JesseG

[quote author=”George”]..but is PCI, not PCIe ❗[/quote]
and … ?

p.s. this might be something worth checking:
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/DI20.aspx
way cheaper and better than the ham stuff out there for interfacing stuff. It handle up to 3,000 watts, although you’ll probably just be running a line level interface through it 😛

That and an XLR adapter for your mic input, and it should save you a lot of headaches down the road.

That’s not true at all. I know plenty of ham guys using it, and it kicks butt pretty good against the Orbans, CRL, Omnia, etc out there on the dial today.

As for CB radio, I’m not sure if Breakaway has the right low-pass filtering to perfectly match a CB channel, but I should think it would work well if Breakaway can somehow be calibrated along with the transmitter side being used. Breakaway on CB would be insane, you would sound like the king of the road. 😉

I have about 400 watts ERP on my CB in my car, with a tuned full-wave (coiled) antenna/cable system. The radio… custom rebuilt by an old guy that used to live around here before he died. Regularly blowing away guys that claim over 1,000 watts, and I sound super clean on air. Adding Breakaway would be hilarious.

But yeah, there’s plenty of ham guys using Breakaway in comparison to the boxes from the other guys – Orban being a popular brand for ham too.

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Deadkey (nice nick), you’ll want to set the input to be your microphone, and the output to be your speakers/headphones just to listen at first. Headphones is recommended. Then you’ll want to do two things.

• in settings, go from "Phase Linear" to "Low Latency" which is 146 samples of latency within the core. way less than Phase Linear.
• in I/O Config, goto advanced and optimize the buffer/latency

How you optimize the buffers is to

• try switching both input and output soundcards to the KS Interface, which is short for Kernel Streaming. you will get the lowest latency when using Kernel Streaming, or ofc ASIO. the advantage of Kernel Streaming is you can have any input and output card unlike ASIO which has to input/output from/to the same card. ASIO’s advantage is even lower latency. The rest of this list is for non-ASIO only.
• make sure there’s no crackle on the output by using Test in Test tone mode, increase output buffer size until any skipping/glitching stops.
• switch test over to Pass-through, and listen to the audio coming from the input. if it skips/glitches, increase input buffer size until it stops.
• with input audio still playing for testing… start reducing the output Buffer Size one at a time to see how low it can go. try increasing the Buffer Count to see if you can decrease the Buffer Size even more. The total size of latency is the Buffer Size multiplied by the Buffer Count (not including the audio processing itself), so make sure you don’t end up increasing the total latency more just to get the Buffer Size lower. it’s the total latency that counts.
• after that’s stable, do the same thing with the input Buffer Size and Count.
• click Finish button, and see how low the total latency is from your mic to the headphones.

How does that work? 8)

You might try on just one program, changing the output soundcard, and see if it works how it should. Whatever you’ll actually be using with Breakaway.

Or find whatever is on your system that is using the soundcard even when it’s not supposed to be. Because that is your last option if you’re simply not going to try testing if it works by changing the sound output in just one program.

But yeah, whatever software you have that’s using the soundcard is the problem. Breakaway or not, you’ll still be hearing that aliasing when you’re working with that soundcard on default.

[quote author=”maczrool”]

So how do I prevent that from happening? It’s never been a problem until using Windows 7 with BA Live.

Glad to hear it’s still kicking too!

Stu[/quote]

I know it helps if you make your default soundcard the onboard sound, so that the OS and programs aren’t trying to use your higher-quality soundcard.

if that happens then some other program else is trying to open your soundcard at a different samplerate.

breakaway is live & well. 😉

I’m going to try and get another new preset called "Tokyo" into the upcoming new stuff too. I sent it over to Frank to see what he thinks of it too. 🙂 (reminds me, I should send it to CG too)

The new framework can have basically anything done with the GUI that you can imagine, since it’s all custom code now. Not hijacking the rendering of Windows controls like it’s doing now. So hopefully some of the "OB" presets that were removed due to space concerns more than quality concerns can be moved back into the "non-OB" lineup.