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From bells and whistles about Stereoscope to personal notion.

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Stereoscope on Github

Since a few days, the sourcecode of Stereoscope is available on Github. You can also find pre-built Releases for all the platforms that we support on Github. It is licensed under GPL V2. All proprietary 3rd party and license activation code was removed. Currently we are working on the build system and documentation. So if you’re interested in where the magic happens, grab your fork today ;-).

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Business Closedown

We are very sad to announce that by the end of this year Stereokrauts GbR will go out of business. For quite a while we noticed decreasing license sales to a point where software development became impractical in an economical sense.

However this won’t be the end of Stereoscope. As we poured our heart and soul into the software, the code will be released as open source and there will be binary builds for free download.

Once this post is published, the webshop will be closed already. Support for registered customers will go on as far as possible. This blog will be continued to keep you further informed.

Yours Stereokrauts staff

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Homepage Overhaul

The last view weeks we were busy working on a new homepage at stereokrauts.com. It’s not just a new design but a complete rewrite. The shop is now integrated into the webpage as well as the user area where you can manage your licenses. As there were problems with bankwire transfers we currently accept paypal only.

The other thing we did is to publish Stereoscope3 as a stable release. There will be another post on this topic soon.

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TouchOSC changed addressing format

TouchOSC changed the addressing format with version 1.8. We changed our frontend file and implementation with the Release Candidates for the 3.0.0 version. This is an incompatible change, meaning you will have to use TouchOSC 1.8 with Stereoscope 3.0.0 (or our new Webfrontend). Stereoscope 2.5 should remain intact with TouchOSC 1.7 and 1.8, if you use the Frontend file that is provided with that version.

If you are a user of Stereoscope 3, please not that you have to add the frontend file to your iPad again, so that you use the new encoding scheme. Please refer to our user manual for instructions.

We will upload our repackaged Layout Pack for Stereocsope 3 in this week.

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Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!

If you celebrate Christmas, Chanukka or non of them: Have a great holiday and all the best for 2015.

Yours Stereokrauts staff.

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Stereoscope3 Release Candidate 1

We just uploaded a new prerelease of Stereoscope3 and changed its status to rc/beta. This means that all features of the final version are applied and there are no major bugs anymore (as far as we know). New features are:

Web UI: An all-purpose layout like in TouchOSC

Web UI:Seperate auxiliary-layouts for multiclient usage

Web UI: Automatic server reconnect after connection loss

Bus outputs (only for TouchOSC for now)

Webclient opens via doubleclick in default browser

Save/restore including webclient config

Install once - run anywhere: When used on a USB stick, savedata and licenses can be synced between computers

Especially the last point should be interesting for people running Stereoscope in different environments.

Versions for Mac/Win/Linux can be downloaded here. Please keep in mind that this is just the first rc/beta which is not suited for productional usage (although it runs quite stable). The final version will be out in a few weeks in early 2015.

Have fun,

Yours Stereokrauts staff (Tobias & Roland)

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Hi, is it possible to control the 4 FX channels' main volume per channel on the DDX3216 Behringer mixer? Is there a string for that?

There are some older questions here that weren’t answered until now - sorry for that:

Stereoscope doesn’t have support for FX returns for none of the mixers but I made a ticket for this so it will be implemented in a 3.x version.

- Roland.

Update: Stereoscope supports FX returns for Yamaha 01v96 mixers but just because these are statically mapped to input 33-40. Sorry, my mistake.

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Hello! We'd like to feature Steroscope integrating with a Yamaha QL1 mixer at a trade show next week. Any chance of a Yamaha QL1 bean ? Thanks,Peter

There will be QL1 support ... but definitely not this year. We'll do that when Stereoscope3 is out and some other long requested features are implemented.

- Roland.

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Stereoscope3 licenses for free

From now on everyone who buys a license of Stereoscope gets an appropriate license of Stereoscope3 (single-/multiuser) for free until the final release of Stereoscope3.0. To get you started even more easily we lowered the price of the single user version by 50%. Here are the new prices in €:

Stereoscope 1.7 (incl. V3.0 single user): 9.99€*

Stereoscope 2.5 (incl. V3.0 multi user): 39.99€*

So lift your mixing experience to a new level and grab a license of Stereoscope today.

* Prices in USD are a bit higher and depend on the exchange rate.

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Technology Preview 3

A new development version of Stereoscope3 is available for download and these are the major improvements:

New off-canvas navigation for more efficient screen space usage, especially on small devices.

Responsive layout generation for different screen sizes.

Layout Manager fixed (although there is currently just one useful layout).

Improved automatic resyncing (much faster and less buggy).

Much faster click/touch behaviour.

Server Interface: I/O data indicators (green arrows).

Roland M380: Output master sync fixed.

We also fixed lots of bugs and checked the 01V96i plugin again (and it works as expected).

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A short introduction to the web interface that is available in our technology preview - visit http://www.stereokrauts.com

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Hi; Schön zu hören, dass wir es jetzt als Preview testen können; Aber wo ist denn das neue HTML5-Frontend? Außerdem scheint der Rückkanal von meinem 96v01i mit der Version 3 nicht zu funktionieren; ist das die angekündigte Beschränkung (4 Kanäle) Gruß Marten

Das HTML frontend kann in einem Browser (Chrome/Firefox) aufgerufen werden, nachdem es vorher im Server gestartet wurde. Auf "Add another..." klicken und dann statt TouchOSC den Webclient auswählen. Der Port muss im Browser angegeben werden, z.B. "http://localhost:8090".

Wie gesagt, sind die Technology Previews eher benutzbare Demos statt fertiger Versionen. Sie können mit 2.x Lizenzen aktiviert werden. 01v96i sollte normal funktionieren, falls nicht werden wir das in der nächsten TP reparieren.

- Roland.

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Technology Preview 2

We just published Stereoscope3 TP2. It has lots of bugfixes, mainly for the html interface. Most controls are now in sync with the server. Resyncing is still very slow so if something goes wrong, just click again on the page-tab again.

Please keep in mind that this is a development snapshot. The code for the webinterface is in a very early stage so don't use it in a production environment...

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Stereoscope3 Technology Preview

After a long time of development we decided to do things more publicly. From now on you'll find technology previews of Stereoscope on our webpage. These previews show the current stage of development. Please keep in mind that they are not ment for productional use. The first one comes with an early version of the new HTML5 user interface. There will be subsequent releases with more features and less bugs in the near future, so stay tuned...

Versions for Mac/Win/Linux can be downloaded here. They are limited to 4 channels as usual and can be unlocked with a 2.x license. Safari and Internet Explorer are still problematic. We recommend Chrome or Firefox for best results.

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Customer service

since a few weeks we get flooded with feedback from customers and people who are interested in Stereoscope. We will answer all of your questions but since we're very busy in preparing a prerelease of Stereoscope3, it may take a few days until we get back to you. Sorry for the inconvenience.

- Roland.

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We're working hard on the new HTML5 frontend for Stereoscope, which will work on any device including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac - virtually any modern web browser! The beta phase will start soon. Existing customers are the first who will get this new feature.

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Ist das Mixer Plugin Roland M380 auch für den M400? GrußAndré

Ja, das ist 100% kompatibel mit dem M400. Kannst Du mit der kostenlosen Demoversion ausprobieren.

- Roland.