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Hi. I was playing around with different plugins in the VST and I realized that if you choose a Winamp dsp plugin dll, Breakaway One recognizes that it's a Winamp DSP, but will not use it. So clearly this must have already been considered, but would it be possible/feasible to add support for Winamp DSP plugins? Or is there some legal reason this cannot happen?
Thank you,
TyIndeed I check for it so that it doesn't try to use it as VST, because it crashed otherwise :).
BreakawayOne uses 24-bit samples with 8-bit headroom (so levels internally can go to +48dBFS, not limited to 0dBFS).
VSTs are 32-bit floating point, which means 24-bit resolution with essentially infinite headroom.
So, if you feed a 0dBFS clipped modern loudness-war master into BaOne without attenuation, and then run a VST de-clipper, you will have +12dB or maybe even +18dB peaks, which is perfectly fine because BaOne has the headroom for it, and the AGC will push it down to where it should be.Winamp DSP plug-ins, on the other hand, use 16-bit samples and has NO headroom. So, if you wanted to do a de-clipper as a Winamp DSP plug-in, you would need 12 or maybe even 18dB attenuation to avoid clipping in the DSP chain.
18dB.. that's 3 bits. So you'd be down to *13 bits* of audio data!
That's just not enough to be useful, so I skipped it completely.
Best regards,
Leif ClaessonLeif,
On this subject, you mention that using a declipper without attenuation would produce these very high peaks. In my situation, I use ReplayGain to tag all my flac and the few MP3s I still have to the standard 2.0 setting of -18db. Would you say, in my case, that I wouldn't need to really attenuate further in the declipper to avoid those high peaks (even though your system handles it well enough)? What would be ideal?
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