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It could be that Ots is a total piece of crap when it comes to audio input/output.

When I was CE at radioio.com (for it’s first 7 years) we were running M-Audio Delta DiO and mostly Audiophile cards (before you say anything, it was all digital path, not analog)… and there was literally only one version of the soundcard drivers that would run smoothly with Ots an nothing else on the Ots machines. I got the driver from M-Audio myself, and it was never on their website.

My point is… Ots is VERY finicky about the soundcards (or virtual soundcards) it’s using… as well as the how the OS & computer interact too. Finicky to the point of being a total piece of crap imho, even if it was free. So maybe check the various Ots related user forums out there, like Jumpin Jeff’s. Also there are a few people on these forums who are using Ots with VAC (Breakaway Pipeline is VAC) and PM them for advice.

Lastly, Ots does in fact use a database for it’s library, which it loads into memory every time you start it up. 8)

There are known problems with Breakaway Pipeline (=VAC 4.x) on certain systems. It’s being worked on, but it’s a big project — apparently it’s hard problem to solve for Eugene.

You can also try VAC 3.12: [attachment=0:2417jdr6]vac312full_breakaway.zip[/attachment:2417jdr6]

Free to use for breakaway customers.

VAC 3.12 is a native wave driver, and works best with WAVE selected in Breakaway.

Best regards,
///Leif

[quote author=”Leif”]New versions!

Twente preset updated — much better bass handling.

LiveLink DSP support in both Breakaway Broadcast and Breakaway Live!

LiveLink DSP allows you use BBP or Live with DSP plug-in hosts such as SpacialAudio’s SAM Broadcaster, without using Breakaway Pipeline (thus circumventing Microsoft RDP Audio Driver). Instructions here.

Also new: A page with free DSP plug-ins!

For example, 3 Phase Rotation DSP plug-ins.

Unlike the Phase Scrambler built into Breakaway Broadcast, these are traditional phase rotators tuned in different ways. Two of them simulate the sound of other audio processors — especially "Phase Tornado" 🙂. Check them out on the free plug-ins page.

Oh, and the new versions:

Breakaway Live 0.90.69
Breakaway Broadcast 0.90.69

Best regards,
///Leif[/quote]

Thanks Leif for the new update ,

I try the new twente preset amazing !!
More body !! en loud
Also the new phase rotator tornado also amazing ..
Maybe for the plugins you can added spartacus for the people who need stereo enchangment ?

For the people who need a loudnessmeter with BBP there is a free meter on the Orban site ..
I use these with BBP So you can check your loudness against other stations .
And see that BBP is louder But CLEANER 😆

Hi Anithamathan!

When you uninstall Breakaway, it’s really *gone*. Nothing is left behind – no drivers, no executables, nothing that could impact the sound.

One thing that could potentially have an impact is if Breakaway somehow got confused about what device to set as the default sound device in windows.

Please look in the Control Panel (Classic View) – Sounds and Audio Devices, click on the Audio tab, and make sure the correct sound card is selected.

It’s a very strange coincidence that both your and your friend’s computer are showing the same problem. I have installed and uninstalled countless times during testing, and never seen anything like this behaviour — in fact, this behaviour should be impossible! Once Breakaway is gone, it’s no longer there to alter the sound, for better or worse.

Because your and your friends computer are using the same sound card, I would guess that it’s also likely that you’re using the exact same driver version – perhaps you even helped him install it.

It’s a long shot, but it’s possible that there could be a problem with the driver. Breakaway never touches the driver or any settings relating to the driver, but breakaway does change the default sound device in Windows, to be able to route audio through the Breakaway Pipeline so that it can enter Breakaway for processing. So, we can’t rule out that the simple (and common) act of changing the default sound device got the driver into a confused state.

Please check to make sure the creative-specific audio enhancement such as CMSS, EAX, Reverb are in the state they’re supposed to be (not sure whether your preference is on or off).

Another possible explanation, could it be that you just got used to the improvement that Breakaway makes when running?

A lot of people have downloaded Breakaway, and the vast majority of people who download free software do exactly what you did – try it, and when the trial runs out, uninstall. Because of this, if Breakaway intentionally sabotaged anything, this very forum would be overrun with complaints. Wouldn’t be a very good way to run a business, would it 🙂.

///Leif

Hi, I get the error on the new version, but only on initial boot up. I do have some antivirus software that takes an age too boot up, so dont know if that is slowing things down. I am running XP, using an AMD processor, and interfacing with OTS using the breakaway pipeline.

Was running stable from about 2pm yesterday, but woke up to find laptop frozen.

Has been running stable since 6am this morning, about 3 hours so far.

If no-one else doesnt report any issues, it may just be my crummy laptop, although the previous version was running for well over 24 hours without a crash or freeze. I may try downgrading again if laptop crashes again, and see what happens. Will keep you updated.

Rich.

Thanks Leif for that tutorial.

I have the same problem here.
OtsAV plus Breakaway will also gives me a 1 to 2 seconds dropout after 6 to 7 hours.
I was blaming it to a background task of my slow PC (AMD 1.5GHz) with a little peak of 100% or more CPU/RAM usages.
Now, when I think twice it could be a problem of OtsAV running together with VAC or the Breakaway Pipeline from Eugene Muzychenko.
I tested other Software Multiband Processing (MBL4, StreamSolo, Omnia AX, XAP Soundsolution etc.) by using VAC. With all the above mentioned processing I get dropouts when the CPU is at 100% peak (normal usage with OtsAV and one of the mentioned processing tools on this slow PC is between 25% and 40%).
This dropouts will happend while playlist generation and importing new files to OtsAV with MBL4, StreamSolo, Omnia AX etc.
I don’t get dropouts with Breakaway while playlist generates or importing new files.
Only after 6 or 7 hours playing there is this 1 to 2 seconds dropout.
Without any of that processing tools, OtsAV will play without any dropouts.
OtsAV is running 24/7 since 2003 without any crash or dropout when not using multiband processing.

Leif I really like to buy Breakaway but with dropouts….
I can’t test Breakaway with other Audio Applications. My 30 days trial of Breakaway ends yesterday.

Greetings from Germany,
Marion

PS: Perhaps you can try it yourself with one of the OtsAV Demo or the Free Version of OtsAV.
http://www.otsav.com

Hi Dj Buik!

The one big setup issue I can think of, is that the standard version of Breakaway can only receive sound from the Breakaway Pipeline, and can only play to a real sound card, not a virtual device. So, to feed the audio to Airomate you would need two sound cards, and pipe the audio back into the computer with a cable.

The webcaster version will not have this limitation, it will be able to use any device – real or virtual, and will be able to do what you ask.

For the current version, if you want to process the audio from a single version, you could download the Virtual Audio Cable demo (google) and use the free Audio Repeater utility that comes with that, to feed audio from the sound card input to the Breakaway Pipeline.

This adds latency, but it does work.

///Leif

Fantastic product Leif. Must congratulate you. I love the sound processing and the price is reasonable too. So good just bought 2 myself! It’s just like having an on hand real time producer to remaster all my tunes as I play them 😆

I use OtsDJ (now known as OtsAV) and you can use Breakaway. Just choose Breakaway Pipeline 1 as output card in OtsAV and your soundcard as output in Breakaway (courtesy Marion Zee100).

Thanks again and free updates too. Wow!

[quote author=”CA Joe”]Breakaway is so nice … I’m posting this twice!

I love the Breakaway product! It is comparable to anything from Orban or Omnia … and my laptop sounds better than ever!

I would LOVE to own the speaker system on your homepage … tell us where it’s from? Gorgeous!

Now…as one into streaming media…if you could ONLY make it so that Breakaway would be the main codec for audio streams, as it is for receiving those streams.

Also, I am a big fan of Internet WiFi devices like Roku Labs "Soundbridge" radio systems.

Breakaway does work well on the computer and it encodes Internet streams coming in well…but it does NOT do same for wifi appliances. If that could happen … man!

I would also like to see the system work in the "going out" stream. My OTS DJ won’t allow it to be my audio processor (it has one of its own which is pretty good.) My SAM Broadcaster is WinAmp base and does allow it, but it already has a 5-band EQ built, so, it defeats the purpose.

If I could get my OTS to use it, however, I’d be set, as I do a lot of mobile DJ appearances, too, and know this would add much to my PA application.

Great product…congratulations. I will be purchasing it today or in the next day or so.

Oh, I will be getting a new computer shortly. Is the license transferable to another machine?

Joe Benson
Paso Robles, CA USA[/quote]

Hi Brian!

1) Certainly! The Vista version, if all goes right, will implement its audio back-end as an APO. This way it will essentially get invited in to process the audio along the path to your sound card, instead of having to elbow itself in the way it does now.

The current version implements a virtual sound card (Breakaway Pipeline) and just has all windows apps use that, and then Breakaway is responsible for processing the audio and sending it to the real sound card. This works fine in XP (and it is the best and only way there), but in Vista, doing an APO is a much cleaner solution, and will work better.

2) I’m surprised nobody has asked this before!

Due to the Windows architecture (all versions), it’s impossible to have a Normal Priority thread, and a true Realtime Priority thread (priority 31), in the same process (instance).

So, in order to get the low latency audio engine stable enough, I had to very painstakingly write the code to support Breakaway running in two different processes, while communicating with one another. One of them is the audio engine, and the other is the user interface. You can easily find out which is which by maximizing the Breakaway window, and looking in Task Manager. The one that uses the most memory then, is the user interface.

If you don’t like having two processes, you can easily disable this feature. In Breakaway, go to the Settings, and uncheck "Audio Realtime Priority". That’s it.

When you uncheck Audio Realtime Priority, the audio engine will run as a Time Critical thread (priority 15), not true realtime, and thus the requirement for a second process goes away.

For reference, the Normal thread priority is 8.

Why should the audio engine run at such a high priority?
It comes down to this — if the system is completely clogged for just a moment, which thing gets to go first? Should it be the hard drive, the mouse pointer, or the audio?

I pick the Audio, because any tiny drop-out (even if it’s just a millisecond!) is very audible and distracting, but having the mouse pointer (extreme example) freeze for a millisecond is completely imperceptible.

///Leif