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Hi DjSmooth!
I’m the developer of Breakaway. I develop exclusively on PCs.
It’s possible that there will be a version of Breakaway Audio Enhancer for mac at some point in the future — but anything pro-related will be PC only with 99% certainty.
Yeah, everyone knows Macs are better than PCs for audio.. Everyone knows DSPs are better than CPUs too 😉
(That must be why O***n needs 12 DSPs to do a quarter of the work of one single Intel Atom. Compare 8585 to AERO.qc)
Best,
///LeifHi Jon!
If you run Breakaway Live in ASIO mode, you should be able to select exactly the channels you want to use.
///Leif
That’s not possible, Camclone. To do that, we’d have to run two separate back-end clippers. BBP would then use almost 2x the cpu!
If you need that, run two instances. That way, you can also make further tweaks.The optimum L/R parametric EQ setting for WME is: OFF.
The optimum L/R parametric EQ setting for aacPlus is: OFF.
The optimum L/R parametric EQ setting for MP3 is: OFF.The PEQ is only usable for two things:
1) For FM broadcasting, to compensate for sound card or STL frequency response
2) For streaming, if you want to reduce the amount of treble. You could for example choose 15us pre-emph, and then reduce treble with the PEQ. You can’t increase though — that will create overshoots.
///Leif
Your plug-in chain may be great for people with an eye for finer details. Breakaway, however, is for people with an ear for finer details. 🙂
///Leif
Hi Stuart!
That sounds annoying indeed.
Breakaway has no code of any kind to talk to the sound card mixer. All it does is to request playback or recording. Thus, this problem sounds like a sound card driver issue — Breakaway does nothing that should be able to affect the S/PDIF input. In fact, Breakaway has no clue what kind of input or output it’s using!
///Leif
Yeah.. But, why is that? Where is the unreliablility coming from? It’s not like the Breakaway executable changes between launches. 😉
///Leif
How odd!
I’ll be honest, I have never managed to get acceptable audio performance out of vista myself.. And I’ve tried — on several machines, and several different versions of vista.
///Leif
Hi G.R!
No, this is not possible 🙂.
When the signal has been tightly peak controlled, *any* further modifications will undo the peak control, and cause new peaks which must be clipped or limited again, causing unnecessary distortion. The peak control must be the absolute *last* step of the chain, and from there on out, the signal must be kept pristine. This is why effects must go *before* the audio processor, instead of after.
Best,
///LeifThank you!
Let me guess.. Your native language is …
Spanish! 🙂
(Gee, how did I know that)
BAE is really meant to be an easy to use product to just "fix" your audio.. It’s not really meant to be an effect — I’m afraid to add features like that, since more features always means it’s less easy to use for beginners, or people who aren’t "interested" in audio.
In Breakaway Live you can load any plug-ins you want though.. Perhaps that’s a viable solution?
The price is a lot higher than Breakaway Audio Enhancer, but I will be adding more features to it to make it worth the price even for advanced users — for example 8-band parametric per-speaker EQ, Realtime analyzer (RTA) etc.Best,
///LeifHowdy!
Nope, not really for web streaming — streaming doesn’t need nearly as much processing, it doesn’t have to be 100% modulation all the time like on FM.
Best,
///LeifProbably a combination of both (the box is limited in size, even though it’s a folded horn internally, and the drivers are just 3 inches, if that.) Probably has an electronic crossover too, to save power.
My point is, though, that 30hz is indeed much lower than people think. Music *very rarely* goes below 40.
///Leif
I don’t believe most do, Jesse.
In fact, if I ran an FM station, and cared at all about loudness and cleanliness, I’d use the 45 Hz high pass filter.
As an example, the Bose Wave Radio impresses a lot of people (myself included) by how low the bass goes. Then, I ran a sweep. It stops around 65 Hz.
///Leif
Hi there! 🙂
The wideband pumping in French Kiss is unique indeed, no other preset sounds quite like it.
However, if you’re looking for wet / thick sound, have you tried turning up Power and Speed on Reference Settings or Reference Heavy? That should be able to get you some of the same effect, right?
Best,
///LeifThat’s a tough one to solve, but I do have a possible workaround:
There’s a way to add a delay to the startup in the ini file. If you open BreakawayLive.ini (search the Users folder — due to virtualization it won’t be under program files in vista), and then:
Find the [Master] section
Add the following keyword: StartupDelay=5This adds 5 seconds of delay. If that’s not enough, try 10, or a higher number.
Footnote: This startup delay only applies when Breakaway is started on startup (using the "force" command line parameter), not when you click on the icon.
Let me know how it works out!
Best,
///Leif
