FIR Designer M Release Notes

 

Learn more about FIR Designer M or download a free demo.

Subscription licensees can access the latest download on the “update available” dialog within FIR Designer M.

Version 4.3.12 (29 November 2024)

  • Added warnings when FIR filter length might be longer than the application FFT size.
  • New Supplementary Responses manual scaling option for the polar heatmap.
  • Mouse control improvements to filters on the Target magnitude and phase sub-tabs.
  • Fix to Preferences changes not saving and loading correctly.
  • Fix to the coherence plot, on the Import tab, not being the correct colour.

Version 4.3.10 (2 November 2024)

  • New: The Supplementary Responses view now loads Klippel polar data sets in the correct angle order.
  • Fix to occasional plot flickering. (Bug introduced in 4.3.9.)

Version 4.3.9 (11 October 2024)

  • Various computation speed improvements. (No functional changes.) This should address much of the laggy behaviour when using the mouse to adjust filters whilst “Auto Mag” and “Auto Phase” are enabled.

Version 4.3.8 (3 August 2024)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 4.3.7 (26 July 2024)

  • Updates to Auto IIR usability, including retaining settings between Auto IIR window closing and reopening.

Version 4.3.6 (21 July 2024)

  • New: “Audio Weaver” IIR filter coefficient export on the IIR Filters tab.
  • Fix: The ‘FIR Alignment Delay’ was removing any bulk GPD delay across all channels. This has been changed to retain the GPD delay as is, but still align the FIR filters.

Version 4.3.5 (21 July 2024)

  • Update to loading of ETM and STO measurement files that have very long impulse responses.
  • Various UI fixes for problems introduced in version 4.3.0.

Version 4.3.4 (17 July 2024)

  • Fixes to StormAudio IIR filter mode.
  • Update: Removed filter limit notifications from the Lab Gruppen DTP window for LPIF export to IPX Amplifiers.

Version 4.3.3 (14 July 2024)

  • UI Fix: FIR Designer M normal (light) mode had display problems when running on Windows with the operating system mode set to dark.

Version 4.3.2 (11 July 2024)

  • Fixed problem with “Supplementary Responses” combined “Normalise to response” option.

Version 4.3.1 (10 July 2024)

  • Update: The “Supplementary Responses” window now as a option to normalise the combined magnitude responses with reference to a specific measurement, such as on-axis.
  • Fix: Attempting to convert from other IIR modes to the AFMG SpeakerLab mode would cause a crash.
  • Fix: Lab Gruppen DTP window was incorrectly counting the number of filters, before attempting to save the LPIF file.

Version 4.3.0 (8 July 2024)

  • New: FIR Designer M now has a dark user interface theme available on both macOS and Window. To switch between light and dark themes, in Preferences, change the “Use dark mode” setting and restart the application.
  • New: The thickness of plot lines can now set in Preferences, from1 pixel to 10 pixels.
  • New: “AFMG SpeakerLab” IIR filter mode. (This mode is an analog filter mode and cannot be used with auditionDSP, nor exported to processors over DTP. It has simple, but not exact, conversion to/from other brands.)
  • New: “StormAudio” IIR filter mode.
  • Update: FIR latency compensation is now used on the Lab Gruppen DTP window (for export to IPX amplifiers).
  • Update: The “Supplementary Responses” window now has optional power normalisation for the combined (multi-way) response.
  • Update: When exporting FIR filters from the channel “Export” tab, two additional FIR filter files can be saved at the same time; a minimum-phase variant (with 0 sample delay and the same length as the main FIR filter) and an excess phase variant (with the same delay and length as the main FIR filter). The convolution of these two additional FIR filters matches the magnitude and phase of the main FIR filter. The enable this feature, press Control-H and a checkbox appears, labelled “Also save minimum and excess phase FIRs.”
  • Various UI updates and fixes

Version 4.2.9 (2 July 2024)

  • Fix: The Lab Gruppen DTP window LPIF export was missing channel name and channel number parameters.

Version 4.2.8 (13 May 2024)

  • Additional fix: In the “Generic” IIR filter mode, the Elliptical HPF and LPF stop-band gain value couldn’t be edited. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.)

Version 4.2.7 (12 May 2024)

  • Updates to the Lab Gruppen DTP window (for exporting settings to Lab Gruppen IPX amplifiers) to match the latest release of IPX Controller.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 4.2.6 (9 May 2024)

  • Fix: IIR Tab enable wasn’t saving to and loading from the system file correctly. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.)
  • Fix: In the “Generic” IIR filter mode, the Elliptical HPF and LPF stop-band gain value couldn’t be edited. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.)

Version 4.2.5 (8 May 2024)

  • Fix: IIR Tab enable checkbox wasn’t working. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.)
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 4.2.4 (4 May 2024)

  • Fix: IIR Reference mode change wasn’t being retained when closing the IIR Reference Editor.
  • Fix: Where using an FIR filter sample rate that is different to the design sample rate, sometimes the wrong sample rate was used in exports. (Bug introduced in version 3.2.)
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 4.2.3 (30 March 2024)

  • Fix: Auto IIR was causing the application to crash for any IIR mode other than ‘Generic.’

Version 4.2.1 (29 March 2024)

  • Update: The FIR export “DC Compensation” feature sometimes wouldn’t work properly, particularly with FIR filters that are inverted.
  • Fix: In Averaging, some UI elements wouldn’t update when turning “use” on/off for individual measurements.

Version 4.2.0 (16 March 2024)

  • New “Pascal Audio” and “Blaze Audio” IIR emulation modes. These modes are also available in the IIR Reference Editor window for conversion to/from other brands.
  • New automatic IIR correction window with two different auto IIR modes. Launch from the “IIR Filters” tab by clicking the “Auto” button.
  • Fix: when using the “Lab Gruppen” DTP window, attempting to save the “System” LPIF for could cause the application to crash.

Version 4.1.4 (3 February 2024)

  • Fix: IIR “reference” mode selection wasn’t set correctly when loading a system file. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.1.)

Version 4.1.3 (1 February 2024)

  • UI fix to version 4.1.2.

Version 4.1.2 (31 January 2024)

  • Fix to IIR conversion to/from the QSC Qsys Bessel Natural HPF.
  • Fix: the program wasn’t switching to the correct IIR mode after loading a system file. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.1.)
  • Fix to the loading of input position FIR filters. (Bug introduced in version 4.1.1.)

Version 4.1.1 (5 January 2024)

  • New “RMS-ACOUSTICS” IIR mode with ‘WAY EQ’ IIR filter export for import into RMS-ACOUSTICS ‘RMS-CONTROL’ software.
  • Change to the system file format for all brands of IIR filters to better enable addition of more IIR brands. This change is not backwards compatible with version 4.0 and earlier.

Version 4.0.14 (10 November 2023)

  • Fixes to auditionDSP: meters for output channels 4, 5 & 6 weren’t working and FIR bypass checkboxes appeared to not update correctly when switching presets.
  • Fixes to Symetrix CD Horn frequency in LPIF export and IIR text output.

Version 4.0.13 (25 October 2023)

  • Crash fix to Supplementary Responses Heatmap when mirroring data.
  • For the IIR QSC Q-SYS HPF Natural Bessel filter order; fix to IIR tab cut-paste, fix to LPIF export and fix to IIR conversion.
  • Fixes to some IIR Linkwitz-Riley filter conversions between brands.

Version 4.0.12 (17 October 2023)

  • Fix to Linea Research IIR mode mouse control of BW.
  • Fix to QSC Q-Sys IIR mode HPF natural Bessel filter order dropdown in filter table.
  • Fix to application lock when launching auditionDSP and more than one message windows appear.

Version 4.0.11 (11 October 2023)

  • Fixes to Biamp IIR mode handling of Q.

Version 4.0.10 (3 October 2023)

  • New Q option for Biamp IIR mode. (Now either BW or Q can be used.)
  • Fixed bug in Kaiser/Bessel window function.
  • New “check for updates” window. (Update link on previous window stopped working due to Apple macOS changes.)

Version 4.0.9 (21 September 2023)

  • Minor speedup to file playback in auditionDSP
  • Input position IIR filters
    • Fix: problems loading input IIRs from a separate channel project file.
    • Fix: problems with input filters after IIR mode conversion using the IIR “Reference Editor” window.
    • Fix: When a Biamp IIR mode filter was being used in the input position, the Linkwitz/Riley LP or HP order was not handled correctly.
  • Fix: Minor problem converting Symetrix and Ram Audio all-pass filters to Biamp all-pass filters.
  • Fix: System changed * indicator was sometimes not clearing when starting a new system.

Version 4.0.8 (14 September 2023)

  • Fix: program crash when attempting to save system LPIF file. (Bug introduced in version 4.0.0.)

Version 4.0.7 (3 September 2023)

  • Fix: auditionDSP input channel IIR filter coefficients, if used, were calculated using the wrong sample rate.
  • Fix: auditionDSP could crash when using input position IIR filters at a sample rate other than the audio device sample rate.
  • Fix: Some very specific IIR filter conversions weren’t working correctly.

Version 4.0.6 (5 August 2023)

  • Fixes to project file loading and system file saving for a single channel system, and changes to how the System Target is used (or not used) for a single channel system. (Bugs introduced in 4.0.0.)

Version 4.0.5 (4 August 2023)

  • Fixed numerous UI tab and menu problems including tabs missing in the 2nd View window. (This relates to a change to Qt 6.5.1 with version 4.0.0. FIR Designer M is now using Qt 6.5.2. If any problems persist, we will revert to the Qt version used for FIR Designer M 2.6.)
  • Fixed BW field display problem for Biamp Tesira all-pass filters. (Bug present since Biamp Tesira filters introduced in 2.5.2.)
  • Fixed problem with response smoothing on the Import tab. (Bug introduced in 4.0.0.)
  • Improvements to filter table cust/paste.

Version 4.0.4 (1 August 2023)

  • Fixed problem with system save.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 4.0.3 (29 July 2023)

We’re proud to announce the next major version of FIR Designer M – version 4.

Wondering what happened to version 3? We’re skipping it, to bring FIR Designer M version numbers in line with FIR Designer (which will also have a version 4 available shortly). We plan to have future, major FIR Designer/FIR DesignerM releases in lock step.

What’s new?

  • auditionDSP – a realtime application for running and auditioning up to three loudspeaker presets simultaneously. For more details, see auditionDSP.
  • The system (fds) file now contains everything. No more channel project files!
    • Plot colors are now saved in the System file and can be optionally applied when the file is loaded.
  • A contour plot display, in the Supplementary Responses window, for viewing off-axis behaviour of the loudspeaker preset with polar measurements.
  • Group delay display in the ‘2nd view’ window.
  • A “RAM Audio” IIR filter mode.
  • A new DTP window for export to Lab Gruppen IPX series amplifiers.
  • Separate binaries for macOS Intel and M series macs.
  • A big speedup to underlying computations.
  • Many UI tweaks and improvements.

Version 2.6.11 (2 May 2023)

  • Fix: Version 2.6.6 included minor improvements to measurement resampling for some import file types. This was recently found to have small phase errors and the change has been reverted, in this version, to match 2.6.5.

Version 2.6.10 (1 May 2023)

  • Fix: Rare crash using Auto Mag or Auto Phase tabs.

Version 2.6.9 (29 April 2023)

  • Fix: Some SMAART .srf files would not load correctly.

Version 2.6.8 (18 April 2023)

  • Fix: Biamp Tesira IIR Linkwitz/Riley filters sometimes displayed filter order incorrectly.
  • Fix: FIR summary text file was missing filter order for Biamp Tesira IIR filters.

Version 2.6.7 (6 April 2023)

  • macOS: from version 2.6.1 to 2.6.6, the Lake DTP window would not connect to the Lake Controller and incorrectly reported “Packet error: bad checksum”. The cause is unknown but we have implemented a workaround in this version.

Version 2.6.6 (27 January 2023)

  • Fix to one of the REW import formats.
  • Minor improvements to import resampling of arbitrary mag and phase txt data.

Version 2.6.5 (27 January 2023)

  • Minor fix to some IIR filters in LPIF file export.

Version 2.6.4 (18 December 2022)

  • Fixed rare crash when loading a system with a specific combination of parameters.
  • Fixed problem with BW entry when using the Marani IIR filter mode.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.6.3 (25 November 2022)

  • Fixed a potential crash when using new Generic and Lake IIR mode filters at the input position.

Version 2.6.2 (24 November 2022)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.6.1 (19 November 2022)

For Windows 10 only.

  • Fix: On Windows 10, text wasn’t scaling correctly for display scaling values other than 100%.
    • The updates default on and can be enabled/disabled in the Preferences dialog.; see “Use high DPI improvements” setting.
  • New: CLIO impulse response TXT file import.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.6.0 (29 October 2022)

  • New
    • MARANI DTP window for pushing settings to Marani MIR processors across a local network.
      • Note: FIR filter sideloading is currently not available, but will be enabled in a future update.
    • SMAART v9 import support through the ‘SMAART Control’ window.
    • New ‘Lake’ and ‘Generic’ IIR filter modes.
      • The ‘General (Lake)’ IIR mode has been rename to ‘Legacy (General)’.
      • The ‘Lake’ mode has Lake specific filters only.
      • The ‘Generic’ mode – now the default – has a similar filter set to the ‘Legacy (General)’ but with additional bandpass and notch filters, and now uses Robert Bristow-Johnson Q & BW definitions.
    • Sample rate warnings now appear when using a branded IIR mode whose hardware doesn’t support the current FIR Designer M channel sample rate.
    • SMAART measurements, captured through the ‘SMAART Control’ window and passed to ‘Measurement Averaging’, are now saved when the averaging session is saved. The measurements are saved to a new *.FDM file format that is loaded when the averaging session file is loaded.
    • A new ‘FIR polarity’ checkbox is now available on the channel Export tab. This replaces the ‘Invert FIR at save’ checkbox and the ‘Invert FIR at save’ setting is now transferred to the ‘FIR polarity’ when an older channel project file is loaded.
    • ‘Cancel’ option when closing the app.
  • Update: LPIF file export now includes Biamp IIR filters.
  • Fix: Some REW txt measurement files were not loading.
  • Fix: Lake and Powersoft DTP windows were not including the FIR filter alignment delay when setting channel delays in Lake modules and Powerwoft XML files.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.5.2 (23 July 2022)

  • New: “Biamp Tesira” IIR filter mode that has Biamp Tesira specific IIR filters for 48 kHz.
  • Update: Increased the filter order options for Bessel filters in the “QSC Q-Sys” IIR filter mode.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.4.7 (2 July 2022)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.4.6 (24 June 2022)

  • Update: IIR export QSC csv file needed commas at the end of each row.

Version 2.4.5 (10 June 2022)

  • Fix: Changes to Preference “speed of sound” were not retained between program runs.
  • Update: Improvement to IIR conversion for some shelf filters.

Version 2.4.4 (10 June 2022)

  • Fix: Rare crash in Neville Thiele notched crossovers.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.4.3 (18 May 2022)

  • Fix: Versions 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 (Microsoft Windows) had a Microsoft compiler problem which affected IIR mode conversion for LR, Bessel and Butterworth filters.
  • Fix: When Preferences “Don’t use system file when number of channels is ‘1’,” loading a channel project file wasn’t updating the system IIR filter reference mode.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.4.2 (12 May 2022)

  • Fix to measurement averaging session file load and save issues. (Bugs introduced with file format changes in 2.3.0.)

Version 2.4.1 (11 May 2022)

  • Fix: On the IIR (General mode), Mag Adjust and Target Mag tabs, Q table entry wasn’t allowing high Q values. (Bug introduced in 2.4.0.)

Version 2.4.0 (7 May 2022)

  • New: Parametric, LP and HP variable Q, all-pass, Bessel and shelf IIR filters now have perfect translations between IIR Modes. Q and/or BW is automatically optimised to give an exact response match.
  • New: Copy & Paste functionality is now available on most tabs to enable easy transfer of filter table data across FIR Designer and FIR Designer M. Filter lists can only be copied and pasted between like tabs; for example Mag Adjust -> Mag Adjust. Tabs that support copy and paste are Target Mag and Phase, IIR, Mag Adjust, Phase Adjust and Voicing.
  • New: The IIR Filters tab and the IIR Reference Editor now each have a BW/Q selector with the filter list table. (There’s now no need to use the Preferences to change between BW and Q for IIR filters). Separate BW/Q settings (for each IIR filter mode) are stored in the channel project files and the system file.
  • New: Auto Mag and Auto Phase computation can be optionally paused to reduce program update lag while working IIR, Mag Adjust and Phase Adjust tabs.
  • New: Xilica TXT file FIR filter export.
  • Update: Lake XP modules can now have 96 kHz output channels (in addition to 12, 24 and 48 kHz). When a channel is set to 96 kHz, the Lake XP maximum FIR filter length drops from 384 taps to 192 taps.
  • Update: Import tab delay is now also displayed in mm, feet and inches.
  • Update: Wavelet view display improvements.
  • Update: IIR Filters tab can now display the target phase.

Version 2.3.5 (19 April 2022)

  • Updates to system and channel project file version handling, and warning messages.

Version 2.3.4 (15 April 2022)

  • Fix: Rare crash when using BSS IIR mode Bessel, Butterworth and Linkwitz-Riley filters.
  • Fix: Some BSS and Marani IIR mode filters weren’t operating correctly if used as input filters.

Version 2.3.3 (4 April 2022)

  • Fix: Various problems with IIR filters set to ‘Input’ position.
  • Fix: The ‘Reset’ buttons on ‘IIR’ and ‘Voicing’ tabs were not working properly for ‘Input’ position and ‘linked’ filters.

Version 2.3.2 (4 April 2022)

  • Fix: ‘Marani’ IIR mode filters set to ‘Input’ position were not working properly.
  • Fix: The ‘Reset’ buttons on ‘IIR’ and ‘Voicing’ tabs were not working properly for ‘Input’ position and ‘linked’ filters.

Project File Format Version: 32, System File Format Version: 3

Version 2.3.1 (1 April 2022)

  • Fix: Fixed a rare crash when using the Lake DTP window to push settings to the Lake Controller.
  • Fix: Project file channel labels weren’t being loaded correctly. (Bug introduced in 2.3.0.)
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Project File Format Version: 32, System File Format Version: 3

Version 2.3.0 (29 March 2022)

  • New: Marani NXF IIR crossover filters.
  • New: REW magnitude/phase text file import.
  • Fix: In Lake XP module multi-band limiters filters, detector biquads were not being used correctly.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.
  • This version has updated system (*.fds) and channel project (*.fdp) file formats. When loading system and project files made with previous versions, we recommended not saving over those files, in case opening them in an older version might be necessary.
  • On Microsoft Windows this version requires Windows 10 64 bit or newer.

Project File Format Version: 32, System File Format Version: 3

Version 2.2.6 (23 March 2022)

  • Fix: In the IIR Reference Editor, some Q values were not displaying correctly.

Version 2.2.5 (26 February 2022)

  • Fix: Wavelet display was incorrect for versions 2.2.0 to 2.2.4.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.2.4 (5 December 2021)

  • Fix: Double application of non zero FIR “Output gain (dB)” parameter when loading a system or individual channel project files.

Version 2.2.3 (1 December 2021)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.2.2 (1 December 2021)

  • Fix: Marani IIR filters were not saving and loading correctly and adversely affecting Linea Research IIR filters.

Version 2.2.1 (27 November 2021)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.2.0 (24 November 2021)

  • New: “Marani” IIR filter mode that has Marani Pro Audio specific IIR filters for 48 kHz and 96 kHz.
  • New: FIR export sample rate parameter. The exported FIR filter sample rate can now be set independently of the workflow’s Design Sample rate. This allows the FIR filter to have a different sample rate to the IIR filtering and delay.

Version 2.1.11 (27 October 2021)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.1.10 (20 October 2021)

  • Update: SMAART® TRF files with MTW+ can now be loaded.

Version 2.1.9 (16 October 2021)

  • New: Channel label now also stored in channel project FDP file.
  • New: “Invert All” option on Supplementary Responses view.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.1.8 (4 September 2021)

  • Fix: Problems with input position IIR filters when converting to/from the BSS IIR filter mode.

Version 2.1.7 (27 August 2021)

  • Fix: SMAART Control plots weren’t working. (Bug introduced in 2.1.5.)
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.1.6 (21 August 2021)

  • Fix: Wavelet view wasn’t working. (Bug introduced in 2.1.5.)

Version 2.1.5 (12 August 2021)

  • Fix: Reference IIR mode wasn’t handle correctly in the UI and wasn’t saved correctly in project files.
  • Update: The “Combined” plot traces now are hidden or disabled when FIR Designer M is operating with only 1 channel.
  • Update: The System Target is now not used when FIR Designer M is operating with only 1 channel and the Preference setting “Don’t use system file when number of channels is 1” is set.

Version 2.1.4 (8 July 2021)

  • New: “Linea Research” IIR mode now supports Q, in addition to BW.
  • New: “Powersoft” variable Q HP and LP filters.
  • Update: Improvement to shelf filter Q interpretation in Powersoft IIR filter mode. Now matches Powersoft Armonia Plus.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.1.3 (7 May 2021)

  • Fix: Setting input IIRs from a project file was missing BSS IIR mode handling.

Version 2.1.2 (19 April 2021)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.1.1 (31 March 2021)

  • Fix: Intermittent crash when changing “Edit Channel.”
  • Fix: Channel project files wouldn’t load in version 2.1.0.

Version 2.1.0 (29 March 2021)

  • New: BSS IIR filter mode.
  • New: IIR coefficient export for QSC Q-SYS.
  • Update: JSON export is now called LPIF (Loudspeaker Processing Interchange Format)
  • Update: Improvements for high DPI displays on Microsoft Windows.

Version 2.0.4 (3 December 2020)

  • Fix: Potential crash when changing FFT size.
  • Update: Improvements to some IIR conversion functions.

Version 2.0.3 (9 October 2020)

  • Fix: When loading a project file (from FIR Designer, not FIR Designer M) with an old target definition, the Oct Smoothing and Mag Smoothing Mode parameters weren’t loaded.
  • Fix: When loading a project file, the FIR sideloading filenames for Lake and Powersoft were sometimes not loaded.

Version 2.0.2 (2 October 2020)

  • Fix: Voicing EQ tab “Enable” wasn’t saving in and loading from channel project files.

Version 2.0.1 (16 August 2020)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 2.0.0 (24 July 2020)

  • New: Support for new Lake modules in upcoming Lake Controller 7.0.0.
  • New: A “Supplementary Responses” window for viewing the effect of all processing on other loudspeaker measurements, such as off-axis measurements. For multi-way measurements, the processed combined response is also plotted.
    • Load a measurement set for each channel. Measurement sets must be in separate directories; one directory for each channel.
    • For plotting and the combined, processed response, channel measurements are matched in the order loaded; which is usually alphabetical. So as long as the LF, MF and HF measurements are in the same order in their directories, they will be plotted together correctly.
  • New: Mouse control of filters; frequency, bandwidth/Q and gain. Also mouse control of frequency bands on “Auto Mag” & “Auto Phase” tabs.
    • When a filter in the table is highlighted, controls appear on the plot and can be moved by the mouse.
  • New: Loudspeaker Impedance magnitude on plots; one per channel.
    • When loaded, the loudspeaker impedance appears behind relevant plots in the channel workflow.
  • New: Export a Target response for use as a target curve on SMAART® RTA plots.
  • New: Customisable plot colours that are retained at program close.
    • Right-click on the colour rectangle (next to the check-box) to bring up a colour picker.
  • New: Support for 88.2 kHz and 176.4 kHz.
  • New: “Invert” setting on all Mag Adjust & Phase Adjust filter prototypes.
  • New: Keele/Horbach filters added to the “FIR Mag Adjust” tab.

Version 1.4.12 (20 April 2020)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.11 (13 April 2020)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.10 (6 April 2020)

  • Fix: SPK file response was shifted 2x in frequency.

Version 1.4.9 (20 March 2020)

  • Fix: SMAART® Control couldn’t send measurement to the Averaging tab.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.8 (16 March 2020)

  • New: SMAART® Control can now send measurements to the Target and Averaging tabs.
  • New: Import support for Klippel mag and phase clipboard data in a text file.
  • Update: Averaging now has a gain range of -150 to 150 dB.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.7 (14 February 2020)

  • Fix: Import & GPD impulse response samples plots would sometimes disappear when using power smoothing on import.

Version 1.4.6 (18 January 2020)

  • Fix: Symetrix IIR Bessel filters changed to be -3 dB at the corner frequency (rather than textbook Bessel formula).
  • Fix: Gain setting was not working correctly on some QSC & Symetrix IIR filters.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.5 (9 January 2020)

  • Fix: Combined plot responses weren’t updating when the System number of channels was changed.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.4 (9 January 2020)

  • New: “Include in Combined” checkbox to include or remove a channel from the combined system response. This is useful for ignoring unused output channels when creating 1-way or 2-way systems for the Lake FIR 3-way module (which requires 3 channels for sending data to the Lake Controller).
  • Update: Improved system target response resampling when the input and output channels have different sample rates.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.3 (6 January 2020)

  • Fix: Channel Export tab “combined” response and System Export tab “combined” response were both using the ideal FIR filter, rather than the windowed and truncated FIR filter.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.2 (12 December 2019)

  • Fix: IIR Symetrix CD Horn Shelf filter gain was sometimes incorrect when changing from a different filter type.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.1 (29 November 2019)

  • Fix: Variable-Q LP & HP filters on Mag Adjust, Mag Design and Voicing tabs was sometimes randomly level shifted.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.4.0 (23 November 2019)

  • New: Remote control of SMAART® from a new dialog with the ability to grab measurements live into FIR Designer’s Import tab.
  • New: An additional averaging mode consisting of a power average for magnitude combined with complex average for phase.
  • Fix: General IIR mode variable-Q filter was sometimes randomly level shifted.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.3.7 (18 November 2019)

  • Fix: Target preset file wouldn’t load properly.
  • Fix: System and Channel target plots sometimes wouldn’t display correctly after loading a System and/or Channel project file.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.3.6 (30 October 2019)

  • Update: Removed 513 sample, 48 kHz restriction on GKF FIR filters. GKF filters of any length can now be exported.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.3.5 (15 October 2019)

  • Fix: The macOS 10.15 (Catalina) notarization stopped the web-based help from working.
  • This update doesn’t change anything on the Windows version.

Version 1.3.4 (8 October 2019)

  • Fix: Measurement averaging tab TXT and CSV file output incorrect and sometimes caused the program to crash.

Version 1.3.3 (1 October 2019)

  • Update: Application notarized to run on macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • Fix: DFM 64 bit double file now has file extension .FIR and loads in NetControl2.

Version 1.3.2 (22 September 2019)

  • Fix: Powersoft Bessel HP and LP filters weren’t matching Powersoft Armonia. (Armonia shifts Bessel filters to have -3dB response at the selected frequency.)
  • Fix: QSC Q-Sys IIR Bessel -3 dB HP and LP filters weren’t actually -3dB at the selected frequency.
  • Fix: DFM FIT file wouldn’t load in NetControl2.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.3.1 (7 September 2019)

  • New: QSC Qsys and Symetrix IIR filter modes.
  • New: All IIR modes are now stored simultaneously in the project file.
  • New: Reference IIR mode with Reference editor dialog and conversion between IIR modes.
  • New: Variable BW/Q 2nd order LP and HP filters in General IIR mode.
  • New: Average IR can be copied to the target file on the Target tab (in addition to the Import tab).
  • New: Average IR can be saved to file.
  • Update: Each tab’s “enable” checkbox is now saved in, and restored from, the project file.
  • Update: Tab “solo” checkboxes have been removed.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.2.8 (1 August 2019)

  • Fix: Gain parameter in IIR table isn’t working.
  • Fix: Input IIR’s not propagating correctly across all channels.
  • Update: change to program update notifications

Both bugs introduced in 1.2.6. Our sincere apologies. We have big IIR updates coming and some of the new code leaked into the release versions.

Version 1.2.7 (18 July 2019)

  • Fix: Preferences BW or Q selection doesn’t load correctly at program start.

Version 1.2.6 (23 June 2019)

  • Update: Changed to native file open and save dialogs on Windows OS.
  • Fix: Rare glitch in phase plotting.
  • Fix: A 4th order parametric phase filter with extreme BW or Q values might cause a program crash.

Version 1.2.5 (8 June 2019)

  • New: Phase plots no longer show a vertical line at the wrap point. (The old plot method, that shows the wrap line, can be enabled in Preferences.)
  • New: FRD measurement files can now be loaded.
  • New: FIR file, and 32bit and 64bit float FIR filter files for DFM processors.
  • Update: Minor improvement to Rewindowing, including a Gain setting.
  • Fix: Program crash when trying to load an AFMG SPK file.

Version 1.2.4 (31 May 2019)

  • Fix: Magnitude offset level not correct when importing some SMAART TRF files.
  • Update: When loading SMAART TRF files, “Normalise magnitude to max” is now off.

Version 1.2.3 (29 May 2019)

  • Fix: System file doesn’t save correctly when Input IIRs and Linked VEQs are changed. Also file changed * flags are sometimes not correct when Input IIRs and Linked VEQs are changed.

Version 1.2.2 (15 May 2019)

  • Fix: “File from older program” error message that shouldn’t appear when loading project files. (Bug introduced in 1.2.1)
  • Fix: Some WAV files from realtime recorders may not load and cause the program to crash.

Version 1.2.1 (30 April 2019)

  • New: FIR filter “rewindowing” when sideloading. On Lake and Powersoft DTP dialogs, sideloaded FIR filters longer than the platform supported FIR filter length can be shortened and optimised using a new “rewindowing” dialog.
  • New: SMAART SRF file and miniDSP BIN (32bit float) file import.
  • New: Chaotic or noisy phase regions can now be hidden using the “Hide phase” feature with adjustable frequency limits.
  • New: FIR text note for GKF files on export.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.
  • Warning: Project files saved with this program version will not open correctly on older versions of FIR Designer.

Version 1.1.3 (9 April 2019)

  • Update: ‘Powersoft’ IIR mode now mandatory for Powersoft DTP dialog.

Version 1.1.2 (4 April 2019)

  • Fix: Some WAV files, generated by SMAART, wouldn’t load.
  • Fix: When resampling an impulse response during load, some sample rate combinations caused artefacts.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.1.1 (14 February 2019)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.1.0 (13 February 2019)

  • New: IIR filter modes provides accurate emulation of IIR filters for specific brand products, particularly with regard to bandwidth or Q. Options include “General” (including all IIR filters from prior versions of FIR Designer), “Linea Research” (including unique Hardman crossover filters) and “Powersoft.”
  • New: Lake and Powersoft DTP dialogs now show FIR sideload filenames.
  • Fix: Polarity of odd-order low-pass Bessel filters was incorrect, but matched Lake products.
  • Fix: If smoothing was used on the Import tab, it wasn’t showing for channels other than the current channel being edited.
  • Fix: Saving IIR coefficients to file wasn’t added the txt extension.
  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.
  • Warning: Project files saved with this program version will not open correctly on older versions of FIR Designer.

Version 1.0.1 (25 November 2018)

  • Various user-interface updates and fixes.

Version 1.0.0 (25 November 2018)

  • Initial release.

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