I was playing around with Copy & Paste from FuzzMeasure, and decided to play around with a graph in Illustrator. This is a good example of what sort of craziness you can do with graphs in other, more powerful, drawing applications.

I’m working on a user story right now that compares my three audio devices. The summary — don’t buy an iMic for measurements! Here is a sample graph comparing the loopback of all three devices.

Finally, I got around to updating FuzzMeasure 1.1 to fix that nasty audio issue I was having. I was so tied up in 1.2, and thought I could get it out much sooner than was really possible. At least the beta is out now, and people can start to experiment on it in the early stages.

Version 1.1.1 fixes the issue of not recognizing certain USB audio devices that present themselves as separate input and output devices. A positive side-effect of this is that you can now choose differing input and output devices for measurements. I hope that this version solves a lot of people’s issues.

I’m officially kicking FuzzMeasure 1.2b1 out the door and into the public’s hands. The only prerequisite to get your grubby mitts on it is an account for the forum, where you will see the beta area, and a link to the download.

It’s still a little bit rough around the edges, but the majority of functionality is there and ready to be exercised. It also lacks updated documentation for now. If you can’t figure out how to do something, let me know, and I’ll make a note to document that. ;)

There are so many new features in 1.2 which are really exciting. First and foremost is the impulse response viewer and editor, which allows you to set a window around the portion of the impulse you wish to analyze. This gives you true anechoic analysis capabilities.

Also, FuzzMeasure now comes with its own document format that it can load and save. Each FuzzMeasure document consists of multiple measurement records that you can individually analyze. Furthermore, you can now multi-select items in the measurement record list and compare them against each other!

There are a good amount of new features on top of this which are also thrown into the update, but I can’t really think of them all right now as I quickly throw this entry up. :)

Now get yourself a copy and join in the fun!

I got some more very helpful feedback from my UI posse, and I’m working pretty hard to get it all implemented and worked into 1.2b1. I need to get this UI work done early on so that I can get the maximum amount of testing exposure, and I can ensure that the UI all works properly.

From the screenshot I recently provided, you may have noticed the nice blue gradient Finder-esque table on the left-hand side of the window. Well, it looks great, but it doesn’t work so well. I want the user to be able to double-click on the title, and change it. Also, I want the user to click on the thumbnail of the plot, and change the colour right there.

UI work is pretty tough, especially when you’re rolling a lot of your own UI classes. In the end, you wind up with a great presentation to the end-user, which I believe is important for my customers’ perception of the overall product quality.

FuzzMeasure is shaping up to be a real hot mama! I’ve been taking a lot of suggestions from my good buddies Chris and Dan, and applying them like mad to get 1.2b1 looking awesome. Since I want 1.2 to be as polished as possible, and as visually appealing as I can make it, I have to spend extra time working on the polish.

Nice, huh?