Audiofile Engineering has announced the release of Spectre 1.5.
New features include an Inspector window that reduces desktop clutter, additional metering and filtering options, and a specially priced Spectre Starter licensing option designed for beginners and students.
“Whether you’re working in a world-class concert hall, a home studio or anywhere in-between, Spectre delivers professional-grade audio analysis at an accessible price point,” said Matthew Foust, co-founder and Managing Partner of Audiofile Engineering.
“The new features in version 1.5 include several that were specifically requested by users, which makes us even more confident in our commitment to providing the best customer support in the industry.”
One of the significant user-suggested features in Spectre 1.5 is the new Leq Meter, which measures the energy of a given audio passage (often referred to as “loudness”).
Unlike typical level meters that measure volume moment by moment, the Leq Meter takes an average over time to provide a useful indicator of how much “energy” is implied in a specific passage.
The fulfillment of this user-generated feature request led to the creation of a public Roadmap feature for all Audiofile Engineering software. Registered users can visit product pages on the company’s official website to weigh in on the features and improvements that are most important to them.
Other new features now available in Spectre include A/B/C-weighted filters, calibration for VU and BBC meters, and a convenient Inspector window that lets users manage the Trace and Settings properties for all active meters in one window.
Students and less experienced engineers can now take advantage of a new license option called Spectre Starter.
The feature-limited version of Spectre includes access to the Level, VU, Oscilloscope, Spectrograph, Spectrogram, Waveform, Lissajous and Numerical meters. Users who wish to upgrade from Spectre Starter to the full version need only pay the difference.
