Photosounder 1.8.1 (6 Jul 2010)
Changes since version 1.8 :
- New convolution/propagation blending modes
- New layer intensity knob
- New Fill to Left and Bottom, Horizontal/Vertical Normalisation and Horizontal/Vertical Curves operations to manipulate horizontal and vertical envelopes
- Layers can all be merged into one new layer
- Gamma knob has real-time preview
- Fixed spray tool offset issues
- Fixed minor bugs
Photosounder 1.8 (1 Jun 2010)
Changes since version 1.7.3 :
- New basic stereo support
- New layer system
- Interface made more responsive
- New move tool
- Changed WAV and AIFF output to 32-bit float
- Toggleable loop playback
- Added option for large synthesis block sizes
- New single-row interface layout for large windows (1400+ pixels wide)
- Fixed sound saving so that it uses less memory/is less likely to crash
- Fixed lack of basses on high res images
- Setting tool size to 0.0 draws thin but strong lines instead of invisible lines
- Smoother lines
- Options to change image display mode
- Option to view layer only
- Fixed leaks and crashes
Photosounder 1.7.3 (5 Apr 2010)
Changes since version 1.7.2 :
- Mac menus added
- Chunks of sound in view get processed first
- New interface layout for lossless mode
- Faster image display
- Fixed a large memory leak in lossless mode
- Up and Down arrow move views to the end and beginning of sound
- Altered harmonics on white spray
- Sound laid out in memory differently to make crashing with extreme time stretching harder
- Fix the drop of the click when painting outside the image area (Mac)
- Fixed resampling on MP3 loading
Photosounder 1.7.2 (1 Mar 2010)
Changes since version 1.7.1 :
- Speed improved by 100% (Windows)
- About 20% of RAM saved on large sounds
- Fixed open dialog on Windows 2000
- Improved idle CPU usage
- Fixed RGB display on sounds
- Fixed RGB colours
- Fixed positioning of magnet cross when zoomed
- Fix bug in the synthesis progress display when zooming
- Fixed Invert to invert original copy
- Changed vertical size of New to reflect the BPO setting
- Improved drag scroll at high zoom levels
Photosounder 1.7.1 (17 Feb 2010)
Changes since version 1.7 :
- Zoom
- Waveform display updates while loading sound
- Fixed/improved the non-gradient image display
Photosounder 1.7 (11 Feb 2010)
Changes since version 1.6.6 :
- Menus added
- Online update checking added
- New image creation
- Got rid of the mask system, improves the behaviour of Mask Invert and makes everything roughly 8% faster (even synthesis and analysis)
- Vertical flip added
- Manual opening implemented on Mac
- Set the minimum PPS to 0.01
- Fixed a crash that would occur after having resized the window
- Clearer error message when gfx/ files not found
- Fixed spray tools to work in subpixel precision
- Solved sounds output for sound cards that didn't support mono output
- Fixed crashes when unsupported files would be opened
- Fixed a crash that would occur when the time bar was placed at certain
positions before rotation
Photosounder 1.6.6 (23 Oct 2009)
Changes since version 1.6.5 :
- New "road roller" tool for smart erasure
- Faster (optimised) spray tools
Photosounder 1.6.5 (19 Oct 2009)
Changes since version 1.6.4 :
- Harmonics modifier for spray tools
- Magnet modifier for spray tools
Photosounder 1.6.4 (5 Oct 2009)
Changes since version 1.6.3 :
- Mask invert
- Improved spray tools
- Precision mouse cursor function
- Mouse cursor for tools
- Fixed lack of mouse position updating after sound loading
- Fixed block range to resynthesise after spray tools are used
Photosounder 1.6.3 (26 Aug 2009)
Changes since version 1.6.2 :
- New configuration options that allow changing several default parameters
- Perfected calibration in analysis
- Mac display issues on window resize fixed
- Optimised the redraw of the frequency scale
- Fixed range of affected blocks for the rectangle tool
Photosounder 1.6.2 (17 Aug 2009)
Changes since version 1.6.1 :
- Fixed a volume bug that would occur after saving a sound
Photosounder 1.6.1 (16 Aug 2009)
Changes since version 1.6 :
- Uses new configuration file to set audio buffer size (used to fix stuttering issues)
- Doesn't crash as easily anymore when running low on memory
Photosounder 1.6 (27 Jul 2009)
Changes since version 1.5.5 :
- New waveform display
- Reprocesses only modified areas
- Fixed opening with Open With.. (Windows)
- Sound moved back to SDL
- Minor interface rearrangements
- Processing stops faster when cancelled
- Fixed crash when loading a sound after another that existed since 1.4
- Fixed behaviour for when loading an unrelated image when the lossless mode is on
- Adjusted audio volume so there can be clipping only above +0.0 dB
- Fixed mask range bugs
Photosounder 1.5.5 (15 Jul 2009)
Changes since version 1.5.4 :
- Rectangle tool added
- Fixed window issues at loading time
- Fixed after-rotation crash
Photosounder 1.5.4 (12 Jul 2009)
Changes since version 1.5.3 :
- Undo/redo function added
- Fixed invert on masks
Photosounder 1.5.3 (9 Jul 2009)
Changes since version 1.5.2 :
- Added dialogs and checks to make lossless mode less confusing
- Fixed Mac error dialogs
Photosounder 1.5.2 (29 Jun 2009)
Changes since version 1.5.1 :
- Beep every 6 seconds in demo replaced with silence every 12 seconds
- Holding a Control key while pressing the left mouse buttons acts like a right mouse click
Photosounder 1.5.1 (26 Jun 2009)
Changes since version 1.5 :
- Fixed display issues such as interface choppiness and white windows
- Fixed support for audio files with non-44.1 kHz sampling rates
Photosounder 1.5 (10 Jun 2009 6:00:00 +0100
Changes since version 1.4.3 :
- Mac version
- Image redraw made much faster, spray tools no longer lag
- Vision Mode doesn't change when an image is loaded
- The selected tool's button stays down
- INV button is toggleable
- Time-frequency cues appear when the spray tools are used
- Window is maximisable
- Interface rescales automatically when the window becomes too small (Windows-only)
- Most libraries have been replaced with new ones
- Various bugs fixed
Photosounder 1.4.3 (21 Mar 2009)
Changes since version 1.4.2 :
- Time resolution knob crash fixed
- Click bug at the end of a sound in lossless mode fixed
Photosounder 1.4.2 (14 Mar 2009)
Changes since version 1.4.1 :
- Crash in lossless mode fixed
- Original audio file name now indicated in lossless mode
Photosounder 1.4.1 (2 Mar 2009)
Changes since version 1.4 :
- Spray tool delay bug in lossless mode during processing fixed
Photosounder 1.4 (28 Feb 2009)
Changes since version 1.3 :
- New lossless mode
- White paint spray added
- New backwards and ping-pong playback modes
Photosounder 1.3 (20 Feb 2009)
Changes since version 1.2 :
- Fixed freezes and various minor bugs
- The image is now displayed progressively as the sound is being analysed
- Files can now be opened through Windows' Open With..
- MP3 input (optional)
- Added support for more WAV formats, FLAC, AIFF, AU and every other format supported by libsndfile
- Sounds can be saved to WAV, AIFF and FLAC
- Input sound samplerates other than 44.1 kHz are now correctly supported
- Open dialog re-opens instead of quiting the program when an invalid file is opened
- Multi-threaded parallel synthesis
- Time display changed to MM'SS"XXX instead of only seconds
- Frequency and pitch at the mouse cursors position is indicated in the lower left corner of the window
Photosounder 1.2 (8 Feb 2009)
Changes since version 1.1 :
- Calibrated and equalised analysis
for a higher fidelity in sound
reproduction
- Pitch resolution in the analysis
increased to up to 60 pixels/octave
(instead of 24 pixels/octave)
- Synthesis now about twice faster
- Interface now keeps updating
properly when out of focus
- Looped playback added
- New colour gradient
Photosounder 1.1 (31 Dec 2008)
New features :
- Saving images to files
- Copying images to clipboard
- Visual mode switch
