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Good question. I’ll have to try it one of these days.
Perhaps Vista audio could work better by talking directly to the vista drivers (WaveRT) instead of DirectSound or Wave, much like Kernel Streaming works better than DirectSound or Wave in 2000 / XP. However, it’s yet another development effort, and I just haven’t gotten there yet.
Kernel Streaming is darn nice. Windows 2000 does not support 192 kHz audio. Using Wave or DirectSound, there is absolutely no way to achieve it. Using Kernel Streaming, on the other hand, works beautifully at 192 kHz (as long as the driver and sound card supports it)!
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//LeifIndeed. It’s funny to see field reporters on air, talking to someone in the studio. They kinda just stand there like birdhouses for 5 seconds before they respond to the question!
///Leif
I’m seeing the same thing regarding Vista and XP. I ran Vista on my Dell 1420 laptop (pentium dual core) since the drivers in vista allow 192 kHz I/O — the XP drivers allow 192 kHz input only, output is only 48 kHz.
However, under Vista, running a single copy of MpxTool used 30% cpu even with oversampling disabled, and there were occasional glitches. Running two copies = fuhgeddaboudit.
After I upgraded to XP, one copy of MpxTool runs on 15%, with oversampling enabled. Not a glitch in sight. Two copies (to record mpx from two processors or two stations at the same time) = no problem, it doesn’t even break a sweat!
///Leif
My apologies!
The product doesn’t have this feature yet, but it is an easy thing to add. I’ll look at it for the next version.
///Leif
Actually I could see it working at radio stations too.. You could have regular radios listening, with the 8ms feed feeding the DJ headphones. The on-air 18ms delay is instant to everyone except the DJ!
///Leif
Thanks for not giving up!
It seems there is an antivirus program which now classifies Themida/Winlicense as a virus, giving the reason "Protection against reverse engineering". Uh, *yes* that’s correct – we’re trying to protect against reverse engineering. This is a problem how exactly? 🙄
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///LeifScott, there’s a good reason:
Imagine you’re standing in a mobile studio with lots of other people around, speakers tuned in off-air, and you’re also wearing a pair of cans.. (Life of the Dutch radio pirate!). Cans have the 8ms feed, off-air is 18ms.. It’ll still work. On the other hand, if off-air was half a second delayed, it wouldn’t work very well — they’d simply be too far apart.
The ASIO version *will* have the option to run the full high-latency back-end for the on-air feed though. This way it will still save you from having to run two apps, AND it will save you from having to use two sound cards!
For example, you’ll be able to use the following as a minimum configuration:
ESI Juli@ card, ASIO running at 192 kHz.
L/R Analog Input = Audio Input, Stereo
L Analog Output = On-air output, MPX, Stereo
R Analog Output = Low-latency studio output, monoYou’d only get mono in your cans, but you’re getting by with a single 2-channel sound card, and you’d still be stereo on the air.
(If you have a 4 channel sound card, you’ll of course be able to get a stereo studio output.)
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///Leifquote :This was good news to me because once I finally got rid of the dropouts on my Vista systemHow’d you do it?? 🙂
I’m ready to reformat and upgrade my laptop to XP.
///Leif
Well, I wouldn’t quite have expressed it that way. However, it’s not at all impossible that there’s already a preset that comes close, and you can do quite a lot with the available controls.
(Heck, I was able to get very close to 8100/XT2 by using the helix preset!)
If anyone with access to an Omnia One would care to play some 80s through this preset, record the MPX output and upload here, I’d be happy to take a listen and see what I can do.
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//LeifHowdy, Ty!
Indeed, I self signed it. Quite a process to get the certificate and get everything to work! Before that, the Pipeline wouldn’t work at all in Vista 64! However, after that, I’ve never seen any problem with Vista 64.
Very strange problem! Since it’s the pipeline that fails to open, that exonerates your sound card / spdif output.
Could you look at the device manager, sound video and game controllers, and check to make sure the Breakaway Pipeline is properly installed there?
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///LeifHi Adam!
Breakaway Live could. Try one of the Microphone presets – it turns it into quite a powerful Mic processor. With an ASIO sound card, you can achieve extremely low latency.
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///LeifHi Dave!
Actually, those spikes could just be some high-end. Depends on what it sounded like.
Glitches tend not to look like spikes, as they’re usually caused by a jump from somewhere inside the waveform to somewhere else inside the waveform.. Thus, they don’t usually show up on an oscilloscope. They do show up on a spectrum analyzer though, if the content is at all band-limited.
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///Leif
