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Here are the facts. "Off the shelf" laptops are built to run office applications and simplistic Windows sounds. No thought is put into optimising audio, video or any other sub-system. They simply provide a range of day-to-day tools. Unless the laptop is a purpose-built gaming machine, which includes specialised audio components and a LOT of effort put into maximising performance, it is almost inevitable that some bus-hogging will occur.
What Joop and radio oude stijl say still holds. An i7 with heaps of RAM but a badly designed motherboard architecture will always be out-performed by a better designed i5 or even i3.
Please keep us posted. We can all learn a little by your experiments, and, if there are areas where you hit a wall, ask here again – someone may already have climbed that same wall.
1) We are all volunteers here. Not all are technical experts.
2) Many of us only have experience of one of the Breakaway products, and it may not be the one you asked about.
3) Many do not even know what RDS means.
4) The developer, who obviously could help you, is currently absent from the forum.
5) May I suggest that, when you enter the forum, you check your attitude at the door? You’ll get a lot more help if you ask concise questions in a concilliatory fashion, and show some temperance if the answers are not to your liking.I’ve experienced this several times in the past wheretwo or more "identical" PCs behaved differently. Part of the problem is the Qualityt Control testing of each of the components. They set the tolerance levels so far apart that many components may be on the brink of failure, but still pass the test. If you get lucky, you buy a machine where all the components are on the high side of average. If unlucky, everything in it is borderline, and you will be plagued with problems.
Incidentally, I’ve had the same thing with motor vehicles. The theory is, you should always buy a car manufactured on a Wednesday – after the weekend where the workers are still suffering hangovers, and before the end of the week, when all they can think about is the next weekend.
Why not just remote into the PC at the TX and change BA there? Depending on the OS, there’s Remote Desktop (Windoz), VNC (just about any OS), Logmein/Teamviewer (Winners again). You could even do it with a phone app.
Make sure that Ots AGC and EQ is completely off, else you will have re-processing of the already processed audio.
Geez, 9 months since the last post, and much, much longer since the last update. Long time between drinks.
[quote author=”godzfire”]Still waiting in hopes that Mr Edwards will give us faithful Mac users an update on the status.
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..or Mr Claesson, perhaps?
I agree, hence my opening line.
JesseG, I also take your point about RAM addressability, but, considering the low-tech query, didn’t think the poster would be up to hacking to turn on hidden MS fixes.Actually, now that the thread is open, it has reminded me that I have a similar problem. I f I re-boot my HP laptop, or (sleep or suspend) Breakaway DJ starts up automatically, but all Windows sounds are scratchy and horrible. I have to manually shut BADJ down and re-open it again before it clears up the sound. Tried re-installing, updating audio drivers etc, etc, but the problem has always been with me since the first day I installed a copy.
And, while I’ve got your ear, mt XP Pro entertainment box won’t sleep without crashing BADJ. I used to sleep the PC overnight and use Wake Up On LAN to re-start it the following morning, but cannot do so now.
[quote author=”Dj Buik”]Hi Leif,
I also use Breakaway DJ. What are your thoughts about this product?
Will it also be updated?[/quote][sigh] I bought DJ for the low latency – nothing to do with needing four cores (or even two for that matter). It works very well with my playout software, including HD video. My only grumble from day one was the limited number of presets available on the initial release, especially when Jesse has issued some tempting tidbits on presets available for other iterations of the program.
I asked a long while back if BA DJ was "the poor cousin" and got howled down. I understand, if you are going to issue improvements, you should focus on the products that have the highest number of clients, but it would be nice for us "bottom feeders" to get a few crumbs from time to time.Well, I suggest you PM Leif privately and leave your sales pitch for him. This forum is for USERS of the product.
I’ll lock this thread, and will continue to do so for each new thread you open, so please don’t waste your (or my) time.
BTW, as you’ve used the product for many years, you should know the developer’s name is LEIF (pronounced like "Waif").
