10 Aug
2010
10 Aug
'10
10:14 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:43:50AM -0400, Tim E. Real wrote:
Had some thoughts about the meters.
Take the inputs as an example:
The meters currently show pre-fader levels.
I find that a bit odd. ie Adjusting the slider doesn't actually
change the meter level.
So by multiplying (er, subtracting?) the meter value by
the slider attenuation value, we can have post-fader meter display.
Sound good?
No, it would just add confusion.
- The meters are there to show levels at the AD/DA converters,
i.e. to allow you to check you are using those in a sensible
way. They happen to be on the same window as the mixer, which
can be useful as they suggest to the user which signal is
being controlled by a fader. But otherwise they are not part
of the mixer, and a better place for them would be with the
HW gain controls.
- The post-fader signals in the mixer are not available anywhere,
they just get summed to the bus. There is little point in measuring
such signals, even less with a meter that just shows digital peak
level and has no relation at all to the real loudness of a signal
and what it contributes to a mix.
Ciao,
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