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No. It won't be updated. It is discontinued, and replaced by BreakawayOne. 🙂
You can transfer your existing Breakaway Live license to a comparable BreakawayOne license for free. You can also add any new features you need. Please try it out to see what you need, and follow the instructions on the "Free Upgrade" link at the top of that site.
All of the legacy Breakaway products, besides Audio Enhancer, are no longer supported. You will want to check out BreakawayOne
It has a trial mode for everything. Try before buy. 🙂
You'll need a soundcard/audio-interface with drivers that support ASIO*. You need this so that the latency, the time between input and output, will be lower than what you can detect as a delay in the sound.
You will also need to either set (in App/Service mode) the HD core you'll use to one of the low latency settings like so:
http://i.imgur.com/iqjABi2.pngOr enable (in Config mode) a Speaker Output in the HD core you'll be using:
http://i.imgur.com/xzypNCS.png
And then (in App/Service mode) set that Speaker Output to this patch point:
http://i.imgur.com/977sVwc.png*ASIO4ALL is not actually ASIO since it's just using Kernel Streaming, so you'll be able to get lower latency by just using BaOne's in-built KS support
Are you using the "MPX Output"?
http://i.imgur.com/8i5kKXr.pngDo you see RDS in an FFT display on the "MPX Output > Multiplex" patch point?
http://i.imgur.com/4Jnhdx3.pngHave you verified that your soundcard is actually outputting at 176kHz or 192kHz? Are you using the Kernel Streaming soundcard interface for MPX Output, and not DirectSound or Wave/MME?
If you said yes to all of that… do you have (use of) an oscilloscope, to look at a test signal with it? See if this signal:
http://i.imgur.com/Gx0bDcB.png
Looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/wnHayl1.jpgI highly recommend reading this documentation from the previous era of Breakaway:
FM calibration using Oscilloscope
FM calibration using a Modulation MonitorIt's pretty easy to do no matter which version of Breakaway you choose, besides the consumer "Audio Enhancer" version, which only supports output to a real soundcard, and doesn't support any way to stream internally.
BreakawayOne makes it easiest, since there's excellent streaming built into it.
1. install BreakawayOne, and configure it so you have at least 1x HD core, with the streaming option. Set the desired HD core's soundcard input to be the "Pipeline" virtual soundcard that you'll be using to route audio from Winamp (or whatever) into BaOne. Set BaOne "Common Monitor Output" to be whatever soundcard you want to use to listen to for testing purposes, if you need one at BaOne's host computer.
2. run BaOne in App mode.
2. Set Winamp to output to the Pipeline virtual soundcard that you selected to input from in BaOne… and press play.
3. You should be getting audio in BaOne now (and through, if you setup any outputs with the HD path used).
4. Install the community codec package, restart BaOne, and setup whatever streams you need in the HD path's Streaming area. You should see at least 7 codecs in the "Codec" dropdown of each encoder. Setup an encoder, and click "Enable".
5. Now the decision making part comes, the actually hard part. 😉 Adjusting the processing (and maybe source too, such as using good Loudness Normalization like ReplayGain2) to get the sound you and your listeners want. Have fun!
Just saw this now. The problem is that it's a different encoder. That meta-data setting is for BreakawayOne's encoders. Just like Breakaway's encoder, any other encoder you use needs to have its own ways of getting meta-data into it.
Good luck 🙂
What are the loudness regulations where you're broadcasting DAB+?
What are your thoughts about using the headroom to have additional dynamics? 🙂 I know from experience that it can greatly reduce the artifacts with ample dynamics into the modified FDK encoder that's in that.
I mean FLAC in an Ogg container (most people equate Ogg=Vorbis, but Vorbis is an audio codec, Ogg is a container).
"OggFLAC" is the non-official term for it. Icecast works with it.
Then yes, at your encoder, where-ever it is, encode to whatever flavor of AAC 960 you need… etc…
The other option is to compile an AAC 960 encoder for Windows and use it in BaOne with the custom encoder option, but I would think that there could be issues with getting everything to sync correctly, and your Mux (or whatever software you're using to align everything before sending to your Mux) would have to be able to pull from an Icecast server…
It's currently not possible, but there is automatic attenuation that's happening based on codec & bitrate & sample rate.
I'll mention to Leif that it is a good idea to have an "additional attenuation" control.
Btw… are you running very dense audio into the codec? What DAB+ encoder are you using?
You must have setup BaOne to be using the cue output (in addition to whatever else it's setup to use).
Please check all of the soundcards selected in BaOne config mode. Make sure the one for your cue output isn't selected anywhere.
"Reduced" dynamically reduces the bit depth, based on where the noise floor is, in such a way that it isn't audibly changing anything. It is Leif's own implementation of the lossyWAV idea, and tends to be on the less aggressive side of what lossyWAV can do at default settings.
You can read more about lossyWAV here, which is somewhat relevant, especially in how the idea works with FLAC (and other lossless codecs).
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=LossyWAVThe reason Leif made his own implementation is because lossyWAV doesn't work well with composite MPX, and Leif wanted that feature when recording composite MPX. 🙂 It's useful for streaming as well though, so why not have it available.
After installing that codec pack, and restarting BreakawayOne, you should be able to simply select it from the list.
[quote author=Wayne link=topic=5404.msg19119#msg19119 date=1487952460]- Can you stream from the FM module rather than the HD module like in the old BBP?[/quote]
Not within the software. Now that HD/Streaming cores are their own unique thing, it wouldn't be good to leave temptations for users to do things that compromise the fidelity of their sound.[quote author=Wayne link=topic=5404.msg19119#msg19119 date=1487952460]- In BBP I used the 50us Pre-Emphasis to stream with a 30hz LPF and 16000Khz Bandwidth HPF. I've seen LPF and HPF in the 'Monitor' section but nothing in the HD Module?[/quote]
The majority of the processing isn't effected by sub-bass or very high treble. Only the limiters & clippers are. If you are using lossy codecs, they will handle LPF automatically for you, and you shouldn't be getting any audibly negative effects from sub-bass… unless something is drastically wrong with your source like a loud 5 Hz hum. 😛[quote author=Wayne link=topic=5404.msg19119#msg19119 date=1487952460]As I'm struggling to get that clarity and shape of Plutonium of the old BBP.[/quote]
You wont' be able to achieve exactly the same sound since Plutonium was reworked once for the Omnia.9 series (new and most think an improved sound), and then reworked again into a 5-band preset, with less features, for BreakawayOne.
