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It normally wouldn’t. However, if the input has been peak limited or clipped, the energy of the audio will be artificially high, and the peak level artificially low. Running it through something like Bass-EFX will redistribute the energy and build the peaks back up. Unfortunately, this alone does not remove the distortion or other artifacts that the previous clipping (during CD mastering) caused.
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Scotty, I’m afraid not — it’s a bug. Forgot to change the scale when turning BBP into Live. (Gotta start from somewhere, right?)
I’ll fix it for the next version.
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I meant that they do not. That is, they don’t.
They redistribute the energy that is there, but they do not add or subtract energy.
It’s pretty easy to verify. Play a song with Winamp (without audio processing) and turn on BASS-EFX. I’ll bet you won’t hear any difference at all. If they increased energy, you’d hear it very clearly even without processing. The plug-ins are NOT locked to Breakaway — they runs just fine in Winamp, it’s just that it doesn’t do much good unless you follow it with an FM processor.
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You are very observant, Scotty! 🙂
First in the Breakaway chain is a very gentle, slow-attacking wideband agc. After that is a much faster wideband agc, which is there to pick up the slack during surprises, so that they can be handled without the listener perceiving pumping or ducking. Certain presets use a third wideband agc, either before or after the multiband, to induce intentional, controlled pumping.
All three AGCs are displayed in the single AGC bar, with the bars being different colours. The very bottom of the stack shows the combined gain of all three agcs, but with the different colours you can see exactly what each is doing at every stage.
Nice about the studio feed! Send him a link to BBP, sounds like a future customer to me 😉.
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I meant the screenshots right in the beginning of the article, showing where to set the "Default Format". 🙂
If you’re running input and output on the same sound card, with the same sampling rate for both input and output, you can disable SRC. However, if for example the input is a pipeline, and the output is a sound card, then you should leave SRC on.
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Hi Dave!
Vista will absolutely do sample rate conversion, and it’s indeed not very good at it.
Look at the article regarding using Airomate with BBP:
[url=RDS using Airomate]http]
Of course, you’re not trying to do RDS, but in the beginning of this article, I also happen to explain how to avoid the sample rate conversion in Vista. 🙂
It’s a matter of choosing the correct shared format for each device, so that no conversion is necessary.By the way, I do not recommend unchecking the SRC button in Breakaway. The SRC there is actually good, and it’s an adaptive SRC that serves the purpose of compensating for the clock difference between the input and output device. If you uncheck SRC, but select different rates for input and output, you still get SRC, except it will be static instead of adaptive, so you can still have periodical dropouts due to differing clock rates. For example, one device may be running at 44097.3 Hz and the other might be running at 48002.5 Hz. If nothing makes up for this, there must be periodical glitches, due to buffer overruns or underruns. Most programs accept this as inevitable, and allow the periodical glitches to happen, but not Breakaway. I’m far too anal about audio to let something like that slide 🙂.
If you’re doing a stream, chances are it would make the most sense to use 44100 for both input and output. However, you should still keep SRC checked, unless both the input and output devices are pipelines, as they will then have the same clock, and no need for SRC.
Listening to the clip, I could see how that voice would get completely torn up through a bad sample rate converter.
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///LeifHi Zeb!
I cannot yet speculate when the advanced version will be out. A lot of things have yet to be decided. One thing is for sure though — there will be an excellent rebate for existing BBP customers! 🙂
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///LeifHi Brian!
1) Actually it’s not broken — it’s working exactly as designed. The Test Mode volume control is completely separate from the main volume control, and its only function is to allow you to adjust the level of the test tones during the test. Saving it is worse than not saving it, as someone could then forget it at -90 and wonder why the test tones aren’t working.
2) I’ll look into it. What compatibility issues is it causing?
The cursor with the sideways arrows was a usability decision to help point out to the user that the sliders (which look like progress bars) are really adjustable sliders. There is no appropriate system cursor with sideways arrows — the sideways arrow cursor used for resizing windows lacks the actual arrowhead. Also, we didn’t choose some big, colorful, funky looking cursor – the cursor actually looks like it’s system default. If you could explain the actual issue you’re experiencing in more detail, I’d be most grateful.Best,
///LeifHi Didac!
It’s indeed a very useful feature for radio stations. We’re already planning to add it to the advanced versions 😉.
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Ah yes. If the sound card is allowed to pass through the line input to output, you’d be mixing two copies — one direct, unprocessed, and one delayed and processed.
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Hi Johnny!
Set it up by following the instructions on that page. 🙂
The only difference I can see is that once you’ve spawned the mixer record properties, you’ll have to go to Options and Properties, select Recording, and then select the actual sound card, so that you’ll be controlling the sound card instead of Breakaway Pipeline.
If OTSAV properly records the audio from the sound card, and then plays it into Breakaway Pipeline the same way it plays music, everything will just magically work.
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///LeifSorry about the recent spam attacks. The standard phpBB3 captcha has been cracked, so it’s completely automatated. Bastards…
We’re working on a solution.
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///LeifHi Timmy!
BAE is pretty good already 🙂. Compared to BBP/Live it’s a pretty simple, straightforward product. There will certainly still be improvements though — whenever I improve anything or invent anything new which is applicable to BAE, I roll it into the next version.
Due to BAE being so much simpler, it’s easier to keep track of things and "get it right the first time", so thankfully BAE hasn’t needed updates anywhere near as often as the two pro products.
Also, I’m planning a new much-requested features which will actually appear in BAE first. I haven’t started writing it yet, but it will be great, I promise 😉.
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///LeifHi Kreso!
Try switching to one of the presets with noise reduction (for example Reference Heavy NR). Also, turn down the Range control, and maybe even the Power control.
Omnia products tend not to have strong normalization — they don’t raise the level of quiet parts very much, so they also do not raise the noise. Turn the Range control down to make Breakaway behave the same way.
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