Well what do you know? An audio peak meter!

TDK1044

Member Joined: Apr 11, 2019 12:27 Messages: 130 Offline

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Oct 15, 2019 19:01

So, my apologies if I'm late to the party and you guys already knew about this feature, but one thing I always missed editing in PD was an audio peak meter that's visible during editing to show that the volume of your tracks isn't clipping and causing distortion. Yes I know that the yellow peaks show that in the waveform, but I missed the conventional peak meter. Well what do you know...PD 18 has added what it calls a 'timeline preview volume meter'.....a peak meter which it places under the preview window. Awesome.


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StevenG

Contributor Joined: Jan 14, 2014 14:04 Messages: 513 Offline

Oct 16, 2019 07:42

Yep. You should check out some of my "new features" tutorials on YouTube.

Here's a sampling.

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Mark875

Newbie Joined: Apr 11, 2020 23:54 Messages: 2 Offline

Dec 08, 2020 21:03

And now in version 19 it's gone. I can still see the option but it's greyed out. Anyone know how to get it working again?

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Dec 08, 2020 21:44

Quote And now in version 19 it's gone. I can still see the option but it's greyed out. Anyone know how to get it working again?

Are you saying that this option from the View menu can't be selected on your end?

Mark875

Newbie Joined: Apr 11, 2020 23:54 Messages: 2 Offline

Dec 09, 2020 19:15

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Are you saying that this option from the View menu can't be selected on your end?

Thanks, that worked. Previously I had found it in the preview options and there it is greyed out.