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does anyone know a clever way to display a VUmeter for each track, all of them in the same mira.frame ?

Hi,
does anyone know a clever way to display a VUmeter for each track, all of them in the same mira.frame ?
thanks
louis


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Well couldn't you observe the level in each track and then feed that to a meter in your mira device.

Or use live.remote if you need audio rate resolution

It's not clever though, it's wasteful and expensive, sorry.

Much more clever than me, though ! didn't know you could observe level... was trying to mess with send~ but it's not working. Thank you very much !

Ah maybe you can't! I'm doubting myself now.

humm, can you really observe the level ? i don't see it in the LOM.

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/1626/ultimate-mixer

The guy who made this MUST know :http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/1626/ultimate-mixer
Trying to reach him.


Yeah you can. I started making an example device for you but live.meter~ doesnt work with mira yet and meter~ doesn't have a linear option (only db) so you need to do a bit of maths or something. Too early for that! but below is the api snippet. I'm sure you can piece it together.

If you didn't want to use the api you could have a m4l device in every channel and just read the audio level as it comes in and send it to your master device.

output_meter_level is too smoothed to be usable (or maybe I did something wrong) but observing left or right channel seems to be fine.

Gavspav beat me by a few seconds, and I had forgotten that live.meter~ doesn't work (but will in a close future of course errr... Cycling people ?). Have a look at my previous post though as you will see what I mean about observing output_meter_level...

So to make it usable in Mira, I've come with this. Don't know if this is theoretically correct, but it seems close to the levels indicated by Live... Maybe some kind of exponential scaling would be more precise, but dealing with the levels as they appear in Live GUI has always been tricky, I've spent a lot of time in Lemur trying to match them precisely and the closer solution implied using an array of values.

Gavspav beat me by a few seconds, and I had forgotten that live.meter~ doesn't work (but will in a close future of course errr... Cycling people ?). Have a look at my previous post though as you will see what I mean about observing output_meter_level...
So to make it usable in Mira, I've come with this. Don't know if this is theoretically correct, but it seems close to the levels indicated by Live... Maybe some kind of exponential scaling would be more precise, but dealing with the levels as they appear in Live GUI has always been tricky, I've spent a lot of time in Lemur trying to match them precisely and the closer solution implied using an array of values.


Thanks guys. Stephane your scaling is not correct as it ouputs -1 when the incoming sig is 0. im happy anyway !

I know about the scaling, that was just meant to allow the reading on meter~, as this only accepts signals in the -1. 1. range. Maybe there's another solution. You can read the amplitude value in the float box.

M4L : multiple VUmeters in one tab ?