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Breakaway Live is an excellent choice — it will do exactly what you’re looking for.
"Reference Settings", "Reference Jazz". or "Reference Classical" will work great for general TV programming.
I do actually have a lot of experience with TV processing, Linear Acoustic’s Aero.air products are actually my algorithms. However, those products are in a different league, and priced as such. If you’re just looking for good stereo audio processing, you’ll get far with just Breakaway Live.
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///LeifCoffee and tylenol, dude. 🙂
The worst thing about being an engineer is that when you’ve done everything right, when everything works perfectly, nobody even notices! There’s literally thousands of things that could possibly go wrong with Breakaway, because it’s extremely complicated under the hood, even it looks easy on the surface.. So, all things considered, I think we’re doing pretty good. Of course, I won’t be happy either until it’s at 100%, so this means it will never ever actually get done. Ah well, I guess I know what I’ll be doing the rest of my life. 😉
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512mb of ram is PLENTY.
Using a sound blaster, on the other hand, isn’t a great idea. But, if 0.90.77 works, then 0.90.82 should too. I’ll look into it.
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Sounds like it could be a problem in my audio i/o code.. Damn it!
What operating system and version are you using, Sgeirk?
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Admittedly, this isn’t self explanatory, but I thought it was better to do it this way than to disrupt the audio path once for each plug-in. 🙂
///LeifI’m afraid not. There could possibly be at some point, but I don’t know. Man, there’s not enough hours in the day.
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[quote author=”pitsch”]an AMD version would be great. phenomII 550 are great value, especially if you "unlock" the 2 other cores.
supporting AMD would fit nicely to the bang for the buck approach…
testing BBP on a AMD X2 250 @ 3,4 ghz, runs smoothly, with a couple of other broadcast related apps in the background it peaks at 50% Cpu.
just my 2ct, not sure about differences in codec and compilers and the resulting efforts… http://developer.amd.com/documentation/ … ewave.aspx[/quote]No can do. I don’t have the time to maintain two versions, I’m only one person.
The price difference between Intel and AMD cpus is marginal at best anyway, right?
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Hi Vincent!
MpxTool is exactly as big as it can be to allow the taskbar on the bottom on an 800×600 screen. I may make the window resizable in the future, but I cannot say when it would be — it’s a major undertaking, and MpxTool really doesn’t sell all that well (most people don’t know what to do with it).
Extending the spectrum analyzer is a good idea though! I’ll look into it.
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Please do. It’s very possible that there’s a new bug in 0.90.80, so if 0.90.77 worked better, please downgrade until I figure out what the problem is.
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///LeifCyborg, if you need any of the following:
– Low latency on-air output
– Separate ultra low latency studio output and low (or high) latency on-air output through 1 sound card..then only ASIO will work. If you don’t need either, BBP or Live is better. 🙂
The low latency studio output is worse than the air output — it doesn’t have the same peak limiting, so you’d lose loudness if you tried to broadcast that one. It’s for studio headphones/speakers.
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I’ve used EMU0404 PCI once, and it confused the hell out of me — I couldn’t for the life of me select 192k. It wasn’t until I (by reading the manual) found out that I had to create a new project at that sample rate, that I finally figured it out.
Anyway, the chain you describe is no different from recording from the card. I know this is possible — a friend of mine at Swedish Radio (who is the owner of that EMU0404 card) is now using the EMU 0404 for RDS input and MPX output, and a LynxOne for digital AES/EBU L/R audio input.
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I’ve actually been listening for a couple of hours.. I can’t explain it, but the music just makes me happy 😉.
I do see the difference, and it’s much better! However, you can still come up another dB, you’ve got plenty of room. Headroom-wise it’s much better, seeing some nice short-term dynamics and punch now.
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I finally had a chance to tune in, this is awesome dude!
I love it. I had no idea there were stations with this format in the states. (Hell, a year ago I had no idea there were stations with this format even in Holland 😀. It’s grown on me.
Aaron, you might want to check the stream on a scope though. Breakaway Personal or Breakaway RTA would work fine.
It’s clipped at -6 with nothing going over. This means you could do 6dB less clipping (which would add an incredible amount of detail and punch to the audio) or you could turn it up 6dB (which would add an incredible amount of loudness to the stream).
Or, you could split the difference. That’d be the best actually.. If you turn down final drive down 1.5dB down, and then turn the stream level up 4.0dB, that’d still leave 0.5dB of headroom for encoder overshoots, AND drastically increase the loudness AND punchiness AND clarity. There’s lots of headroom which isn’t being used at all.
Still, it does sound nice. I can only imagine what the varied program material (especially older songs with lacking high-end) sounded like through your old processor with a traditional clipper? What did you run before if I may ask?
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///LeifHi Joop!
I’m sorry you’re having trouble with it, but it does sound like a hardware or driver problem of some sort. The machine should be plenty good enough to run BBP though.
What else are you running on the computer?
I’m wondering, because 4gb ram is what I use in my development workstation, where I routinely run 20 programs at once, so it makes me wonder 🙂.
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///LeifHi Lee!
Yes I have — this was actually the first card I ever used for MPX output, 4 years ago!
It’s good tilt-wise but the spectrum is not very clean. Also, it’s not actually on the market — afaik they don’t make it anymore. The current generation creative cards all stop at 96k.
Jay, I understand. I recommend using a separate sound card for the SDR instead. 🙂
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