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It’s not really a limitation of either, because it’s being used in a way that wasn’t originally intended. But that being said… I’m an official developer in the Oddsock project, and know Ed personally. 😆 Dammit I’m everywhere. But yeah…
EdCast could probably be made to work properly in the way you want, with a bit of changes to how it looks for the DLLs that it loads during init of EdCastLib. It’s open source ya know. 😉
Here’s another one, if you really wanna spam yourself more. 😆
http://ictybtihky.com/bafm/Breakaway%20 … 20Bump.mp3[edit]
oops, i uploaded the one without the quick fade, on well
[/edit]Personal version should be getting the new core updates for the next release, and updated presets. As for some of the presets, not sure where Leif still stands on that, but we did talk about it a few times and seemed to agree that some of them are more suited to broadcasting.
Breakaway Personal really is not intended to slam as much as some people want to in a broadcast scenario, and since there’s no control over the actual limiter drive in Personal… it really makes some of the better sounding presets for that sound "worse" to most people because they don’t understand that the human auditory system actually does make things that are louder "sound better".
But also… people are starting to tire of ultra-compressed sound on CDs a lot, and for presets like Zenith 😉 you’ll find that on a growing number of things it seems to even be MORE dynamic than the original.
As for why emphasis isn’t in Live… to do it right with the clipping requires lots of computing power AND somewhat of a delay. Leif is working on bringing the delay down with a few pretty awesome tricks, but the delay is still relatively high compared to Live.
With ASIO and a decent card like RME… Breakaway Live can get down to latencies in the 4-5ms range for total latency. 8) 8)
[quote author=”Tomsen77″]Ram isn’t needed that much. I Think 256MB or 512MB would be sufficient[/quote]
It depends on what you’re running, but imo you should just go with 1GB stick, they are so cheap if you don’t need/want fast memory. But also depends on the OS. With XP this is fine.
Not that I would ever recommend Vista for ANY purpose… it uses insane amounts of memory, and anything less than 2GB of ram is brutal. I really wouldn’t run it without 3GB of ram.
check DPC Latency (google it), make sure it’s not a "naughty" driver doing it, while you go down the list of devices to disable… to find out what/if that’s a problem…
try increasing buffer size and changing different numbers of buffers…
make sure no other process is running that ends up taking much CPU time over a long period. make sure no other process is running above Normal priority…
make sure the latest drivers are installed from your OEM provider (or the manufacturer if possible) for all of your hardware but especially mainboard, audio, video, networking, and usb/firewire
man… there’s like 100 things i could think of that could cause an instability…
[quote author=”JeffreyCox”]Thanks Leif —
One other quick question — are the Range / Power / Speed sliders all controlled by the pre-set and do they remember the change[/quote]Those controls actually alter the settings that the presets have. It was tuned very nicely by Leif, as some of those sliders (like speed) are literally adjusting like 20 different things at once when you move the slider. There’s a lot more going on under the hood than most realize, and this is a serious audio processor which… even the "personal" System version would run you easily over $10,000 if you wanted to get the same capabilities from a "hardware" audio processor. I kid you not. PM me if you want references (not that you’ll need them since you have Breakaway and an extra $10,000+ in your pocket 😉 )
As far as if the sliders remember the change for each preset, yes – they do now. 🙂 Snatch the latest release candidate.
Leif has something coming down the pike which… I dare not leak any info about yet, but I will say that you guys will have to have it. 😉
And Leif is being overly modest about his hardware skills. He actually did port Octimax over to a SHARC board, I have video of it somewhere. 😀 Sadly enough, most cellphones and especially music players just don’t have enough DSP power to handle that, much less a port of Breakaway.
…Yet. 8)
There actually already is, as well as winamp, stand-alone (a non-specific version), and direct-x plugin.
The "hold up" to doing something like any of those is not technical obviously, everything there is already in place. The reason for not putting something like that out is entirely business oriented. There has to be a market for something like that, and Leif has his work cut out for him, to be able to come out with the various incarnations in a way that benefits his business, as well as making sense to the passer-by so that things have more clear boundaries and so that it’s not a cluttered space.
For instance, what if someone has a winamp plugin and the system version. The likely-hood of the combination of someone who would double process the audio AND not realize that they are doing it but that it "sounds bad" is much higher than with someone who knows what they are doing.
If you look at the statistics about word of mouth… if someone has a good experience with something, they tell 3 people about it. If someone has a bad experience with something, they tell 20 people about it!! Just that alone is reason enough to really take time to consider the big picture.
And I would say that’s easily been 75% of Leif’s development time over the last year (at least) is focused on usability and testing/debugging to make sure it works with everything possible. The list of workarounds that Leif has done (because of other software and windows being "retarded") in Breakaway System alone is probably mind-bogglingly huge. The impression of simplicity is REALLY deceptive compared to everything that’s going on under the hood, even from a usability standpoint. Obviously the audio processing is as well. 😉
Yes, it does. And it’s not a dual band, but a new dual-stage compression. 1 of them or both can be used at the same time. Also second compressor can be put before or after the multiband too, so it offers a lot of versatility to the preset designer. There’s even parametric EQs on the side-bands (control signal inputs). 😉
New York preset uses both, 1 before multiband, 1 after.
Glad you liked it. 8) I really did design it with the current NYC market in mind btw. Not just to sound like them (and in some ways, some stations, better) but Breakaway is actually already getting used on a very large station there, but I can’t drop names until they do. 😉
[quote author=”celar”][quote author=”Leif”]Concerto for pin-drop and air horn? No problem![/quote]
"Concerto for pin-drop and air horn"… I swear, that is the funniest damn thing I’ve heard this month. I’ve already worked it in to a joke at the office.HA, thanks Leif…
[/quote]The pin drop would only be represented by the LSB (or a fraction of the LSB more likely), but… hey, it’s a pin drop.
Now a shuttle launch on the other hand… is something that you can’t even get close to replicating properly in the analog world yet, much less digital. 😆 It’s over 180db of dynamic range, with frequency response from near DC coupled, up to hundreds of kHz.
[quote author=”Leif”]Anyway, I figure, if I can, elephants probably can too. Don’t they have infrasonic mating calls?[/quote]
Easily confused with bowel movements.[quote author=”Cleiton”][quote author=”JesseG”][quote author=”Johnny”]Hello JesseG!
Are you the same person thats appears on the sound-solutions forum?
"Curiosity killed the cat…" 😀//Johnny[/quote]
I’m the same one. Global Mod on that board and this one (even though it doesn’t say I am here, I am).[/quote]
Btw, Soundsolution site/forum is dead (R.I.P.)? 🙄 😥[/quote]
It’s still up, but it’s always been really slow… the post-rate.
