Smaart LE Release Notes

• Added the ability to use band-limiting for signal generator noise contours other than Pink noise
• Added transfer function target curve tolerance
• Added support for creating target curves from saved data traces
• Added clock to SPL metrics list
• Added "link plot zoom" preference
• Added coherence line thickness preference
• Added trace color assignment preference
• Added multi-file playback
• Added sine wave frequency sliders to signal generator flyout
• Added "mono", "stereo", and "multi" generator playback types
• Added Red noise contour
• Added Pink/Red noise hybrid contour
• Added the ability to capture hidden measurements when using "capture all"

Under the Hood

• Updated Live IR plot label behavior
• Updated scroll bar contrast
• Updated Smaart LE signal generator to allow non-compact and updated default to non-compact
  
• Updated Smaart Loopback behavior when the signal generator is off
• Updated signal generation level of pseudorandom noise
  
• Updated Leq MAX field behavior to not populate until buffer has been filled
• Updated "Pink Noise" label to "Noise"
• Updated target curve error message language
• Updated noise GUI
• Improved behavior when editing fields
• Improved behavior when using the delay finder with SyncSource measurements
• Improved view preset behavior with the Live IR plot
• Improved organization of TF Graph Settings
• Improved link plot banding behavior in multi spectrum view
• Removed least significant digit from TF tolerance field
• Launching Smaart a second time now brings the existing program window to the front of the stack in Windows

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where "Track All" command would not affect hidden measurements
• Fixed a bug where the signal generator did not turn off when switching to file stimulus with no file selected for playback
• Fixed a bug where the "start logging" hotkey would trigger an SPL logging error message in Smaart LE

9.4.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where all traces were using Foreground Thickness setting.
  
• Fixed a bug where Magnitude and Phase plots were showing different top traces.
• Fixed a bug where the "Display Live IR" setting becomes disabled when closing Smaart from Spectrum view.
• Fixed a bug where Smaart sometimes wouldn't close when installing an update.

9.4.0

New Features

• Added "Create DSP Channel from Selected" option to data trace/folder right-click menu
• Added support for Transfer Function Target Curves
• Added Plot Time Reference (PTR) Display and Time Offset (TO) controls
• Added Hotkey to clear Time Offset: [Ctrl/Cmd] + [Shift] + [Y]
• Added the ability to reorder target curves
• Added ability to change trace color from trace right-click menu
• Added support for running measurements that use Smaart Loopback while the generator is off
• Added Multi-Trace drag and drop support
• Added spectrum averaging depth to measurement settings
• Added support for measurement delay times over 1000ms

Improvements

• Updated Coherence View preset behavior follows global when "Always use MTW coherence" is not selected.
  
• Updated Spectrum Target Curve file formatting.
  
• Updated rendering of disabled combo boxes.
  
• Updated "Trace Info" language.
  
• Updated "Measurement Delay" to "Measurement Time Reference" in "Trace Info".
  
• Moved "Mag Averaging Type" checkbox to graph settings and renamed it to "Mag Averaging Display".
  
• Moved "Use MTW Coherence" checkbox to Graph Settings and renamed it "Always display MTW Coherence".
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where target curves would not reposition with banding changes.
  
• Fixed a bug where deletion of target curves would not remove them from the plot.
  
• Fixed a bug where max frequency limits for sine wave and band-limited pseudorandom pink noise did not equal Nyquist frequency for the selected device's sample rate.
  
• Fixed a bug where unselected inputs would not be removed from the amplitude calibration window.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Windows when trying to change the Signal Generator's source to File while it is playing.
  
• Fixed a bug where [Cmd] + [Y] (reset Y offset) hotkey only cleared offset of the focused plot.
  
• Fixed a crash when making mismatched target curve visible.
  
• Fixed a crash when selecting "File" as the generator output type.

9.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed graphical issues that occurred on some Apple Silicon Macs
• Fixed a bug where graphs would get corrupted after changing views

9.3.0

Improvements

• New Signal Generator fly-up GUI
  
• New “Smaart Loopback” mechanism replaces the old virtual “Generator” device
  
• Improved Active Output Preset indication.
  
• Improved Client Window measurement assignment workflow
  
• Improved window behavior when using more than one computer monitor
  
• Added “Do not show me this again” option to the Multi-Device TF signal generator warning
  
• Updated the [Alt/Opt + A] hotkey to close I-O Config when already open
  
• Added a warning message when using Smaart Loopback
  
• Added support for multi-channel wave files in the signal generator
  
• Added Option for files to playback as a Mono Sum
  
• Increased plot focus border size and plot axis button size
  
• Expanded the click area for closing fly-ups
• Added new hotkeys

Bug Fixes

• Fly-up dialogs no longer close when clicking outside fly-up
• Peak Hold now works with Live Spectrum Averages
  
• Signal Generator no longer automatically compacts when the window size is small
• Fixed a crash that occurred when duplicating a new tab in TF View
• Fixed a crash when using SyncSource and changing FFT size (Length) while Signal Generator was running
• Fixed an issue where the keyboard focus would not remain on the Banding menu
• Fixed a bug where the sine generator would click when changing frequency with the slider
• Fixed a bug where 32k FFT coherence was used as the default
• Fixed a bug with an artifact "Folder" in the Data Bar

9.2.1

Improvements

• SPL Meter can now be broken out into a standalone, resizable window

• Improved graph behavior while the application window is resized

• Improved graph performance when modifying multiple traces at the same time

• More improvements to window behavior when multiple monitors are connected/disconnected

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when rapidly switching plot views

• Fixed a bug that made it difficult to click the "L-IFFT" checkbox in Advanced Preferences

• Fixed a bug where disabling "Link Phase & Mag. Smoothing" reverted both Mag and Phase smoothing to "No Smoothing"

• Fixed a bug where the trace name label in plots did not update after renaming a measurement engine

• Fixed a bug where the trace icon showed the wrong hide/show state when moving a trace out of a folder

• Fixed a bug where Folders in the Data Bar minimized after using "Assign Random Color"

9.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Spectrograph from scrolling backwards after the slice height was changed
• Fixed a bug where Transfer Function engines would list the wrong reference channel name when using the virtual “Generator” device
• Fixed a bug that caused the Advanced Delay Finder window to render partially off-screen
• Fixed various issues related to “Import ASCII”
• Fixed graphing issues in the Advanced Preferences dialog

9.2.0

New Features

• New data library search and sorting functions
• New data archiving function
• New graphics rendering engine in Advanced Delay Finder
• Trace Info enhancements - control data set visibility
• Added option to change/set the generator level increment precision and allow .5 dB increments
• Added magnitude thresholding to the Find Delay calculation
• Added “Alt + J" hotkey to open Advanced Preferences
• Added” Make Session Folder" option to the right-click menu for folders in the Data Library

Improvements

• Optimization to improve performance with large data libraries
• “Delete" hotkey is now supported in Measurement Config flyout
• When a folder of data is imported, subdirectories are now also imported

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where captured TF traces did not use the correct Smoothing value

9.1.7

Improvements

• Improved click-ability of traces in plots
• Improved behavior when an audio device's channel count changes (Dante)
• Removed hot plug/automatic device detection in the Windows build and replaced with a "Refresh" button in I-O Config
• A name is now required when renaming captured traces and live engines

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur if an API connection was intermittent
• Fixed a bug where the "Signal" droplist in the Signal Generator Dialog might be empty
• Fixed a bug where multi-selecting and dragging traces to the plot would only show the first trace
• Fixed a bug where stopping an engine would not remove the trace from the plot in Multi Spectrum view
• Fixed a bug where the auto-populated trace capture name did not update after renaming a measurement engine
• Fixed a bug where engine name uniqueness was not being enforced in some circumstances
• Fixed a bug where an engine's outline color did not update immediately after changing the engine color
• Fixed a bug where the Target Curve list did not update immediately after importing a target curve
• Fixed a bug where Decade-scale frequency labels were incorrect
• Fixed a bug where some hotkey presses would affect multiple traces in the Windows build
• Fixed various bugs related to Live/Captured Averages
• Fixed various bugs related to locked/peak cursors

9.1.6

Improvements

• Enhanced overall app performance, especially on Apple Silicon

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various issues with full-screening application windows on macOS. 
• Fixed a crash that occurred in the Windows build when moving cursor focus between text fields. 
• Fixed a crash that occurred when Restoring Defaults immediately after Restoring Defaults

9.1.5

Improvements

• Added option to disallow audio device scanning (hot plug)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Live Average traces were changing upon capturing.
• Fixed a bug where Mic Correction Curves were not applying to TFs when Mag Averaging was set to Complex.
• Fixed a bug where the "Move" (M) key would move multiple traces instead of just the top trace. 

9.1.4

Improvements

• Disallowed forward slash and backslash in various name input fields

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that triggered a “Runtime error” on some Windows computers

• Fixed a bug where the Skin selection from saved configurations was being ignored

• Fixed a bug where some captured average traces showed 0.00 dB in the cursor readout despite having valid Magnitude data

9.1.3

Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug where plots did not respond to navigational hotkeys (arrow keys)

9.1.2

Bug Fix

• Fixed a crash that occurred when normalizing a captured TF average trace with a normal TF trace

9.1.1

Improvements

• Increased default API command timeout to prevent erroneous timeout responses

• Pressing the ‘G’ hotkey when the Generator is not configured now displays the message saying that the Generator is not configured

• “Save As” is now enabled when multiple traces are selected in the Data Library

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where clicking full screen button (+) in the macOS build would not make the program exit full screen mode

• Fixed a bug where modifying or averaging a captured Spectrum average trace would corrupt the data

• Fixed a bug where hiding and showing a captured Spectrum average trace would cause the data to change

• Fixed a bug where the Plot Calibrated Level setting wouldn’t immediately apply to running Spectrum measurements

• Fixed a bug where creating a new session folder would make shown traces disappear from the Data Bar until the Data Library was refreshed

• Fixed a bug where clicking the "Metric" radio button in General Preferences more than once would cause a black hole

• Fixed a bug where some Y axis unit labels were missing from the RTA when "Plot Calibrated Levels" was enabled for the first time

• Fixed a crash that occurred after “0” was manually entered into the Signal Generator level field

• Fixed a bug where the LIR cursor readout was incorrect if the cursor was to the left of center

9.1

Additions

•  New Audient® EVO device control integration
  
  
•  New generator “Fade-In” option
  
  
•  Added unweighted "Peak" as a built-in sound level metric

Improvements

• Transfer Function - both Polar- and Complex-averaged magnitude data sets are now always calculated/stored
  
  
• Improved behavior when multi-selecting measurements to create a live average
  
  
• Improved visual performance while resizing the application window
  
  
• When editing output Trim, pressing the Enter key now moves focus to the next Trim cell

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a memory leak in the macOS build.

• Fixed various issues related to moving Smaart between screens with different DPI settings

• Improved a rendering behavior when resizing the application window

• Fixed a bug where Target Curves were not reacting to changes in banding.

• Fixed a bug where dragging a measurement engine too high in the Control Bar would make it disappear.

• Fixed a bug where the circular delay tracker button wouldn’t always turn red when locked “on”

• Fixed a bug where the Input Meters would not remain showing after restarting Smaart in Windows.

• Fixed blurry Find/Track/+/- Delay buttons in the Control Bar.

9.0.3

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a memory leak in the macOS build.

• Fixed various issues related to moving Smaart between screens with different DPI settings

• Improved a rendering behavior when resizing the application window

• Fixed a bug where Target Curves were not reacting to changes in banding.

• Fixed a bug where dragging a measurement engine too high in the Control Bar would make it disappear.

• Fixed a bug where the circular delay tracker button wouldn’t always turn red when locked “on”

• Fixed a bug where the Input Meters would not remain showing after restarting Smaart in Windows.

• Fixed blurry Find/Track/+/- Delay buttons in the Control Bar.

9.0.2

New Features

• New v9 API SDK available

GUI Enhancements

• Plot zoom states and threshold widget positions are now persistent.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Target Curve line thickness wouldn’t apply

• Fixed various bugs that resulted in TF traces plotting without smoothing despite smoothing being applied.

• Fixed a bug that resulted in the magnitude column of ASCII imports showing 0.00dB for all frequencies.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when averaging two traces that were captured from live averages.

• Fixed a bug where the built in SPL Meter’s input selection wasn't persistent between application launches

• Fixed various crashes and bugs in the client window and API.

9.0.1

GUI Improvements

• Background dimming component is now closed if the skin manager is called into focus.

Under The Hood

• Reimplemented Multi-Spectrum view [0] hotkey.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occurred after changing target curve color and restarting Smaart

• Fixed a bug where open folders outside of the session folder would collapse when the plot view was changed

• Fixed a bug that prevented changing the TF device/channel after the TF was created

• Fixed a bug that prevented captured TF average traces from being shown after they were hidden.

• Fixed various issues related to showing target curves

• Fixed tab droplist in view flyup

• Fixed FTW cutoff indicator line