[Rwp] trying to understand osara and the meters function

[Scott Chesworth]

That's not a Reaper limitation so far as I know, and would be a useful
feature to have. Can you put a request in on the GitHub page so that
Jamie can investigate and possibly add it?

Cheers, and glad you've got it working now.

Scott

On 7/27/15, Juan Bello via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 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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