Hi Steve, thanks for this very interesting site. A few comments after some cursory playing.
The Volume Logic Plug-in sounds pretty good at its defaults, but a shame there doesn't seem to be any way of changing them with a screen reader. There is a Volume Logic icon in the System Tray, but sadly, right clicking on it doesn't bring up a context menu with the list of presets, which would be great. Also, once giving focus to the Volume Logic window, you don't seem to be able to do much of anything. I think Sound Solution, which is also a multiband processor and free, is more accessible. The fields are not automatically spoken, but at least you can tab between them in Sound Solution, and label them. It's also a DSP plug-in, which has its advantages. You made the comment about the implications of Volume Logic being an output plug-in, in the context of streaming. The only way I see it working would be if you set the initial output plug-in to Volume Logic, select the output plug-in for Volume Logic to use as the SQRSoft Output plug-in, and then select Shoutcast or your encoder of choice as SQR's secondary DSP plug-in. Even then, this may not be appropriate for some people's streaming setups. But it is worth pointing out that the audio is processed by the DSP plug-in *before it reaches the output plug-in, so if one were to simply Shoutcast with this output plug-in selected, then the audio will not be Shoutcast with the compression applied, unless you tell your encoder to pick up the sound from the sound card. This however means that the microphone won't benefit from the compression. Regarding Stream Solo, this is an intriguing plug-in but I suspect it will not be suitable for the way most Shoutcasters broadcast. This isn't a substitute for your current encoder of choice, such as Shoutcast or the SAM Encoders. Instead, it's a processor that feeds processed audio to your encoder. There are plenty of custom controls in this application to set the parameters of the processing, but at least you can tab between them so I suspect they could be recustomised and labeled. What happens with this application is that once you turn the processor on, audio is taken from the input of your sound card and fed back, slightly delayed through the output of your sound card, complete with processing. This means that if you are disconcerted by the delay between when you talk and when something is echoed back, you wouldn't want to use this on the one sound card. You'd instead want one sound card dedicated to taking the output of another sound card and sending it to your encoder like Sam or Shoutcast. That said, I know Ots DJ also has this slight delay, and some Shoutcasters don't mind it. Very interesting stuff, and it would be awesome if we could convince these guys to make Volume Logic more accessible by giving good keyboard access. It's very CPU efficient for what it does, which is a really impressive thing. I note though that the last version was in January, so hope it is still under active development. Perhaps it's just stable and they don't need to keep releasing updates. Jonathan Mosen Blog, podcast and radio show: http://www.MosenExplosion.com Ph: +1-925-566-9265. Mobile/SMS +1-806-252-6671 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Matzura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 5:47 a.m. To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Output v DSP Plug-In for Compression On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:33:25 -0600, you wrote: >Ok. That's all fine and great, but where do ya get it? OK, I've not heard from the list moderator one way or the other, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and tell you that the plug-in is called Volume Logic. There's another one they have, called Octimax_ (note the underscore at the end of the name--odd, yes). Both are available from http://www.octiv.com, and that company appears to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Plantronics, the people who make all those neat headsets for telephones of all kinds. HTH _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
