What started off as a clean up of psxdmh somehow escalated into a full rewrite. I focussed on improving audio quality and now the sound is cleaner and crisper, benefitting from a lighter touch from the filtering plus more accurate reverb and ADSR. And I also managed to improve the efficiency of the code.
The spur for the clean up was my decision to put the source code on GitHub to make it more accessible. I just got a bit carried away… There’s a big list of changes for this release (see the psxdmh page for a full list). Here’s a summary of some of the main changes:
- Audio quality improvements:
- Changed how filtering is applied to patches during resampling to improve sound quality.
- Changed the algorithm used by the reverb unit (Nocash). The old algorithm had at least one fault.
- The input to reverb is filtered to remove excessive high-frequency sounds which were often emphasized unpleasantly.
- The ADSR envelope now uses a better algorithm (Nocash), and has smoothing applied.
- Widened the default high- and low-pass filter settings.
- Command line option changes:
- Added --stereo-expansion to widen the positioning of instruments.
- The --magic-fix option has become --repair-patches, and its effect has been refined.
- Miscellaneous changes:
- Added default names for extracted sound effects.
- Fixed a few small bugs.
It’s nearly 26 years since the PlayStation version of Doom was released, and it’s still the best! You can download psxdmh and its music here.
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