10-band EQ in 3.13

[kgen1]

Whatever happens to Rockbox in the future, I hope they never, ever touch this EQ. It's not only the best EQ for audio players that I know, but the best software EQ of any kind, on any platform.

[bluebrother]

Whatever happens to Rockbox in the future, I hope they never, ever touch this EQ.

I'm in strong favour of changing it back to 5 bands. And no, there is no point in crying -- if almost no target has enough CPU power to actually process 10 bands then 10 bands are simply too much (besides, it's parametric so you rarely need that much bands anyway).

[saratoga]

We'll probably leave it at 10 for faster targets, and change to 5 for slower devices so that people keep asking why their music skips when they turn on too many bands on really old devices.

[redblade8]

We'll probably leave it at 10 for faster targets, and change to 5 for slower devices so that people keep asking why their music skips when they turn on too many bands on really old devices.

What? But then my Sansa does this anyways when I turn on timestretch ( speed + pitch ) So, this function isn't safe either?

[saratoga]

Without knowing what Sansa you have I don't think I can answer that question

[redblade8]

Sorry, you're correct. I have a Sansa e200 series with an 80mhz cpu sir. ^_^~

[saratoga]

You've got about 40-55Mhz of excess CPU, so if you turn on too many effects or use slower formats your audio will skip.  For faster formats though I think you should be fine as long as you don't use too many EQ bands.