The latter was previously only available as a text box on the toolbar. These control playback Volume (a new feature) and overall filter Gain (for raising the final level of a track or making it match others in the context of an album). One of the most noticeable is the twin vertical sliders down the left-hand side of the main display. Harmonic Enhancementsįour months on and Har-Bal International have just released Harbal 1.5, with a set of new features and improvements. I was impressed by its combination of resizeable main graphic display for detailed examination and editing of the existing frequency response of any audio track, automatic loudness compensation to make EQ choices easier, and a well-chosen set of analysis files for comparison with high-quality commercial tracks. Harbal (which stands for ' Harmonic balancing') is a stand-alone utility that runs under Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP, and is designed to match the frequency response of a target track to that of a reference. We report them, and discuss some new information about Longhorn: the next incarnation of the Windows OS.īack in SOS March 2004 I reviewed version 1.02 of the Harbal Visual Mastering System for Windows users. The Harbal EQ-matching program benefits from some worthwhile tweaks.

WinWorld: Windows Longhorn Post-Reset (winworldpc.Version 1.5 of Harbal offers a host of new display features, shelving as well as parametric equalisation, loop monitoring, pop-up tips, and support for ASIO drivers. Numerous improvements to the Windows Explorer, along with an updated Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, instant search, new 3-d games and other items made it into the final version of Windows Vista. Several features of Longhorn planned that were actually shipped include the glass replicating Aero theme (which followed the Slate and Jade themes from earlier builds), along with the Windows Sidebar - although this was shipped as a standalone utility where as most builds (at least in pre-reset) shipped this as part of explorer.exe. This combined with Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiatives caused the reset. Features were being written into the OS at an alarming rate with a significant lack of QA or vision of true requirement. The reset occurred as Microsoft's development staff had lost focus on the project as a whole and what was required to be done in order to bring it to market. Development on the OS started in May 2001 and went through two unique development cycles separated by a development reset in 2004. Windows Longhorn was the pre-release codename for Windows Vista and was the successor to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (built from NT 5.2 codebase).

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