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Breakaway Pipeline is a soundcard 🙂 You can make ~ as many of those as you need, from the Breakaway Pipeline Control Panel. It's free to do that. So… I recommend Breakaway Pipeline, and it's free. 😛

Here's a screenshot with a red box around where you set the number of Pipelines that you want to have.
https://i.imgur.com/a49RrsJ.png

You'll be outputting the audio from each Station Playlist, through its own Pipeline, and into each of 3x stations' inputs in BreakawayOne.

As far as getting audio to the outside world, if you only need to hear one station at a time on your speakers/headphones then you will only need a single physical soundcard to do that. If your soundcard has more than 2x channels output on it, you can then have more than 1x station being converted to analog. 🙂

[quote author=Leif link=topic=31.msg143#msg143 date=1208080415]
Hi Mike!

What about leaving Breakaway Pipeline selected as the Windows default, and then selecting your Bluetooth Headset in Breakaway?

If you right click the main window, and choose Settings, and then click the Wizard button in the lower left corner (for simplicity), you will see the audio setup wizard again, and you should be able to select your Bluetooth Headset instead of your sound card. If you don't see it, click the "Safe Mode"
you should be able to select your Bluetooth Headset in the Output Audio Device drop-down.

If you don't see it in the list, try to check the Safe Mode checkbox, the one to the left of the drop-down.

Only problem is, if you do this, the audio will go ONLY to your bluetooth headset, not to the sound card (just like it would if you selected the bluetooth headset in Windows).

///Leif
[/quote]

Thank you Leif, this worked for sure. One thing though. I had to select output to DS instead of KS, otherwise it couldn't understand the Bluetooth device (while on KS it saw the device as Drivers\bthhfenum.sys,#2;%1 Hands-Free something so I switched to DS and it worked.

If you use a wheel mouse there is a simple freeware solution:
➡
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html
Important: Do not select Breakaway Pipeline as mixer device (won’t work). You have to select your soundcard !

Best method for me is "Use the wheel when: The cursor is on screen edges" !

Did you try also Virtual Audio Cable v4.09 ?
http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
http://software.muzychenko.net/trials/vac409.zip

It’s basically the same thing as the older Breakaway Pipeline, and won’t be installed over by newer versions of the Breakaway Pipeline.

[quote author=”Jack”]Anyone know if we can bind breakaway options to a keyboard shortcut?[/quote]Not yet.
viewtopic.php?p=6895#p6895
Try this free tool:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html
I use this (but I don’t know if it works while gaming ?) with "Master Volume" as component !
Important: Do not select Breakaway Pipeline as mixer device (won’t work). You have to select your soundcard !
(for me it is: Realtek HD Audio output).

Or try this free 2006 Edition of ZVolume:
http://www.zvolume.com/

Important: there is still an older commercial version from 2003 called ZVolume Pro 3.44 – but I cannot see that this has any advantage over this free 2006 edition.
I think this the same as with thousands of so called software companies, that sell outdated software to inexperienced computer users with a lack of knowledge, that there are better freeware alternatives
(for example MP3 tools, Audio/Video players, etc.).

[quote author=”hank.dussen”]Leif, you were right, as always I guess. 😮 The fading works as usual again! Thanks!! By the way is there any disadvantage using this option? ❓[/quote]Yes !

But, there is a very simple and much better solution for this "problem".
I have just stumbled over it.

The problem with this tweak to enable Volume Control inside the Breakaway Pipeline Config
tool is that you are fooling Breakaway’s processing (a little bit).
[quote author=”Leif”]When the user tries to lower the volume in this manner, Breakaway will see a quiet input signal and do it’s job and increase the level again, until it runs out of range.

In fact, this very situation is the reason the volume controls are disabled by default, as conceptually, it cannot work. And, when things fail even in theory, practice doesn’t stand a chance.[/quote]
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=371&p=4758#p4758
The more you decrease, the more Breakaway’s internal processing will be irritated.
But in practice if the level decreasing and increasing range for the input is very narrow, more or less +- 6 dB the impact is relative marginal.

That is the reason why I have used the Volume Control tweak in Breakaway Pipeline Config, too.

But now (since Yesterday – happened by coincidence to this discussion here) I am using Volumouse.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html
This is a freeware tool that can "hijack" the global control of the mouse wheel.
It is even possible to use it without pressing an additional key (change default options) !
If you need the standard control of the mouse wheel back it is quite simple:
Disable Volumouse in the tray and you can use the mouse wheel as before.

It does not work with Breakaway Pipeline (not on my machine).
You have to select the device that you have selected as output inside the Breakaway I/O configuration.

In my case I have selected "Realtek HD Audio output" (master volume control
inside Volumouse options).

I highly recommend to tweak the "More" settings inside Volumouse options to your
individual needs.

I think Volumouse is an absolute must have tool !

And finally a clean solution for this volume control "problem". 😀

Hi Reynold!

The best way to set it up is probably:

Breakaway Live INPUT: Sound card line in
Breakaway Live OUTPUT: Breakaway Pipeline 1
Wirecast Input: Breakaway Pipeline 1
Wirecast Output: Sound card speaker out

If Wirecast has no output, you can use my free Audio Repeater/Resampler: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=728

If Wirecast has no way to select Breakaway Pipeline 1 as the Input, then you can select it as the default input device in Windows Control Panel.

Does this help?

///Leif

[quote author=”Mugambi”](1) How does your software compare with the other boxes – Omnia 6, Optimod 8500 etc?[/quote]

Setup properly, BBP will be competitive, loud, and most likely better than anything from Orban and Omnia (not to mention being about 1% of the price). But…you need someone to set it up properly for that to be reality.

[quote author=”Mugambi”](2) Where do I start to sample your software? I downloaded the trial version from http://www.claessonedwards.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82 on my laptop but was not able to do anything! I clearly need more hardware?? [/quote]

You can use a laptop for testing. You’ll need to have your media player output to Breakaway Pipeline 1, and then set BBP up to use Pipeline 1 as input and your soundcard as output. You won’t get a real accurate perception of the complexity of setting it up from doing this, but at least you’ll be able to hear it working.

[quote author=”Mugambi”](3) Is there someone who can take me through the process of installing and setting up the trial software? I have a dell inspiron 1525 laptop with standard I/O features, Also have a dell desktop computer. Thats it- any help please? I am really interested in exploring this option.[/quote]

I think that is answered in the previous question. Reading the documentation will fill in the blanks.

[quote author=”Mugambi”](4) What support is there for the software? how stable is it to be left alone in a computer on a remote transmission site- visited maybe twice or thrice per year?[/quote]

Leif is fantastic at supporting users. This forum is your biggest ally. There are hundreds of people in here who will help you out for free, your only expense being patience. But with that said, almost any issue that you would run into has already been addressed by someone.

As far as remote monitoring capability, you would be just fine installing LogMeIn or VNC on the PC to manage it. As long the BIOS is set to turn the PC back on after a power failure, you should have no problems.

It sounds like you are very unfamiliar with this. You shouldn’t attempt an install of this product without someone qualified to properly equip the PC and install it within specs. If you’d like someone to provide consultation, up to and including installation, please contact me privately through here. I’ve always wanted to see Africa!

Adam

If you (using a professional DAW) really need ASIO you have to go for the professional version:
Breakaway Live (this supports ASIO).
This version has the advantage that it has an unlimited trial period !
The only limitation is that randomly approx. every hour for a few seconds the audio is bypassed with an audio commercial (Leif speaks to convince you to buy the software).

But maybe there is a solution for your "problem" without extra costs:
Do you know (have you tried to use) the free ASIO4all driver ?
http://tippach.business.t-online.de/asio4all/intro.html

While Breakaway Enhancer uses the WDM driver, you can use the ASIO4all driver in Sonar (I hope it works with 96 kHz for you).
There is no 100 percent guaranty, but it is worth to try it.

With my cheap Realtek HD Audio onboard it works (this parallel usage).
It is also possible (for me) to use the Breakaway Pipeline inside the ASIO4all driver (it is nice to have the Breakaway processing as an option for some VSTi using MiniHost – this way to hear how it could sound without the need to setup a whole processing chain inside a DAW).

[quote author=”Leif”]Breakaway Pipeline is Virtual Cable, except that it’s "locked" to Breakaway products in a way that it introduces a loud static noise into the cable if no Breakaway products are running.

However, as soon as any Breakaway product is running, all cables are static-free for all programs that use them. So, if you for example installed Breakaway Live (to get the cables installed), and then make sure to keep Breakaway RTA running (which is completely free), you’ve got free static-free cables. 🙂

///Leif[/quote]

Yes 🙂
cheapskate
I told you a free way to do it in my initial response to you. It will allow you to use Breakaway Pipeline with any program for free.
cheapskate
///Leif

[quote author=”grotebeer”]ik wil daar mee zeggen dat de kwaliteit achteruit gaat van de gekopieerde cd orgineel blijft beter.
ik heb hier een cd speler philips cd 880 met modificatie voor hifi die dat foutloos ten gehoore brengt.[/quote]Have you ever used Exact Audio Copy ?
It is free (for non-commercial purposes).
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

But my intention was to convince you to save your CDs on your PC (harddisk) and not to burn new CDs (that wouldn’t make sense).
Of course it would be better to use a high quality soundcard instead of onboard sound to match the audio quality of a good CD player.

But if you are that type of HiFi purist that pay hundreds of € for special cables, I don’t believe that you will like what comes out of Breakaway’s outputs at all.

Maybe I am wrong, but I think, that Leif has written, that he speaks dutch.
That’s why I don’t understand, why he did not give you the link to Breakaway Live.
Maybe he thought that BA Live (129 $) is too expensive for your needs as home user in comparison to BA Enhancer (29 $).

[quote author=”grotebeer”]nu was mijn idee om mijn cd speler aan de comp te koppelen en dan zo te proberen die ook via breakaway laten spelen en dan te beluisteren of die kwaliteit ook beter word.[/quote]
http://www.claessonedwards.com/index.ph … &Itemid=55

http://www.claessonedwards.com/beta/bre … .90.77.exe
or here the latest beta
http://www.claessonedwards.com/beta/bre … .90.93.exe
You can install Breakaway Live without the need to deinstall Breakaway Enhancer.
So you can try the trial version of Breakaway Live and see (or better hear).
In Breakaway Live you can select your soundcard input (driver) instead of the Breakaway pipeline as input using the line in.
This way you can send the output of your CD player through Breakaway Live and its processing !

If you like what you hear, there might be a way to crossgrade from BA Enhancer to BA Live.
But this question goes to Leif.
Or better wait until the release of the 5.1-capable pro version of BA Enhancer which will also have line in (but will cost less than 129 $).
I am sure that there will be a crossgrade option for users of BA Enhancer (standard version) to the Pro version (with line in option).

@ Leif
I hope for an option to load presets from older versions for the new Pro version (and BA Live updates too).
?

Breakaway Pipeline is Virtual Cable, except that it’s "locked" to Breakaway products in a way that it introduces a loud static noise into the cable if no Breakaway products are running.

However, as soon as any Breakaway product is running, all cables are static-free for all programs that use them. So, if you for example installed Breakaway Live (to get the cables installed), and then make sure to keep Breakaway RTA running (which is completely free), you’ve got free static-free cables. 🙂

///Leif