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- GoldWave Revision History
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-
- v4.19
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- Changed fast forward and rewind to use original playback region.
- Fixed Copy to.
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- v4.18
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- Added Ogg Vorbis support to batch converter.
- Added help information for Vorbis codec.
-
- v4.17
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- Upgraded to Borland C++Builder 5.
- Improved CD audio extraction support under NT and 2000.
- Added ability to continue CD extraction when synchronization lost.
- Set GoldWave clipboard as default.
- Added option to open ASF files missing length information.
- Added Ogg Vorbis file support through new Common Audio Layer.
- Fixed bugs: noise gate, mpeg overflow, pops in file conversion,
- file conversion exception, expand/compress, snap to zero-crossing
- exception, raw filename extension, stereo noise reduction with
- clipboard.
-
- v4.16
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- Fixed Volume Properties incompatibility with some sound cards.
-
- v4.15
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- Added Batch conversion feature.
- Added Pop/Click filter effect.
- Added Split file button to Cue points tool.
- Added bitrate to status bar for MP3 files.
- Added more MP3 bitrate options under Save as.
- Improved graph refresh rate during disk access.
- Added SPTI support for CD audio extraction under NT.
- Fixed bugs: dragging one marker beyond the other gives negative
- range, [ and ] keys not working while monitoring, unbounded
- recording inconsistencies, missing temporary folder, save as,
- playback buffering, etc.
-
- v4.12
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- Created self-installing program.
- Changed Device Controls Graph Properties to show a list of graphs.
- Added X-Y Mode graph.
- Synchronized left and right graphs.
- Added Unbounded option to Record Properties so file storage
- can be allocated dynamically.
- Changed Countdown timer to day/time timer.
- Improved Volume Properties compatibility.
- Added scrolling during playback when Scroll Lock key on.
- Added RMS setting to Volume Maximize command.
- Changed installation notice.
- Removed dependency on DDRAW.DLL.
- Added limited ID3v2 3.0 tag support.
- Changed MPEG attributes to show sampling rates.
- Fixed bugs: end-of-file noise in some compressed formats,
- use average in noise reduction, interpolate, file size.
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- v4.11
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- Fixed graph border in Device Controls window.
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- v4.10
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- Added tooltips to Device Controls buttons.
- Changed scroll bars to faders in Device Controls.
- Changed LED meters to gradient colours and added limit LED.
- Added two new realtime spectrum graph types to Graph properties.
- Added right-click context menu for selecting graph.
- Added fade time setting to Graph properties.
- Changed rewind and fast forward to work without playing first.
- Added recording Volume tab to Device Controls properties.
- Added Information command to File menu.
- Added Previous zoom command to View menu.
- Added Initial zoom setting to Window options.
- Added right-click context menu for cue points.
- Added Store and Recall commands to Marker submenu.
- Added 24 bit file support.
- Added floating point WAV file support.
- Added support for Windows Media audio compression in WAV files.
- Added support for BladeEnc MPEG layer 3 encoder.
- Added transparent support for all audio related formats recognized
- by the operating system, including movies: MOV, AVI, MPG, ASF
- (requires DirectX Media).
- Removed Audio extraction submenu (AVI extraction not necessary).
- Added Skip bytes setting to File types.
- Added Use clipboard option to Noise reduction.
- Added Expand/Compress effect.
- Added status bar range update when dragging a marker.
- Changed status bar range to show selection length.
- Added y-axis number colour setting.
- Updated help and manual.
- Converted images and figures for manual.
- Fixed bugs: Borland/Microsoft floating point exception, channel
- mixing and pasting, lost first sample in right channel paste,
- drop marker commands, copy to, pan, resample, etc.
-
- v4.04
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- German demonstration version.
-
- v4.03
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- German version (http://www.goldwave.de).
- Fixed bugs: stereo text files, converting stereo to mono with right
- channel selected, insert silence in one channel, MPEG 2.5, resample
- enabling, remove vocals save as mono, 12 bit unsigned save.
-
- v4.02
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- Added OS Association to File Types option.
- Improved CD extraction "fix defects" processing.
- Revised manual and created HTML text version.
- Added more help, including a "Getting Started" section.
- Added some presets and expressions.
- Improved handling of invalid WAV files.
- Fixed bugs: zero-crossing, minimized Device Controls window,
- looping, axis 'k' numbering, positioning in full duplex,
- CD track end time, VOC conversions, time warp, etc.
-
- v4.01
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- Added Select all command to Edit menu.
- Added Snap to zero-crossing to Marker submenu.
- Created Save as, Select all, Rewind, Fast, and Pause buttons
- for tool bar configuration list.
- Added Custom format buttons in Save as dialog.
- Added analysis graphs and time bar to Parametric EQ.
- Added function key support to Device Controls window.
- Clicking on balance or speed scroll bar icon resets bar to default.
- Added Finish to Device Controls Play Properties user play options.
- Increased LED meter hold time maximum.
- Selected initial preferred devices from Audio Properties.
- Changed CD extraction tool to show device list before requesting
- an audio CD.
- Added new CD extraction read technique and added support for
- more drives.
- Saved CD extraction options and settings.
- Status bar time and range format settings saved.
- Added Copy all command to cue point tool to copy all points to
- the clipboard in text format.
- Added MP3 file support to open raw MPEG layer 3 compressed files.
- Fixed bugs: File | Close, ASCII floating point file, help
- links, File Format help button, File Types caption, etc.
-
- v4.00
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- Upgraded to Borland C++ 5.02.
- Redesigned all dialogs for improved ease of use.
- Removed all BWCC32.DLL controls.
- Added up/down controls to some dialogs.
- Added scroll bar controls to some dialogs.
- Used property sheet for expanded Device Controls setup.
- Added several windowing functions for spectral displays.
- Added View option for user play button.
- Added LED hold feature and time setting.
- Added Show axis option to draw axes on oscilloscopes.
- Added safety key, Mix, cache, and undo options for Recording
- Added Estimate option for device positioning.
- Added Microsoft Sound Mapper device selection.
- Changed balance scroll bar image to indicate left, center, or
- right balance setting.
- Changed balance and speed scroll bar paging to round to nearest
- level.
- Added oscilloscope display when dragging start/finish markers.
- Added new style dockable controls bars.
- Added Tool bar customization command to Options menu.
- Added many new tool bar buttons, selectable under new tool bar
- configuration command.
- Added submenu to Window menu to hide/show control bars and
- status bars.
- Improved "New Sound" selection dialog and added buttons for
- common settings.
- Added Replace command to Edit menu.
- Added Copy to command to Edit menu.
- Added Marker submenu to Edit menu.
- Added Set command to numerically set or align markers.
- Added Drop start/finish commands to move marker to current
- playback position (keyboard '[' and ']').
- Improved Noise gate effect with attack and anticipation settings.
- Added Noise reduction effect with three reduction modes: shape,
- current, and average.
- Improved range and accuracy of all filters.
- Added 7-band graphic equalizer, with presets.
- Enhanced Doppler effect to allow changes to only one channel.
- Added Time warp effect with three different algorithms, two of
- which allow speed/tempo changes without changing pitch.
- Moved Speed effect under Time warp effect.
- Replaced Transpose with Pitch effect and added option to change
- pitch without changing tempo.
- Enhanced transpose/pitch effect to change selection instead
- of entire file.
- Enhanced Maximize effect to show rms level and maximum
- level/position and to specify new level.
- Create stereo effects submenu.
- Moved Pan and Exchange to stereo effects submenu.
- Added Remove vocals effect to stereo submenu.
- Added Audio extraction submenu to Tool menu.
- Created AVI audio extration tool.
- Created CD audio extration tool for SCSI CD-ROM drives.
- Added vertical zoom in/out and amplitude axis.
- Added several new zoom commands and keystrokes: Zoom in, Zoom out,
- Vertical zoom all, Vertical zoom in, Vertical zoom out.
- Added options to configure units for time and amplitude axis.
- Added drag-and-drop cue point positioning.
- Improved File Format selection dialog to support many new formats.
- Increased recently used file history list size.
- Added customizable file extensions for associating a format to a
- given extension.
- Added customized extensions to Open dialog "Files of type" list.
- New file formats supported: MPEG layer 3 wave codec, ASCII integer,
- ASCII float, ISDN A-law, IEEE single precision, 32-bit.
- Updated help file.
- Fixed bugs: compressed file handling, inverted A-law, looping,
- random fpe.
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-
- v3.24
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- Upgraded to OWL 5.0 and Borland C++ 5.0.
- Added tool tips.
- Change dialogs and status bar to use normal font.
- Added better time entry boxes (HH:MM:SS.TTT).
- Added Speed effect.
- Added A-Law support to VOC files.
- Added command line option to play file.
- Added many new expressions to Expression Evaluator.
- Limited "Unselected" playback to view, when possible.
- Improved looping of small sections.
- Added uncached direct-to-disk recording.
- Added cue point markers in Sound window.
- Fixed bugs: Saving in raw/vox format, modified status, playback
- lock, clipboard, graph drawing.
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- v3.23
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- Changed buttons to use system colours.
- Preset name stored.
- Fixed bugs: Finish marker move during recording, 8-bit rounding
- error on evaluator, command line, modified status/save enable.
-
- v3.22
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- Added option to use private clipboard or Windows clipboard to
- work around problems with unreliable Windows 95 clipboard.
- Added support for MIDI Sample Dump SDS files.
- Added scrollbar tracking when zoomed in.
- Added keystrokes for moving start/finish markers and
- opening files.
- Reduced processor usage.
- Fixed bugs: Special character filenames, Countdown timer, Save
- monitor option, File options on NT, Close and Maximize, Help.
-
- v3.21
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- Modified code to use old style Open/Save dialogs for Windows NT.
- Added autoscroll when dragging start or finish marker outside
- view when zoomed in.
- Increased number of Parametric EQ bands to 30.
- Added automatic frame rate limiter for oscilloscopes to reduce
- CPU load.
- Fixed bugs: Cleared coordinates, Path dialog.
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- v3.20
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- Converted code to 32-bit flat address model.
- Added Paste new command to Edit menu.
- Added a configurable parametric equalizer with 10 bands and a
- graphical interface with logarithmic scales.
- Added easy to use dynamic lowpass, highpass, bandpass and
- bandstop filters.
- Added long filename support and new Open/Save dialogs.
- Added file support for Dialogic VOX, Sample Vision SMP,
- DiamondWare DWD, and old style Apple AIFF.
- Added special Java/Web attribute to Sun (*.au) format list.
- Added transparent support for Microsoft's Audio Compression
- Manager allowing wave files to be compressed using a number
- of different algorithms.
- Added multithreading to recording and playback to eliminate gaps.
- Added new recording options to Device Controls Setup: countdown
- timer, level/threshold controlled recording, and looping.
- Added configurable frame rate for Device Controls displays.
- Redirected CD Player command to Windows CD Player.
- Added Volume Control to Tool menu.
- Added Ctrl+F9 and Ctrl+F8 recording keystroke.
- Added coordinates to status bar when zoomed in 1:1.
- Added "proportional" scroll bars to Sound windows to show a
- closer relationship to the Overview bar.
- "New Sound" settings now saved in configuration file.
- Stopped entire view from being displayed after edit/effect.
- Added code to automatically copy/update expressions and presets
- files.
- Fixed bugs: File | Close, Device Controls hidden by task bar,
- Undo disable, Evaluator overflow, Input buffer size, etc.
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- v3.03
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- Added Colours to Options menu.
- Added frame times to status bar.
- Added Playback buffer setting to Device Controls setup.
- Improved CD controls.
- Added support for A-Law in AU format.
- Update on-line help.
- Fixed bugs: AU, AIFC, and stereo conversions, View menu,
- Pan Y value, Save as dialog keys, playback, Doppler, etc.
-
- v3.01 to v3.02:
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- Added Start and Finish to View menu.
- Added Paste at command to Edit menu.
- Added Triple buffering and Unselected to Device Setup.
- Changed Intro/end to Intro/loop/end.
- Added inject to CD Player, when supported.
- Fixed bugs: monitor/deflash, extended character filenames,
- paste noise, AIF and WAV file handling, playback problems,
- save status, paste fpe, etc.
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- v3.00:
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- Version 3.00 is almost a complete rewrite of the code using
- Borland OWL 2.0 and improved C++ object oriented constructs.
- Developed with a 32-bit future in mind.
- Redesigned file handling to allow on-the-fly conversions, huge
- file support, transparent RAM or hard disk storage, flash, and
- an unlimited number of opened files.
- Added File options to configure storage, flash, and directories.
- Added directory selection dialog.
- Added a file history to File menu.
- Combined Export with Save as and added more file types and
- attributes.
- Added support for Apple AFC & AIF, A-Law, and WAV A-Law.
- Added A-Law and IEEE double to Raw File Format dialog.
- Added new effects: distortion, doppler, noise gate, user defined
- filter, and flange.
- Added fine tune to transpose.
- Removed interpolate from Resample (always interpolates).
- Improved status report during processing to allow user to
- switch to another application.
- Improved Shape boxes using a special technique to preserve
- the background without affecting the foreground line, allowing
- solid grids and numbered axis to be added.
- Added presets to save shapes and effects parameters in gwpreset.ini.
- Redesigned Device Controls window and made it resizable.
- Moved audio device selection to Device Setup dialog.
- Implemented a virtual audio device for realtime rewind and
- fast forward playback, automatic 16-bit to 8-bit conversion,
- and automatic resampling.
- Added realtime log spectrum bar graph, spectrogram, and
- LED meters.
- Added click-to-change feature on oscilloscopes.
- Added automatic volume updating when another program changes
- the device volume.
- Added configurable play button: selection, all, intro/end,
- and looping.
- Replaced record looping with monitor.
- Added configurable recording buffer size.
- Made working buttons and LEDs on minimized Device Controls window.
- Allowed Device Controls window to be closed to recover screen space.
- Added a second Tool Bar for quick access to effects.
- Created dozens of new bitmapped buttons.
- Modified status bars to have configurable time and range displays
- and to show Menu and Tool Bar hints.
- Removed AUX volume (should use sound card's mixer instead).
- Added Window options to configure placement and size of Main window
- and Sound windows.
- Improved direct editing with the mouse to prevent skipping.
- Made start/finish markers and play position line solid.
- Made start/finish marker movable in Overview bar.
- Used different graphing algorithm to make sound graphs appear
- cleaner and more accurate.
- Added graph cache to speed up redrawing of Sound windows.
- Added a background colour for the selection.
- Moved Settings options to File and Window options.
- Moved Editing options channel control to Edit menu.
- Improved Mix and Paste quality when editing across different
- sampling rates.
- Implemented virtual clipboard to allow copying of large files.
- Added Tools menu.
- Changed Cue Points interface and added a Revise button.
- Changed Evaluator interface and code to support unlimited files.
- Added CD player with play, pause, stop, track up, track down,
- eject, track scroll bar, and position gauge controls.
- Revised and improved on-line help.
- Created numerous presets in gwpreset.ini.
- Fixed bugs: ADPCM, evaluator parser.
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-
- v2.12 to v2.14:
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- Minor bug fixes: division by zero, sun export, etc.
-
- v2.12F:
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- Licensed French commercial version.
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- v2.11:
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- Updated BWCC.DLL.
- Fixed bug: Maximize window on startup.
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- v2.10:
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- New effects: offset and transpose.
- Renamed cross-fade to interpolate.
- Added cue points and zoom any.
- Changed undo to ask whether to continue when disk is full.
- Enhanced VOC file support (8-bit/16-bit/mu-law mono/stereo).
- Added support for 12-bit raw files.
- Added file name to Raw File Format dialog.
- Improved evaluator and added an expression file so expressions
- can be organized and saved.
- Added system menu to Device Controls window.
- Fixed bugs: Saved window coordinates, initial volume,
- Alt+F4, Speed text, etc.
-
- v2.01
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- Licensed commercial version.
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- v2.00:
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- New effects: cross-fade, resample, mechanize, pan, volume shaping,
- fade in, echo reverb, and 4 filters.
- Added trim to editing.
- More view commands: user, 20:1, 5:1, 1:10, 1:100.
- Enhanced Device Controls window: dual oscilloscopes, setup dialog.
- Setup for Device Controls: graph type, controls, looping,
- graph length, positioning, other.
- New tool bar buttons: Trim, User, Chan, Undo.
- Added second information bar for block info.
- Added Spectrum analyzer (easier said than done).
- Added direct editing with the mouse.
- Improved keyboard support.
- Added Export command.
- Added file support for ADPCM, MULAW, unsigned 16-bit, byte
- swap, Matlab.
- Added progress indicator in the information bar.
- Changed the expression evaluator, added edit buttons and "f" variable.
- Fixed bugs: Stereo echo, balance, PC Tools loading, refresh, etc.
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- v1.00:
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- First release. Includes: mono/stereo, 8/16 bit, mu-law, independent
- channel editing, up to 5 sound windows, detached Scope and
- Controls window, tool bar, information (attributes) bar, MDI,
- expression evaluator, and several effects.
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