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Yeah, a KS app playing audio generally locks the audio driver so that no other app can play audio. For an audio processor, this doesn’t matter, but for an audio player it does.
///Leif
Thank you for the bug report. I did make changes to the studio out to get latency down even further, and it seems I must have made a mistake.
Please tell me a little bit more about your computer. Sound card, CPU, operating system, etc.
Best regards,
///LeifIt’s true. Audio nowadays usually sucks, and nobody notices.
However, my hope lies with the fact that people do take notice when they come across really good audio. It’s one way a station can stand out above all the ones that don’t care.
Imagine a classic rock station, running original releases (NOT remasters) through BBP with the new Twente preset (0.90.87) and -2dB final drive.. It’d sound spectacular on the air. I’d listen to that, all day, easily.
///Leif
I’ve seen poorly behaving drivers cause problems like this on certain computers.. Especially WLAN cards often cause problems like this.
Run the DPC latency checker from http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
If you see any red bars, your computer has a driver problem, and such begins the tedious work of disabling hardware devices one after another (at your own risk!!) until the problem hopefully goes away.
You may also want to simply try with a fresh windows install.
Oh, and just to be sure it’s not BBP — try BBP ASIO for a while.
///Leif
Probably DS since it has crossfading etc.
Yes, Wave/DS output to KS BBP input is the best idea, since KS is the native language of audio drivers.
Windows actually handles the Wave/DS to KS conversion, no matter what sound card you use.
///Leif
1 or 2, definitely not 3.
Livelink is only stable if it gets a steady stream of data, and winamp dsp plug-ins do not get fed a steady stream of data — they get a burst each time a new song starts.
///Leif
Juli@ buffer 256 may be too low. Try setting it to 1024 or 2048. Remember this buffer size does not change for different sample rates, so 2048 at 192000hz is equivalent to 512 at 48000hz.
BBP isn’t a low latency processor no matter how you set up the sound card, so there’s no point trying to minimize the sound card buffer size — it just runs the risk of glitches.
It could still be something else, but try this first.
///Leif
Hi Fabrini!
Breakaway Audio Enhancer is aimed at people who have no interest in all the extra features of Breakaway Live, so I’m trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Breakaway Live definitely shouldn’t stutter! Check the buffering settings. Increase the number of samples per buffer, as well as the number of buffers, in the i/o settings window. You can change this for both input and output. Make sure to test your settings inside the i/o settings.
///Leif
What’s the CPU usage on the box? What buffer size are you running in BBP, and what hardware buffer size on the juli@?
///Leif
Hm.. Not likely to be related to graphics — the bars are drawn for every frame whether they change colour or not. It’s definitely a bug to be fixed though.
///Leif
The Trace 8 has DC straight outputs (=no tilt), but not just that — it also has 8 channels, not just 2! If you count the price per channel, the Trace 8 is a bargain.
You can use the extra channels with BBP ASIO to get stereo low latency studio outputs.
///Leif
Pentium Dual Core 2.4 is definitely fast enough! It should not be a problem.
Try with on-board sound, let me know how it works out.
///Leif
This is a good point. That static was the difference between $3000 and $5000 out of my pocket to license Virtual Audio Cable, as it essentially locks it to my apps.
All it takes for the static is for one of the Breakaway apps to be running. How about you download Breakaway RTA and put it in your startup? It’s free.
///Leif
Jesse’s answer regarding 128k mp3 files is spot on. Low bitrate MP3 files absolutely do not belong in a broadcast environment. Quality starts at the source is (ideally) maintained through the chain. If at any point quality is lost, it can never be regained later in the chain.
I use 320k MP3 or flac, and I’m a "home user", not a radio station. It makes no sense that a radio station, whose sole business is audio, would use less than that — especially not with todays cost of storage media.
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