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It’s pretty basic and you’re not providing enough information to us about your problem for us to try to help you. (such as: what does "sound good" mean in technical terms?)
So my advice then is to offer to pay someone with experience close enough to you to come over and set it up for you.
Sometimes I get ahead of myself… my bad. Don’t have an AXIA, didn’t know that wasn’t public yet. Well, it is now. 😆
It should work just fine. 8) Btw… jealous of your Axia. Before I got into mastering, we didn’t have that stuff in radio. Makes reconfiguring go from months of planning and work, to 5 minutes at a computer screen and 1 trip back & forth from the intended room of use.
(or 5 minutes at a computer screen halfway around the world while a "lackie" plugs in the node for you)
What a time to be doing radio engineering. 😀 😀
@ receiving MPX and then using it in BBP at each transmitter, then yes it’s possible if you have hardware/software to de-modulate the MPX signal back into L/R for Breakaway.
which is why Boki made the comment about just leaving it in L/R over your STLs. If you can go with L/R for your STL, that’s the way to go. Otherwise you will need to convert back to L/R anyways at your transmitter, and it seems like a bad idea to add more complication. Not to mention that could potentially reduce the final sound quality.
What language do you speak? Maybe someone can help you in that language, because what you just typed or translated makes no sense. I’m sorry.
why not? what part of what i suggested is not working?
does Simplecast not list the Breakaway Pipelines? (i’m guessing you restarted Simplecast after installing Breakaway so that it redetects the installed soundcard devices)
setup Breakaway to input from where-ever you want, and output to one of the Breakaway pipelines. Then in SimpleCast you set the input to pull from the same pipeline.
The soundcard probably really is in use by some software you may or may not even uses the soundcard all the time. Such as something running in the system tray. Sometimes they can give feedback through sounds (like when a drive is finished defragging, or a cd is done burning, etc)
Try closing everything in your system tray. Then re-try Breakaway.
If not, then open your task manager and start closing things that are not "standard" windows processes. You might have to look up the ones you don’t recognize as being standard processes on the web to see what they are. Then re-try Breakaway.
If all else fails and you don’t mind a bit of added latency, you can always try DirectSound (DS) or MME (Wave), which don’t require sole access of the soundcard device.
[quote author=”AM Robert”]Thanks RJ, That does help allot because I now know that the AM related features do still come with the paid ASIO version. I could not get anybody in corporate HQ to give me an answer so Im guessing with your paid order you get a contact number or email address you can call for support if needed?[/quote]
I just told you that it DOES come with it, and that if it’s not working then it’s a bug… or maybe even user error. If the software didn’t have the features, the buttons wouldn’t be included grayed out just to tease the customer. You don’t really think that, do you?OK, I’m going to try this right now.
Ok, here’s my test setup 🙂
Reaper… uses a 64bit audio engine so there’s no qualms about quality there. 🙂 Setup like so:
http://stashbox.org/820805/03122010-074 … icense.pngAnd track 1 of that is outputting through ReaRoute which is Reaper’s own routing engine which supports other applications (it also does rewire, osc, etc).
http://stashbox.org/820806/03122010-074 … stylea.pngBreakaway ASIO Settings:
http://stashbox.org/820810/03122010-074 … r-ASIO.pngBreakaway ASIO I/O Config:
http://stashbox.org/820808/03122010-074 … r-ASIO.png
As you can see we’re getting our inputs from, and outputting to, ReaRoute 1/2.Breakaway ASIO Calibration:
http://stashbox.org/820811/03122010-074 … r-ASIO.png
Make a mental note that the reference output level here is -6 dBFS.All to NTSC spec… then, the audio routes back through ReaRoute and I’m monitoring & recording it in Reaper, on track #2.
Saved track #2 as 32bit float, still VERY high quality audio. Let’s have a look at that in Adobe Audition v1.5:
http://stashbox.org/820801/03122010-073 … dition.pngIt looks like asymmetric clipping has happened. Let’s have a look at the statistics 🙂
http://stashbox.org/820813/03122010-074 … istics.png
Notice… the peak amplitudes are:
-3.06 dB
-2.89 dB
for the left & right channel respectively. What that means is there was 150% above -6 dB somewhere within that recording. You can see in the screenshot that it happened a LOT too. 🙂Let’s also check out the spectral content:
http://stashbox.org/820817/03122010-075 … dition.png
As you can see, the signal is completely band-limited just before 10kHz.Conclusions:
- It it absolutely doing asymmetrical clipping properly.
- It is absolutely band limiting using the low-pass filtering correctly.
- The Calibration dialog has a bug where some of the controls are "paginated" below the window and are unusable, including the low-pass filter width & shape controls which are useful in AM broadcasting.
Yep, and between that and their switch back to Classic Hits, they rocketed almost instantly to #5 in the market. They are now #2. Scientifically testing (which is what I meant by "testing") may have not been done, but the real world results speak for themselves.
The likelihood that Breakaway had anything to do with it, other than listeners preferring the sound quality, is pretty slim… but that couldn’t be proven without some actual testing.
It *should* be incorporated. If it’s not working, then it’s totally a bug. It is possible that it’s a bug because I found one in the speaker controller in Live too. The bug got introduced when Breakaway’s core upgraded to a 64bit audio path.
I don’t know that anyone has tested this, but it should be fine. PPM uses a pretty strong watermarking, and if it can (and probably does) survive through many stages of lossy codec compression, not to mention the whole system is working through "acoustic coupling"… Breakaway shouldn’t touch it.
Even a moderately strong watermark can survive 15-20 or more stages of mp3 compression AND several stages of acoustic coupling. 😀 The music on the other hand…. 😆
