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You can, it’s possible, but it’s not really worth it.
I tried with XP embedded booting from a USB stick.
Booting to command prompt (no explorer) with no network support whatsoever, the system booted (power-on to finished) in 24 seconds.
With explorer and network support, booting took 28 seconds. For me, those are 4 seconds well spent!
///Leif
Hi Ferry!
De-emphasizing is built in. The DSP plug-in chain will receive de-emphasized audio, whether de-emphasis is enabled or not (for the main l/r output)!
///Leif
aacPlus is not part of the HD standard. HD radio is the Lucent PAC codec with SBR licensed from coding technologies.
///Leif
I hear you loud and clear. I’d love a feature like this myself, especially as a plug-in for a good media management system. I’ve been looking for a good music management program myself for quite a while now, do you guys have any suggestions? Once I’ve started using one myself, there’s no greater motivation to make a breakaway batch conversion solution compatible with it.
Best,
///LeifHi Rodrigo,
When you are playing audio through line-in, do you actually see it on the Breakaway Meters and oscilloscope?
If not, that means the audio is not going through Breakaway, and not being processed or FM stereo encoded!
If this is the case, it seems to me you’ll need a second sound card, so that you can use the first as a mixer and the second as a processor. Using an on-board sound card as both a mixer and a processor at the same time, is usually not possible.
If in doubt, please draw the signal chain as a diagram, and we should be able to figure it out.
///Leif
Hi Ferry!
This is not possible. Pre-emphasis is not the last part of the chain — in fact different pre-emphasis settings change some multiband settings to optimize the sound quality. The actual pre-emphasis is then applied after the breakaway core, before the clipper.
So, even though it would be possible to share the AGC between two different pre-emphasis chains, that would save perhaps 5% cpu, and increase code-complexity tremendously. Instead, I opted to just keep them completely separate.
Running two separate instances, you can set different pre-emphasis curves, and even set different presets or settings!
Best,
///LeifHi Wiele!
That absolutely seems like a bug in my code. I’ll try to reproduce and fix it, but I’m afraid it will almost 2 weeks until I’m back home in my development environment. Until then, I don’t have a good solution, other than trying the very latest version (.93) or an earlier version.
///Leif
49.7 days is how long it takes a 32-bit millisecond counter to wrap around. As far as I know, nothing in Breakaway is susceptible to this, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.
It could potentially be VAC 3.12. The very latest Breakaway version contains a new, much improved version of Breakaway Pipeline — please try it, and let me know in 49.7 days 🙂.
Best,
///LeifSounds like a sound card driver issue. After my horrendous experience with horrendously expensive Digigram VXPocket a few years back, I’ve never really given this brand another look, and I still keep hearing bad things.
Breakaway is actually very proactive when it comes to dealing with the sound card. If a stream fails for any detectable reason, Breakaway will actually close it and re-open it within a couple of seconds. This is why you can actually disconnect a USB device, then reconnect it, and Breakaway will re-open it and continue processing.
Of course, if it fails in an undetectable manner, for example data keeps flowing but the sound card doesn’t actually output the audio, that’s a different story — software can not work around that kind of hardware bug. I’ve noticed this to happen with EMU 0202/0404 USB devices.
///Leif
Oh crap! Some testing code I included to help with standby/hibernate testing. I definitely can’t release with that, thank you for pointing it out.
///Leif
Oh man.. Now I remember, I did get your PM. I received it as I was checking e-mail right before going to bed after a very long day, and didn’t have a chance to deal with it at the time — and in the morning I forgot about it. My apologies — it’s been a stressful few days for me, finishing up a few urgent projects to be able to clear my schedule before the second part of my vacation, which includes a friend flying here from the Netherlands today, and another Swedish friend (who already lives in Thailand), going on a 2-week road trip 🙂.
When I get back home I will test with digital i/o. However, the thing is that from an audio app’s point of view, there is no difference at all between digital i/o and analog i/o. The sound card handles all of that internally — the audio app does not even have a way to know whether the actual i/o is analog or digital. Thus, my gut feeling is that it must be a different problem — but what? I’ve tried for weeks and have yet to be able to reproduce any problems at all, and I’ve been long-term testing on 5 different computers, just letting it run for days and weeks.
I’ll keep trying..
///Leif
