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I'm thrilled with the audio this program does but finding a couple annoying bugs I hope will get some attention. As the title says, if you hit bypass, it doesn't shut down fm mode & another problem I don't like is if I shut down breakaway to return to default audio it shuts off the audio to any active programs that was using it, not good, but found by shutting down the program & restarting it, it corrects the problem tho quite annoying. Other than that, I will buy this program, it has made a massive difference on my radio stations audio. I had audio as good or better than most other internet stations but now there's hardly a station that comes close. The fm mode controls adds an additional polishing dimension to the sound that breakaway alone can't do but I find the single band parametric eq wasn't adequate enough to hone in on the sound I wanted & had to add another multi band parametric eq so it would be nice to see another band or 2 added in future versions. I've played with multitudes of sonic enhancers over the years & can say nothing I've tried can create audio as good. Great work Mr. creator
"FM Mode" is meant to be used for those cheap (and generally crap) FM transmitters that only have Left/Right inputes, instead of a composite MPX input. The "bypass" button is to bypass the audio processing, not whatever backend is being used. So for instance, with Breakaway Broadcast Processor, "Bypass" doesn't turn off the pre-emphasis, the clipper, the stereo encoder, or the soundcard calibrations – any of which would be a very very bad idea to disable before an FM transmitter.
The EQ in FM Mode is for calibrating the soundcard, and also to pre-compensate for the cheap FM transmitter's limiter response, so that the signal going into the cheap FM transmitter can be set slightly lower than where the limiter kicks in, but to also get the maximum loudness possible despite the cheap FM transmitter's usually sever limitation.
The next Breakaway stuff that comes out will at least add a treble control within the processing. That's the #1 requested feature.
I'm guessing you're using Windows XP, since with Windows Vista and later only the user can change what the default soundcard is, not the software. Anyway, your experience is the normal way Windows operates. Changing the default soundcard with any software playing will interrupt playback unless the software that's playing audio out detects that the default soundcard has changed, and re-initializes output to use the new default soundcard. Most software doesn't do that.
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