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[quote author=”Maniak2000″]So in other words it is safe to use "volume control" as long as I keep volume sliders in players and such to the max, except games. Am I correct?[/quote]
Yes! Absolutely correct. As long as you remember to use Breakaway’s volume control to adjust your listening level, it will be fine.
///Leif
CiXel: PB/DLL (Powerbasic for Windows, with inline assembly).
Yes, tasty programming, but just try to separate one thing from another 😀.
///Leif
[quote author=”JesseG”]how does the 4-band enhancer meters show width reduction? do they sit about halfway out if they are not increasing or decreasing? or does it go outward in some other color?
can’t wait to try it out 8)[/quote]
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///Leif
Ken: Excellent idea! Consider it done.
Camclone: Almost! I will also add a 3-band user-adjustable parametric eq. After that, I think it’s done 🙂.
Morsink: I had a great time too! Playing with the 8400 was a great end of the day too. Who knew they take over 1 minute to boot up 😉.
///Leif
I’m afraid I have to disappoint you 🙂.
MP3Stock was the first program I ever wrote in windows.
Here’s a graphical representation of the quality of the code inside:
Suffice to say, I do not maintain MP3stock anymore!
I might write a new one from scratch some day though.
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I’m afraid it’s not possible to control it with that amount of detail.
If the program internally implements mixing, and only uses the sound device’s volume control for master volume control, then the default breakaway configuration works great. Unfortunately a lot of games aren’t implemented this way — they open the sound device separately for music and effects, and rely on the sound device volume control / mixing for this. The only thing we can allow/disallow then is all or nothing. 🙁
///Leif
Hi Maniak!
Yes, there’s a side effect — if you try to control your listening volume by lowering the volume control in your programs, Breakaway will try to fight this volume control and raise the volume, until it’s at the end of its range. Apart from breaking functionality, it could also reduce audio quality, and the behaviour could also be confusing to users. For these reasons, the volume control is disabled by default. That way, people are encouraged to use Breakaway’s volume control, which works the best since it’s after the breakaway algorithm, not before.
However, in your case, to adjust the relative volume of different things in your computer (game fx, game music), the side effect it should not matter, and everything should work very well. Perhaps this is something more people have problems with though! I should create a poll and ask people in the forum.
I forgot about the button being named Set 🙂 Thank you.
///Leif
Hi Maniak!
Please download the following file. It’s the "Breakaway Pipeline Control Panel" – once you open it, look at the properties for Cable 1, check the Volume Control checkbox, and apply. That should take care of it.
///Leif
quote :Every 3 or so days I get a WinLicence Error and when I restart the machine it runs fine again for a few more days. I’ll try an uninstall and reinstall when I get some time and see if that goes away.WHOA! Not good. This is the first I’m hearing of it — please send me a screenshot, I need to forward that to them asap.
quote :I am having trouble relating to how the ITU loudness meters on the imput reflect the loudness of the output. I downloaded the RTA on your site but noticed no matter how I wound the input down the AGC(s) corrected for the level and gave me the same readings on the output (RTA) no matter what I did.The ITU loudness meters in Breakaway do not reflect the loudness of the output, they reflect the loudness of the Input — and really they’re just a mixing / level setting aid. The old meters were peak-only and would be fooled by compression and limiting — that is, loudly mastered things would peak at the same level as sensibly mastered things, but receive much more gain reduction inside the breakaway core. The new meter tells the truth — if the input is loud, that’s what they show. 🙂
If you want an ITU Loudness meter on the output, check out Breakaway RTA. It’s free, and has one built in. 🙂
///Leif
There is indeed space for it.. I’m still looking for an algorithm to license, since I don’t have time to write it myself with all the other projects on my plate. I heard someone is working on one, so perhaps it will come in the future 🙂.
Best,
///LeifBreakaway can add a lot of gain boost to the incoming audio — 30dB in extreme cases. So, if your input noise level is at -60, you won’t hear it in bypass, but through processing the noise would be at -30, and that’s very much audible. On the other hand, if your input noise level is -90 (very possible with good analog equipment / sound card), then even with 30dB boost and no noise reduction, output noise is "only" at -60, which is actually not much. With noise reduction on it would drop another 12dB down to -72 which is usually perfectly acceptable.
I have personally set Breakaway Live up at a restaurant, using VIA Onboard sound on an Asus P5KPL-AM motherboard and a Celeron 430 single core CPU, and had NO noise problem whatsoever! It required grounding the mixer and computer together, but once that was done, no problem at all.
You can find the noise reduction setting inside the "Settings" window.
What to set "Input" to depends on what you are doing at the moment.
To play audio from your line in, you would set Input to your sound card, preferably with "KS" as this yields the most stable stream and lowest latency.However, since we are tracking down a noise problem right now, we must take the line in out of the loop (to make sure it’s not the cause of the noise), so you need to select "Breakaway Pipeline 1" and play audio from a program on your computer, NOT your mixer, and see if you still hear the noise problem.
///Leif
Glad it’s finally working — thanks for not giving up!
Too small buffer size wouldn’t make it sound under water, it would make it sound choppy / stuttery / glitchy.
Breakaway should be able to help you replace TotalRecorder’s functionality. When you’re using Breakaway, all the audio you’re playing on your computer appears on "Breakaway Pipeline 1". Thus, all you need to do to record, is to set your favourite audio recorder app to record from this device, and you’ll be able to record the output of any program (except breakway itself), most conveniently.
Best,
///Leif
