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v0.4.0
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The Atlas Air, and a parametric equaliser for the Stealth Pro II.

Highlights

  • Atlas Air support. Neap works with the Turtle Beach Atlas Air on Windows and Linux, and shows only the controls it has.
  • A true parametric equaliser. On the Stealth Pro II, the headset's ten bands are no longer fixed: you choose where each one sits, how wide it is and how much it boosts or cuts, and the headset plays the shape as drawn. The old Parametric could only get close to your shape with the ten fixed bands, four adjustments at most. Import AutoEq and Equalizer APO filters, draw the headset's measured sound against a target and fit one to the other, save presets, and keep a shape in a profile. If another app or the headset changes the equaliser, Neap switches back to Bands and keeps your shape.
  • A mini panel you set up. Choose its controls, including a new Superhuman Hearing tile and your current profile.
  • Sound in the right place. On Windows, when sound or calls go to the wrong device, one button fixes it.
  • Linux updates itself, as Windows does.
  • Pre-gain, formerly Loudness boost, now goes lower as well as higher, so equaliser boosts have room.

Install on Windows

  1. Download Neap-0.4.0-win-x64.zip below. Windows 10 version 2004 or later, 64-bit.
  2. Unzip it into a folder you will keep, and run Neap.exe.
  3. The download is not signed yet. If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway.
  4. Make sure Swarm II is not running in the background, and turn off its Autostart in its App Settings. The two apps fight over the headset when both are open.
  5. Remove the Waves audio driver: in Windows Settings, under Apps, uninstall Turtle Beach Audio Driver by Waves Audio Ltd. Neap does not need it.

Install on Linux

  1. Download Neap-0.4.0-x86_64.AppImage below, make it runnable (in a terminal, chmod +x Neap-0.4.0-x86_64.AppImage, or in your file manager tick Allow executing as a program), and run it. It needs a desktop with PulseAudio or PipeWire, which almost every one has.
  2. If it says it needs FUSE, install libfuse2 from your distribution, or run it as ./Neap.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run.
  3. The first time, Neap may say it is not allowed to use the headset. Choose Allow access: your system asks for your password once, and the only thing it changes is a small rule file that lets you use the headset.
  4. The download is not signed. Check it against the .sha256 file beside it if you like: sha256sum -c on that file.
  5. Neap tells you when a newer version is out. Update and restart downloads it, checks it and puts it in place of the old file.

Fixed

  • Atlas Air: a steadier connection, and its controls behave as in Swarm II.
  • Your settings are safer: a power cut or a locked file no longer loses them.
  • Steadier when the headset drops: fewer crashes, and Neap picks up again when it reconnects.
  • Easier with a screen reader and keyboard: more controls are named and read out, and focus keeps its place.
  • A tidier look: controls line up, switches and lists match, and high contrast is clearer.
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