[Rwp] trying to understand osara and the meters function

[Juan Bello]

You are absolutely right. UNfortunately I didn't know of any other
documentation except for the read me on the gythub page. Thinkering a
bit with the values you mentioned, everything makes perfect sense now.
INteresting is that when something is badly distorting or clipping,
osara will not report possitive decibels like +7 db but I guess that
is a reaper limitation or thing. Now i understand that when recording
digitally its best if you keep everything levelled at an average of
-18 db . Can't thank you enough for such a wonderful tool.

2015-07-26 18:16 GMT-05:00, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
> A few things to check:
> 1. Was the track armed? It needs to be armed for input to affect the
> meters.
> 2. In the Peak Watcher dialog, what did you set "Hold peaks" to? As
> noted in the documentation, if you set it to 0 (which is the default),
> it will hold peaks forever. So, if the level hits 0dB and you then turn
> the gain down, it will "hold" at 0dB. Note that if the level hits -3dB
> and then -2dB, it will go up to -2dB, since -2dB is the new peak. You
> can disable or shorten the time for this holding functionality in the
> Peak Watcher dialog.
>
> Jamie
>
> On 26/07/2015 2:43 AM, Juan Bello via RWP wrote:
>> hi, well I have read a lot about gain structures and staging recently.
>> But then yesterday I set off to try and test the meter watch function
>> provided by osara. I really did not notice diferences in results. i
>> looped something out of my Workstation, and turned the gain up and
>> down the entire time, Reading the master track and the current track
>> peaks. nothing changed at all. Either I am doing something wrong or I
>> just do not understand peak meters at all. Can someone explain how
>> this is implemented?
>>
>
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