21 May
2009
21 May
'09
9:37 p.m.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)kokkinizita.net> wrote:
We are talking about per-strip meters here. In the
HW days most mixers wouldn't even have those - maybe
just an 'overload' led if you were lucky.
i'm not trying to compete with the race to the bottom.
In Ardour they are also used as recording level
meters,
but apart from that they are mostly useful as 'signal
presence indicators' or to provide a quick visual hint
of from where (from which strip) some part of a mix
originates. There is no need for a 'standard' meter
in these functions.
i didn't try to suggest that ardour or needs standard meters here. my
point was simply that in all likelihood, any scale you choose here
that works for metering is different that the scale you want for the
fader. or do you think otherwise.
What Ardour is lacking is sort of 'monitoring'
window,
a place where you can select in a convenient way what
you hear, and how.
hear where? master outs? a listen bus? control outs bus? some other
bus(ses)? direct outs? there's no simple definition of "what you
hear". there might be N listeners at one time. whose monitoring is
being affected?
anyway, all of this is currently being radically overhauled in 3.0, so
i can't (for now) get too deeply into how 2.X works (or doesn't).
in my experience, many engineers find a distinction between a meter
bridge and a listening/monitoring system to be frequently useful.
tying meters to a specific listening path at any one time seems
potentially counter-productive.