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You could either run the master outputs of the mixer through a soundcard with Breakaway and just use the soundcard’s output to send to whatever you’re plugging int. That’s probably easiest.
or… you might be able to modify your external mixer (if it’s analog) to patch Breakaway (using a soundcard & computer of course) into your mixer’s routing…. if you know enough about electronics, how to read schematics, and ofc soldering & desoldering. then you could have Breakaway in the routing of the mixer itself. I’m not sure how useful that would be though, as you would need a mixer with some decent routing options already (think A&H Xone 464), and you would need a good reason to mod your mixer if it didn’t already support whatever routing options you need.
that’s about as basic info as i can provide, without knowing your existing routing, what mixer you have, what audio converter you have, how you’re outputting from tractor (routing), etc.
VST support built into Breakaway is something Leif has wanted to do for a while now, and [don’t quote me but] I would expect to see it in some of the next Breakaway standalone versions.
For now, you can get a Winamp plugin that can load VSTs. Search the forums here, there’s some topics about it.
ah, M-Audio. I would keep trying progressively older drivers for it, until you find one that’s stable. That’s absolutely the first thing I would point my finger at. (after trying the latest driver, of course)
When I was at radioio, we had over 200 of em running, mostly AP192s, and about 30 DeltaDIOs, on IDENTICAL cloned OS and hardware, and each one seemed to like one of several "good" driver versions I had for them, where the other versions wouldn’t even sync digital audio properly between the machines. Some of the drivers I had were never published anywhere outside of M-Audio (i had a good relationship with them), so… if you run out of things to try, please do call M-Audio, and see if you can get more driver versions.
Of course, that might not be the problem.
[quote author=”Boki”]You answered yourself.[/quote]
I’m not sure they did. Can you explain that more in depth for me?—
@ the CPU use, that might not be what’s happening when Breakaway hangs for whatever reason. It might be hanging before he CPU goes up, and finding out what’s causing that hang (since it’s an interaction between Breakaway and something else) could be difficult to find.
I would assume you’ve tried different versions of your soundcard’s drivers, and tried (lots of) different latency combinations on your soundcard driver’s control panel. ??
[quote author=”radio oude stijl”]Why??? Why not just keep the pc at the TX and use your STL unprocessed?[/quote]
+1samples.
loud
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … A-O92.flac (tribute to a certain box, in O9)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … 20HOT.flac (CGSmooth redux, by me and Leif, turned up to 11 😉 )
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … ustom.flac (not bright, but clear and technical)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … ustom.flac (holy crap)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … onium.flac (new version from Leif, in O9)not so loud
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … onium.flac (default preset in the O9)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … essor.flac (the one and only, in O9)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … Tokyo.flac (Passive Aggressor’s son, in O9)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16327919/omnia/ … 0Iron.flac (emulates old tube/transformer, inspired by AM heydays hence the name, also uses Passive Aggressor ideas, in O9)music is the 1st track off the new NIN, the 3CD soundtrack to the American remake of the Swedish film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
the mpx is -3dB reference, 75uS emphasis.
Yep the latest versions have both 32bit and 64bit drivers, as well as 32bit and 64bit taskbar toolbars, which are all signed. 🙂
Make sure stdriver64.sys is actually not being loaded anymore.
right-click on "My Computer" –> "Manage", go to Device Manager
or
go to the Device Manager from your control panel.click "View" –> "Show hidden devices"
open category "Non-Plus and Play Drivers"and go down the list checking to make sure it’s not there. If you don’t recognize something, you can double-click on it, go to the "Driver" tab, click on "Driver Details…" (which only shows up if the driver uses .sys/etc files), and then you can see what .sys files it uses.
Obviously you want the one with stdriver64.sys, if it exists. Right click on it in the list in Device Manager (not Driver Details), and go to "Uninstall".
You might not find it in there, but I thought it’s worth a shot anyways, in case the uninstaller for it screwed up (you did use the actual uninstaller for it, and not just remove the software, right??).
Basically you just match the input ref so that the white line matches where the meter itself is on average during the loud parts. It’s that simple.
The only thing it adjusts is where the gates and downward expander thresholds are at. And yes, it was mainly put there to allow people to run their audio in at an even lower than 20dB setting, without having the gating or noise reduction be overly aggressive.
I guess it’s always possible that the hardware itself broke somehow. It’s hard to guess what type of distortion you’re hearing, without hearing a recording of it.
You need to have a soundcard with 2 stereo pairs line outputs… or get a soundcard that does, or get a second soundcard.
Then you go…
Automation –> Soundcard Stereo Output #1 –> Mixer+Mic –> Soundcard Stereo Input –> Breakaway –> Soundcard Stereo Output #2
Understand?
[quote author=”michi95″]The (old !) Enhancer has the advantage that it is very CPU friendly.
Especially important because the Winamp DSP plugin structure does not support multi-core usage.
You cannot use more than one core ( I do not know any application that has a workaround for this limitation).[/quote]
That’s inaccurate. Any executable (like a plugin) loaded by another executable (like winamp) can create as many threads as it wants, and they will be automatically optimized (to make all of the cores available as often possible) by the host Windows system.Although not a requirement… but for some forms of DSP such as a simple gain (addition) that cannot possibly be multi-threaded or anything else that for whatever reason can’t be multi-threaded by design, is you need to add a buffer for each additional core you want to support, and a thread scheduler, so that the DSP can be run on multiple 576-sample blocks of audio simultaneously, and also have maximum throughput.
So the DSP itself can be multi-threaded… just like the Omnia.9 is… and also the DSP can be single threaded but process multiple blocks of audio simultaneously. Both are possible with Winamp, although not every DSP works in either of those scenarios.
That being said… most Winamp plugins are NOT multi-threaded on their audio engines. And only some of them even use separate threads for their GUIs. (naughty naughty) So your comment about dbPowerAmp is a good one from a real-world practicality standpoint. If you’re outputting the files to a hard disk just make sure to defrag after you’re done as writing multiple files to the drive simultaneously will uber-fragment all of them.
I just had to correct that from a technical standpoint, as I’ve done my own multi-threaded DSPs before, that could just as easily be a Winamp plugin as they can be standalone.
Cheers
if the sample rate changes the sound, then you’re having a problem with aliasing, because Breakaway isn’t having proper control over the soundcard sample rate (change of soundcard driver settings maybe on accident), and/or some other software is also using it.
Did you try rebooting the computer?
[quote author=”radio oude stijl”]Missing it is out of the question, but… I’ve seen plenty of photos of the Loch Ness monster too. Never seen the real thing though… 😉 [/quote]The big difference is you can’t buy a Nessy, but you CAN buy an Omnia.9, right now. 🙂
[quote author=”michi95″]* I will release it one day before Passive Aggressor ![/quote]You’re already too late. But I still wanna hear your perfect AGC.
