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Hello,
one thing that would make my life easier is a better handling of the sliders, like fixed or (optionally) wider increments.
Dragging by mouse allows in fact 0.5% steps – at least graphically. Super to have that kind of precision, but it is very fiddly to get back to default.
To circumvent I use the mouse wheel instead. At least as long I do not accidently click on the bar…
Speaking of bars, it would make more sense to have the scale of Bass Shape in Hertz instead of +/- 50, don’t you think?Hi,
I think I have found a bug.If Pipeline SR is set to 48000/48000, then the Wizard Step 2 (buffer size test) fails:
“Error opening Breakaway Pipeline for test tone output!”
This does not happen with the default setting 44100/48000 or 44100/44100.Hi!
That’s good news! Thanks for the excellent improvements!If I understand correctly, selecting higher sample rates and bit depths in the pipeline than BAE can handle is useless?
Regarding Settings, Wizard and buffers:
Although I have a lot of experience with my setup, I still use the pre-defined buffer settings as a reference. To select each of them I have to go through the entire Wizard procedure.
Maybe a profile selector with these five settings could be implemented into the Expert window to easily choose between them?
Alternatively/additionally it would help a lot if it would not return to the main app after finishing the Wizard, but return to the Settings window instead. I always check for jitter and see the results before using it.Speaking of buffers, I have learned that a multiple of 441 or 480 is optimal.
In my case fewer but larger buffers minimize jitter while keeping latency down. Therefore I use 882 and 960 respectively.
Would it make sense to wish for triple values (1323 and 1440), or does say 1536 work as well?Regards,
WilhelmAfter fooling around by maximizing all buffer settings I have actually seen huge latency in my music videos for the first time. It is simply unusable.
However, no need for that! 🙂
Jitter results using the wizard:
Tiny: 25-50%
Small: 11%
Medium: 11-25%
Large: around 11%, but jumpy between 0% and 25%
Huge: skipped due to crackling noise after hitting the test buttonSo I began tweaking the Small Buffer setting, starting with input 441/3/44100 and output 480/3/48000 (all 2 channels).
Because I have to play back a mixed bag of 44100 and 48000 kHz material, I set both (and the sound card) to 48kHz; some is true CD WAV audio, some is coded in 48000 like OPUS from a well known platform…
Doubling buffer size to 960 results in 5% jitter. Maxing it to 2048 it gets as low as 2-5%. But I think I like the thought of having it exactly double.
Lowering buffers to 2 or higher than 3 is no benefit, so I leave it at 3.PS: After finishing the wizard it would make probing way more comfortable if it would get back to the Settings window instead of closing it and returning to the main window.
Hello Milky,
sorry for my very late reply. During the pandemic I was hardly motivated to do anything that reminded me of things I must not do, like parties.
Now that all begins to start up again, I thought I take a look what’s going on here.Thank you for answering some of my questions in advance. 😀 I thought so that buffer size and sampling rate must correlate that way.
I have experimented with high and low settings and it benefits most from doubled buffer sizes but fewer buffers (2 or 3).
Because I play back a mixture of 44.1 and 48 kHz material, I chose 48 kHz in and out, as well as buffer size to 960 instead of 480. This helps with jitter a lot and keeps it around 5%.Speaking of optimization, I’ve got two more questions please:
First, the sound card settings. I’m pretty sure if BAE is set to 48 kHz in & out, the sound card should be set to 48 kHz too. Is there any (subtle) benefit of setting the sound card to a higher setting, especially a multiple of BAE’s? My new Sound Blaster AE7 can handle up to 384 kHz which is default.
Second, its bit rate. Mine defaults to 32 bit. Most others to 24 or 16 bit. What’s the recommendation here?
Best regards,
WilhelmPS: My home parties will never be the same again with BAE! <3
PPS: The download link on the main page is still the previous version 1.40.03 https://www.claessonedwards.com/home-audio/
Hello Milky!
Thanks for the warm welcome!
I’m using build 20H2 (fresh install) and have never noticed any problem with Kernel Streaming mode, if you mean that in particular.
It runs on a machine with AMD Ryzen 3600, X470 Chipset and Realtek onboard audio using the latest driver Microsoft has to offer: “Realtek Semiconductor Corp. – MEDIA – 6.0.8963.1”Supplementary note to article 2 in my initial posting:
Windows has transparency effects enabled by default and if such window (or Start menu) is moved on top of BAE, it doubles its GPU hunger! That generates another 10% usage on the Radeon RX 590 which is eminently bad on my HTPC, where I need up to 30% of the GPU for upscaling and image refinement via madVR, while it must not get noisy. If BAE is not resized or minimized, it adds hefty to that utilization.
So it would help a great deal if there was a startup option to have it minimized, as a task bar icon, or to preset its size without animiated meters.PS: I can help myself but not everyone might be capable to tweak it that way.
