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Thanks for the nod about the Mac version.
Please, understand that my own preferences are my own preferences. Where I’m not willing to dedicated a computer and it’s OS to the task of audio processing, I’d never fault anyone else for being willing to do that. I’d rather just stick some hardware in my rack. Because Breakaway coexists on an otherwise busy computer, I’m very willing to have it borrow a few cpu cycles. Yours is the best product in terms of happily co-existing that I’ve experienced.
Actually, there is one way I might consider a dedicated computer just for the task of audio processing. I’m strongly considering getting some very low power motherboards. I’ve seen some that use only about 20 watts. Penalty is cpu grunt. These aren’t power houses. I could see myself getting one of those in my rack, stripping down the OS, and running breakaway on it for processing. I find it an attractive idea to reduce the power consumption in my studio/office. It’s getting so bad, I don’t even need to heat the room in the winter. 🙂
I think something people might miss is a way to save a few custom settings. It remembers the latest, which is good, but if I would like some different settings for my classical library than I would for jazz, I don’t have a way to have two different sets I can easily recall. Might something like that be in Breakaway’s future?
And to be fair, I’m new to the software. If I missed this is an option, please go easy on me! 🙂
I agree with you. My own windows machine are on continuously. No problem in terms of uptime, under my control. Unless someone gets aggressive with shutting off services etc., it still runs too much ‘junk’ etc. to dedicate a standalone PC to this task. Since Breakaway seems to fit nicely into a pc already in use as a more typical windows install, running a few things at once, no problem adding it on. If I had to dedicate a PC to this task, I simply wouldn’t. To me, it’s cutting butter with a chainsaw.
An associate had a particular machine that simply needs to do too much, and was never able to get a software sound processing to run well enough until Breakaway. Certain tasks would ultimately result in audio stutters, despite endless hours trying to config everything just right. She’s finally got the various software bits working in harmony using Breakaway for sound processing. A testament to some good coding skills for Leif and Co.
I’m a ‘used to be’ programmer and circuit designer, so I understand what happens in digital processing hardware, and that an algorithm is an algorithm. 🙂 For stuff like this, I usually prefer an appliance. Something that doesn’t have Windows to contend with is more likely to always be up and running. Plus, it seems darn silly to wrap a general purpose computer around something like this. But Breakaway makes sense here because it’s not intrusive, is easy to operate, and plays very nicely with the DJ application feeding it. And I do tend to favour analog circuits actually, for zero latency reasons, so where analog can do the job, I’ll use it. Just a preference.
I meant to mention before. Is ASIO on the horizon? I personally like avoiding WDM. But I’m really waiting for the Mac version anyway. 🙂
