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Update

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:14 am
by sdrplay
Dear All,

It is around 15 months since we announced the acquisition of Studio 1 and released the first incarnation of SDRuno. Studio 1 was an extremely complex and sophisticated piece of software and our first task was the tailor the software to make it more tightly integrated with the SDRplay hardware platforms for ease of use. Since then we have issued a number of new release, aimed at fixing bugs, incorporating new features and improving the usability of the software. Studio 1 was a well written and documented piece of software, but modifying the code written by someone else can in some cases be more time consuming that writing it from scratch, as you first have to unpick what and how it has been done, before you can decide how to modify it.

Release 1.2 involved a major re-write to some of the code base and whilst some of these changes will not be noticeable to every user, we feel it puts us in a better position to develop it further in the way that we would like to.

I would like to stress, that release 1.2 is not the end of the road for SDRuno development. Far from it in fact. We have a very long list of new features that we plan to release and our objective is to be constantly adding to the feature set and improving the user experience for our customers. Inevitably some people will be disappointed that we have not yet incorporated features that they personally would like to see and when this is the case, it is not because we are ignoring them or because we are “dumb”, but because we feel that regular upgrades that give incremental improvements is better than trying to incorporate everything in a massive re-write that would take years to accomplish (literally). Those of you familiar with designing software will appreciate how difficult and time consuming this kind of development can be and finding all bugs can be fiendishly difficult before the software is released. To that end, I specifically want to thank all of our beta testing group, but especially Paul Jones and Preben Lohse Rasmussen for their extremely diligent testing and precise and concise feedback. Without their help, the software would be in a much poorer state than it is now.

For those that haven’t yet got the features that they had hoped for, I would ask that you bear with us. We will get there, but these things take time. If you have any specific ideas for things that you would like to see incorporated, please contact us and we will consider all requests and suggestions that are politely given. Please bear in mind though, that when it comes to stylistic things, an approach that one person may love, another may hate. We cannot make everyone happy with the way SDRuno works, but we will try our hardest.

Many thanks

Andy

Co-Founder & Chief Software Developer – SDRplay

Re: Update

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:41 am
by g4enz
Andy,

Many thanks for all your hard work and that of the team. I, for one, am happy to have stable software that performs extremely well. There are always more bells and whistles we might want but you can't lose sight of the fact that what we have is pretty awesome already.

In your development roadmap, do you have any plans for EXTIO edition which I use with my Funcube Pro? It will become increasingly strange stepping between the RSP product edition and the EXTIO edition as you tweak the user interface.

Regards,
Martin - G4ENZ

Re: Update

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:45 pm
by sdrplay
Hello Martin,

It's not possible to continue to provide the best possible integration of RSP features into SDRuno and keep it fully compatible with ExtIO - the ExtIO version will remain at 1.05 - it will give non-RSP owners a good sense for what SDRuno is and does, even if it's not got the up to date features.

Best regards,

Andy

Re: Update

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:45 am
by g4enz
Andy,

Thank you for your reply which was what I expected - not at all unreasonable and useful to know. I shall continue to use EXTIO with my FCD as I get AM / NBFM audio that is far clearer than any of the other available solutions.

Regards,
Martin