Re: [Audacity-devel] input monitoring

[Anthony A. O. <Ant...@ep...>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:49:59 -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:

>Did you intentionally not send this to the list?  I think it would be
>useful to discuss this on-list, but I didn't want to bounce it back
>public without your permission.

If you're talking about the PDF file, it's just that the list won't transmit
attachments, and since you wanted to do this feature, you're the first one to
send it to :).


>> freeware VST VU meter. I'll take a close look at it and see what it does. A VU
>> by nature is slow and is meant to measure average loudness.

>I didn't know this.  I'd like to write it in whatever way would be most
>useful, so emulating a real VU would probably be good.

I hope the PDF file was useful.



>> Interesting for science folks and people wanting to monitor their audio during
>> mixing. Could also be a great monitor function during playback. Should be able
>> to take a single track or the entire mix as input.

>Monitoring playback would be another ball game completely, especially if
>you want to be able to select which track(s) are used as input.  I could
>look into this though.

A dropdown-list control that contains 'Complete Mix' and all the single tracks.
I don't know about submixes though, 'cause we do not have busses yet. Would some
other control be easier to pick a track ? I thought the dropdown-list control
uses little screen space



>> All these monitors should be able to indicate clipping(with a setting of what
>> clipping constitutes). For example, some DAT recorders indicate clipping at 5
>> samples of continuous 0dB.

>It doesn't seem necessary to have every one of the monitors indicate
>clipping.  For example, why would a spectrum analyzer indicate clipping?
>I think it makes sense for VU and the waveform one (which could draw a
>red vertical line whereever it clips).

The clipping meter should a general display , perhaps even in the toolbar. A
clipping counter perhaps ? The PSP VU meter has this neat little LED that still
glows slightly dark red after lighting up to indicate that something did clip.

I can send along screenshots of the meter. It's neat, but a little flashy and
blurry IMO.

 Tony