MrKlorox

Hmm, I don’t have Windows 11 yet and this is the first I’ve seen of this problem. However, it might be worth trying to run the app in compatibility mode for an older version of Windows.

What happens if you uninstall Pipeline before running BAE? You should get a box popping up telling you to install Breakaway Pipeline that floats over all other windows.

It might be useful to say what version of 11 is currently running, in case an update messed something up.

I think the issue may be BAE might require integer scaling to work. Meaning 1.5x (150%) won’t have any visible effect. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong. Try 200% and see if it doesn’t change.

I don’t know why Windows defaults to 150% when using 4k. It’s clearly supposed to be 200% of a standard 1080p. I guess cause it assumes a 4K monitor is a TV, which always gets 150% scale, even when using 1080p.

150% scale is for 2560×1440 resolutions

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by MrKlorox.

That’s good to know. My only idea would be to look up the Omnia7 manual and try to extrapolate from it; since according to Jesse G. a while back, it’s the closest product to BreakawayOne by Leif.

Still, I think some in-app information popup or right-click entry or something for each slider would be incredibly handy. I’m of the school that going outside of an app to learn how it works is bad accessibility design (said school is called Video Game Tutorials). Milky, could you add this to the list of requests for the upcoming/next versions of these processors?

I had this issue too. Not sure what the deal was. I turned off all my ad blockers in case they were interfering, then I tried later and it went through. I’m frankly curious if this reply will go through.

Those are not Breakaway One. BA1, BAE, and BAL are all different products. BA1 has a 5 band multiband.

I’m personally not sure about the AGC freeze, but BreakawayOne is a 5-band processor.

Thanks, @mpx for alerting me to the Chameleon C6 software. It certainly doesn’t seem worth the $600 asking price for the software, but it’s also got features I wouldn’t necessarily use.

Stereo Tool and Chameleon C6 have plugins. Stereo Tool works within Breakaway One with its VST2x32 plugin. However, the Chameleon seems to be 64-bit VST2 instead. which the current BreakawayOne cannot handle.

Also, I have to toot Stereo Tool’s subharmonic synthesis horn (you mentioned Solar Plexus). True Bass is outstanding since it works by detecting existing harmonics, but I definitely want more options with my sub-bass. Looking forward to trying Solar Plexus at some point, I hope. I also own the bx_SubSynth plugin (which also doesn’t work with BA1) and that’s a fun one too. But the harmonics-detecting ones seem to be the most natural sounding.

But anyway, yeah I think BA1 could do some amazing stuff if it allowed more varieties of plugins and allowed us to put one near the end of the chain (before the clippers) rather than on the input. I mean for a declipper plugin, on the input is really mandatory. But for subharmonics, I like to place mine near the end and let the clippers wrangle the signal.

Since I was recently reminded that BreakawayOne is built for music specifically, and remembered that BAE (which is for general PC media usage) was getting a new version, I have to drop some of my requests from that thread here.

First is multiband AGC for speech and videos. I realize this is not good for music as it will defeat much of the dynamics before reaching the compressors. However for speech (podcasts, videos, chat) it appears to be golden (depending on how it’s configured of course). But I don’t exactly make TV loudness processors like our dear Leif has. I’m sure he has more wisdom in this topic and reasoning for why things are done the way they are. How well could a multiband AGC work for a mostly speech medium?

I also realize people are going to be listening to music and that is the focus of Leif’s work. So for this aspect, instead of constantly opening the app and switching presets, perhaps a speech detector to automatically switch from one preset to another? Or, and I just thought of this, some easily available custom buttons we can set to use presets (like Video [multiband agc preset] Music [regular agc preset] and misc [unset by default]). Perhaps have them in the taskbar as a widget, or from a right-click menu if in the systray?

If not the ability to tweak presets with more detail than the original sliders, then perhaps allow us to mess with the amx files manually? Why: presets are often “too loud” and the volume doesn’t allow more headroom like Clipper drive/outmix in BA1.

Lots of sub-bass flexibility if no VST host. And if yes VST host, please let us place it before or after the processing (before the clippers maybe?).

Thanks, I’ll surely think of more. Please let me know if I said anything ridiculous or plain wrong.