show channel meters & low/high energy channels for better mix-crafting #283
Conversation
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
coderofsalvation
force-pushed
the
feat/channelmeters-for-mixing
branch
from
a6ea4ab
to
43ec97b
Compare
coderofsalvation
added a commit
that referenced
this pull request
Mar 26, 2024
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The scopes are nice, but this shows what the channels are doing in a more familiar mixing-desk-meter-way.
It also shows which channels are high energy (usually drums) by painting the meter with either scope- or highlighted-color.
That way, if the master vumeter peaks, you can look at the highlighted channelmeters (channel 4) in order to know which notes/samples to lower in volume/eq etc, to get that sausage-perfect mix without using dynamic-plugins.
background
In modtrackers, triggering multiple samples on the same row, easily accumulates in the mid-frequencies (becoming peaks), so it's almost guaranteed to end up with a 'weak'-sounding mix (unless careful eq'ing of samples).
The milkytracker master vumeter helps a lot while eq'ing samples, as well as the clipping indicator.
Fortunately these days the loudness wars have been replaced by better speakers, metering & eq'ing. (something which is all possible in milkytracker without becoming a pluginhost like renoise).