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@ryoji-info ryoji-info released this 15 Aug 04:39
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v1.2
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What's new

The display is tuned out of the box. Two new controls sit between the analysis and the bars, and both are on by default:

  • Frequency tilt (+3 dB/octave). Music carries most of its energy in the bass, so a raw spectrum leans heavily left and the treble end barely moves. The tilt rotates the response about 1 kHz to even it out. Measured as lit pixels in the right third of the strip versus the left: 0.27 → 0.75.
  • Level boost (+12 dB). A flat cosmetic lift so quiet material fills more of the strip — mean bar height 16 → 22 px of the 30 pt strip, with peaks still short of clipping.

Both are purely visual: neither touches playback nor what is captured.

  • VU floor is now a setting, defaulting to −40 dBFS. It is also the VU's only sensitivity control — the level boost deliberately skips the VU styles, whose narrower scale saturates and pins the meter at 100 %.
  • All gallery images and the showcase animation recaptured at these settings.

Tune any of them without reinstalling:

defaults write com.ryoji.SoundBar frequencyTilt -float 3    # ±12 dB/octave
defaults write com.ryoji.SoundBar levelBoost    -float 12   # ±24 dB, bars only
defaults write com.ryoji.SoundBar vuFloor       -float -40  # lower = fuller meter
launchctl kickstart -k "gui/$(id -u)/com.ryoji.SoundBar"

Set the first two to 0 for the untuned spectrum of earlier versions.

SoundBar.dmg contains the app, installer, uninstaller and read-me. The build is ad-hoc signed — if macOS calls the download "damaged", clear quarantine first:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/SoundBar.dmg

Updating re-triggers the Screen & System Audio Recording and Microphone prompts, because the code signature changes with every build.

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