[Rwp] trying to understand osara and the meters function

[Patrick Perdue]

Yes, although I still prefer ReaAccess's metering, as you get a very 
discrete VU and peak, and you can also see more than just channels 1/2 
if needed. For things like custom routing, side chains, etc. this is 
good to have.
Also, with OSARA, you can see both over-all peak and a semi-real time VU 
for the selected track, but you have to hear both values at once. Using 
ReaAccess, they are bound to separate hotkeys, and the per-track VU 
always works regardless of if "peak inspector" is enabled or not.

On 7/27/2015 7:23 AM, Gavin Grundlingh via RWP wrote:
> 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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