[RWP] new accessible peak meter

[Chris Belle]

Excellent.
'grin'.

On 1/20/2015 10:28 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> Yep Chris, that's the next tweak they need to make. I've been at the
> research sessions that sparked off the development of this and will be
> seeing the developer again at the end of Jan, so will second your
> suggestion then and give him a face to face demo of why it's important
> if needs be.
>
> Cool to see people are starting to use this, it's neat.
>
> On 1/20/15, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 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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