to know the reason why take a look at the issues #327, #318 and #293 in PulseEffects github page. A few users have configuration problems after an upgrade that are only solved after resetting PulseEffects settings. In all of the cases I could not reproduce the issue they had in my computers. As in some of the cases the crash was so severe that the only way to reset was using dconf in command line I decided to implement an automatic reset after upgrades or downgrades. As almost all PulseEffects settings are saved to the presets file this shouldn't be too annoying for the users. ## [4.3.1] ### Fixed - One of the help images was not being installed ## [4.3.0] ### Added - The about dialog window "hide" method is explicitly called now. This may fix an issue where this window was not closed for users not using gnome - The user can blacklist applications he/she does not want effects being applied. - We check if there is any forbidden character in the name of the preset that the user is adding. If there is we just clear the field and do not try to add the preset. ## [4.2.9] ### Added - PulseEffects now remembers the custom input and output device selected by the user. In case it does not exists in the next start we fallback to the default device. ## [4.2.8] ### Added - The latency introduced by the Gstreamer pipeline is displayed in the headerbar. ## [4.2.7] ### Added - The adapter plugin used internally by PE reports the latency that it may introduce(proportional to the block size) to GStreamer. Latency is only added when the block size s larger than the number o samples per buffer in Pulseaudio buffer. ### Fixed - Fixed a regression that could cause severe noises when multiple audio apps were playing at the same time. ## [4.2.6] ### Added - Improved the plugin that adapts the size of the buffer given by pulsesrc. - Improved log messages. The name of the audio app related to the failures will be printed together with the error messages. ## [4.2.5] ### Added - Added a plugin that adapts the audio buffer size to a power of 2 value. We were using the block size property of the pulsesrc plugin before but it was not working well. Sometimes Pulseaudio was not able to give a buffer with the size we needed and some noises were created because of GStreamer buffer under flows. Now it should be possible to use higher block sizes without noises. A larger block may be interesting to users using weak processors as a few plugins use less CPU with larger block sizes. As always there is a trade-off. Large blocks increase latency. ## [4.2.4] ### Added - New application icon created by ZenCubic(https://github.com/zencubic). ## [4.2.3] ### Added - Improved the routine responsible to enable or disable audio processing depending on whether there is an audio application playing or not. The previous code wasted cpu resources and on rare occasions could freeze the interface. - The sample format and sampling rate info shown in the headerbar had a few unicode characters replaced by icons. Some fonts do not have the characters that were being used. ## [4.2.2] ### Fixed - Fixed a bug where the interface allowed the user to choose zero weights in the auto gain. The zero value was not passed to the plugin because of a few protections. So this bug did not affected plugin operation. But it makes gsettings crash whenever the value is set to zero and this leads to core dump when PE is closed. ## [4.2.1] ### Added - Added an auto gain plugin based on libebur128. It replaces the previous auto volume feature. It has the advantage of targeting the perceived loudness level. ### Fixed - Sometimes PulseEffects was not paused when there was no application playing audio. Fixed that. ### Note for Packagers - libebur128-dev is now a build time dependency. ## [4.2.0] ### Added - We finally have plugins documentation and a few basic explanations about some sections of the user interface. They can be accessed by clicking in the new help button next to the settings menu button or by clicking the F1 key. - The interface shows a warning when the plugin input is saturated (you really do not want this to happen). The check mark next to the plugin label is temporarily switched to an exclamation mark while the input is saturated. ### Removed - Removed the stereo enhancer. It is a little buggy and most if not all of what it does can be accomplished with the stereo tools. ### Note for Packagers - itstool is now a build time dependency. ## [4.1.9] ### Added - A crystalizer plugin. Useful to add a little of dynamic range to overly compressed songs. It is a port I made of the algorithm in FFMPEG crystalizer plugin to the GStreamer framework. So all the credits should go to the FFMPEG developers. - Audio format and sampling rate of the main processing stages are shown in the GTK headerbar subtitle(below the title). In the section that applies effects for applications output the first info is about the null sink PulseEffects(apps). this is the place applications output are redirected to. The second information shows the format and sampling rate used by the plugins and PulseEffects pipeline. The third information shown is from the current default output device. In the section that applies effects for microphones the idea is the same but the first information show is the one from the source and the last one is about PulseEffects(mic) null sink. Applications like skype will record processed audio from this null sink monitor. ### Note for Packagers - There is no need to add ffmpeg as dependency. ## [4.1.8] ### Added - Improved convolver impulse response autogain calculation. Changing impulse responses on the fly should result in less abrupt volume changes now. - A warning is shown in the convolver interface when the user loads a preset that points to an impulse file that does not exists in PulseEffects folder anymore. - No limit on the number of frames used from impulse response file. It is up to the user to decided if his/her computer is strong enough to handle the impulse file loaded. ## [4.1.7] ### Added - Improved Russian translations - Using a background thread to load the impulse response file in the plugin. This avoids playback stalls when the impulse file is large. ### Fixed - Fixed the meson scripts so that the convolver is optional. This would allow compilation in system that do not have zita-convolver. - Removed a potential crash when the impulse response file was too small. - Removed memory leaks in the convolver interface ## [4.1.6] ### Fixed - PulseEffects now uses the system zita-convolver library. This was request by package managers and after a few exchange of ideas that can be seen here https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/262 I was able to make this move. Zita-convolver version 3 and 4 should work. With this fftwl is not a Pulseeffects dependency anymore but as the zita package needs it users will have to have it anyway. ## [4.1.5] ### Fixed - Fixed a bug that would crash PulseEffects whenever the user tried to load an impulse response file with more than 2 channels(only stereo is supported). ## [4.1.4] ### Added - A convolver plugin. It is the first plugin I have written :D :-) As audio processing is not my original field of expertise I prefer to use plugins from mature projects like Calf. But GStreamer support for LV2 plugins is limited and none of the available convolvers work with it. You can see more details here https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/164. As this situation will not change any time soon I had to put my hands in the dirty. The plugin is based on zita-convolver library and while writing it I took inspiration in the work of other people you can find here https://github.com/tomszilagyi/ir.lv2/ and here https://github.com/x42/convoLV2. For now only stereo impulse response files encoded as wav are supported. - Import presets dialog now has filters to show only presets files (.json). - The impulse response file import dialog also has a filter (.irs). In case your response file is "_.wav" just rename it to "_.irs". - User can change Pulseaudio block size. In order to implement the convolver I had to force Pulseaudio block size to be a power of 2. As I am not sure if the move from an automatic size to a fixed size is going to bring problems to the users I decided to expose this setting so that the user can fine tune it in case there is any noise or other problem related to this parameter. It is also possible to set different block size values for the input effects pipeline and for the output effects pipeline. For some reason I don't know GStreamer's webrtcdsp plugin does not work with block sizes smaller than 512. So users applying effects for microphones while using webrtc should use 512 or above for this parameter. - The convolver spectrum plot color follows the global spectrum color chosen by the user. ### Note for packagers - There is no need to add zita-convolver library as dependency. Its source is shipped with PulseEffects and compiled by PulseEffects scripts. But zita dependencies should still be installed in the system. This means that the library fftw3f that is a Zita dependency is now also a PulseEffects dependency. - gstreamer-fft-1.0 is now a dependency (impulse response file spectrum calculation). ## [4.1.3] ### Fixed - The equalizer presets were not being applied in a few situations ## [4.1.2] ### Added - Multiband gate plugin from Calf Studio - Stereo Tools plugin from Calf Studio - Presets menu label shows the last selected preset when PulseEffects is restarted. - The Deesser can be used in both pipelines. - The so called "perfect eq" preset. Not that there is something we can call a perfect equalizer preset. But people like to use it as a starting point.So I added it. ### Fixed - Deesser "listen" control was not working. ### Removed - Expander plugin. Reason: I thought it was open source but it is proprietary. This complicate packagers life and philosophically I prefer to use only open source plugins. As Calf Gate can be used as an expander it now replaces the plugin from Linux Studio. - Delay plugin. Although its source is distributed its license has very annoying restriction that prohibits packagers to apply patches without the plugin author permission. As Calf Stereo Tools can be used to apply delays between the left and the right channels it now replaces the delay plugin from Linux Studio. - Panorama plugin. Its functionality is also offered by Calf Stereo Tools. ### Packagers - For all the reasons explained above Linux Studio Plugins is not a dependency anymore and can be safely removed from the build scripts. ## [4.1.1] ### Added - Added loudness plugin from MDA.LV2 ## [4.1.0] - Fixed multiband compressor schema not being installed. ## [4.0.9] ### Added - GStreamer 10 bands equalizer presets: rock, soft, pop, etc. - Input gain and output gain controls for the equalizer. - Added Calf Multiband compressor ### Fixed - Compressor and gate plugins knee parameter was always at its default value. Fixed that. - Removed a small memory leak(nothing critical). ### Information for packagers - The limiter plugin in latest Calf Studio release (0.90) has a memory leak. I reported it to Calf developers and it was fixed. See https://github.com/calf-studio-gear/calf/issues/180. But as it may take sometime till the next Calf is released I suggest that everybody using the limiter plugin in PulseEffects either install a Calf package built from git master or backport the bug fix (3 lines) to 0.90 somehow. For most users it is not a critical leak. But people that do not turn off their computers everyday should be concerned as the leak is triggered whenever PulseEffects alternates between the playing and paused state. ## [4.0.8] ### Fixed - Removed more memory leaks(nothing critical) - The presets menu list is scrollable again. ## [4.0.7] ### Fixed - Fixed Limit Parameter of the Limiter plugin being reset to -11 dB whenever a preset was loaded. Now the user value saved in the preset is correctly loaded ## [4.0.6] ### Added - The user can change the spectrum height - More parameters are saved to the user preset: buffer, latency and spectrum parameters. It is particularly useful to have the buffer value saved to the preset because a few devices like bluetooth headphones need values that are very different than the ones used in soundcards. ### Fixed - When the user loaded a preset after upgrading to a PulseEffects version that had a new plugin (not present in the preset) a crash could happen in a few situations. I fixed that. Once the user saves the preset its plugin list will be updated with the new plugin. - Sometimes when the user opened PE window while running in service mode the spectrum was not enabled. I fixed that. ## [4.0.5] ### Added - Expander from Linux Studio Plugins ### Fixed - Replaced a few C++ shared_ptr by unique_ptr. This should lead to less memory overhead. The code refactoring that done for this fixed a bug where sometimes PE did not freed a few resources when closing. - fixed a bug where PE crashed when the pitch plugin was put before the webrtc ## [4.0.4] ### Fixed - Fixed a bug introduced in the last update. Applications widget were not being removed from PE when they were closed ## [4.0.3] ### Added - improved the algorithm used to enable/disable/reorder plugins. ### Changed - The default buffer values were increased from 100 ms to 200 ms. Reason: I noticed that the audio of a few devices like bluetooth headphones have noises when the buffer value is too low. Users who want to lower the values can do so in the main settings menu. ### Fixed - Removed a lot of potential memory leaks. I had a few misconceptions about how GTK builder is supposed to be used in GTKMM. I did a code refactoring to use the api in a safer way. ## [4.0.2] ### Added - improved the algorithm used to enable/disable/reorder plugins. ### Fixed - Spectrum widget being shown even when it is disabled - Fixed excessive level meters readings. - Mouse motion over spectrum updates the displayed magnitude and frequency. ## [4.0.1] ### Fixed - No more crashes when the user tries to enable an optional plugin that is not installed. ## [4.0.0] ### Added - Users can change effects order. This information is saved in the user preset like most of the other settings exposed by PulseEffects. - Users can choose a custom color for the spectrum. - Users can change the number of equalizer bands in the equalizer menu settings. This configuration is also saved to the user preset. In the same menu there is also a facility to calculate the corresponding frequencies of a graphic equalizer with the same number of bands. Users with weak processors will benefit a lot from this setting as the more bands you have the more cpu is used - Calf Filter plugin replaces the high pass and low pass filters from previous PE versions. ### Changed - From PulseEffects 4.0.0 onwards the presets files uses a completely different format(we moved from ini to json). This means users will have to create new presets. I know it sucks but it was necessary. ### Removed - Calf Stereo Spread - Per app level meters. They were the source of many bugs that I could never fix. As it is not a mandatory feature it was best to remove. ### Note for packagers - PE 4.0.0 marks the move from Python to C++. So Python packages like Numpy and Scipy are not a dependency anymore. Gstreamer Insertbin is also not used. C++ Boost is now a dependency. I will leave a python branch on github in case some bug fix is needed for the 3.x series. But my focus from now on will be on the 4.x series. ## [3.2.3] ### Fixed - Fixed input and output limiter presets not being properly loaded ## [3.2.2] ### Added - GStreamer Webrtc plugin - Gate and Deesser Plugins from Calf Studio - Calf Studio compressor replaced the one from swh-plugins - User can select the input and output device used in the current session. The selected devices are not remembered when PulseEffects is closed. - Debug mode: execute PulseEffects doing "PULSEEFFECTS_DEBUG=1 pulseeffects" to see debug messages. - Level meter for recording applications - Buffer and latency of input and output effects can be independently configured in the settings menu - Applications buffer and latency values displayed in the main window is updated every 5 seconds. ### Fixed - too many decimal places in the frequency and intensity shown in the spectrum window when hovering the mouse - Using Gtk.FileChooserNative in the import presets window. Now presets import will work in sandboxed environments like flatpak - Level meter streams are not created when running as service with the window closed. These streams are put in the paused together with the corresponding application. Both changes should help save cpu. ### Removed Dependencies - swh-plugins is not a dependency anymore as the limiter and compressor being used are the ones from Calf Studio Plugins ## [3.2.1] ### Added - Updated Czech and Italian translations - Presets can be loaded from command line. Run 'pulseeffects --help' to see the available options. - Presets can be imported using the presets menu. ## [3.2.0] ### Added - Crossfeed plugin from bs2b library. GStreamer Plugins Bad must be compiled against it. - PulseEffects pipeline enters the playing state only when there is at least one audio application switched on and in the playing state. This will save cpu when the user paused or switched off all audio applications while PulseEffects is running - Log output is a little more clear ### Fixed - Do no try to read delay plugin properties when it is not available. This will flood the system log with error messages ## [3.1.9] ### Fixed - Fixed exciter ceiling parameter not being loaded from the presets file ## [3.1.8] ### Fixed - Fixed a critical bug where plug and unplugging a usb microphone a few times would break PulseEffects routing. ## [3.1.7] ### Added - Delay Compensator plugin from Linux Studio Plugins (LV2 version) - Pitch Shifting plugin from Rubber Band library (Ladspa) - New settings menu. ### Fixed - Do not force the "switch all apps" setting to true when running as service. - Fixed frequency value in band label being slightly different from the one in the frequency menu because of rounding problems - Removed unnecessary spaces between a few elements in the interface - Test signals application automatically switches to the default microphone - Equal loudness test signals frequencies match the equalizer default frequencies ## [3.1.6] ### Added - MultiSpread plugin from Calf Studio ## [3.1.5] ### Added - Stereo Enhancer from Calf Studio ### Fixed - Check marks are not shown for plugins that are not available - Fixed a bug were the volume meter was not updated in applications like the game XCOM ## [3.1.4] ### Added - Maximizer plugin from ZamAudio ## [3.1.3] ### Fixed - Level meters: conversion from decibel to linear scale uses the correct factor - Auto volume: It is working in service mode and it does not reset the limiter gain to -10 dB when the main window is opened anymore. It also makes better use of the limiter attenuation parameter and reduces its input gain whenever there is attenuation in the limiter. - Interface: Uses a little less screen space. ## [3.1.2] ### Fixed - Fixed a bug where the pipeline could be put out of the playing state when running in service mode. - We do not emit level meter and spectrum messages when running in service mode anymore. This should improve service performance on weak CPUs. ## [3.1.1] ### Fixed - Missing Calf plugins do not crash PulseEffects anymore. They are optional. ## [3.1.0] ### Added - Meson: gstreamer-insetbin dependency check - New plugins: Bass Enhancer and Exciter LV2 plugins from Calf Studio - Interface: The enable/disable switch was moved from the plugin selection list to the respective plugin control section. Let's hope this makes things easier new users. At the previous location of the switch users will find a check informing if the plugin is enabled or not. - Autostart service: Added an option in the main menu to autostart pulseeffects in service mode (--gapplication-service) at login. under the hood what is done is copying a .desktop file to the autostart folder in the user config folder (usually ~/.config). ### Fixed Enable all apps settings: it is not reset to true when closing the window The following translations were updated: cs, pt_BR ## [3.0.9] ### Added - Equalizer: it now has 30 bands fully configurable by the user - Global: enable all apps switch added to the main menu - App info: apps on/off switch is now near the apps name and icon. Let's hope that this makes things more obvious to new users.