Topic: DigiCheck NG for Windows – first beta public release - now available
DigiCheck NG for Windows – first public release
DIGICheck for Windows and Mac is a collection of very useful meters and audio visualization tools, used and loved by many. The constantly changing Mac OS (first to OS X, now macOS) made it necessary to re-program the whole application. That allowed us to use the latest tools of the OS to teleport DIGICheck into the 21st century – with updated, much more modern graphics, full scalability, even better performance, a new concept with multiple instruments in one window, new meters and functions...DigiCheck NG (Next Generation) for Mac is currently available in version 0.90b5, see here:
https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=37298
DC NG has become so good that DIGICheck on Windows looks and feels quite outdated – if you had the chance to use DC NG for some time. Therefore we are very pleased to present a fully working version of DigiCheck NG for Windows! It is based on the same code as DC NG for Mac, being in most ways identical in features and functions.
The downloaded zip includes an msi installer. The app also includes help in German and English in case you need to look anything up. But most things should be easy to find out, just try the menu and right click in any instrument.
Some things to note, especially if you know DIGICheck 5.x already:
- Both programs can run at the same time, so it is easy to check and compare and adapt etc.
- DC NG for Windows currently does not have the Channel Status feature (via TMS). This will be added later.
- There is no hardware support anymore for direct display of level data. DC NG runs on ASIO exclusively.
- There are some small details missing - we know that and will add these over time. Just be patient, please.
- In one of the next updates the number of instruments in one window will be raised to 5, in a later state maybe even to 6.
- DC NG for Windows supports any monitor refresh rate. Under Mac OS this is adjustable (in DC NG Preferences/Settings). Under Windows the 'internal' refresh rate of the graphics card is used. Note that higher refresh rates cause higher GPU loads, exterme high ones also high CPU loads. Disabling vertical sync in the graphics card’s setting is no good idea, because DC NG will then run at (for example) 1400 Hz (!), and cause significant CPU and GPU load – basically for nothing, as the monitor still runs on and displays only 60, 144 or 240 Hz (examples).
In fact the code improvements in the new DC NG also cause a better, smoother display. This can be seen and verified on the Mac when limiting the refresh rate for DC NG to 30 Hz (independent from the monitor's refesh rate) – it still looks very nice and not jumpy/stuttering. This also means that there is no significant win when using it at a crazy rate like 240 Hz. 60 Hz is more than enough. So don’t think you miss something when your system works 'only' at 60 Hz (most do).
BTW, the current refresh rate is shown in the bottom right side of the DC NG window.
Dowload:
https://www.rme-audio.de/downloads/digi … n_063b.zip
Latest update 06/28/2023 - link is 0.63 beta. See post 100 for details: https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.ph … 06#p204506
Special thanks go out to Ramses for his help in bringing DC NG into a public release state.
And now: enjoy!
Matthias Carstens
RME