Milky

Do you have BA1 running as a service? If so, can you provide a screenshot of where you are getting to?

It would be good if you could lay your hands on a laptop or even a desktop just to see if you can duplicate the problem. I’m sure it’s not the demands that BA1 place on a system, as there are reports of the software running on much lower powered computers. If you can do a “Brand A / Brand B” comparison, with all the rest of the configuration identical, then we can start to drill down on whether it is the PC, or something in the config that has slipped through the cracks.

I’ll look forward to what you can come up with.

Thanks for the clarification, Mark.
I’m not using fanless devices, but i7 laptops with SSDs so, although they do have a fan, I’ve never actually heard it kick in. They are probably overkill, with 16GB RAM, 2TB drives etc, but I am trying to future-proof the installation.

That said, I know that Leif is a fan of the NUC and has set up quite a few in his test environment.

Does your device have any ability to use or tweak the video GPU? Mine has NVidia software which can force applications to divert the video through the dedicated GPU, and maybe this would take the load off the CPU. When you run as a service and use BA Remote to access it, of course all the video load is transferred back to the PC running the remote program, so it would suggest that there is a video bottlneck.

I run my home music studio BA1 HD core on a “boring” early model i7 running Win 7 (yeah, I know it’s not supported anymore), and even that handles all the meters without getting puffed out. I usually rin it as a service, but I will shut down the service and run it locally to get some comparisons.

These are a couple of responses to your question on a broadcasting group’s forum.

“If you don’t trust who is at the desk or it’s feeding an STL, the Ariane could possibly be useful? It needs to be set as transparent as possible if in front of the main processor. As Paul said in breakaway iyou would need to adjust the attack and release times of the AGC bands or choose a preset that does just that. The best advice I ever had was less is more. Don’t go adding something in chain that already does what you need unless absolutely necessary.”

“to accomplish this in a “chain” of processors, one would need to defeat or slow the wb agc and multiband agc stages of ba one, and that is just not possible. So all you could do is set them both up and “enjoy” listening to them fight eachother.”

“Not with break-away, but I did use an Ariane in front of an Optimod 9100. First, I defeated the wideband in the 9100, but ended up putting it back. Found that combining the bands in an easy riding AGC after the Ariane and before the 6 band limiter just sounded better. It gave the 6 bands in the 9100 a solid base to work from.”

“I feel like you would add something like that because what you’re adding it to lacks it’s abilities. In other words, why duplicate abilities? Unless there’s a lack or a weakness, no need to augment.”

Not as a tick box, but I meant is there a preset that suits?
I’ll ask the same question on a professional broadcaster’s forum I belong to, and I’ll pass their responses back to you.

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Interesting! I’d forgotten about my poor, abandoned iPod.
Thanks for the information. Now, where’s my charger?