On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:41:15PM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote:
> (1) Think about building-in meter ballistics from Fons Adriaensen's
> jkmeter ( http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads/jkmeter-0.4.0.tar.bz2
> ). Which helps implent Bob Katz' "K System" (
> http://www.digido.com/level-practices-part-2-includes-the-k-system.html
> ). Although it probably most makes sense to implement such metering on
> the main "digital mixer" meter of envy24control, if it's not too
> inefficient, I'd want it available on all meters, despite the warning
> from Fons ( http://old.nabble.com/First-release-of-jkmeter-td18798950.html
> ).
> > This is the type of meter you want for live recording,
> > mixing and mastering. It probably makes no sense to
> > use it on all tracks of a DAW, where keeping digital
> > level within limits is the main purpose of metering.
That comment is still true. A K-meter is for signals
that are in a sense the 'end result' you listen to.
For monitoring 'technical' levels in digital audio
the peak digital level is all you need.
A much more serious failure of Envy24ctl's meters is
that they don't provide any level indication at all.
Where is -10 dB ? or -20 dB ? Except for checking if
a signal is present they are just eye candy.
For me it doesn't matter at all. I/O gains are fixed
and levels are checked either by application software
or by the external equipment (a mixer in my case, the
sound card is connected as if it were an 8-track). So
in practice I never use Envy24control.
Ciao,
-- Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais nonchalant d’elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait. (Michel de Montaigne) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Tue Jul 13 04:15:02 2010
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