JesseG

You can’t use multiple soundcards with the ASIO version, can you?

[quote author=”winsorpd”]I have Asio4all on my machine[/quote]
That is just a fake ASIO interface that ultimately uses Kernel Streaming. So all you’re doing is adding more buffers. You’ll get lower latency by just using the Kernel Streaming already built into Breakaway. 😉

I know nothing about that, but actually… if he did make that change, I see nothing wrong with it personally because it could help prevent cracking.

* JesseG waves to the guy that knows that I’m waving at him.

If I’m not mistaken, this was all done by Leif’s sister. 8) Only thing I found so far is the "more testimonials" links on the main page goes to a 404 instead of the address that’s in the menu.

[quote author=”Italofan”]Question, is there a difference in sound (quality) between Breakaway Live and Broadcast, using the Amsterdam preset? I want to use Breakaway for studio monitoring and internet broadcast only[/quote]

I say Live is higher quality for all but FM/AM/MTX applications… all the way. Sure CLEAN clipping can sometimes allow a bit better subjective quality when the signal is already pushed way too far – such as competitive loudness on the FM dial – but for digital broadcasting it’s undesirable.

What you want is a cleaner more open and natural sound that is pleasant to listen to, not "impressive" within the first 7 seconds or people might tune out. I say that it’s the exact opposite of that. You want a pleasant tone, with some semblance of musical dynamics left, and to deliver that sound consistently.

I helped (in many more ways than just processing) a net-radio station leave a 50 listener max setup in a bedroom… become the #1 net-radio network online for 2.5 years running… with what Leif describes as "a really good sounding EQ", aka my own audio processing. (it’s quite a lot more complicated, but what he said has merit even though he doesn’t know its topography) An "impressive" loud processed sound doesn’t impress for long, even in the short term of 1 listening session. What may have initially attracted someone to your station, will eventually turn them off too. But think of it like a shallow relationship. Most of us have had them on one side or another (or both, hehe). What a long lasting healthy relationship with your listeners needs is common ground. Impressing listeners just for the sake of impressing them is going to attract the wrong listeners. It’s all about the content. This is really what makes niche internet radio such a destructive (in a good way) change. The challenge in audio processing with all of this in mind is to allow the content producers the freedom to present whatever they want with a sound pleasing to your listeners, without it getting in the way of the content. "A really good sounding EQ".

If you learn anything from me, in regards to processing and what the listener wants… soak in what I just said in that last paragraph until it becomes part of your understanding. Coming from the guy that also made the "New York" preset… it’s probably is a bit hard to swallow, but I do know that some people *think* they have to "put up" with the boxes they *think* they are placed in – namely certain top market FM broadcasters. We’re not part of that. We can give the listener what they want without limitations. Pleasantly delivered content that they want.

Word.

Breakaway comes with a 64bit version of the "Breakaway Pipeline" which is the only driver that comes with Breakaway, and which wouldn’t be used for ASIO access of the audio card anyways. So either way, you’re good to go. 8)

Those are wideband compressors. They can be used by the preset designer to allow the AGC and/or multiband attack to be slower, but still control sudden loudness bursts with very little to basically inaudible action if they are well tuned.

Yellow = AGC
Orange = Wideband 1 (between AGC and multiband)
Dark Orange = Wideband 2 (can be before or after the multiband, depends on preset)

With the next Breakaway updates, you’ll get my new "Passive Aggressor" preset which makes the most use of these yet… pushing it to the limit on quite a lot of content. It allows the rest of the processing to be very relaxed.

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What also helped a lot with that preset is the "Inf:1 above threshold" feature (it doesn’t have a proper name yet). This preset makes the most use of the "Inf:1 above" feature than any other preset. The effect on the dynamics from this is similar to Omnia.11’s new Chameleon density-adaptive acceleration feature.

For certain reasons the "Inf:1 above" thing works best on slower multiband settings, so Chameleon certainly has the 1UP on "Inf:1 above" when it comes to density-adaptive effects as far as attack/sustain. With sustain/release, Breakaway has something similar ("Progressive Release") but works more with peak information than density… and there are times that it can work against the goals of loud yet clear processing. This is mainly true of very fast multiband settings that also make heavy use of this feature. A method to limit the effect of that based on density would be dope. Congrats to CG for being dope. 8)

p.s. sorry to go off on such a tangent, but it was fun