REW Beta Release Issues with 5.40 Beta 99

[koberulz]

- When switching to the All SPL tab, or opening an overlay, it now defaults to disabling all measurements. Having to enable all of them manually is an unnecessary extra step.
- It took me a long time to figure out how to change which of the measurements I was working with.
- It's difficult to tell, if I do something, which measurement it will apply to, or whether it will apply to all measurements.
- Renaming measurements and changing colors is much less simple.
- The new right-click menu on a measurement is overwhelmingly dense.
- There's no way to see measurement notes anymore, except for said right-click menu?
- EQ target settings are deleted upon closing the EQ window. Previously, one could close the EQ window after working in it, then decide to try a different target and reopen it and it would keep all your previous settings, making it really easy to make a tweak or two. These settings would even save in the MDAT, so you could close REW altogether, or even work on different measurements in between, and still go back to your previous EQ settings to make a small tweak. Now, as soon as you close the EQ window it resets at least the target level...trying to find that level again so you can just tweak the rolloff is no fun.

I'm sure some of my issues are just it being different and needing to get used to it, but the EQ thing is big. I calibrate by measuring my speakers, then doing a magnitude division with a target curve and feeding the result into MultEQ-X. Fiddling around last night, I was able to open up older measurements with the EQ still saved—my last EQ I used psychoacoustic smoothing before doing the division, and I'd decided to change to variable smoothing, so no re-measuring was required—and just redo the magitude division with the new smoothing setting. Problem being this resulted in a few 10dB+ boosts at the bottom of the frequency range, so I needed to tweak the rolloff of the target curve to account for that, and that required opening the old MDAT again to figure out what I'd set the target level to (so I could keep my trims exactly the same). Being unable to easily rename and recolor (particularly recolor) measurements is probably in second place.

 

[John Mulcahy]

When switching to the All SPL tab, or opening an overlay, it now defaults to disabling all measurements. Having to enable all of them manually is an unnecessary extra step.

New measurements are selected by default for the overlay windows, including All SPL. If you open an mdat file saved by V5.40 the selection status is remembered from when the file was last saved. For files saved with earlier versions that selection status defaults to not selected, but I can change it so the default is for them to be selected.

It took me a long time to figure out how to change which of the measurements I was working with.

I'm guessing you are referring to changing the current individual graph measurement when you are using an overlay graph, such as All SPL. The individual graph measurement selection is shown by a blue bar on the right hand side of the measurement and double-clicking a measurement selects it for the individual graphs.

It's difficult to tell, if I do something, which measurement it will apply to, or whether it will apply to all measurements.

I'm again guessing you are referring to using an overlay graph, such as All SPL. Actions in the right click menu for overlay graphs apply to the measurements that are selected on the graph.

Renaming measurements and changing colors is much less simple.

On the individual graphs right click on the measurement name to rename it. On the overlay graphs right clicking on a measurement puts focus on the measurement name and you can immediately start typing a new name. In both cases that is one click, as it was for older versions. Changing colour is two clicks.

The new right-click menu on a measurement is overwhelmingly dense.

I'm again guessing you are referring to using an overlay graph, such as All SPL. The lower half of the popup is for the individual measurement.

There's no way to see measurement notes anymore, except for said right-click menu?

See the View preferences:

EQ target settings are deleted upon closing the EQ window.

No, they are not, nothing has changed about the behaviour of the EQ window. The EQ window shows the currently selected individual measurement, as it has always done. You can quickly change the current individual measurement selection and open the EQ window on it by using the EQ button in the right click menu for an overlay measurement.

You can carry on using an older version if you prefer that interface, updating is not compulsory

 

[koberulz]

New measurements are selected by default for the overlay windows, including All SPL. If you open an mdat file saved by V5.40 the selection status is remembered from when the file was last saved. For files saved with earlier versions that selection status defaults to not selected, but I can change it so the default is for them to be selected.

Yes, opening MDATs saved by older versions is all I've been doing.

I'm guessing you are referring to changing the current individual graph measurement when you are using an overlay graph, such as All SPL.

Which measurement would be loaded into EQ was my main one. I kept clicking on them, because that's what I had to do on the old version, but of course they just disappeared. This is definitely one that's more of an issue just because it's always worked one way and now works a different way. But there was also SPL offset, which used to be doable individually from the Action menu, but now the one in the action menu adjusts all measurements and you need the one in the right-click menu to adjust only the one measurement.

On the individual graphs right click on the measurement name to rename it. On the overlay graphs right clicking on a measurement puts focus on the measurement name and you can immediately start typing a new name. In both cases that is one click, as it was for older versions. Changing colour is two clicks...I'm again guessing you are referring to using an overlay graph, such as All SPL. The lower half of the popup is for the individual measurement.

Half of it, I guess, is just being able to find the correct option in the right click menu, because it has a lot going on. I do miss color changing having a super-accessible button though.

No, they are not, nothing has changed about the behaviour of the EQ window.

Hmm. Just checked and it indeed seems to be working normally now. Not sure what happened last night, it was very consistently an issue.