[LAD] mudita24 peaks & peak reset

[Niels Mayer]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:20 PM, David Santamauro
<david.santamauro at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I was checking out the new mudita24, I noticed that the peak
> line on the meters doesn't go to zero after the signal is
> 'silence'. I have to manually click "reset peaks".
>
> Is this on purpose?

Sort of. The initial point was to fix
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602903
"envy24control "Reset Peaks" button nonfunctional; metering shows no peaks" ...
Which, after investigation, revealed they weren't implemented in the
first place. So I implemented them; then as I started paying attention
to actually using envy24control's meters for mixing and leveling
directly, and I realized it sucked, and thus mudita24 "fork." Tim E
Real provided patches and improvments and
http://mudita24.googlecode.com is the current result.

What probably makes sense as a feature request is an "automatic
peak-fall-off" feature. This could, for example, be implemented as an
option-menu below the reset peaks button which if set to "manual"
would give the current behavior and enable the "Reset Peaks" button;
if set to Auto(1s), Auto(2s), Auto(5s) options, one gets the automatic
peak-falloff seen in numerous interfaces.

Please submit all feature requests or issues here:
http://code.google.com/p/mudita24/issues/entry

> PS: nice overhaul, great work, thanks.

Thanks, and you're welcome!

If anybody wants to submit a patch for the above feature, that would
be great. I'm not sure how soon I'll be getting around to investing
another big chunk of time in mudita24. I'm busy working on the
open-source part of what I'm supposed to be working on anyways :-) [
http://spekle.googlecode.com ].

-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com