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It’s not an emulation, rather it produces a similar sound texture (albeit cleaner, louder and brighter) compared to a particular 8100/XT2 setup I received an MPX recording of.
An 8100 without XT2 couldn’t really do much, it’d just be a two-band compressor.
///Leif
Nice work, Jesse! I’ll include it in the next version. Thank you 🙂.
Erwin, for 8100-style sound, try the following:
Helix, 50us
Final Drive: +3.3dB
Range: 40
Power: 50
Speed: 50
Bass Cut: -50
Bass Shape: 0///Leif
Yes, it’s already possible 🙂.
PM me your real name (which you used when you bought BBP), and I’ll send you the coupon code.
///Leif
I’ll have to look into the title streaming with shoutcast, and figure out why the way I’m piping in the titles isn’t working.
ASIO + Pipeline is actually not possible – the ASIO audio engine is a completely different "circuit", self contained and slimmed down to be extremely low latency, so it does not contain sample rate converters or buffers which would be required to use other audio devices.
Try 120/3 for the pipeline instead of /2. That may take care of the problem. 2 is generally not safe (i’ve never seen a system where this was stable on), but 3 might be.
Best regards,
///LeifThe first name is correct in both places, but regarding the last name, actually HE’s pronouncing my last name right, and I’M mispronouncing it 🙂.
See, it’s spelled Claesson. In Swedish, this reads as Clawson. However, Americans always read it as Clayson, so when I moved to the states, I changed my own pronounciation. My first name was more important (I don’t want to be Leaf / grow on trees) so I decided to pick my battles carefully — default the last name battle to win the first name war 😉.
The habit just stuck. However, when I write my name in Thai letters, i write Glawson (closest available consonant). No sense re-translating the english compatibility fix 😉.
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Yep that’s my voice. I was going on vacation the next day and really wanted to release live before, so I had no choice but to git’r’done. 🙂
///Leif
Thank you very much!
I am quite proud of it indeed 😉.
Since you have the EMU 0202 already, do you also happen to have a tuner with MPX output?
If so, I’ll be happy to provide a copy of MpxTool – http://mpxtool.com – so we can get some MPX recordings from your market. Would love to hear it!
///Leif
I haven’t seen this issue either. Are you using an ASIO driver?
Please note that currently, the selected ASIO driver will be loaded by the config screen even if the ASIO button isn’t checked. Thus, if you have selected a buggy ASIO driver, and then uncheck the ASIO button, the config screen may keep crashing for no apparent reason.
I will improve this behaviour in the next beta.
///Leif
I wouldn’t recommend turning down speed, since it completely changes the sound. Leave it where it is.
Range is the control to turn down if you want to keep fadeouts.
However, please note that volume normalization and keeping fadeouts intact are directly conflicting goals! In gaining one, you lose the other. Experiment for best results. 🙂
///Leif
Sounds like blown headphones, mayasecret. If the transducers (whether headphones or speakers) have been played too loudly for too long, they will get damaged, and subsequently make a buzzing sound when fed a lot of bass. I’m sure you have heard this before in regular speakers 🙂.
There is no workaround other than either turning the bass down or turning the volume down. The best solution is to replace the headphones. Check head-fi.org for recommendations. 🙂
///Leif
Howdy!
Logging in from a net cafe in a beach town in Thailand.. I just can’t stay away. But, I did leave the laptop at home, very effectively preventing any real work from getting done, giving myself the breather I need after all this. 🙂
Adam H, Camclone, thank you!
Camclone, remember Live is not an FM processor at all. It does not even pretend to be — its output is directly unsuitable for an FM transmitter, due to the lack of both pre-emphasis and inter-sample peak control.
However, for Broadcast, MPX clipper is indeed nice. I have made one already (in fact before BBP) and trust me when I say that it rocks. 160-170% audio in 100% modulation (!!!) as opposed to 92% audio in 100% modulation without it (since the pilot takes 8%) and the same startling lack of distortion as BBP. For comparison, other composite clippers give you about 110% audio in 100% modulation. So, why didn’t I include it in BBP for $199? Let’s see if anyone can guess 🙂.
Anyway, next on the road map are two more advanced broadcast versions, including a full control version. After that, it may be time to release an extreme version with the composite clipper as well. Wouldn’t make much sense to compete with myself before that, though, would it? 🙂
I strongly recommend against using Airomate’s MPX clipper. It has NO semblance of either peak control, bandwidth limiting, pilot or SCA protection. At 100% modulation as indicated by a proper modulation monitor, You will have much better, louder and cleaner results if you use BBP’s built in MPX output, despite the lack of MPX clipping.
On the other hand, using Airomate as the RDS generator, into the RDS input of BBP, is perfectly fine, and will not sacrifice audio quality, spectral protection or loudness, other than having to modulate the audio slightly less, to make room for the RDS subcarrier within +/- 75 kHz (100% mod).
Maczrool, you have a VERY valid question. Here is the answer:
Pre/de-emphasis is extremely important with BBP, because BBP has such extremely tight peak control! If you watch the oscilloscope you will see how tightly packed that waveform is, and a lossy codec will wreak havoc on such a waveform and cause overshoots, which will subsequently be clipped by the safety clipper inside the decoder, causing audible and objectionable distortion.
Breakaway Live, on the other hand, simply does not pack the waveform that tightly. Sure, the absolute peak level is the same, but it’s just not that tight at the edge. This is the fundamental difference between the result of limiting versus clipping, and it irrespective of how hard a limiter is driven.
Because the waveform isn’t that tight, lossy codecs won’t affect it the same way, so overshoots simply do not become a problem.
A/B’ing the two, BBP at 15us pre-emph + de-emph can make a web stream sound 2-3dB louder than Live. In a competitive situation, this is a huge loudness boost. However, the price you pay for that loudness is *more than 10 times the cpu usage*. Some will argue that this is worth it, and some that it isn’t. This is why both products exist, and complement each other 🙂.
Breakaway Personal is indeed not intended to slam the audio, and not intended for broadcasting, so it will not get the radio presets. It WILL however get the improved core with improved surprise handling! Stay tuned. 🙂
I’d better get back to swimming in the ocean and building sandcastles 🙂. A saleswoman walked by with tools earlier today, I just couldn’t resist.
Best,
///LeifLpy, you can if you insist 😉.
http://store.claessonedwards.com/product_p/live-001.htm
This is only the first beta — I guarantee there will be bugs, but upgrades to later versions are of course free.
///Leif
Solved!
http://www.claessonedwards.com/beta/breakaway_broadcast_setup_0.90.64_beta.exe
Also be sure to check out:
http://www.claessonedwards.com/beta/breakaway_live_setup_0.90.64_beta.exe
🙂
///Leif
Howdy!
You’re right about the mode switch button. When docked at the bottom or top, it will really only enable or disable the meter gradation, and change the width slightly.
The reason is indeed layout — stretching out the vertical meters sideways would only make them unreadable.
Running the meters sideways is an interesting idea though. Still, we’d have to stack 7 bands and the gradation on top of each other (if the multiband meters aren’t side-by-side they’d be useless). It might work to use them in two groups.
Back when I wrote my metering code, I implemented it in a highly flexible manner (or so i thought) — making the meters horizontal literally requires flicking a single switch. Re-layout and everything is handled.. However, there’s no support for having the meters in two groups though, so I’d have to retrofit that in.
I agree completely about docking — layout was a very hard compromise. It’s hard to sensibly fill a tall-and-skinny (or wide-and-short) window with controls and meters.
It’d be quite a project, but it might also be worthwhile. I’ll keep it in the back of my mind, I might just think of a good way to do it 🙂.
///Leif
