Features

Common

Breakaway Broadcast Processor features applicable to all broadcast mediums:

Advanced Distortion Cancelled Clipping back-end yielding unprecedented quality and clarity on any broadcast medium, while keeping up with any other processor loudness-wise.
Numerous customizable excellent sounding Factory Presets suitable for any format
6 easy to use controls intelligently adjust internal processing parameters to make dialing in your custom sound easier than ever
Controls: Final Drive, Range, Power, Speed, Bass Level and Bass Shape
Smooth, flexible wideband AGC provides "steady hand on the fader" gain riding up to 36dB
Advanced multiband compression and limiting (4, 5, 6 or 7 bands depending on preset) provides excellent consistency
Multiband Downward Expanders for cleaning up noisy source material
Phase Linear from beginning to end, including multiband and all filters, to maintain waveform fidelity and transient impact. Critical to avoid further damaging modern pre-clipped CDs
Selectable phase scrambler which correct assymetry in sharp voices and instruments (such as saxophone) without invalidating the previous statement
Selectable phase linear brick-wall high pass filter (Off, 30 Hz, 45 Hz, 60 Hz, 80 Hz, 100 Hz, 120 Hz)
Virtually unlimited number of Breakaway Pipelines (our Virtual Cable driver) for easy interfacing to any software
Adaptive Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter, for perfect glitch-free audio
DSP effect plug-in support, for loading custom effects directly inside Breakaway FM
Highly accurate DPO (digital phosphor) oscilloscope, for monitoring of input and output waveforms
Bright, accurate meters for visualizing all aspects of the processing. Includes input overload (clip) warning.
Robust audio engine supporting all major sound cards (Wave MME, DirectSound and Kernel Streaming)

FM

FM broadcasting features:

50 and 75us pre-emphasis, and selectable de-emphasis
Extremely accurate FM Stereo MPX Encoder (Composite Output)
Impeccable peak control - rock solid overshoot-free signal, yet clean, open and LOUD. Perfect Peak control is achieved with L/R baseband clipping only -- no composite clipping is necessary or desirable
Impeccable spectrum control and pilot protection - Low pass filter selectable
ITU-R SM.1268.1 (also known as Stokkemasker) compliant
External RDS pass-through with pilot lock
LF Tilt and HF Eq features, separate for L/R and MPX outputs, to allow compensating for Sound Card, STL and transmitter frequency response
Built in line-up tone generator for easy calibration using an external oscilloscope

AM

AM broadcasting features:

Loud, bright and crystal clear FM-like audio
Selectable pre-emphasis and de-emphasis
Strict output bandwidth control (5.0, 7.5, 9.0 and 10.0 KHz) to abide government regulations and avoid interference
Precise peak control. Asymmetry adjustable from 100 to 150% positive peak modulation.
Mono or Stereo (C-Quam compatible, -75 / +110% asymmetry)
Selectable Input and Output polarity
LF Tilt and HF Eq features, to allow compensating for Sound Card, STL and transmitter frequency response
Built in line-up tone generator for easy calibration using an external oscilloscope

Streaming / Digital

Streaming / Digital Radio features:

Unprecedented distortion-free loudness for all forms of digital broadcasting
15us/25us pre/de-emphasis compensates for codec overshoots to allow driving most codecs at 0dB full scale - no attenuation necessary
Selectable output bandwidth 5.0 - 16.0 KHz to optimize audio quality with any codec at any bitrate
Clipper does not add out-of-band content, thus there is no need for pre-coding optimization band-aids
DSP Plug-in support to safely and directly load Shoutcast^tm and other encoders directly inside Breakaway FM.
Robust audio engine: Plug-ins are quarantined, and if one crashes they will be restarted instead of taking your station off the air