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Release Notes

SPAT Revolution Application

Build 21.4.0.50020

Features

• New software licenses support for SPAT Revolution Essential (1 activation) and SPAT Revolution Ultimate Bundle (2 activations)
• Ability now to disable the behaviour of source/object moving over listener head when entering the spherical protection (radius) zone instead
• New per room spherical protection zone (width parameter)
• Spherical protection zone following the listener position
• New distance scaling per room parameter for source-object automation, OSC and snapshots
• Session compatibility dialog (partial session read) for SPAT Essential and SPAT Ultimate compatibility
• Home Page with session history and resources shortcuts
• Read/write Audio Pipe (LAP) Automation using scaling
• Read/write OSC position messages using scaling
• Store/recall snapshot using scaling
• New stereo panning law options (7)
  • Perceptually motivated amplitude panning (PMAP) for Accurate Phantom Image Localization (constant-power amplitude-panning).
  • Constant Power and Constant Amplitude
  • Square root or Sinus/Cosinus

Improvements

User Interface

• Addition of Real source-objet position infos option on 3D View
• Addition of Presence Infos option on 3D View
• 3D View - Source-object is projected on speaker plane for 2D channel-based speaker arrangements
• Sources, Room and Reverb parameters - Hide/show for panels
• Updated Reverb panel unifying related parameters
• Snapshot Rename Popup - Select automatically the edit on window popup

Core behaviours

• Radius protection zone is now automatically set with the channel-based arrangement based on speaker distance average.
• Dialog box when changing speaker arrangement to offer auto scaling room parameter for source-object
• New update Setup Wizard with mode for Essential license based sessions
• Radius per source is now a trim factor expressed in meters for session compatibility and to integrate with new protection zone

Bug Fixes

• OSC -1 index doesn’t work with Polar / AED. (Requires additional validation)
• Record AED OSC messages and snapshot interpolation via Local Audio Path automation is not working
• Aggregate input on process block does not work + add aggregate input on source
• Listener head pivot (roll) point should be at the Center
• Fix source pitch not updated when a listener position change
• Listener Yaw not correctly working if the listener is not at the centre (origin)
• Multi-sources should keep alignment when elevation is done in polar
• RTTrPM - Tracking scaling not work
• Source presence factor + Listener 6DOF don’t work on all rooms and sources for sources connected to multiple rooms.
• [UI] - HRTF name displayed on the setup block only on the first selection
• OSC automation of Azimuth has an offset of -90
• Refresh issue on Windows
• Reset to default on source parameter may not propagate the setting correctly to the sub source in case of multi-channel source
• Strange “distance” behaviour with multichannel sources
• Setup Wizard - Crash on deleting a line then press Tab
• Sometimes sources sound not at the right place after reloading a session
• SPAT Revolution does not exit correctly in some cases
• Possible crash on exit
• If a session is closed while the user is in a room, SPAT Revolution main window can turn black
• [FrameRate] GUI problem with low frame rate

Build 20.12.0.49943

Optimization

• Add IO overload Detection + auto mute + reset button
• SPAT Send (software) input sync error detection optimization
• Audio processing optimizations

##3 Build 20.12.0.49890

Major Additions

• New MultiCore parallel processing algorithm.
  • A new preference option to select various engine processing profile.
• Stability improvements (hardening) with all latest operating systems (OS).
• SPAT Plug-ins (Local Audio LAP - AudioPipe) hardening and improvement against host applications and OS.
• Catalina, Big Sur and Apple notarization official support.
• New built in error reporting tools for SPAT Revolution.
  • In SPAT preferences, you can enable or disable sending anonymously of software data error to FLUX::. This application monitoring tools helps track developer errors for better diagnostic, fixes and performance optimization.
• New V20.12 release (new versioning system), now including 1 year of support and upgrade with perpetual license purchase.
• Added 23 reverb presets imported from IRCAM Verb and the SPAT v3 plugin.
• New Drag and Move + Drag and Connect module feature.
  • Drag any modules to move before or after any module of same type.
  • Drag a drop module into module to connect output to input.
• Support for the IRCAM ADMix/SPAT and Meyer SpaceMap Go OSC Grammar on input.
  • You can now play ADM Master (Audio definition model) files containing audio and object metadata with the ADMix player playback and receive metadata as OSC data in SPAT
• New Apple and Windows menu and shortcuts
  • SPAT Revolution now includes the standard Apple and Windows menu bar for new and added software action.
  • New shortcut options
• New input naming pages for bulk renaming
• Multi-Selecting input blocks and pressing Alt + N
• Setup wizards;
  • Available by pressing Alt + N or in the Setup menu.
• New Import and Export SPAT preferences.
  • System to System, to back up your preferences.
• Basic snapshot system implementation;
  • snapshots can now be generated, recalled (with interpolation - crossfade option) , deleted or renamed.
  • Gives the ability to create static images instead of using full automation.
  • Basic menu is provided to manage snapshots and available to OSC messages (Lemur and Qlab template available).
• Import speaker arrangements;
  • Import speaker arrangements from simulation software of Adamson, CODA Audio, Nexo, d&b audiotechnik, Ease or simply Excel.
• Speaker arrangement panning tips and validation guidelines.
• New Panning type (LBAP, DualBandVBP)
• New Binaural Options - Nearfield, Spherical Head, Snowman Model
• New A-Format transcoding (Sennheiser Ambeo, Oktava MK4012, Rode Nt SF1)
• New HOA transcoding method (Regularized Pseudo-Inverse, Improved AllRAD, CSAD)

OSC - Many OSC optimizations in the core

• The OSC Matrix (OSC Slots) has been updated and contains various changes.
• Now supporting third party OSC devices without Auto-bundle feature (Digico Consoles now can have bidirectional control)
• Make OSC dictionary available with snapshot
• ADM-OSC
• ADMPlayer compatibility (currently no scale)
• Meyer Sound - Spacemap Go - OSC Grammar support (input only)

Major optimizations

• Open GL fix for Mac Mini (Anti-Alias)
• SPAT Plug-ins (LAP - AudioPipe) hardening and improvement against host App.
• Now supporting third party OSC devices without Auto-bundle feature
• ADM-OSC Format support.
• Retina display enhanced support
• New HOA Decoding Methods
• New Binaural Options - Nearfield, Spherical Head, Snowman Model - (Not using HRTF for some???)
• Per speaker channel mute option in room
• Shift drag to move 3D scene
• Install templates with PI format for SPAT.

Other Improvements

• BackGround - Set Background Offset Step to centimetres
• Display Performances (CPU) measurements help option
• Opening a new session doesn’t prompt a “save current session” dialog
• Use calling thread (Audio) as thread 0 on parallel processing to avoid using other thread on small configuration.
• Color Indicator update for Mute - Solo
• Draw source and speaker text in 3D View
• Update to last Python version and some other sdks
• Display units in the speaker/channel editor
• “Output list” for HOA Room should not display x/y/z/Azimuth/etc
• Import speaker arrangement - Check the height of the arrangement and lower the all arrangement.
• Check for update based on current installed version number
• Display “new version” / “update information” at startup
• Add number of channel property to Send/Return plugin to allow ReaVolution to change to plugin format
• Automatically define speaker arrangement on Transcoder when possible
• Add Duplicate room without same sources or with duplicated sources
• Handle “dead” PyControl in UI
• Ircam’s exceptions handling in Transcoder
• Dump all properties through OSC output after loading a session
• Pl: remove Independent duration + rename as “interpolation time”
• Pl: update page table
• Rebuild GUI without reloading session

Bug Fixes:

• Creating Snapshot freeze on Mac OS X.
• Rename snapshot dialog not correctly initialized ; especially on retina display
• Panning Tips - Display of Coincident speakers was broken.
• Potential error when recalling snapshot.
• Recurring crash in setup while doing connections with drag and drop
• Strange issues with input OSC transforms
• Transcoders - Wrong Normalization for AmbiX.
• Yaw/Pitch/Roll - Number of digits in sliders
• Crash on connecting HOA order 7 input to source multiple time.

Build 20.12.0.49930

Bug Fixes:

• Solved freezing issue on Windows computers.
• Drop-down menu stuck
• Error when deleting user config in Speaker Arrangement Editor
• Change langage sets all rooms background to black (if they were white before)
• When list selected in a Dialog, type escape closes window instead of list

Build 20.12.0.49890

Bug Fixes:

• Crash when “Max Number of cores” is 1
• Crash when build setup without any sources and with Audio Device enabled

Build 20.12.0.49880

Bug Fixes:

Core:

• Fix crashes with some ASIO Driver
• Fix listener pitch and roll inverted
• Fix source presence, orientation and distance when moving listener position in the room
• Fix crashes in the setup page
• Fix crashes in the speaker configuration
• Fix crashes tweaking room stream type
• Fix crashes choosing certain speaker arrangements
• Fix session loading time
• Fix issues with same room names
• Fix crashes with HOA transcoders
• Fix Yaw angle in transcoders
• Fix OSC Mute command issues
• Fix crashes deleting empty speaker arrangements
• Fix input transcoding A-Format to CB gain normalization issues
• Fix speaker arrangements duplication issues when importing from session
• Fix source reset all doesn’t reset rotation XYZ
• Fix OSC stability and performances
• Fix synchronisation error detection

UI:

• Fix retina/non retina issues
• Fix label cropped with other languages than English
• Fix text of linear sliders display
• Fix name of the sources refresh
• Fix parameters on the right hidden on the setup page after scrolling down through a larger parameters-list
• Fix renaming a room doesn’t reflect the new name in the tab
• Fix double-click on some slider doesn’t reset to default value
• Fix incorrect and missing hints
• Fix sources and colours duplication
• Fix room background image proportion are not correct for non square images
• Fix source aperture display glitches
• Fix scrolling bar blocked in the speaker arrangement editor when switching from large arrangement to light arrangement
• Fix selection on deleting a speaker on the speaker arrangement editor
• Fix UI issues with OpenGL mac mini.

Various:

• Fix dialog do not always close or validate with Escape and Return keys
• Fix presets import
• Fix some crashes with Terminal actions
• Fix default position with 5.1 sources
• Fix opening session with non-ASCII characters

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SPAT Plug-in suite

Build 21.4.0.50020

Feature

• Position Mode parameter: Polar, Cartesian or None automation recording and reading mode.

Bug Fixes:

• Record AED OSC messages and snapshot interpolation via Local Audio Path automation is not working.

Build 20.12.0.49880

Bug Fixes:

• Fix stability issue with LAP
• Room PI - Fix automation in VST
• Room PI - Fix No automation parameter available in room PI AAX
• Room PI - Fix the non-linear behaviour of the listener Yaw Automation
• Send PI - Improve stability on Avid S6L
• Automation - Fix : reset values doesn’t send automation point to LAP PI
• VST - Fix latency compensation issue
• AU - Fix automation
• Ableton Live - Fix automation parameter not listed
• Logic Pro X - Fix automation issues from SPAT
• Fix DXD Block-size mismatch
• AAX DSP Version no longer supported

Known Issues

• KU100 HRTF not included in the default HRTF list for Essential
• 3D View - Output meters can display only 50 channels
• Shortcuts with Alt doesn’t work on Windows 10.
• Only the first LFE receives LFE send.
• [HOA] Crash on transcoding B-Format 2D to HOA3D
• [OSC] OSC message “/master/[index]/dump” do not work
• [OSC] No OSC control for reverb modal density
• [PI] LAP with AAX 96K can face synchronization issue.
• [PI] SPAT Send Solo parameter is not working in LAP or OSC
• [PI] Enable Reverb Automation not working
• [PI-VST]Closing Nuendo and Ableton Live session with SPAT PI can crash application.
• [PI-VST] Merging Technologies Ovation / Pyramix with loading issues

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