I bought SL6 recently and, while I can’t say it has been an entirely positive experience thus far, I see lots of potential and I’m sure the devs are hard at work addressing the issues. That being said, my main issue is that there are no meters in the software. Considering that a key function of this program is to duplicate and mix audio info I feel like we REALLY need to see what is happening in order to prevent clipping when the file is rendered down to 16-24 bits. Bonus points for adding Loudness normalization since without this I’m just going to have to end up loading the SL6 exports back into Reaper or iZotope to meet loudness targets.
Needs:
Master meter (peak/rms)
Per-layer meters (peak/rms)
That’s all. Cool software!! Keep up the good work.
well…I dug up this zombie cuz I would love to have some metering for SL in standalone. My preferred DAW is not going to be implementing ARA any time soon.
The tiny meter at the transport area is impossible for me to read without planting my face 50mm from the screen. This UI has a massive space under the tools selection area which could be nicely occupied with a big dorrogh type meter.
I typically use Fab Filter Pro-L for my metering…it would be nice to just have the ability to load a VST at the SL output. I need something with live playback ability…I don’t want to have to interrogate Spectral Regions…needs to be on the master output.
sure, here you go
…it’s not going to win any awards
realize, this is not music- it is an interview of human voice
the magenta is my main contributor…cyan in my wanted (Good) noise. Also, I like to use a SPECTRAL REGION to show my sibilance and over the threshold of hearing high end.
I don’t like any peaks over -10dB for broadcast levels and I’m going to mix the unmixed speech and noise layers separately in my DAW after I export those separate layers.
Highlighted by the white rectangle, it is zoomed-in a little on the dB scale to “see” it at a little higher resolution than zoom level 0. I’m just mixing the voices to around -9dB on that scale…and with noise layer at it’s own, static volume…it gets a better result than purely mixing the one mic with some blanket NR…there are still noisefloor issues…but those I either iron out or ask the client what they want to do.
It’s actually a faster ballpark limit task than waiting to listen and watch a meter…obviously listening back is a requirement…just not so many times to go back and deal with peaks over or too quiet sections
I can’t wait for the meters I’m talking about and bouncing to and from DAW would take a lot of time compared to using the dB scale to apply envelope mixing in SL before bouncing
this is where it gets annoying- at this zoom level; envelope is editor is going out of the waveform display viewport with edit point value of 120 (1.6dB)…anyway…it’s a workaround…that tiny meter on the bottom is literally impossible for me to read with my screen at arms-length away…I’d actually like to hide the output level as it is very easy to bump up when editing low freq area
