Every track has a meter that only shows the peak level. The option to make a meter that bough shows average and peak level wood be nice. If possible the option to switch other metering types wood be nice to.
It’s a HUGE +1 from me. And it’s far from being the first time we’ve asked for this.
Peak metering is redundant in all but a few places (inputs, master out, external FX). 32/64-bit processing means there’s enough headroom that the peak isn’t important unless you’re using ancient/poorly designed plugins.
PLEASE give us the option to set channel meters to VU, PPM, K-scale, TP or LUFS metering. (Hint: Pro Tools HD even offers gain-reduction meters on the channel). Ideally, make it possible to set each channel or type of channel (input, audio, group etc) individually to different types, and set the metering to different colours so you can tell at a glance what meter type is in use.
Well, it’s 2016 now. And still no advance on this.
WOw.
Well, it’s 2016 now.
It’s actually 2026. 
But I agree with you totally.
Best,
Magnus
HA! I meant to write 2026!
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Tempus fugit.
I have recently bought a fancy VU meter plugin so the implementation is probably just around the corner according to the bus stop principle: light up a cigarette and within seconds your bus will turn up out of nowhere
@Googly_Shakespeare : Can you confirm?
I’ve found buses to be far more predictable than Steinberg!
EG, GrooveAgent 6 - has a new kit with dozens of new kit pieces, but no blasted cowbell. People think I joke, but I do not. For my style of music, a cowbell is an essential. Just as VU meters are.
Hey ho.
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We want a dedicated Cowbell library!!!
Hahaha,kidding but we need a NEW dedicated percussion library (NO joking!)
I’m about to add a Feature Request for this. Not joking.
For a regular drum kit, playing rock or retro pop, it’s not an optional extra, it’s an essential.
Indeed we do.
Toontrack SD3 Orchestral Percussion that is really 2 separate parts, (very little price discounting until the past couple years) as well as Toontrack Latin Percussion, Toontrack Cuban Percussion and In Session Audio SSS gets most use with me. Samples from Mars has quite a bit of traditional samples for Kontakt Battery etc.
However over the years producing pop, I feel I have always been short of timbales. Timbales for me was always lacking mostly in pitch and tone. And some…often cheap or free include processing that ruins the samples.
So a few years ago I finally put Battery 3 to good work and created Battery3 grids of just…organized timbale Battery kits. That took a lot of work and more recently had to manually convert it all over to Groove Agent because I’m scared of NI. And it’s not just timbales, but several other relative unique percussion instruments. Over the past few years, using those grids has definitely improved my workflow. I can dial in the pitch and tone much faster.
There are dozens of other percussion tools, but are you thinking of Absolute or content that should be included with just the purchase of Cubase?
I would imagine Steinberg will do whatever they feel sells best with Cubase. I would rather they focus on addressing core DAW functions as opposed to samples found with numerous 3rd parties. A good example is channel metering. 3rd parties can’t integrate what they got into Cubase.
I’m not complaining about what percussion I can occasionally suck out of Absolute, but other than marketing, why include more samples? Consider me an elitist stuck up snob, but if you want more percussion and know what types of percussion you desire, buy it. A general all-around percussion library isn’t going to bring much to the table except for new users.
Now watch Steinberg do it. 
Outsourcing a percussion library I bet would be less cost than figuring how to include channel metering in Cubase including all it’s options plus the hide/show preferences.
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If you really want just cowbells, have you tried putting them on larger grids of Battery then organizing them the way you think about cowbells? I only say Battery because of the configurable grid sizes. Or doing the same with Groove Agent less all the different grid sizes?
You could do the same keeping them in managers such as Sononym, however that means opening another VST.
I can get a cowbell for, say, Simon Phillips kits by adding one of the standard kits in one of the other three slots, but that means a lot of messing around when programming rhythms. It would be nice if the kits had these things as standard.
I shouldn’t have derailed this topic. Apologies.
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I’ll PM you soon.
But do notice I had the ability to work “channel metering” back in with the dedicated cowbell library.
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