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• Oops, it's over a year already, let's do a refresh
• Hilights:
  • Python 3 migration
  • Updated dr_ and stb_ libraries
  • Changing volume while paused should now work
  • Filters can now be queried for live parameters and ranges
  • Set FPU flags in audio threads to ignore denorms, performance gain (can be disabled at runtime)
  • New feature: ability to move live sounds from one bus to another (annexSound)
  • New backend: JACK
  • New backend: Nosound
  • New backend: MiniAudio
  • New demo: annex
  • New demo: Filter Folio for playing with filters
  • New audio source: Noise
  • New filter: FreeVerb
  • New namespace: Misc, including pseudorandom generator and waveform generator
  • Monotone now has new waveforms
  • Rewritten robotize filter
  • Internal calls in Soloud class renamed to _internal to avoid confusion
  • sdl headers now loaded as "sdl.h" instead of "sdl/sdl.h"
  • Removed portmidi, using rtmidi instead (piano example)
  • Added const in several places due to peer pressure
  • WinMM backend no longer leaks resources if init fails
  • Several queue fixes
  • WASAPI backend fixes
  • deprecated usleep -> nanosleep
  • A lot of cppcheck, lgtm, pvs-studio and other static code analysis fixes
  • A pile of smaller bug fixes and inevitably new bugs.

Downloads on http://soloud-audio.com

• First release after 2 year burnout hiatus
• Hilights:
  • FLAC, MP3 and various wav file formats through dr_flac, dr_mp3 and dr_wav
  • Split SDL and SDL2 dll backends due to SDL2 doing stupid things unless told not to
  • Removed modplug, added libmodplug dll interface
  • Loop point support for all audio sources
  • Wav files can now load from raw data
  • Multi-speaker support
  • Queues
  • Many new small examples
  • Piano demo now has padsynth
  • Sanity test: over 200 tests to check if changes break playback
  • Asserts
  • playBackground helper interface to play audio without panning
  • countAudioSource call to see how many instances of an audio source are playing
  • PS Vita homebrew platform support
  • Wave shaper, robotize filters
  • Added more options to speech synth playback
  • Removed many dynamic allocations
  • Switched FFT implementations (again)
  • Countless bug fixes and tweaks

Downloads on http://soloud-audio.com

• SoLoud "VLF" release
• Hilights:
  • Virtual voices - play 1000 voices, SoLoud will figure out which ones you hear
  • Major documentation update
    • yEd graphs
    • New web layout
    • Many tweaks to PDF layout
    • PDF doc is now 141 pages (ULF release had 94)
    • Single-file HTML now contains images
  • New backend: ALSA for Linux
  • New filter: bassboost
  • New backend: Null driver
    • No audio device, call mix() to pull samples.
  • New demo: virtualvoices
  • New demo: null driver
  • New demo: enumerate
  • Added functions to query information on currently active back-end
  • Added get/setLooping for live sounds
  • Added default volume for audio sources
  • Added custom 3d attenuator interface
  • Added LEFT_HANDED_3D flag for left-handed 3d coordinate processing
  • Added setInaudibleBehavior
  • Split demo common code to a separate static lib
  • Upped filter count to 8
  • Some x64 fixes
  • "nondyn" naming removed, calling static libs static now
  • Removed modf in monotone because Linux clib didn't like it
  • Cleanup fix - call stop() from all audio source virtual dtors
  • Memory file bugfixes
  • Wav file loading was broken after move to File interface, fixed
  • Some div by zeros fixed in Sfxr
  • 3d processing done largely outside audio mutex
    • Plus side - 3d stuff is way more performant
    • Minus side - 3d stuff isn't thread safe
  • And a bunch of smaller bug fixes and tweaks

Hilights:

More demos moved to new framework, features added
Switched FFT implementations
'FFTFilter' is now base class for STFT filters
Generalized file i/o through File class
New interface to query info from live audio streams
Commodore plus/4 TED and Commodore 64 SID song support
As always, documentation updates and little bug fixes here and there.

• Not a milestone release, just a refresher
• Hilights:
  • Moved from premake4 to premake fork GENie for build file generation
  • SDL2 static linking support
  • MONOTONE tracker replayer
    • New demo: monotone
  • New filter: DC removal
  • New demo framework based on ImGui, simplifies demo code and makes demos prettier
  • More foreign interfaces
    • D
    • GameMaker:Studio
  • Updated versions of libmodplug and stb_vorbis
  • Documentation updates and little bug fixes here and there.

• Hilights:
  • 3d (positional) audio interfaces
    • Including positions, doppler, etc
    • New demo: 3dtest, a simple test of the positional audio
  • More foreign interfaces
    • BlitzMax
    • Ruby
    • RPG Maker
    • c# (c sharp)
  • Lots more documentation and little bug fixes here and there.

• Hilights:
  • New demo: "space", demonstrating visualization data from different parts of the pipeline
  • New demo: "pew pew", demonstrating difference between play() and playClocked()
  • New filter: flanger
  • New way to play sounds: playClocked() for rapidly-launched sounds, to make it so all sounds don't start from the beginning of a sound buffer
  • Loop count query added
  • Voice groups to command several voices in one atomic operation
• A lot of variable type changes:
  • Defined error codes, and several functions return error codes now.
  • Time variable type changed from float to double
  • Typedefs for handles, time, result codes
  • Plenty of "int" -> "unsigned int" changes, some ints changed to bools
• A lot of work on code generation and wrappers:
  • Codegen now also outputs soloud_codegen.py with all data needed to generate wrappers
  • Python wrapper generator
  • Python API
• Other changes that affect your code:
  • stopSound() renamed to stopAudioSource(). Audio sources also got a new stop() function that stops all instances.
  • Echo filter now has an optional low pass filter to make more "natural" echoes
  • Default post-clip scaler upped from 0.5 to 0.95
  • New songs for multimusic, changed multimusic to use voice groups
• Regarding builds:
  • Redesigned the mechanism by which different backends are included in the build, controlled mainly through premake
  • Many new premake options
  • "nondyn" SDL build added which links to SDL directly, for special needs such as emscripten
  • sdl2 dll may work now (mutex functions were renamed from SDL to SDL2, audio API should be almost the same)
• And, under the hood:
  • Side project - resamplerlab - to make writing new resamplers easier, with some experimental resamplers
  • Some work towards osx, linux compatibility
  • FFT code moved to its own source so it can be more easily replaced in the future
  • Changed mixer fixed point from 16.16 to 12.20
  • Various small fixes, as usual.

Core functionality is now pretty decent, even if multi-speaker or 3d positional audio is still missing.

There's also a bunch of back-ends, mixer has some filtering (and interface for more). And let's not forget filters or mixing busses.

Still plenty to do going forward, but I feel this is a pretty usable release. Assuming there's no horrible bugs hiding there somewhere.

Binaries available from http://soloud-audio.com