Crossfeed 0.65 has been released for both Winamp 2.x and Foobar 2000 0.5. The effect has been tweaked some to avoid problems on mono or near-mono samples. The Foobar 2000 component also contains an Intel FPU hack, err, bug fix. The bug in question caused slow downs with Foobar 2000's resampler and advanced limiter DSPs.

Please note that the Foobar 2000 component will not work with pre-0.5 versions. These versions have an earlier version of Crossfeed already built-in. Wait until 0.5 is released to use this component.

Download from this page:
http://www.naivesoftware.com/crossfeed.html.

As always, enjoy! Let me know what you think!

Thanks for the plugin update! I listened to some almost-mono recordings, and used Winamp to switch between this version of Crossfeed and the last version I downloaded (v0.62, I think). My mental image of the music is "moved down" a bit with the newer version, IMO to a more comfortable position (if that makes any sense). It's a subtle effect that I could easily be imagining. I'll try a blind comparison of the two, and see which version I prefer, if I can even discern a difference. Should I try comparing mono, almost-mono, or regular music?

Any news on your ambience recovery research?

What you're hearing is consistent with the changes I made. The delay has been lowered from 250 microseconds to about 210 microseconds. This keeps phase anomalies in mono or near-mono music to a minimum, without altering the crossfeed effect much on normal stereo music. The effect of this change is so slight that you probably won't notice without making a direct comparison.

Another change made was the lowpass setting. Before, I was lowpassing the crossfeed signal at 800 Hz with a curve that slightly amplified the signal at the cut off point. This sounded nice for most music, but when it bombed, it sounded absolutely horrible. This version lowpasses the crossfeed signal at 700 Hz with a steady drop off. The result so far has been great on all music I've tested. The lower cut off point explains why the image appears "lower." There was just a tad too much mid-range present in the crossfeed signal of the previous version.


I've tested a wide variety of music to make sure I didn't mess anything up when I corrected the mono/near-mono issues. If you find anything that doesn't sound right, let me know.


Unfortunately, nothing very promising on this front. Anyway, thanks for all your input! It's greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the update.

Yay!! I've been wondering where crossfeed went.

The previous version of crossfeed made my Winamp 2.81 crash...

Which version?

Oops, sorry, it was Squaresoft Advanced crossfading plugin that made WA crash on me
and not your plugin...