Smaart LE Release Notes

Created by Hannah Goodine, Modified on Wed, 30 Apr at 1:58 PM by Jake Bedard

Smaart LE Release Notes

9.5.2

Fixed a bug where the background window was not dimmed properly when the "About" window was shown and the main Smaart window was windowed
Fixed a bug where uncalibrated inputs could be set to metrics other than Full Scale
Fixed a bug where trace names would automatically be accepted after using a modifier key
Fixed a deadlock when toggling delay tracking
Fixed a crash caused by importing a blank Target Curve file

9.5.1

Removed Offset column for spectrum target curve dialog
Fixed a bug where "Automatically Collapse When Clicking Outside" would close flyups still in focus if contents were dragged around
Updated behavior of friendly names for Audient EVO loopback channels
Fixed a bug where the signal generator would not start if an output device was selected for use but no channels from the device were

9.5.0

New Features

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

[Shift + D]	Track All
[Alt/Option + D]	Reset All Measurement Delays to 0ms
[Alt/Option + A]	Opens and closes IO config
[Shift + P]	Cycle through plot focus
[Ctrl/Cmd + A]	Run All Engines in Current Tab
[Ctrl/Cmd + G]	Increase Generator Level
[Shift + G]	Decrease Generator Level
[Alt/Option + V]	Reset SPL Leq Buffers
[Shift + T]	Trigger Timer Macro
[Shift + M]	Toggles between Phase and Group Delay
[Alt/Option + L]	Start/Stop SPL Logging
[Ctrl/Cmd + N]	Add Note in SPL Log
[Alt/Option + V]	Reset SPL Leq Buffers

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