On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com> wrote:

Thanks for the tip. Will save me some braincells.

Found it here:

http://guitarix.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.10.0-2/GtkFastMeter_8cpp-source.html
http://guitarix.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.10.0-2/GtkFastMeter_8h-source.html

the code in ardour3 doesn't use pixbufs and is entirely drawn directly with cairo. you may or may not care.