Gryt 1.3.1

This one is voice, and two of the fixes in it are the kind you'd have noticed and had no way to explain.

The sliders meant nothing like what they said

The percentages were run through a curve, so the numbers on screen were not the numbers you were getting. 100% was a 2x boost. Normal volume landed at about 79%. At 50% you were down to a quarter of the amplitude, roughly 12 dB quieter, under a label that said 50% was normal.

A slider is now what it claims: 100% is unchanged audio, and the top of the range is 200%, which is twice as loud. The old curve was gentler to drag through, and that's what it cost — but a control that reads 50% and does something else is not a control.

Both sliders, microphone and output.

The noise gate stopped when the window did

Minimise Gryt, or put a game in fullscreen, and everyone in the call started hearing everything your microphone picked up.

The gate was watching your audio from the same clock the browser uses to draw frames, and that clock stops when a window is hidden. Rather than risk cutting somebody off mid-sentence, the code held the gate wide open whenever it couldn't see. So the moment you stopped looking at Gryt, it stopped filtering.

It runs on the audio thread now, which nothing throttles. The gate works the same whether Gryt is in front of you or behind a game.

Picking a microphone picks that microphone

Choosing a different input device carried on using the old one. The code checked whether a microphone was live, decided one was, and stopped there without ever asking whether it was the one you'd chosen.

macOS was never getting updates

The macOS build shipped pointing at a repository with no releases in it, so every update check came back with nothing and there was no sign anything was wrong. Windows and Linux were unaffected — they set the address a different way, which is why this went unnoticed.

Smaller things

The camera tile appears while the video is still connecting instead of after, and keeps trying rather than giving up on a stream that arrives late. A call is no longer sometimes declared failed and dropped while you're still in it. The speaking indicator stops lighting up slightly before the audio it's reacting to, and keeps working when you alt-tab away. The audio meter in settings costs less to draw.

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The short version

Voice

• 100% on a volume slider is now unchanged audio, and the maximum is 200%. It used to be a 2x boost at 100%, and normal volume sat at 79%
• The noise gate keeps working while Gryt is minimised or behind a fullscreen game. It used to switch itself off
• Choosing a different microphone actually changes microphone
• A call is no longer sometimes marked failed and dropped while you're in it
• The speaking indicator fires with the audio rather than just before it, and survives alt-tabbing
• The camera tile shows while the video is connecting, and waits for a stream that arrives late

Updates

• macOS was checking a repository with no releases in it, so it never found one. Windows and Linux were fine