Voxengo SPAN Plus - Product Version Check

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What's New

• Changed CSV file saving to use a more widely-used semi-colon. Compatibility with comma-delimiters retained.
• Fixed a GUI issue that could affect host's transport on Intel Macs.
• Fixed occasional GUI flickering on macOS (due to usage of Device RGB color-space, now it is sRGB).
• Improved audio-UI interoperability, to reduce a chance of audio stutter happening when UI is active.
• Reduced GUI refresh jitter.
• Further fix to HiDPI VST3 GUI resizing issue in Cubase, on Windows.

• Fixed an issue with product key entry via the Paste button.

• Removed SSSE3 requirement on Windows.
• Reduced visual tearing on Windows.
• Increased averaged spectrum calculation performance thus reducing time it takes to update the GUI.
• Improved spectrum averaging precision for >1/3oct.
• Static spectrum's name is now assigned/changed on "Take" only if it is currently "unnamed".
• Changed FFT analyzer's minimal averaging time to 5ms (down from 50ms).
• Changed static spectrum shift range to -42..42 dB (up from -32..32).
• Added a small delay to the "Max Crest Factor" estimation, to reduce over-reaction to transients at playback start.
• Fixed a system DPI scaling-related VST3 GUI resizing issue in Cubase, on Windows.

• Made the spectrum also export its "Filled Display" setting, useful when many spectrums are shown at the same time. This is an often-asked-for feature. Note that you may need to revisit the "Filled Display" setting of some individual tracks. This new feature allows you to export some tracks with the "filled" setting enabled while others without it; or to display the main spectrum filled while displaying imported spectrums without filling. This new feature can be disabled via the "Import Spectrum Filling" global setting.
• Made the CSV spectrum saving also save the frequency values and channel names.
• Made the "Static Spectrums" window auto-fill the spectrum names on "Take" and "Load".
• Fixed non-working static spectrum's shifting when the "Offset" (Normalize/Center) display mode is used.
• Added factory ROM presets previously available in SPAN.
• Changed spectrum's "Freq Lo" maximum to 500 Hz (down from 1000 Hz), and "Freq Hi" minimum to 600 (down from 2000 Hz), to permit finer low- and mid-frequency range selections.
• Added the "Spectrum, meter border" palette modifier, visual features. The "Flat Panels" global setting is now a part of color scheme's visual features. Updated palettes.
• Made a small speed-up of GUI loading and drawing.
• Fixed an issue with popup-menus not functioning in Logic Pro on Apple M1 native.
• Implemented "Portable Setups" support (portable settings and authorization storage), read more in the Primary User Guide.

• Extended the number of spectrum "Import" slots from 5 to 10.

• Maintenance (codebase sync) release.

• Added the "Large Cursor Readouts" plug-in setting which enables larger mouse position readouts, useful when the plug-in is placed on a distant dedicated monitor.
• Fixed a drawing bug with the "Flat Panels" global switch disabled.
• Improved overall graphics drawing performance.
• Improved anti-aliased line rendering of the secondary spectrum.
• Improved knob's renderings.
• By frequent user request, the "Solo" switch's state is now saved together with the preset (a part of the routing parameters). While this opens up a possibility of leaving the "Solo" switch enabled and forgotten, this provides more flexibility, e.g. when mid/side processing is used.

• Added the "Panel border" palette modifier.
• Updated all palettes, to reduce "border" contrast. An existing palette may need to be reloaded for the change to be visible.
• Modified spectrum window's sliders to look less contrasted.
• Fixed a minor issue with level meter's scale flickering during window resizing.
• Fixed a very rare issue with user interface redrawing.

• Maintenance release. Made various minor fixes.

• Added CSV/Excel format support to Static spectrums load/save function (during save a file extension should be specified explicitly).
• Added "Static" button to the "Wide" display mode.

• Made further spectrum smoothing improvements.
• Improved font rendering slightly.

• Fixed "Underlay" spectrum not showing-up in the "Wide" mode on plug-in UI opening.
• Fixed user interface size increase issue in AudioUnits when scale other than 100% is used.
• Made a fix to the issues with the "asynchronous drawing" with some audio host applications.

• IMPORTANT: This version has changed its product key format. If you already purchased this plug-in, to use this version, please visit the Voxengo web site and get a new key at the User Area (if you obtained a product key from a reseller, you will need to add your existing product key there first), or use the Automatic key download feature of the plug-in itself.
• Added Apple Silicon native compatibility.
• Added 1/48 octave spectrum smoothing option.
• Improved spectrum smoothing precision.
• The "Wide View Mode" switch is now called "Wide": it switches the interface into a new, much wider display mode.
• Automatic instance labeling implemented (not supported in VST2).
• Moved the "Export To" selector to the main screen.
• The "Hold" switch now holds all visible spectrums at once.
• Internal channel letters were changed to numbers.
• Level meters can now display input channel names instead of internal channel indices.
• Enabled the "asynchronous drawing" window mode on macOS; may fix the user interface "lagging".
• Added AudioComponents interface to AudioUnit as the ".rsrc" interface may be deprecated in the future.

• Implemented "anti-aliased" line drawing optimization.
• Improved readability of the condensed font.
• Fixed a bug where the "Hold" switch was not holding statistics.
• Added the "Navy" color scheme.
• Windows: fixed a possible freeze issue on high overall CPU load.

• Added the preset list sorting function to the preset manager.
• Added the "True Peak/Sample Peak" switch.
• Redesigned the knob image.
• Extended the "Color Editor" with color modifiers.
• Added the "Gray Blue" color scheme.

• Added the "Align 0 dB" spectrum display mode.
• Fixed a minor spectrum power shift in non-Hann window modes.
• Added FLAC file spectrum analysis.

• Fixed a minor frequency drift on deep zoom-in.
• Improved responsiveness during window resizing.
• Improved visual quality at different visual interface scales.
• Windows: implemented (switchable) higher-precision user interface update timer, for smoother display.

• Fixed a memory leak issue.
• Reverted previously made changes to UI drawing due to reported problems on less powerful processors on Windows.

• Fixed the non-working correlation meter.

• Implemented EBU-R128 "LUFS" and "LU" metering modes.
• Implemented "True Peak" peak level and clippings detection.
• Added 1/24 octave spectrum smoothing option.
• Added AIFF sound file support to Static spectrum load function.
• Increased resolution of saved static spectrum files.
• Added "Blackman" and "Hi-Res" spectrum window types.

• Fixed issue with "Spectrum Offset" display modes.
• Fixed display "notching" of high-resolution spectrum.
• Added Retina support on macOS, and automatic high-resolution UI size adjustment on Windows.
• Added "anti-aliasing" spectrum display mode.