[Rwp] trying to understand osara and the meters function

[Gavin Grundlingh]

Just tried out the peak watcher and, as far as I can see, it does report 
values higher than 0.0 DB. Mine says things like, "Chan 1: 0.3. Chan 2: 
2.9." True, it doesn't prefix these positive values with a plus, but if 
the value doesn't have a minus before it, you'll automatically know it's 
positive.

Regards,

Gavin


On 7/27/2015 2:15, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
> 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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