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Surely this could be improved, but that's the least of the problems Stereo Separation actually has:
http://wiki.openmpt.org/Manual:_Setup/Mixer#Stereo_Separation
<blockquote>Note that there are two issues with this setting so it is not advised to use it: Stereo Separation is directly applied to samples, so plugins can still widen the stereo spectrum, and instrument plugins are not affected at all. Furthermore, the positioning of stereo samples is affected, but not the separation between the two sample channels — so even at 0% stereo separation, stereo samples can fill the whole stereo spectrum.</blockquote>
For stereo separation < 100% this could be fixed by applying it on the final mix buffer rather than on a per-sample basis, but stereo widening (separation > 100%) is simply not possible.
With issues like these, I don't feel very motivated in fixing the smallest problem the feature has, since after that it will still be a broken feature. In particular, I don't even think this should necessarily be an application-specific option but rather something the operating system, soundcard or stereo amp should provide, since OpenMPT surely isn't the only application that would need to have its stereo spectrum controlled... |
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A couple of things have been changed, as indicated in the previous comments:
- Stereo separation setting is now more fine-grained
- Stereo separation is now applied on the mix buffer, so it also affects stereo samples and plugins
- Stereo separation can no longer exceed 100%, i.e. stereo widening is not possible anymore.
You can try out the new version (1.24.00.16) at http://buildbot.openmpt.org/builds/auto/openmpt-win32/ |
