Re: [Audacity-devel] meters

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

    | From "sl contrib" <sl....@go...> 
    | Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:05:28 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-devel] meters
    | there are some strange things going on with the meter. I'm building on
    | Mac against wx2.8.5.
    | - Sometimes the meters go red, when no distortion is present, e.g. at
    | the start of the project, before any tracks start. The red then stays
    | on, irrespective of starting/stopping.
    | - Conversely, where a mix actually distorts briefly (which is evident
    | in a mix down), sometime the red lights don't light up, even with a
    | high refresh rate.

Unless we changed it, I seem to recall the meters need a run of three
samples before they will show clipping. That isn't the problem is it? 

Have you got a track with just some brief clipping that sometimes 
brings clipping on in the Playback VU Meter but sometimes doesn't?    
 

    | - The 'refresh' rate for the meters is not remembered between
    | restarts, and should probably be in the main audacity preferences.

Odd, because Windows builds seem to remember it. My 2 pennies is I 
would not want the refresh rate in the main Preferences as there is 
enough in there already. If something can be changed easily outside 
it (such as this and the Label font), isn't it better to make the change
in the specific dialogue? 


Gale 



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