[PD] VU / Peak Meter ? - external or abstraction

Peter P. peterparker at fastmail.com
Tue Apr 21 10:23:25 CEST 2020


* Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com> [2020-04-21 09:03]:
> Does anybody know of an accurate mono or stereo VU meter?
> 
> Abstraction or external.
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> Using env~ with the Pd internal level meter works but I don't seem to have
> any reference of the real peak or RMS level.
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> The only thing I could do is sending some test signals from the SPDIF out to
> my RME sound card and tweak the level to match 0dB.
> 
> But there should be an accurate level calculation directly within Pd .
Have a look at the internal object [slope~] help patch. There is a
subpatch for peak-meter there. But...
 
  
> I'm on Pd 0.49 on Debian.
... it is only available starting with Pd 0.50 which is available in
Debian testing. Check for available versions of Pd on your computer with
the shell command
 $ aptitude versions puredata





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