Category: Pro

Bug fixes.

Increased number of channels/pipelines. Updated FLAC with support for higher sampling rates and up to 32-bit word length. Support for new generation of Nvidia GPUs. Bug fixes and component updates.

Two new band-limiting SDM integrators. Bug fixes.

New SDM integrator, three new DSD-to-PCM conversion noise filters. 20 kHz PCM source noise/distortion cleanup filter. EQ performance optimizations, component updates and bug fixes. Support for USB license key dongles.

Add new XFi SDM rate conversion algorithm. Bug fixes.

Add new poly-sinc-gauss-hires and sinc-Lx filters. Performance optimizations for EC modulators.

Support for arbitrary precision math. Minor improvements and fixes.

Component updates and bug fixes.

Support for encoding MP3 outputs, with special high dynamic range and distortion masking modes. Automatic matrix pipeline plot scaling.

Support for MP3 input formats. Support for newer REW 5.20 EQ parameters. Support for 12th Gen Intel CPUs. Component updates and bug fixes.

Add new ASDM5ECv2 and ASDM7ECv2 modulator variants. Add support for RIAA EQ plugin. Support for TYER/TORY ID3v2.3 tags. Bug fixes.

Bug fixes.

Add support for loudness post-process plugin. Add support for raw IIR biquad EQ. Bug fixes.

Bug fixes and component updates.

Bug fixes. Fedora build updated to Fedora 34 level.

New poly-sinc-xtr-short and poly-sinc-gauss filters. Improved apodization analysis. Bug fixes.

Detector to indicate need for an apodizing oversampling filter. New poly-sinc-ext3 and constant time sinc-Mx filters. Fine grained volume adjustment using spinbox. Bug fixes.

Add support for reading RoomEqWizard filter export text files to matrix. Add browse button for selecting WAV and txt files for matrix. Fix IIR upsampling filter initialization. Fix graph plotting when matrix is not enabled. Fix NAA output regressions. Component updates.

Fixes crash with certain settings.

Add two new SDM integrators and one new DSD noise filter. Split magnitude and phase responses to separate plots in matrix. Component updates and bug fixes.

Support for parametric equalizers, and reading and writing WavPack files for both PCM and DSD content. Native build for new Apple M1 silicon. Component updates and bug fixes.

Fixes two regressions, problems starting processing with monitoring output and mode selection in main window being stuck to the set default value.

Support for command line batch processing from scripts. Toggle for meter display. Performance improvements, component updates and bug fixes.

New special pseudo-multi-bit modulator AMSDM7EC for certain types of DACs at x512 rates and above. Bug fixes.

Use hard clipping limiter instead of soft-knee. Disable automatic channel mapping of multi-channel sources. Discontinued CUDA support on macOS. Bug fixes and component updates.

Add new sinc-S and sinc-L filters. Support chaining multiple convolution filters. Post-processing plugin support with Bauer headphone cross-feed. Support for changing convolution algorithm and HF-expansion for matrix. Parallelization improvements. Bug fixes and component updates.

Support for network inputs. New LNS15 PCM noise shaper for 8x and higher rates. Number of fixes and smaller improvements.

Small bug fixes and component updates.

Support for matrix pipeline profiles, and support for ripping CD’s on macOS. Improved core allocation, improved matrix processing speed on multi-core CPUs, bug fixes and component updates.

Improved support for multichannel DSDIFF files, new poly-sinc-long filters, metering fixes and component updates.

Three new very high accuracy modulator variants added. Various bug fixes and component updates.

Fix writing of RF64 WAV files, added static volume level indication, various bug fixes and component updates.

Fixes arbitrary word length output to a FLAC file by zero-padding to either 16- or 24-bit samples. Support arbitrary output sampling rate and single channel output. Number of smaller improvements and bug fixes.

First production release! HQPlayer 4 Pro is a high-quality audio file format converter, recorder, and player with powerful processing facilities. Intended as a mastering post-production tool for producing high-quality final distribution files in various formats.

Significant metadata handling rework and basic metadata translation between different metadata formats. Added possibility to define linear gain scaling factors for pipeline matrix, this allows things such as M/S process. Also includes several bugfixes and improvements.

Public beta release. HQPlayer 4 Pro is a high-quality audio file format converter, recorder, and player with powerful processing facilities. Intended as a mastering post-production tool for producing high-quality final distribution files in various formats.