1.3.1

Mostly UI fixes :) And the preset manager!

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

WARNING for Linux users: From (around) September this year, the installer will be built on Ubuntu 24.04, which will make it incompatible with older Linux kernel versions. See actions/runner-images#14254

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

Bug fixes

• fix unresponsive Linux UI
• fix incorrect threshold for relative-on dynamic
• fix external side-chain button may not get updated display
• fix potential race condition for FFT collision colour
• fix potential redundant value notification of sliders/buttons/comboboxes
• fix potential lagging caused by UI resizing

New Features

• add built-in preset manager (very early stage)

Other Changes

• adjust UI setting panel
  • remove import/export functions
  • add reveal folder button
• adjust combobox UI

1.3.0

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

WARNING for Linux users: From (around) September this year, the installer will be built on Ubuntu 24.04, which will make it incompatible with older Linux kernel versions. See actions/runner-images#14254

WARNING: This release contains BREAKING CHANGES

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

BREAKING CHANGES

• raise the upper limit for the modulation speed of filter frequency
• change the State Variable filter structure (proposed by Yuriy Ivantsov)
  • now State Variable filters will have identical magnitude & phase response compared to Minimum Phase, but different modulation/dynamic behaviour
• change the latency introduced by Matched Phase/Mixed Phase/Zero Phase
  • now they will introduce a constant latency, regardless of whether L/R/M/S are used
  • the response stays the same, the performance gets further improved
• change several keyboard shortcuts
  • now you can adjust the keyboard shortcuts for different actions in Control setting panel
  • now the default shortcut for solo status is Right Click
  • now the default shortcut for Right-click Panel is Right Click + Alt/Option

Bug fixes

• fix fir correction at Nyquist for cascading filters
• fix potential crash for double-precision mono side-chain
• fix incorrect threshold for relative-on & learning-off dynamic
• fix incorrect RMS dynamic after reset or sample-rate changes
• fix phase-flip getting applied during global bypass
• fix inconsistent high-order peak during static/dynamic
• fix incorrect match FFT interpolation
• fix suboptimal match FFT optimization process
• fix slider value editor display

Other Changes

• relax window size ratio constraints
• support sample rate down to 10kHz

1.2.2

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

WARNING for Linux users: From (around) September this year, the installer will be built on Ubuntu 24.04, which will make it incompatible with older Linux kernel versions. See actions/runner-images#14254

WARNING: I am thinking about re-working the State Variable filter structure, which might introduce breaking changes in the next version.

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

New Features

• add support for filter with freq beyond Nyquist (now freq can go up to 30 kHz under sample rate 44.1/48 kHz)
• add All Pass filter type
• add analyzer smoothing choice
• add combobox mouse-wheel control
• add EQ curve dB scale settings (see UI settings)
• add mousewheel control to gain and scale label
• add EQ match dB limit choice
• add two EQ match built-in target curves Balanced and Natural

Bug fixes

• fix static gain compensation value display
• fix incorrect loudness matching results
• fix potential audio glitches after EQ match
• fix potential crash caused by dynamic Flat Tilt

Other Changes

• allow freq note to be entered as lower case

1.2.1

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

WARNING for x86-64 (Linux and Windows) users: In this version, you need to choose the correct installer more carefully. See the plugin installation page for more info.

WARNING for Linux users: In the next version, the installer might be built on Ubuntu 24.04, which will make it incompatible with older version.

WARNING for users who build from code: In this version, the building instructions have changed. You may need to clean the building directory.

Please read

• the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
• the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

New Features

• add Flat Tilt filter type

Bug fixes

• fix the missing FFT frozen feature
• fix collision detection on Windows

Improvements

• improve DSP performance (slightly)
• improve spectrum display

1.2.0

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

WARNING for x86-64 (Linux and Windows) users: In this version, you need to choose the correct installer more carefully. See the plugin installation page for more info.

WARNING for Linux users: In the next version, the installer might be built on Ubuntu 24.04, which will make it incompatible with older version.

WARNING for users who build from code: In this version, the building instructions have changed. You may need to clean the building directory.

Please read

• the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
• the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

BREAKING CHANGES

• change filter de-cramping method (proposed by Yuriy Ivantsov)
  • the filter of which cutoff freq is near the Nyquist will have slightly different response

Bug fixes

• fix dynamic filter might fail to update gain after dynamic is turned off
• fix mouse dragging sensitivity of several sliders

Improvements

• improve DSP performance
• improve GUI performance

1.1.1

The SIMD library may be changed to Google Highway in the next version. If so, for each x86-64 platform, there will be one version for SSE2 instruction set (legacy x86-64 chips) and one version for AVX2 instruction set (modern x86-64 chips). More details will be shown in the next release note.

WARNING for x86-64 (Linux and Windows) users: in the next version, you might need to choose the correct installer more carefully

WARNING for Linux users: in the next version, the installer might be built on Ubuntu 24.04, which will make it incompatible with older version

WARNING for users who build from code: in the next version, the building instruction might change

Bug fixes

• fix grammar mistakes in tooltips
• fix external side-chain configuration for Maschine

Improvements

• improve dynamic EQ efficiency
• improve GUI performance

Other Changes

• add LV2 tags
• adjust some pop-up panel background
• change to Windows MSI installer

1.1.0

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

BREAKING CHANGES

• fix incorrect stereo dynamic handling
  • This fix will correct the previous incorrect stereo dynamic behavior. Please finish your current mixing session before updating if stereo dynamic behavior is used.

New Features

• add extra dynamic parameters: RMS Length, RMS Mix and Smooth
• add FFT analyzer stereo channel

Bug fixes and Improvements

• fix incorrect parallel bypass behavior
• fix floating window overlapping issue
• fix displayed values when they are close to zero
• fix incorrect copy/paste from ZL Compressor

1.0.3

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

Bug fixes and Improvements

• fix plugin crashes when it does not have UI preset folder permission
• fix incorrect low/high shelf gain when added by double-clicking

1.0.2

EQ Match and AAX are back. 1.0.1 has some problems in EQ Match :( Therefore I delete that version.

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

For Windows users: unless you are very certain that your computer is ARM64 (e.g., Microsoft Surface Pro 11 + Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite), you should use the x86_64 installer.

Compared with ZL Equalizer 0.6.2:

New Features

• add more side-chain filters controls (filter type & filer slope)
• add right-click panel
• add more controls to the floating window
• add more shortcuts
• add UI scaling control
• add EQ Match drawing control

Bug fixes

• fix wrong octave notes
• fix incorrect solo display
• fix incorrect parallel processing in mid/side

Improvements

• improve Matched Phase and Mixed Phase performance
• improve general DSP performance
• improve dynamic processing
• improve FFT analyzer display
• improve EQ Match fitting speed

Other Changes

• increase frequency maximum value when the sample rate > 44.1 kHz
• remove RMS & Smooth from dynamic parameters
• remove Zero Latency as dynamic won't require extra 1ms latency
• remove High Quality as dynamic always stays in high quality
• remove EQ Match Weight & fitting algorithm control
• support VST3 parameter context menu
  • In hosts that support this feature, if you right-click on some sliders, a native parameter menu will pop up.
• support VST3/AAX parameter index
  • In hosts that support this feature, hosts can map screen locations to parameters, e.g., Cubase "AI Knob".

1.0.0

This is the first version of ZL Equalizer 2. Some functions are not completed yet, such as some outdated tooltips and unavailable EQ matching, which will be updated in the future. Besides these, it kept most features of ZL Equalizer. If you have any suggestions, please submit an issue so that I can look into this while working on the EQ matching.

After installation, please load the plugin in an empty DAW session and check its functionality.

Please read

the manual: https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/
the plugin installation help page: https://zl-audio.github.io/help/plugin_installation/

For Windows users: unless you are very certain that your computer is ARM64 (e.g., Microsoft Surface Pro 11 + Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite), you should use the x86_64 installer.

For Pro Tools users: AAX is not available in this version.

New Features

• add more side-chain filters controls (filter type & filer slope)
• add right-click panel
• add supports of higher frequency when the sample rate > 44.1 kHz
• add more controls to the floating window
• add more shortcuts
  ... there are so many changes, try it to see yourself :)