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  • #170
    Anonymous
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    Hi,

    First of all, a big thank you for developing audio enhancer again… Volume Logic is so great, I can’t wait to hear breakaway on my Mac.

    I’d like to know if you think there could be, some day, a breakaway version to use as a VST plugin.
    Because in my audio production software (Ableton to name it), it would be great to listen to a kind of "pre-air" of what I’m producing.

    Of course, for PC & Mac…

    Please…. Pleeeeaaaaase…. 😉

    Eric

    #4636
    JesseG
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    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. 😉

    #4637
    Anonymous
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    LOL dude, I produce Trance & Progressive with Ableton Live. To preview your project is very simple.
    Here is the way:

    Open your Ableton Live (I use version 7 lol) -> Go to Options -> Then Preferences -> click on Audio -> And here is where the magic is; just select your Audio Output Device as Breakaway Pipeline 1 DX or Breakaway Pipeline 1 Wave, both works very well here.

    I hope you understood, if you didn’t, let me know because I’m just 17 and I started to learn english at 15 ;p
    So, I can try to explain in a diferent way if you want. I hope it works too.

    Cheers, dude.

    #4638
    Anonymous
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    Hi Waltrik, thanks for the trick 😉

    Actually, for now I cannot use it as I’m on Mac, so I can’t even use Breakaway at all !
    I’m stuck with a patched version of Volume Logic so I can still use it with Leopard… I really hope Leif would be able to do something for Mac users soon, as I don’t ever plan to go back on PC except for work…

    Your trick could be great for preview, but it would be best to be able to have it as a VST as it could allow us to enable/disable on the fly, without messing up with the preferences, and also making it possible to do a before/after comparison.

    And JesseG, I completely agree with you, and it’s not to use it for the released track, as I said, it’s just to have a preview of how it will sound "On Air".

    Thanks anyway, and Leif, can you hear me ? 😀

    Dje

    PS : No problem with your english, don’t worry…

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