Milky

I’m home, but don’t know the answer you seek. If you’ve followed the forum, you would know that Leif is on a mission which has kept him away from here, and I’m not sure anyone else knows the answer. I bought BADJ almost as soon as it was made available, and seem to recall Leif released a couple of iterations in short succession – partly for bug fixes and partly in response to users’ suggestions.

If you read through this very thread, you will get the entire history of this product, from when Leif first announced he was working on it, to its first release, then some discussion on improvements, the first release for sale, and a subsequent release with improvements. I believe the answer you seek is in the first 4 pages.

Startup problems with BADJ.
My son bought a copy of Breakaway DJ and installed it on his laptop, a near new HP i5, Widows 7 Pro box. Whenever he restarts the PC (Windows updates, antivirus etc), BADJ launches to. However, the sound is scratchy and very distorted. If he closes and re-opens BADJ, everything sounds great and it is using the settings he has made. It’s no big deal haveing to shut down and re-start BADJ, but he wonders if there is some way Breakaway could overcome this distortion on startup?

I read that ten times trying to make sense of it and it’s relevance to Breakaway DJ.

Your argument would be good IF we could believe that every record producer was as dedicated as you. However, many these days just crank the pan pots left and right, and then beef up the EQ to give lots of bass and treble so it will cope with the odd asshole who has fancy-schmancy speakers. They also use pitch correction and other "effects" that grate on the nerves of we who don’t need "colouration".

You also don’t take into account the listening environment. Not all of us have acoustically tuned lounges, studios or back patios. "Boxy" or "echoey" environments exist, as do many with overly-soft furnishings or rooms with hard, reflective surfaces.
Just as you tweak the mixing desk to make the artist and musicians sound the best they can (to your subjective ears), we mere mortal listeners need to adjust what we are hearing to better match what we would like to hear to our listening environment, or to match live performances that resonate with our memory.

If we all had the same, bland listening capabilities, with 20Hz to 20kHz bandwidth, then your argument would be reasonable, and I would concur. I am an orchestral musician in my 62nd year. I know what instruments should sound like, but many CDs are not quite right in my listening environment. BA lets me fine tune the audio produced by you so-called "experts" to exactly match what MY instruments in MY listening environment to my liking.

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, music is in the ear of the beholder.

What are you guys on? I want what you’re having.

Have you gone into Windows Explorer > Organise > File and Folder Options > View and turn on "Show Hidden Files", uncheck "Hide Extensions for known File Types" and uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files"?

Patience, Grasshopper. Hasten slowly 🙂

I bought the product before it was up on the sales page. Considering it was beta, it has hardly burped since, but I’d love it to ave some more presets at least. I made a comment at the time about it becoming the "Poor Cousin" and was met with derision.

I’d spend the extra $120 for the "known brand".