[LAU] [ANN] meters.lv2 v0.5.1

Peter P. p8rpp at aol.com
Mon Oct 7 21:04:21 UTC 2013


* Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at stackingdwarves.net> [2013-10-07 22:08]:
> On 10/07/2013 09:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> >>The goniometer(TM) aka Stereo Phase Scope is not a jellyfish display. JF
> >>would be a surround 5.1 variation.
> >
> >Your attempt at applying a trade mark to that word is about 45 or 50 years
> >late, that was the term used to describe a rotary transformer used to
> >rotate the display in color tv (NTSC days) vectorscopes first built by
> >Tektronx.
> >
> >>I was actually positively surprised how much information is displayed by
> >>a goniometer. It takes a while to learn to read it, but it's amazing.
> >
> >Yes it is.  The learning part however, does separate the wannabees from the
> >doers though.
> 
> well, reading a stereo scope is not too hard really. even if you
> only pick out some obvious aspects, it's still useful.
> 
> making sense of a video color vectorscope however (never seen an
> ntsc one, but i believe the pal ones have similar output) seems to
well, isn't NTSC the abbreviation for "never the same color"?
(sorry, stupid joke)

P.


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