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Heh 🙂 I did the e-cig demo video for the mother of a friend, who had insisted I buy a kit for her in the states and send by mail. They’re not widely available in europe yet (although tobacco cigarettes certainly are, go figure).
The light control algorithm was indeed designed for use with disco/club lighting 🙂. I was throwing a birthday party many years ago (while living in california) and went more than slightly over the top — spent $2000 on lights, two weeks on this beat detector algorithm, and built a custom controller.
The algorithm does respond very well to beats, but the "controller" is simple — hooks up to the parallel port, twelve channels, on/off independently for each channel. Uses opto-couplers, triacs, and four mains supply leads, thus 10 amps of power handling per 3 channels.
Release it? Look, if I tried to release everything I invented, I’d never have time to invent! 🙂
Sorry, but seriously — I’m backlogged as it is, as you guys all know.
The car-pc software is on my to-do list, but that list is awfully long. Right now, I’m trying to get Omnia.9 out the door so I can focus on something else for a while 🙂.
///Leif
There is no limit on the key! If there was a limit, it would happen during activation.
Try the following:
In the About box, right-click the OK button and select "Remove Registration Key". After restarting Breakaway, try entering your key again.
The hardware is coming within weeks! http://www.omniaaudio.com/9
///Leif
Hi Andy,
I’ll admit I’ve never tested this, but in order to not require an administrator account to run, Breakaway stores all settings locally for the user account instead of globally for the machine. Thus, if you change to another user account, you do have to enter the license key again. I’m guessing that joining the domain in some way changes the user account.
Best regards,
///LeifThe EQ is *after* all the compression and main peak limiting, not before, so it must only be used for speaker calibration — it should absolutely not be used for streaming, unless you’re not doing any peak limiting *at all* and you accept being quieter than any other stream. It’s a speaker controller, not a program EQ. There will be program EQ in future versions of Breakaway.
///Leif
There are some known problems with the current pipeline version -.watch out for the next version which may fix the problems you’re seeing.
//leif
Sorry for stating the obvious, but yes it can — that’s what sound cards and audio cables are for.
///Leif
MPX is Left + Right + Pilot + RDS all in one cable, ready for feeding to a transmitter.
This is a very sensitive signal. It could pass through a good video amplifier, but *not* a normal audio amplifier. How far is the processor from the transmitter? If it’s a coulpe of hundred meters, you should be able to use a good coaxial cable. I used the following calculator: http://www.arrg.us/pages/Loss-Calc.htm , set to Tandy RG-58 (cheap coax), 0.1 MHz bandwidth, Line Length 200 meters, 1 watt — and it showed a loss of just 0.7dB (at 0.1 MHz), which must be acceptable for composite. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
If it’s much longer than that, what most stations do is use a composite STL. That gets expensive real fast.
I recommend using Airomate for RDS as well, taking the other processor out of the equation completely. This way you avoid possible degradation of your on-air audio.
As for the noise, Breakaway will indeed boost the background noise if it’s there! Try reducing the Range control to reduce this. Also, enabling Noise Reduction in Breakaway should help.
///Leif
I wish I had time. My to-do stack is currently so high I can’t even see the top through the cloud cover. Adding more is the last thing on my mind.
If I knew a good mac programmer whom I could trust and who would have time to do the project, that could work — but I currently don’t.
///Leif
There’s really not much to dsphost.exe — it’s there to host plug-ins, and prevent buggy plug-ins from crashing the main breakaway process. In hindsight, I’m very glad I structured it this way — if I hadn’t, you’d be blaming Breakaway for the instability, as opposed to blaming dsphost. Really, it’s the plug-in. If you want dsphost.exe to run more stably, try running a different plug-in in it. 🙂
///Leif
The signal before the clippers has huge overshoots. You’d have to broadcast at -12dB to avoid protection clipping, which would sound infinitely worse than the psychoacoustic purpose-built clipper in BBP.
If you want limiting instead of clipping, with phase linear processing, lucky for you there is a Breakaway product that does just that. 🙂
Wow.. AudioTX is $799?? For a point to point streaming tool??
Looks like I’m in the wrong business!! I’ve spent years developing audio processing — if I would have just made a streaming tool instead, I could have done it in days, and been rich! 🙄
I’ll make an vorbis based replacement. This is just shameful.
For those not familiar with it, Vorbis is comparable in quality to AAC, and much better than MP3 — and it’s open source/free.
For those familiar with it, I’m saying "Vorbis" as opposed to "Ogg Vorbis" because I don’t intend to use the Ogg part. 🙂
///Leif
The speaker settings are calibrated first by using a calibrated microphone (such as a Behringer ECM8000) and an RTA (such as Breakaway RTA, free app).
After that, you can adjust for taste (bass boost, upper midrange cut for loud volumes), but the first step is to actually measure. I don’t recommend adjusting the main EQs by ear — even i couldn’t get good results that way, not compared to what you do when you properly RTA the system.
The speaker controller has a final limiter as well, to avoid clipping if you overdrive the output (for example by boosting without also lowering the gain) but I don’t recommend hitting it other than in extreme cases.
///Leif
