Hiya.

I've built a beta10a kernel, but I haven't tested it, 'cause I'm still running beta10 on my empeg. Sometime I'll get around to installing beta10a, then beta11pre, and then I can see what happens. I'll make the beta10a kernel available this weekend in the same place as the other one, but I don't know if it will work!

By the way, I'm really happy with it so far. I definitely would like more lookahead, and it would be nice if the volume correction was reset at the beginning of each track, but these things aren't easy to do from the kernel (at least, not for me).

Pros: I can listen to 2112 and actually hear him tuning his guitar. I can listen to The Planets, and actually hear Neptune!! All this travelling in the car without changing the volume.

Cons:
- When you have a long quiet bit, and then a very fast gradual (not immediate) loud attack (e.g. string entry), you can get an audible artifact. I'm pretty sure that a longer lookahead would significantly alleviate this problem, but I'm also looking into some slight changes in the behaviour when responding to potential clipping.
- I'm not 100% happy with the silence treatment. Currently, if it detects silence, it just leaves the output multiplier whatever it last was. I'm thinking it might be better to have it gradually decay back to 1.
- It might be better to base the multiplier calculation on the power, rather
than the peak value.

Richard.