I believe we've almost got our metering covered, now.NeilBlack wrote:Dear Magic Dave & all, thanks so much for the new effect performance pane. I've so often had weird glitches and performance spikes always happening at exactly the same position in a song but for no obvious or easily identifiable reason.
My current project developed this annoyance and 1st thing opening 9.5 helped with was to immediately identify the cause - an instance of Slate Verbsuite Classics suddenly spiking to max at bar 43..
Brilliant!
Bus - check
Track - check
I/O - check
Channel strip - check
Bundle - check
Audio performance - check
Plugin Performance - Check (thank you, MOTU)
MIDI Monitor - sort of... I use MIDI Monitor from Snoid.com to make up for it
Audio spectrum meters - comme si comme sa... If you only use the MOTU Masterworks EQ, you've got a half-windowed FFT meter, and that's a whole lot better than nothing. But something like Blue Cat Audio's FFT meters would be fantastic. Something with max, average, real time, freeze, and so forth, all color coded and customizable in the view would be perfect. I'm happy with Blue Cat; don't get me wrong. It's hard to beat. But if you really want to cover DP a critical technical requirement for any DAW, that is one that is still in need. When you're looking for that one little wave that's messing up your mix, this is what it takes. Unless, of course, you've got perfect pitch honed in for harmonics and exact frequency numbers. (maybe some savants out there?) I get close through relative pitch, frequency chart and a little logical thinking, but really, an FFT meter takes out all the guesswork. And it gets those things that are out of my hearing range. Maybe for a future update you could buy out Blue Cat! Or lease!
Shooshie