x.STUDIO - PCI Express card downloads

2025-07-16

• Server 4.2.3:
• Increase size of SOUND4 messages (for backups, up to 50 MB)
• Linux: Support for syslog logging

• Remote 4.5.3:
• Increase size of SOUND4 messages (for backups, up to 50 MB)
• From the "admin" interface, possible to hide the "Mute" button from the "live" interface for BigVoice versions 2 and 4, PCIE Voice 3.0.6 or higher
• Fixed a bug in the virtual keyboard that was introduced in version 4.5.1 (Windows only)

• Driver pciex version: 12/20/2023,13.12.20.345

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009,1.5.0.55

2025-03-27

• Server 4.2.2:
• Added a reset of board after upgrade, to avoid some instable state after upgrade
• Correction: maintenance resets were leaving plugins stopped (Stream, Watermark,...)
• Correct possible crash on changing RDS metadata TCP server port
• Support of Link&Share on UDP port
• Allow the "/" character in driver and board names

• Remote 4.5.1:
• Adding a search field in "Load/Compare Preset" windows
• Fixed a bug causing increased graphics resources usage on Windows
• Version compatible with SOUND4 BIG VOICE 2 v1.0.15 or higher, SOUND4 BIG VOICE 4 v1.0.4 or higher, VOICE ULA2 - ULA4 - ULA8 v3.0.6 or higher
• Fixed a bug that prevented entering subnet masks in PresetSharing and Remote Connection scanning

• Driver pciex version: 12/20/2023,13.12.20.345

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009,1.5.0.55

2024-10-15

• Server 4.2.0: Allow more connections, Preset sharing corrections

• Remote 4.4.0: Fixed error in upgrade window

• Driver pciex version: 12/20/2023,13.12.20.345

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009,1.5.0.55

2024-01-02

• Server 4.1.111: Correct GPIO : when GPO depends on GPI input action, was not updated.

• Remote 4.3.26: Fixed error when rename processor from main window

• Driver pciex version: 12/20/2023,13.12.20.345

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009,1.5.0.55

2023-12-06

• Server 4.1.110: Better memory usage, especially when accessing presets from the SOUND4 Remote Control.

• Remote 4.3.25: Fixed errors in diagram and dialog Preset (for multi channel processors)

• Driver pciex version: 07/31/2023, 13.1.57.736

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009, 1.5.0.55

2023-09-20

• Server 4.1.110: Better memory usage, especially when accessing presets from the SOUND4 Remote Control.

• Remote 4.3.23: Optimization to reduce graphics resource usage and improve access to preset lists. Minor fixes.

• Driver pciex version: 07/31/2023, 13.1.57.736

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009, 1.5.0.55

2023-05-10

• Server 4.1.106: Preset Sharing: break compatibility with older versions to isolate old versions problems, minor fixes.

• Remote 4.3.20: Minor fixes.

• Driver pciex version: 04/22/2021, 13.53.46.594

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009, 1.5.0.55

2022-09-23

• Server 4.1.102: Correct Preset Sharing algorithm to avoid crashes, optimizations, minor fixes.

• Remote 4.3.17: Linux crash fix, minor fixes.

• Driver pciex version: 04/22/2021,13.53.46.594

• Driver pci version: 12/17/2009,1.5.0.55

3.0

3.0.6

• Metadata parser improvement (Unicode character encoding detection)

3.0.5

• Metadata now supports HTTPS files

3.0.4

• Update libraries

• FEC Pro-MPEG: correct row/col inversion

• MPEG-TS: send metadata in ID3 PES stream

• Can set cut-off frequency for codecs which support it

• MP3: can disable bit-reservoir

• Metaparser: add JSON parsing tools

• Correct possible occasional data race

3.0.3

• Correct Advanced field not cleared when changed.

• Protect against too low max payload size

3.0.2

• Improve a possible delay when using metadata

• More detailed logs on slow encoding/sending

3.0.1

• MPEG-TS
• Add PES Data Align flag
• Added advanced setup field, for support testing only

3.0.0

• MPEG-TS
• Improved PAT/PMT/SDT repetition rates
• Fix PCR repetition rate and accuracy
• Stabilized MPEG-TS rate

2.4

2.4.33

• Windows only: Correct service path to avoid vulnerability CWE-428

2.4.32

• Correctly save the Watermarking channel, so it is restored after upgrades NOTE: this will work only for future upgrades

• Windows: removed XP compatibility. Safe time measurement when date/time changes.

2.4.31

• Correct Watermarking running while license expired.

2.4.30

• Corrected Stop Stream if No Audio: was restarting after ~12h

2.4.29

• Add Connected time info in VUmeters

• Linux : small fixes for newer kernels security

2.4.28

• FEC in RTP : use the same source address as RTP (so same VLAN)

• For RTP and UDP in multicast, join multicast group even if only sending (some switches might need this to avoid broadcasting)

2.4.27

• Give more time to encoders before dropping audio

2.4.26

• Better isolate each stream in a channel, avoiding error chain

• Avoid freezing encoders in a channel when metadata update hangs due to non-answer of peer TCP SYN (Bug present since 2.4.18)

2.4.25

• MPEG-TS: PSI (PAT/PMT) announcement is set to 500ms instead of 100ms to reduce bandwidth.

2.4.24

• MPEG1 Layer 2 : allow using Joint-Stereo

2.4.23

• For MPEG-TS, correct "Service Type" for non MPEG1 Layer 2 audio (use type 10 instead of 2).

• For MPEG-TS, can use Name for "Service Name" and Description/Provider for "Service Provider"

2.4.22

• Support possible STREAM2 license, to have 2 distinct streaming for Standalone FM products

2.4.21

• Icecast/Shoutcast metadata: URL escape mount point and password

• RTP: correct SDP for FEC with correct sampling rate

2.4.20

• Protocols: can choose TTL for protocols using multicast UDP

2.4.19

• Protocols:
• Supports ulpfec (RFC 5109) and parityfec (RFC 2733) for RTP streams
• Added UDP and UDP/MPEG-TS protocols

2.4.18

• Protocol/codecs:
• Added RTP/MPEG-TS to force usage of MPEG-TS over RTP if wanted
• Added SRT and SRT/MPEG-TS protocol
• Added SMPTE 302M codec for linear audio over MPEG-TS
• Added MPEG1-Layer 2 (mp2) codec
• Added FEC (Pro-MPEG/SMPTE 2022-1) for RTP/MPEG-TS protocol
• RTP: can set the maximum packet size
• RTP: ability to force the payload type for some codecs
• MP3: can choose between Stereo and Joint-Stereo
• RTMP: correct a race condition when updating metadata

• Support local IP binding, to choose output IP address used.

• Metadata scripts: add DoNotSendMeta() to cancel metadata update without error.

• Correct a possible dead-lock of one stream on bad configuration

• Windows: correct some reading errors for metadata from filesystem (access rights from service)

2.4.17

• SendMetaDataSong sends metadata immediately (compatible Telos)

• Always build compact_song before sending metadata (even before disconnect)

• Clear Metadata after sent, and send on disconnect only if not done before

• RTMP metadata: if no _rtmp node is created, use the top level nodes

• Add the Set method to LUA XML nodes

2.4.16

2.4.15

2.4.14

2.4.13

2.4.12

2.4.11

2.4.10

2.4.9

• Icecast 2.x uses metadata.xsl (like since 2.4.5) and title/artist (like since 2.3.34)

• Icecast 2.0 uses metadata and song only (like before 2.3.34)

2.4.8

2.4.7

2.4.6

2.4.5

2.4.4

2.4.3

2.4.2

2.3

2.3.39

2.3.37

2.3.36

2.3.35

2.3.34

2.3.33

2.3.32

2.3.31

2.3.30

2.3.29

2.3.28

2.3.27

2.3.26

2.3.25

2.3.24

2.3.23

2.3.22

2.3.21

2.3.20

2.1

2.1.19

2.1.17

2.0

2.0.26

1.0

1.0.16

• Avoid restart channel on audio timeout

1.0.15

• Windows only: added more safeguard timeouts on audio read

• Windows only: Added --dump command-line switch to trigger some status logging, to help to find abnormal run state.

1.0.14

• Windows only: Correct service path to avoid vulnerability CWE-428

1.0.13

• Windows: Correct the timing measurement not to be dependent on the time adjustments on the PC.

• Windows: removed XP compatibility.

• Windows: Correct the Windows'service not restarting after error

• Display only: clean up the combo to select Watermarking channels

1.0.12

• When the server is not responding, exit with an error code, so Windows' service restarts it.

1.0.11

• Better protection against infrequent software deadlocks.

1.0.10

• Support process with separate HD/FM watermark

• Inform the process of the delay induced

1.0.9

• Support full Watermarking x8

1.0.8

• Added version information displayable in Remote/HTML/...

1.0.7

• Provides GUI alarm when WM has trouble

• Added some GPIO configurations

1.0.6

• Reduce driver access

• Added GPIO description

• Update to compile on latest OS

1.0.5

• Added SNMP notifications

• Changing WM channel on running instance now works.

• (Linux) Correct some memory leak when server restarts.

1.0.4

• Increase channel names size for compat with Kantar.

• Read channel names even if off to be able to set good one before start.

• BUG: changing WM channel on running instance does not change the channel.

2.1

2.1.7

• Fix user rights

• Fix printing of presets

2.1.6

• Added Input failover and mixing

• Can change output gains

2.1.5

• Same, but created the x.Studio version (with Analog and Digital I/O)

2.1.4

• Support FPGA with higher DSP clock (Board 1.5.5)

2.1.3

• Dynamic audio/watermarking selection for x8: all channels are used either with audio driver or with watermarking

2.1.2

• Reorganize I/O gains

• Correct Jazz Light preset

2.1.1

• Add R128

• Reduce CPU usage

2.1.0

• Improved AGC

• Improved Treble enhancer

• New Lookahead algorithm

• Added BS1770 vumeters

• Added GPIO management

2.0

2.0.4

• Added some safety internal code

2.0.3

• Correct x2 license checking

2.0.2

• Better display of Livewire/AES67 sources in setup

• Correct "print settings" in Remote

2.0

2.0.35

• Advertising : Correct Livewire sending unstable information, Logs improvements

2.0.34

• Advertising : Can choose to automatically disable unused advertisement

• Advertising : better automatic memory limitation

2.0.33

• Advertising : limit stored sessions to ~4000 to avoid out of memory

• More aggressive input filter of multicast packets to avoid drops due to unwanted packets

2.0.32

• Correct multicast failure break initialization (Livewire No clock received) [BUG in 2.0.30 and 2.0.31]

2.0.31

• Protect booting with slow switches (Cisco) which results in "Nothing received".
⚠️
BUG: When multiple inputs are on the same channel at boot, the Livewire clock is not received.

2.0.30

• Protect some unlikely errors, for fixing startup nonworking streams
⚠️
BUG: When multiple inputs are on the same channel at boot, the Livewire clock is not received.

2.0.29

• Fix PTP timestamp race condition, which can lead to reboot when traffic is too heavy

2.0.28

• Can specify PTP Announce/Request Interval and Timeout

• Support IGMP v3 (Experimental)

2.0.27

• Revert the GPIO logic level for Livewire. For Axia, a Low level is active (and not high)

2.0.26

• Corrected: AES67 Slave clock does not switch from a Master to another

2.0.25

• Corrected: Default broadcast is not applied

• Correct scale so upgrading from old version does not remove AES67 input settings.

2.0.24

• Corrected handling of 1-channel stream (copy left channel to right)

• Better PTP timestamping (rx timestamp pool empty)

2.0.23

• Corrections for Dante compatibility (constant o= in SDP for reconnexion after reboot ; accept numbers in Session name)

2.0.21

• Avoid to save volatile data in flash

• Other minor changes

2.0.20

• Change DSP for Dante compatibility.

• Corrected SAP session name check

• Corrected Livewire GPO snake reconnect

2.0.19

• Corrected mDNS and SAP advertising

• Corrected PTP internal sync

• Corrections for GPIO display in data description

• (cards) NEEDS Board 1.4.11

2.0.18

• Manage Livewire GPIO.

2.0.17

• SAP advertising

• Unicode corrections

2.0.16

• Reduce log

2.0.15

• Correct internal sync when Livewire master

• Show error when LANAUDIO Hostname is in conflict

• Force IGMP v2 for Cisco Catalyst

• Hostname 63 characters

• DNS-SD reply correction

• Don't allow Master when IP is not set

• Status bar should not show errors on channels out of license

2.0.14

• License management correction for sharing stream (On Both L/R, Separated L/R)

2.0.13

• Realtime optimization

• Faster recovery after Ethernet replug

• Can now use ISO chars for Channel names

2.0.12

• Can deactivate MDNS advertising

2.0.10

• Improved Multicast management and packet drops (Debug version without mdnsd, rtsp and ptpmng)

• Increased watchdog timeout to 5s

2.0.8

• Corrected sync regul to be stable when sync packet is late or sync is lost

• Corrected memory leak

2.0.7

• Memory use optimization

• Potential race condition corrected

• Better Multicast packet management

2.0.6

• Livewire Live Audio: buffer size works

• Correct synchro loss on packet reordered

• NOTE: previous setting was doing nothing in real

2.0.5

• AES67: when adress is IP, can select format (so works with raw streams)

• NOTE: new internal browser

2.0.4

• Correct Livewire protocol extra double-quote after LABL

2.0.3

• Correct Livewire Payload (value can be incompatible with some Livewire parts).

• Was using the AES67 Custom Format to choose Payload number.

2.0.2

• Correct internal memory leaks.

• Advertising (SpiSkt) more robust.

2.0.1

• Compatible with new GUI (Need Server/Remote 4.0.0)

1.2.1

• Performance/CPU improvements

• New themes sound4_white/sound4_dark

• Corrected some possible threading errors

1.2.0

• Send commands in parallel to all hosts

• Optimize all L&S communication to be faster and use less CPU

• Can use <seq> to execute commands in sequential (as before) and fail on first error

1.1.4

• Startup correction

1.1.3

• Correct occasional crash on status change

1.1.2

• Various little corrections

• Complete documentation

1.1.1

• Theme correction

1.1.0

• LED automatically handles more predefined status

• Correct the slider control

• Correct the extension registering

• Correct dynvalue if a XML comment is put inside

1.1.3

• Correct vulnerability "Format String Stack Buffer Overflow"

1.1.2

• Log file truncated if bigger than a max size