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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.
Hmmm, messy. How about a system restore to a point earlier than the install?
Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > System Protection > System Restore.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"?
[quote author=”Dr.J”]Thanks for the info Jesse. I’ve edited my post above because I mistakenly mixed up my driver problems with my Echo Audio soundcards with my innocent M-Audio soundcards. My bad, but thanks for again for the info.[/quote]
I was going to challenge that, as I also had problems with Echo, but kept my mouth shut.
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.
There are programs like "Auto Hot Key" which can be scripted to "press the buttons" to make things happen in Windows. Maybe this is an option.
This is a driver/OS problem. "Clever" device drivers can detect when you change ports and will re-install or adjust the port address automatically. If you have a USB memory stick, you can usually plug this into any USB port, and it will handle it. Your sound device should do the same.
Ots "remembers" the last audio device selected. It stands to reason that, if that device disappears off the radar, Ots can’t play.I have a PC loaded up with music and ready to kick in if we have dead air for whatever reason. In the past (pre BADJ) I had the playout program runnning and then simply put the PC into standby. This is because I can then send it a "Magic Packet" and Wake Up on LAN from a remote site.
Since installing Breakaway DJ, I cannot put the PC into standby without getting the usual message to send Bill Gates an error report. Can this be fixed?
Point 1: If you DON’T select Pipeline 1 in Ots, the audio will NEVER get to BADJ, and therefore NEVER be processed. That’s why you can hear it when you select the alternative – because it is going straight through Ots to your audio chain, not through Breakaway.
Point 2: There is SOMETHING stopping you from hearing BADJ output via your gigaport card. If you were hearing processed audio before via your internal soundcard, it should be a simple matter of selecting the Gigaport card (assuming it is plugged in at the time) in the settings in BADJ. Now, if you can’t hear anything when you toggle to the AG card, there must be a setting within the AG card setup that is stopping the sound from coming through.
Dave, work through this logically from end to end. Draw yourself a diagram on paper/whiteboard/whatever and mark the inputs and outputs as you go. I am happy to work with you to resolve this. Just hang in there.
It’s hard to see from the screen dumps what all the Gigaport options are for output. I would have thought there would be a Gigaport 1, Gigaport 2 etc as separate outputs. Is there any reason why you are not using SPDIF output instead? I’m guessing you are going to an analogue mixer.
If Channels 1 and 3 are lighting up, it looks like the signal is getting through BADJ and into the sound card. My M-Audio has SPDIF output, as well as four analogue channels, so it is similar to your Gigaport (except 4 channels short). In Breakaway, the output selections are Analogue out 1/2 L and Analogue out 1/2 R, SPDIF out L and SPDIF out R, so yu can see there is a separate selection for left and right per pair of outputs.
Is there anything you need to un-mute in the Gigaport software? If you click on the "ASIO Config" button in BA, it should spawn your Gigaport control panel. Maybe something there is turned all the way down?
Dave, it is very hard to read your screen dumps. I’m only using one of the two available cores, so my comments relate only to a single stereo pair. You have to get your head around the fact that you are interposing another "device" in your audio chain immediately after Ots and before your mixer/amplifier or tx hardware. Therefore, you must set Ots’ output to send to Breakaway’s input, and Breakaway’s output to your sound card’s inputs. From there on, everything remains the same.
If you go back to the settings I posted, you will see in Ots I have "1/2 Breakaway DJ ASIO" selected. This sends the output from Ots through the BADJ pipeline.
In the Breakaway I/O configuration dialogue (second screen dump), the input should be "Breakaway Pipeline 1" for the first core, "Pipeline 2" for the second core if you are using (I have "off" selected).
Now, here’s where it varies a bit, because I have an M-Audio card and you have a Gigaport, so the options will be different. "Output L1" should be set to a left channel input to the Gigaport, whose output in turn will be connected to the Left input of your mixer or whatever is next in your audio chain. Similarly, "Output R1" should be set to a Right channel input to the Gigaport, whose output in turn will be connected to the Right input of your mixer or whatever is next in your audio chain.
The only other thing to do is ensure that all the inputs and outputs have the same frequency selected. Any mixture of 48k and 4.1k will result in bo output, or problem with up- and down-converting. Start with 44.1 for Ots, your sound card and BADJ. IF your card supports it AND you have ripped your music in 48,000, you could change to 48k later.
Incidentally, I don’t have "Audio Realtime Priority" checked and still experience near zero latency, but it will depend on the grunt your PC has.
Here are my settings which work:-
in BADJ "Signal Settings"
Interface=KS
Audio Device=Breakaway Pipeline 1
Buffer Size=512
Buffer Count=3
Sample Rate=44100
Channels=2
ASIO Device=M-Audio Delta (Change this to your sound card)
Output L1=SPDIF out L
Output R1=SPDIF out R
ASIO Config=44100HzIn OtsAV the output setting is "1/2 Breakaway DJ ASIO"
