Seston v0.3.6

What changed

• Markers. Press M on the timeline to drop one where the playhead is. They are listed
  in their own panel down the side: click one to go there, rename it, delete it. A range can be
  marked as well as a point. They are saved with the session, so the note you made about the
  bad edit at 14:22 is still there tomorrow.
• My Library. The sounds you use every week - intros, outros, stings, a voice you had read
  last month - kept in one place and dropped onto a track when you want them. It is a plain
  folder of ordinary audio files under Documents\Seston\Library with an index beside them,
  so it can be backed up by copying it, moved to another machine by copying it, and read
  without this program. Adding copies the file in rather than pointing at where it was.
• Reverb, chosen as a room rather than as numbers. Ten of them - a booth, a small studio, a
  live room, a corridor, a church, a hall, a plate, a cellar, a cave, and one that puts a voice
  at the far end of somewhere. Each one is a starting point the knobs can take further.
• Effects show what they are doing. The EQ, the compressor, the gate and the de-esser now
  draw their response above the controls, so the shape you are making is visible while you make
  it instead of being something you infer from four numbers.
• The waveform is a waveform when you zoom in. Past a certain magnification it used to turn
  into a staircase - the drawing was reading from a summary that had run out of detail. It now
  reads the samples themselves once they are close enough to see.
• Speed and pitch are six times faster. Three minutes of audio took 19 seconds and now takes
  a little over three.
• The warning boxes belong to the program. Every dialog Seston shows is now its own, in its
  own theme, rather than a grey Windows box in the middle of a dark window.

Everything in 0.3.5 is
here too.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook - now with
screenshots of the actual program - and a wishlist.

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Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.3.5

What changed

• Stretch. In Clip Properties: a speed as a percentage and a pitch in semitones, applied
  on a button. Speed leaves the pitch alone and is clean on a voice — it lays the waveform
  back down at a different spacing rather than analysing it into frequencies, so it does not
  acquire the underwater quality this usually has. Pitch cannot leave the formants alone; a
  semitone or two passes, an octave sounds like a cartoon, and the panel says so where the
  decision is made. Changing the amount afterwards re-reads the recording rather than
  stretching the stretched thing again, and 100% puts the clip back exactly as it was.
• The three columns can be dragged. Track headers, timeline and the side panel now have
  splitters between them, and the widths are remembered next time Seston starts.
• The master strip is twice as tall, so the meter on it is a meter rather than a sliver.

Everything in 0.3.4 is
here too.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook and a
wishlist.

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Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.3.4

What changed

• Seston knows which version it is. 0.3.3 shipped with one line in the source still
  saying 0.3.2, so every copy told you that you were a version behind and offered you the
  update you had just installed — however many times you installed it. The version is now
  read out of the program itself rather than typed in by hand, and the build refuses to go
  out at all if the two ever disagree again. Sorry about that one.
• Analyse. A new command on the Clip menu, the toolbar and the right-click menu
  (Ctrl+Shift+A). It says what is wrong with a clip and changes none of it: how far the
  loudness is off target, where the clipping is, how long the silences are, how loud the room
  is between words, whether there is mains hum, where the clicks are, whether the waveform
  sits off centre. Each finding says where it is and what was measured. Click one and the
  playhead goes there. Where a fix already exists it is offered as a button; where none does,
  it says so instead of pretending — a flattened waveform has had detail thrown away and
  nothing can put it back.
• Effect knobs. Parameters in the effects rack are knobs, four to the line a single
  slider took, so a whole effect is visible while you dial it in. Drag up and down, Shift for
  fine, double-click to reset. If you preferred the sliders they are still there, in
  Preferences under Appearance.
• Closing with unsaved work asks properly. It used to be a Windows message box offering
  Yes or No to "close anyway?", which made saving the one thing it did not offer. It is now
  the program's own dialog with the three answers the question actually has: Save, Don't
  save, Cancel.
• The update notice is readable. It was printing the release notes as raw markdown,
  hashes and asterisks and all.

Everything in 0.3.3 is
here too.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook and a
wishlist.

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Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.3.3

What changed

• Clips can be grouped. Select the clips that belong together and press Ctrl+G. From
  then on they move, copy, delete and select as one thing — drag any of them and the rest
  come with it, so a piece of music and the effect that lands on top of it stop drifting
  apart. Ctrl+Shift+G frees them again. Both are on the Clip menu and on the right-click
  menu, and Ungroup only appears when the clip you clicked is actually in a group.
• Recordings made in a browser open directly. Seston now reads .webm, which is what
  every browser records in and what Windows itself will not open. Drop one on the timeline
  like any other file. Groundwork for something larger, but useful on its own the moment a
  colleague sends you one.
• A file that stops early no longer costs you the whole thing. An interrupted recording
  ends in the middle, and Seston now imports everything up to that point rather than
  refusing the file.

Everything in 0.3.2 is
here too.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

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Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.3.2

What changed

• Generate speech no longer traps you. A key that can speak but cannot read the model list
  made the whole dialog refuse to open, and the message it showed pointed at a button — Set
  key — that was behind the dialog it had just refused to open. There was no way out of it.
  The model list is a nicety now: if it cannot be read, Seston offers the models it knows of
  and says so, and speaking carries on.
• Every failure offers Set key. If the key is refused, the dialog that says so has the
  button that fixes it, and tries again afterwards.

Everything in 0.3.1 is
here too.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

---

Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.3.1

What changed

• Generate speech picks a model and a language. Both are fetched from your account rather
  than written into Seston, so a model added next month is there without waiting for an update.
  Each model says what it does and how many languages it speaks, and the language list belongs
  to the model that is selected.
• Leaving the language on Detect from the text is right nearly always, and wrong on the
  sentence with an English brand name in the middle of a Turkish one. Setting it holds the
  reading to that language whatever the text looks like.
• The newest model takes stability as one of three settings rather than anything in between;
  a value off the slider is moved to the nearest of them rather than sent and refused. It also
  understands directions written into the script, like [laughs] or [whispers], and the
  dialog says so.

Everything in 0.3.0 is
here too.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

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Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.3.0

What changed

Generate a voice into a track. Right-click a track, type or paste the line, pick a voice,
and the spoken audio arrives as an ordinary clip at the playhead — cut it, enhance it, merge
it like anything else. The script is kept on the clip, so Speak this line again is there
when the script needs a correction.

It runs on ElevenLabs using your key and your account; Seston has no account there and no
part in the billing.

What leaves the machine. Seston works entirely on your own computer. This one feature is
the exception: while it is used, the script and your key go to ElevenLabs and nowhere else.
Nothing else ever leaves — not your audio, not your sessions, not what you do with them.

The key is encrypted with Windows' own data protection under your user account, so it cannot
be read from another account or carried to another machine. It is not in settings.json, it
is never written to a session file or the status line, and it is never shown again after you
enter it.

Everything in 0.2.0 is
here too: export that delivers at a measured loudness, FLAC and AAC, mono, and multi-select in
the file list.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

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Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.1.3

What changed

• The buttons were off the bottom of the Enhance dialog. 0.1.2 added a setting to it, the
  dialog grew past the height it is allowed, and the layout pushed the footer out of the
  window instead of scrolling — so there was no way to press Enhance at all. Every dialog in
  the program had the same fault waiting in it; long ones scroll now, and the buttons stay
  where they are. Sorry about that one.
• The title bars are dark. Windows draws a light title bar unless it is asked not to,
  which left a white band across the top of a dark program.
• The Enhance and Enhancement mix dialogs say less. They were explaining themselves at
  length in a window that has to fit on a screen.

Everything in 0.1.2 is
here too: the waveform drawn while you are still recording, and Enhance Speech that can be
mixed back and never runs over its own output.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

---

Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.1.2

What changed

• The waveform is drawn while you are still recording. Pressing Record used to leave the
  track empty until the take was stopped and imported, so nothing on screen said the capture
  was alive except a meter — and on a call, a quiet moment and a dead capture look the same
  on a meter. Both legs of a call recording are now drawn as they arrive.
• Enhance Speech can be mixed back, and never runs over its own output. The Enhance
  dialog has a Mix setting, and an enhanced clip has Clip → Enhancement mix, which
  moves the blend between the recording and the cleaned version at once — however long the
  clip is, nothing is measured or cleaned again. At 0% the clip is the recording again,
  sample for sample. Running Enhance a second time now reads the original recording rather
  than the last result, so two passes never compound. A session holding an enhanced clip is
  larger, because it stores both.
• Track headers could scroll off the window and leave the list looking empty. The tracks
  were always there — the timeline drew their lanes — but the header column beside them slid
  out of view and New Session appeared to fix it. The scroll position itself is clamped now,
  not just the scroll bar.
• Preferences was unreadable in places. Its OK and Cancel buttons fell back to the system
  style, white on white against a dark window, and its checkbox labels were clipped instead
  of wrapped.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

---

Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.

Seston v0.1.1

What changed

• Enhance Speech and Smart Edit are readable. Longer labels in both dialogs were being
  cut off rather than wrapped — "Use the speech moc", "Clear the pauses bet", "Discard
  anything sho". They wrap now, and the checkboxes carry their label across the full width.
• Unsaved work no longer interrupts start-up. It used to ask in a message box every
  launch, which reads as an error the program is stuck on. It is a line in the status bar
  and an item in the File menu now, shown only when something is waiting. Nothing is ever
  deleted for you.

There is also a website: seston.app, with a handbook.

---

Free to use. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Seston-Setup.exe — the installer. Installs under your own account, so it does not ask
for administrator rights, puts Seston in the Start menu and offers to open .seston
session files. This is the one to take.

Seston-win-x64.zip — the same program with no installer. Unzip it anywhere and run
Seston.exe. Useful on a machine where you would rather not install anything.

Seston-win-x64-net8.zip — much smaller, but needs the
.NET 8 desktop runtime already on the
machine.

Windows will warn that the publisher is unknown the first time you run it. That is what
Windows says about any program that has not been through code signing yet — choose
More info, then Run anyway.