Milky

Glad to hear that you have made some progress. WHat happens if you just run the BAE wizard now and let it figure out the best buffer size? Sometimes, you can get too hung up on trying to manually tweak the parameters. So long as you can’t hear any artefacts like crackling in the background, a bit of jitter is normal. If you go overboard with large buffers, you will have problems with lip-synching with your karaoke videos because BAE will fill the buffers before doing any processing.

My son and I both have identical laptops, yet his settings are slightly different from mine. I assume its a firmware or chip revision thing, but I’ve never really looked into it.

Sometimes, to uninstall the Pipeline, you need to go into Device Manager and remove the actual Pipeline (after you have run the regular uninstall). It seems to have a service which needs to be unloaded manually.

I doubt that it is EVER possible to get 0 delay when the audio has to be processed through ASIO plus Breakaway, plus any overheads introduced in the MPX process. If your STL distance is significant (like 5 kilometres), there will be a noticable delay if you listen off-desk compared to off-air.

Obviously, using another device to give you some more control over the levels (a bit like using a mixer channel or Distribution Amplifier). Many radio stations have a DA rack in the control room to tweak all of the sources to a similar level. However, it intoduces yet another source of noise, distortion and breakdown failure risk.

Just to eliminate the Behringer, can you route BAE to your internal sound or some other device?

What happens if you ignore the Wizard’s settings and play around with the buffer settings manually? Usually, a buffer size in multiples of the sample rate works best (as in your 882), but sometimes, if the sound card has unusual frame geometry, a different buffer size works better. Start at 441 and run the test for each setting after that.

I am of the vintage that listens predominantly to the music you are playing. I do listen to SOME “modern” music, but much more ove the pre-Y2K period. These were times before a lot of compression and other processing, so you really don’t want anything too heavy.

My marketplace is not in a situation where I have to out-shout other stations much, so I can concentrate on good, clean, open sound without having to crash through other louder sources.

Personally, I like to start with the “Refernce Settings” preset and tweak the minor settings through the “enhance” option. This will level all the quieter 60s, 70s tracks with the louder 80s to noughties, without any over-driving.
If you want something a little more aggressive, try French Kiss or Quintessence.

BAE is the “Little Brother: of BA1. It was written in 32 bit architechture when Windows XP was king, so is currently in re-development to port it to 64 bit and with more options. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a release date.

Breakaway One shares a lot of code with the very successful Omnia range of broadcast controllers. It also has many, many features which are broadcast-specific, so it really is a giant sledge hammer to crack a tiny nut if you are using it for home music listening. However, it has the benefit of much more recent code, 64 bit processing, a range of available presets etc, so, if you can afford at least an HD core, streaming module if that’s what you do and I would suggest the Manaagement Package for convenience in controlling it, then go right ahead an get the Big Brother version.

There are many, many options you may never need. For instance, you could have a copy of BA1 at the studio end controlling output from the studios, and then send it to another copy of BA1 at the transmitter site for final broadcast, complete with alternate fail-over options if a link, or links goes down. Noe of this is available in BAE.