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Hi AuBadge!
I’ll have Keith make you a good deal on BBP. Thank you for your support. 🙂
For the difference in CPU usage, just try it. BBP is freely downloadable. Don’t worry about installing and uninstalling different Breakaway products — the installers take it into account. It’s perfectly fine to:
Install Live
Install BBP
Uninstall BBP…Live will still work just fine.
It’s also perfectly fine to:
Install BAE
Install Live
Install BBP
Uninstall Live
Uninstall BBP…etc.
BAE will still work! Only, in this case you will have three pipelines instead of one, but they ain’t bothering nobody 😉.
Best,
///LeifIndeed. Broadcasters tend to focus on the things that are audible (as anything else means less loudness), but this is why the high pass filter is defeatable.
Best,
///LeifHi Bucketh3ad!
The feature you’re requesting is in Breakaway Live. You can use a pipeline to connect the output of Breakaway to any other software, whether the software is a broadcast encoder or a recorder.
Best regards,
///LeifHi Frank!
The benefit is that it filters out thumps, rumble and other sounds that are too low frequency to hear. Very few sound systems play 30hz, and very little music has (intentional) frequency content below 40hz.
To put it simply, the more you can filter out while keeping the audio sounding the same, the cleaner your output audio will be, since anything inaudible is wasting headroom.
Best,
///LeifGood question 🙂. There may be something to it.
The Power control, controls ratio exclusively.
The Rock preset at Power 50, runs the Input AGC at Infinite:1, and Multiband at 4.0:1.
At Power 36, the Input AGC runs at 7.1:1, and the Multiband at 2.6:1.
That’s pretty light multiband ratio (Reference Settings is 2.0:1) but nevertheless, ratios multiply, so 7.1:1 and 2.6:1 is a total of 18.46:1. That really should not be leaving much dynamics.. I mean, 18.46dB to 1 means that if you input 0dB, you’ll get 0dB out, and if you input -18dB, you’ll get -1.0dB out. That sounds pretty close to me. 🙂
///Leif
Hi Zeb!
I develop on PCs only. Certain mass market products (such as Breakaway Audio Enhancer) makes sense to port to Mac, but it doesn’t make sense for the broadcast products. They’re intended to run on a dedicated machine anyway, and as such, it’s just a matter of installing the right operating system, and it will run.
Next release of BBP will have some updated presets, as well as improved clipper for cleaner voice!
Live will also have updated presets, but it will take a while. BBP will be updated first.
Best regards,
///LeifYou’ve got the right idea, Veli. If your target is airplay, it’s NOT worth squashing the master. The result on the air will not be pretty — and this is part of the reason why radio sounds like it does today, with all music on CDs being completely ruined before it even gets to the station.
It’s not a bad idea to do a *little* bit of processing though for the master, but be extremely careful with the final limiter!
///Leif
You heard correct. If you have two ESI Juli@ cards, or two M Audio AP192 cards, once you open the asio driver, both cards will be opened whether you like it or not.
Thus, you cannot open one card at 48 kHz ASIO and expect to open the other at 192 kernel streaming.
You could if you buy one of each though (that is, one ESI Juli@ and one AP192).
However, at this point, I would recommend that you wait a couple of weeks for the beta of BBP ASIO. That one will be able to do everything through a single ASIO driver. Thus, for example, you’ll be able to have the following configuration:
Card 1 L/R Input = Audio Input
Card 1 L/R Output = Low-latency studio output (under 10ms latency)
Card 2 L Input = RDS/Sync input (optional)
Card 2 L Output = MPX output (18ms low latency OR full quality)You’ll also be able to use a single card in the following configuration:
L/R Input = Audio Input
L Output = MPX output (18ms low latency OR full quality)
R Output = Mono Studio Output (under 10ms latency)Best regards,
///LeifHi Scotty!
If we do make a sound card, it will be completely custom, and have all the standard i/o you expect from an FM audio processor. I have no clue about the form factor yet — it could be anything from a pci card to a 1U rackmount box which connects to the computer by ethernet only!
Best,
///LeifI understand, Shamousi!
Please understand however, I’m only one person. If I spent all my time rehashing the same algorithm for different platforms, I’d have no time actually inventing something new.
Also, making a working plug-in is the easy part. The hard part is testing, protection, making the installer, testing that, adding another new section to the web site, adding the new product to the web store, marketing, yada yada yada.
I’m not saying no, I’m just saying it’s a low priority, which means I will do it when I have no higher priority project in the queue. Unfortunately this means I have no idea when I will actually get to it. I wish I had a better answer.
Best regards,
///LeifHowdy!
I’m still travelling, so it’s not easy to develop products. However, a low latency beta might be out within a few days.
Composite clipper will take longer though. It will be released either as hardware, or as software + sound card. It will not be released as a software only solution.
///Leif
