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It’s very odd indeed!
In Win32 architecture, the rules are relatively simple — it’s basically impossible for user mode software (exe-files) to bluescreen or freeze the computer, with a couple of exceptions:
– If an application at realtime priority starts using 100% cpu power on a single-core system, or multiple threads all using 100% of their cpu on a multi-core system, it will look like a deadlock. Other than that, freezing SHOULD only be able to happen by a bad driver or a hardware problem.
– Bluescreens, on the other hand, can ONLY happen with the help of a faulty driver — user mode software alone cannot make a bluescreen.
Those simple rules help a lot in tracking down a problem. It could very well be a combination of problems – for example, my code talking to a driver in an a faulty way, and 99% of audio drivers being able to recover from the error, but not the one you have. Usually, several things have to go seriously wrong for a computer to freeze.
I do understand the dilemma — remote crashing is a major pain in the neck! Let’s hope we can get to the bottom of it.
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///LeifHi Brett!
My apologies for any inconvenience. I haven’t heard of this issue before, let’s see if we can track it down.
To help narrow down the problem, could you try to run it from one pipeline to another, without involving the sound card at all?
That way, if it still crashes, we’ll know it has nothing to do with your sound card driver. However, if it works properly that way, that points to your sound card driver. In that case, the next thing I will suggest is to try to open the sound card as WaveIn instead of Kernel Streaming.
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///LeifIt could be a problem with the Pipeline. I will release a new version of BBP shortly (including new pipeline), which will hopefully take care of it.
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///LeifMy god, this just confirms the "There’s an ass for every seat" theory.. No matter what, everything will be liked by someone 🙂.
Radio Magic sounds good? Come on guys 🙂. I made it to be as squashed sounding as I could, particularly in the high-end (to sort-of simulate how traditional FM processors sound) and also added a 15 kHz low-pass filter for the full effect! How can you like that sound? 😯 🙂
Then again, Plutonium is a good sounding preset. I suppose there is merit to including it in BAE. Alright guys, you win!
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///LeifHi livelike,
Why would you want to squash the dynamic range when you’re just listening for yourself?
Plutonium is a loud preset, and it makes some compromises to get there. If you want to listen loud, use your volume control! Reference Heavy with Bass Boost is a good starting point (Plutonium is based on it).Best,
///LeifHi Adriano!
It’s not so much a matter of preset, as a matter of what settings. NRSC is 75us pre-emphasis with high frequency roll-off. If you select 75us pre-emph, you can use the Transition Width and Transition Slope to adjust the high frequency filter shape.
Pre-emphasis on AM is not as rigid as on FM — every receiver is different, and many have low pass filters with the cutoff so low that pre-emphasis barely makes a difference anyway. So, it’s just a matter of adjusting for taste.
You can tweak the low-end by using the Bass slider! If you turn Bass Shape up, it will also affect the lower midrange.
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//LeifHi Bryan,
Check the buffer size (for input and output) you’re using in BAE, and set Breakaway Live to the same buffer size. That should take care of it. You can use the Test feature inside the I/O configuration window to easily try different sizes. If there’s snaps/crackles, you probably need a larger buffer size, more buffers, or both.
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///LeifActually it can. If you’re in a 50us country you can set pre-emph to 75 to get much brighter sound, and you can use the Transition Width/Slope controls to tame it down without losing loudness.
Transition Width/Slope is applied BEFORE the clipper. The PEQ is applied AFTER the clipper.
This doesn’t work if you’re in a 75us country (since there is no 100us option) but the thing is, there is absolutely positively no room for more high-end anyway, because of the extreme pre-emphasis boost necessary to even achieve flat response (with every receiver rolling off at 75us).
Full control version? It’ll come — if you can afford it 😉.
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///LeifAlright, I couldn’t resist, so I took the pumping out of the Amsterdam preset. (Unlike most processors, Breakaway doesn’t pump unless you specifically force it to, such as by adding a wideband compressor after the multiband. Thus, getting it to STOP pumping is as easy as removing the intentional pumping.) 🙂
I also (ab-)used the output settings to exaggerate the high-end while still getting the benefit of mp3 overshoot protection.
Pre-emphasis: 25us
De-emphasis: OFFAnd:
L/R PEQ Gain: -2.0 dB
L/R PEQ Freq: 17.6 KHz
L/R PEQ Width: 2.02 octThis creates a tiny bit of phase linear de-emphasis to pull the treble away from the edge of the waveform, while still leaving a lot of high-end (pre-emph is 25 after all).
Then, I ripped the Planet FM Milano stream and *ahem* acquired some lossy copies of the same music, and recorded through BBP using the new Amsterdam preset, Final Drive -3.0, 50/50/50, Bass +10, Shape 0.
Finally, I encoded to the same format (160kbps mp3 44.1khz stereo) with lame 3.97 default settings, and uploaded to:
http://bredband.leif.cx/browse/milano
The milano mp3s are bit accurate stream rips — not re-encodes.
Take a listen.
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///Leifso pwnd.
Wow! That does have the signature smash on the high-end doesn’t it 🙂. That, and plenty of stereo enhancement, and treble boost.
There’s currently no preset that does exactly this — especially not with that much distortion (sorry, if you want the the distortion, you’ll have to buy the real thing), but here’s something that gets close to the spirit of the sound:
Effect plug-ins:
Bass-EFX (Level 2)
Spartacus (100%, 80ms)Signal settings:
Pre-emphasis 15us
De-emphasis OFF!. Thus, you’ll have to use L/R out with an external encoder — this setting does not affect the encoder plug-ins.Preset:
Amsterdam
Final Drive -3.0
Range: 40
Power: 50
Speed: 50
Bass Boost: +20
Bass Shape: 0This will be as bright, but punchier and more open — it won’t slam the treble like the 8500 does.
The treble slam, as far as i understand it, comes from multiband clipping and HF limiting, to prevent overloading the back-end with high-end (as that causes distortion with their back-end). BBP doesn’t have this problem, so it leaves the high-end open instead of smashing it together.
Also, the Amsterdam preset has pumping, which was designed into it. I will clean up the Amsterdam preset before the next BBP release — the novelty of pumping has long worn off.
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///LeifIt’s not suppose to be able to drop buffers, but it does seem like it is. I’ve had some problems myself with the pipeline on quad core systems. I’m currently testing a bug fixed version, which I will include in future versions if I don’t find any problems.
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///LeifYes. Breakaway Live is the solution. 🙂
Really, it wasn’t a matter of "how limited can I make Breakaway Audio Enhancer to force people to upgrade". It was a purely matter of "what do I have to do to be able to sell a broadcast quality audio processor for $29.95 to people who aren’t pro’s and don’t want to pay for all these features they don’t need".
Even Breakaway Live is extremely inexpensive compared to other solutions of its caliber, so it’s really not that big of a deal. If you need it, buy it. 🙂
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///LeifHi Scotty!
Indeed, they don’t make it easy.
Also, as far as I understand it, "multiclient" means:
Multiple applications can open the same ASIO driver, and each of these asio drivers will open all the available cards in the computer.
As far as I know, it never means:
With multiple cards, multiple applications can open a driver each and get full control over the card they opened.
Architecture wise, I understand why it works this way — for most applications, it’s a really nice thing that you get to use multiple cards in sync on the same asio driver! It’s just a matter of conforming to this scenario, and BBP ASIO, which is (as the name implies) designed to work with ASIO drivers, will indeed conform. 🙂
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///Leif
