[RWP] new accessible peak meter

[Chris Belle]

I am in dialogue with the developer, so we might get a really good tool.

On 1/20/2015 6:57 AM, Alex H. wrote:
> Good point.
>
> I need to play with this more, but so far it seems like a quick tool
> to double check mixes and such.
>
> Alex
>
> On 1/20/15, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> The problem with it is that when you adjust the ratio between the signal
>> and the sonification
>> or notification beeps, it changes the level of the signal.
>>
>> It's ok to have a volume control for the sonification but if you're
>> messing with the levels with that control, then all bets are off.
>>
>> I wrote them a note and told them so.
>>
>> Better to have some alternative routing method to send the signal
>> elsewhere, but not a mix knob.
>>
>> Maybe when the knob is set fully to just hear the notification of
>> clipping or whatever, then the signal isn't being affected, but then you
>> can't hear what's clipping and at what level.
>>
>> So it needs to be changed.
>>
>>
>> On 1/20/2015 4:23 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>> It does. SWS makes that even better. But this gives you an idea of
>>> what's going on in real time.
>>> This actually isn't the "world's first accessible peak meter" as said
>>> on the tin. Someone put something out a long time ago called Blind
>>> VUMeter, or something like that.
>>> That having been said, I haven't tried this one yet, so can't really
>>> say anything about it.
>>>
>>> On 1/20/2015 4:39 AM, Ken Downey wrote:
>>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but Reaper has a peak finder, and it even
>>>> works when you're rendering files... Guess I'll check this out.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 8:30 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] new accessible peak meter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Seems like a useful tool.
>>>>>
>>>>> J sonar has a clip detecting feature,
>>>>> but it just tells you when you clipped, not by how much and is not
>>>>> variable with tone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tend to just give myself enough headroom, and depend on sonar's 64
>>>>> bit headroom on tracks,
>>>>> and on busses I always have a brick wall imiter.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use ricks like normalizing to give me an audio reference of how much
>>>>> I have left in the spectrum, but these aren't real time cues, so this
>>>>> will indeed be a useful too.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can put it anywhere,
>>>>> and since you can effectively by-pass the beeps, you could use it
>>>>> multiple places.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, that is if the mix knob is 100 percent either way.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just downloaded it and going to give it a spin.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/19/2015 7:31 AM, Jason Fayre wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> Has anyone tried this?  Looks interesting.
>>>>>> http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/apmfeedback
>>>>>>
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