Reading New Meters

[H20nly]

I'm not at a Ableton enabled device; these new meters that show the "perceived volume". I'm assuming this is the portion of the meter displaying a 50% reduction in opacity. I'm curious, if you peak and go into the red does that occur at the lower/solid portion or is there some secondary indicator for "perceived clipping"??

The video only shows happy green bars below 0dbfs

Also, how does this really work; how is perception measured?



Edit: typo of=or 1st question

[kirillov]

for me I stil try to make the level meters work.
for some reason they are not displayed in my Push screen (also not the waveform)...

[esotericmetal]

The is no 'real' meter. Look up Peak vs. RMS. Peak is the actual values of the audio (what you would see as a waveform), whereas RMS is an average (easier to gauge overall loudness but fast transients may not show up due to being an average). Clipping in the peak meters means your audio is clipping.

[H20nly]

The is no 'real' meter. Look up Peak vs. RMS. Peak is the actual values of the audio (what you would see as a waveform), whereas RMS is an average (easier to gauge overall loudness but fast transients may not show up due to being an average). Clipping in the peak meters means your audio is clipping.

What I'm referring to is, immediately above the section titled "Great sounding analog-modeled filters", in the video here:

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/new-in- ... -5+release

[login]

Peak is the dark green part and RMS the bright one.

[stringtapper]

Peak is the dark green part and RMS the bright one.

^ That.

[H20nly]

to put it in color; I was asking, is there a red bar and a light red... eh hem... pink bar?

[Tarekith]

In order to keep this thread from becoming NSFW, let's not talk about pink bars, ok?



Good question on what the RMS meter is actually showing H2Only, I'll see if I can find out more about that for you.