[Rwp] trying to understand osara and the meters function

[Juan Bello]

alright. I somehow forgot that part of the readme and apologize for
not having read it over again, completely and as it deserved. and a
question that is somehow related, the last one on the subject. If I
say, import a media item into a Project is there a way to find out its
output or its db level? this has to do more with mastering and mixing,
which I suppose can be done in reaper without seeing? I think you
watch on the master track for that or am I misstaken?

2015-07-26 20:00 GMT-05:00, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
> 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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