I even spoke to the PSP guys about embedding an analogue vu into the console somehow - but they are not sure that it can be done with a plugin…
Would love to be able to switch the meter bridge to analog… these peak meters are useless for mixing…
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I’m noticing the new Reaper 7 shows a ui with yellow vu meters in a straight line like on a console.
Maybe Reaper has always offered that capability. I’m certainly not gonna switch just for that…but maybe I’ll download a trial of 7 to see what it looks like.
I was very happy to see the release of the new Harrison console this week…the real hardware.
Complete with all those yellow vu meters on the meterbridge 
I know that ssl builds the Harrison, the origin uses plasma meters…so twice as nice that the new Harrison is vu…in my opinion anyway
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+1 for VU-style metering
’Per-track customizable LUFS loudness metering’ in Reaper 7.
Ideally with some options to set to preferred style (VU, LUFS, PPM, etc.).
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- 1 for Vu meters old school style , no need to quote other daw’s , just good old multiformat Vu meters open constantly on the channel strip
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+1 for adding VU-Style metering per track (for example in the Meter Bridge)
Customizable metering type would be great too: Peak, VU, RMS, K-System and so on
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Great Idea
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This would be a great feature, as I literally have multiple instances of a 3rd party meter taking up space on 2nd screen for quick referencing.
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Please. I would have upgraded to 13 for this alone.
Other DAWs have this so not sure why Steinberg is so against this. It’s been asked for, for years.
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Yup adding my vote for VU needle meters on the channel strip - so suprising that Steinberg have not developed more holistic flexibility on the choice and locations of meters years ago. I notice this morning that UA have made rather a nice job of this aspect with their own plugins and LUNA extensions. If there had been a Windows 11 version of LUNA I’d have given it a go despite having used Cubase/Nuendo for around 20 years.
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This thread is nigh on 7 years old. I think it’s safe to say that VU meters aren’t on the “list of things to come”.
Any one here use the wave meters? Apart from for tripping out? I used them for a video, once.
lol…
I was planning on using them but I found that just looking at waveforms in the edit window made more sense to me. It gives me more of a heads-up of what is coming up, it’s color coded if I chose to, and I would still do tweaks to edits in that window anyway.
Yes agreed this thread has been around for a long time with other threads on a similar topic being amalgamated with it. And I guess some on this thread will have since sighed wearily in a kind of ’ Steinberg never take any notice of user feature requests’ way.
So after writing my contribution I saw that someone has a nice youtube showing how to embed a working VU meter on mix channels in Reaper.
There may only be 16 or so votes for this feature but it is still a great feature to have and others on this thread have mentioned good functional reasons for having it. If Reaper, which costs little compared to Cubase/Nuendo can implement this then surely not such a big step for Steinberg. Maybe not visually best looking solution visually on Reaper but I tested it out myself and it works OK in Reaper.
A great little feature to have in Steinbergs 40th anniversary year.
Best wishes all and to Steinberg folk who may read this 
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More metering options should be built-in. Third-party or SuperVision etc… have their uses too, of course.
And apologies, I know it’s slightly off-topic, but I must give +1 vote for GR meters in the channels too… 
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Nice suprise this morning. UA have released LUNA as a Beta for Windows 10/11. OK only a beta and probably flaky as hell. Plenty of folk already on the web saying they had trouble getting it going. Still here is a screenshot of the demo on my Windows 11.
Not gone further than this yet so don’t know how stable the demo will be. The VU meters are genuine - not bitmaps. Interface seems chunky, a bit 3D ish - reminds me of Cubase back on about version 7 or 8 (post SX3). …but yes nice to see the VU meters there - takes me back to the early 90s
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Can’t say it will make me abandon Nuendo as I beleive and am supportive of Steinberg as a company. But surely if UA with LUNA which is free can do this feature then surely Steinberg the venerable leader in stable, mature DAW technology with a 40 year development life history can do something. Best to all (and long live Channel embedded needle VU meters 
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If nothing else, add a “Rise time” setting in the Meters section of the preferences. Along with the Fallback time it might be possible to get the feel of a VU meter.
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Sometimes, I think the fact that Cubase is so old is the cause of some of the issues mentioned in the forums.
There must be an insane amount of old code with old approaches that have accumulated, I’m sure some of it is basically duck-taped together.
New DAWs, starting from scratch, may have an easier time adding these kinds of features as everything is built with modern tools and modern methodologies.
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Well, there’s that but also that if you’re starting from scratch you have no alternative but to code a meter regardless, because you’re starting from scratch. If you’re starting with an already existing meter in an already existing DAW the question isn’t just “how difficult is this” it then also becomes “how valuable is it to change/add feature Y when X already exists?”.
In other words while many want a VU meter not everybody cares. So you have all users minus those that don’t care at all minus those that don’t care enough to switch DAWs (or not buy to begin with) and if that remaining number is small enough you’ll spend your development resources on other things.
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Well, it prevented me from updating to 13.
I looked at what was on offer, and there wasn’t one thing that helped me with the way I work (dedicated desktop system with multiple monitors).
If there were metering options offered in 13, I would have grabbed it, but for me, 12 is working great.
YMMV
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That’s always going to be the case with some users though. I’m sure some updated exactly because some other new feature showed up and they wouldn’t have if that feature wouldn’t have showed up - so if it hadn’t showed up and VCA metering had and they didn’t care about the latter they would have been in your position.
See what I mean?
Doesn’t that already exist? How long it takes to respond and how long it takee to release?