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

Ingo ingo at miamiwave.com
Tue Apr 21 13:09:38 CEST 2020


Thanks, Peter!

At the moment I cannot change to 0.50 but I'll keep it in mind for the near 
future when I will have to update my system.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] On Behalf Of Peter P.
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PD] VU / Peak Meter ? - external or abstraction
>
> * Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com> [2020-04-21 10:23]:
> > * Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com> [2020-04-21 09:03]:
> > > Does anybody know of an accurate mono or stereo VU meter?
> > >
> > > Abstraction or external.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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...
> Oh, I mistyped the object name, it should be [slop~]!
>
>
> > > 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
>
> Once you can create the [slop~] object look at
> https://plessas.mur.at/devel/devel.html
> for an abstraction called [rpdb~] which uses [slop~] to output rms and peak
> as a list formatted for use with Pd's VU meter object.
>
>
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