[Rwp] trying to understand osara and the meters function

[Scott Chesworth]

Hahaha, somehow I'd never noticed this difference. Ok Juan, in light
of Jamie's explanation, no need to file that request on GitHub after
all.

Scott

On 7/27/15, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> On 27/07/2015 10:06 AM, Juan Bello via RWP wrote:
>> You are absolutely right. UNfortunately I didn't know of any other
>> documentation except for the read me on the gythub page.
> That GitHub readme is what I'm talking about. Quoting the Peak Watcher
> section of the readme:
>> 5. The Hold peaks option allows you to specify whether the highest
>> peak remains as the reported peak level and for how long. Holding
>> peaks gives you time to examine the peak level, even if the audio
>> level dropped immediately after the peak occurred. Specify -1 to
>> disable holding of peaks or 0 to hold peaks forever.
>
>> 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.
> Nope. That's to do with the way audio interfaces work. You're taking an
> analog signal and your audio interface is converting it to digital. 0dB
> represents the maximum level your analog to digital converter can
> handle. If you go past this, you get audible clipping. REAPER never sees
> values above 0dB because 0dB is the converter's peak.
>
> In contrast, say you have a 0dB signal on your input and you set the
> volume on your REAPER track to 3dB. In that case, Peak Watcher will
> report 3dB. This is because you're entirely in the box at that point;
> REAPER can handle mixing past 0dB. So, you'll tend to see values above
> 0dB more when you're dealing with mixing, not recording.
>
> Jamie
>
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