Breakaway volume control from 3rd party software?

@ Leif

Then delete your attachment and release the update for Breakaway Audio Enhancer !
[quote author=”Edgar”]Hello Leif,

any news about the next BAE release and the 3rd party volume control?[/quote]
[quote author=”Leif”]Yes! I have added this feature to Breakaway Live already, so Breakaway Personal is not far behind.[/quote]Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:29 pm
I can understand that you have your focus on Breakaway Professional and Live,
because these customers have paid more and will pay more.
But I don’t understand why you tell people (not for the first time) that the next
Breakaway Audio Enhancer update is coming soon, though you don’t have the time to work on it:
[quote author=”Leif”]Next BAE release = high probability of being within 2 months.[/quote]Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:23 am

[quote author=”Leif”]…Breakaway will see a quiet input signal and do it’s job and increase the level again, until it runs out of range.

In fact, this very situation is the reason the volume controls are disabled by default, as conceptually, it cannot work. And, when things fail even in theory, practice doesn’t stand a chance.[/quote]In practice if the impact to the processing would be that high you describe it, then it would be better
to deinstall Breakaway Audio Enhancer.
For example many german DVB-S radio stations are working with peak levels at -7 dBFS or even -9 dBFS and with extreme dynamic compression processing.
These audio signals are very different from high quality CDs (with a good dynamic range).
In practice this is making a bigger difference than the change of the input level before Breakaway (enabled with the BA pipeline config tool).
In theory – using extreme decreasing levels above a -20 dB range, of course have a severe impact.
The more you decrease, the more Breakaway’s internal processing will be irritated.
But in practice (watching and switching TV or radio channels with DVBViewer for example) the level decreasing and increasing range for the input is very narrow, more or less +- 6 dB !