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Installed Brutefir, but now when the plugin is active I get no music. I have to disable the plug in and restart volumio to get back music. I have yet to get Volumio working with brutefir active. I think someone else had the same issue but I am not sure how they resolved it.
Usually it's about DAC Output Format. Go to BruteFIR settings, activate Advanced Settings and try setting Output Format to "Factory_S32_LE". If that doesn't work try other values.
Warning: Do NOT try to change anything in Volumio Playback Options when BruteFIR plugin is active. That won't help but will crash the plugin so you will have to reinstall it.
Hello,
To start, an easy way is to use the variant3 , with good easy results, but less latitude to tweak it.
An other way is to create and export filter from REW as explain here : creating filters with REW
You can use other software (Acourate?) to generate filters too.
And of course, Rephase to do a very specific work, but more complicated.
For info, I get this with variant3 : DRC-FIR with volumio in few clicks...
In all case, the most difficult is to make a good measurement.
To start, an easy way is to use the variant3 , with good easy results, but less latitude to tweak it.
An other way is to create and export filter from REW as explain here : creating filters with REW
You can use other software (Acourate?) to generate filters too.
And of course, Rephase to do a very specific work, but more complicated.
For info, I get this with variant3 : DRC-FIR with volumio in few clicks...
In all case, the most difficult is to make a good measurement.
BruteFIR Volumio plugin recognises filters in WAV, PCM and TXT format. Filter format is recognised automatically. Both WAV and PCM filters generated with Acourate are supported.
Got it. Thanks very much
Is it possible to make a Volumio/BruteFIR setup with more than 8 output channels? If one wanted to create active crossovers for speakers and bass-management from the same device, you could quickly surpass 8 channels of audio... This may require a full x86 machine with a special sound card but I'm wondering if there is another way.
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In theory you could do that - BruteFIR is capable of using >8 channels if you've got a suitable audio interface and enough processing power. You'd have to modify the plugin to be able to configure that many channels I think (I haven't looked at the code in a while) but it shouldn't be too hard as it essentially uses a template to create a config file with the values you put into the web interface.
I had to re-install Brutefir because it stopped working. The new version 0.4.9 has new features which I am not familiar with. Can someone help me out? I am exclusively using Rephase to convert my REW filter file into a wav file to be imported into Brutefir.
1- Which filter format and filter size should I choose in rephase for best results?
2-Number of partitions is a new feature. What is this? Is this the number of filters per channel?
3- What should I set the internal resolution to?
4- What about sample rate? Should this value match the rate from rephase? Is the higher rate, the better result?
5- Why include an input and output format? Should they be same? What should they be set to? Match Rephase file ouptut format?
Thanks again for all the work and the added features.
1- Which filter format and filter size should I choose in rephase for best results?
2-Number of partitions is a new feature. What is this? Is this the number of filters per channel?
3- What should I set the internal resolution to?
4- What about sample rate? Should this value match the rate from rephase? Is the higher rate, the better result?
5- Why include an input and output format? Should they be same? What should they be set to? Match Rephase file ouptut format?
Thanks again for all the work and the added features.
You don't need to use rePhase to convert REW filters to wav as REW can export filters in wav format. Click File/Export/Export impulse response as WAV for your left and right filter.
Copy wav filter files to brutefir filter directory and select them by name within brutefir plugin. You don't need to confgure anything with Brutefir plugin as filter parameters will be recognised and set automatically when you select them.
QMuse, just to make sure becuase I already screwed one version of brutefir to the point that I had to re-install... ll I have to do is select the left and right filter and ignore anything else in this selection menu? Will the displayed values automaticall update based on format of the selection of the two filters? Does the input attenuation also automatically change? If so, why have them selectable?
Thanks and sorry for being a bit slow.
That is a very old version. You should upgrade to new version of the plugin as described here. Be sure to upgrade Volumio to ver 2.776 or higher before installing new version of the plugin.
And yes, with new version you will need to select only names of the left and right filter - everything else will be configured for you automatically.
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