mzuther/trakmeter

Loudness meter for correctly setting up tracking and mixing levels (gain staging).

traKmeter

Loudness meter for correctly setting up tracking and mixing levels (gain staging).

About

Sadly, most digital audio equipment only has peak meters. This is readily understandable as you want to avoid digital clippings by all means. However, badly chosen meter ranges and scales often render these meters useless. And the lack of average meters does not exactly facilitate gain staging.

When I had realised this, I started coding traKmeter. It has evolved with my growing knowledge and recording experience, but the underlying ideas haven't changed at all.

Please read the manual for a more extensive introduction.

Download

traKmeter can be downloaded in the releases section (you may need to click on "Assets").

I have dropped LV2 plug-in support for good. However, you can still use LV2 - just download version v2.4.6.

Documentation

For documentation, licenses and further information, please see the manual and the directory doc.

FAQ

traKmeter crashes when the plug-in is loaded / opened

1. traKmeter requires a processor which supports the SSE2 instruction set (if you run at Windows 8 and above, it does). On Windows, you might also have to install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.

2. traKmeter comes with a folder called trakmeter. This folder must be located in the same folder as the plug-in, so please copy it along and try again!

Where are the LV2 plug-ins?

• The last release with LV2 plug-ins was version v2.4.6. You can still download them from the "Releases" page.

The stand-alone version does not work

• Unfortunately, I cannot do anything about it as I did not code this part of the application. The stand-alone works well for me - try using another sound card or deleting the settings file.

Code of conduct

Please read the code of conduct before asking for help, filing bug reports or contributing to this project. Thanks!

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2022 Martin Zuther

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Thank you for using free software!

VST2 plug-ins

Technically, my VST2 plug-ins are not free software. However, I chose to provide them for your convenience. All other binaries really are free software in the sense of the Free Software Foundation.

VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries.

trakmeter's Issues

Feature request: Move to JUCE 7.x and reintroduce LV2

Update to newer JUCE, which natively supports LV2 (less hassle!)

Publish More Overview Stats 2.1 on GitHub

Sorry to hijack this unrelated project, but it'd be nice if you could also upload your More Overview Stats 2.1 addon to GitHub. I'd like to report a bug.

Feature request: stable release version titles?

Hello! I'd like to add traKmeter to https://libreav.org/updates but the more recent release titles have affected the ability to parse the release feed entry titles, so I was wondering if I could request that the previous style gets used instead?

Bug: UI is not working in VST2 version

Describe the bug

I can run standalone, but in VST2 the UI is broken.

Steps to reproduce

List all steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. move *.so of traKmeter VST2 plugin to ~/.vst
2. start Carla
3. press "Add Plugin" in Carla
4. double click on traKmeter (stereo) - it should be hosted now
5. go to "Rack" tab
6. right click on Carla-made UI of trakMeter
7. select "Show Custom UI"

Expected behavior

I expect native traKmeter UI to be shown, just as in standalone version.

Screenshots

This weird rectangle below in the middle is traKmeter VST2 UI:

Environment (please complete the following information)

• OS: openSUSE 15.3 64-bit
• DAW: Carla 2.1.1 (in this issue I'm using it to connect JACK signals to traKmeter)
• Plug-in: TraKmeter v2.4.7 VST 2 (64-bit)

Did you compile TraKmeter yourself? no

Tool set (if you compiled the plug-in yourself)

Didn't compile

Additional context

I also tried hosting it Renoise, and the UI is also completely broken there.

[Feature request] StudioRack integration

It's an open-source plugin manager called StudioRack:
https://github.com/studiorack

The aim of the project is to provide a free open-source way to manage plugin dependencies and their versions. It would involve the following steps:

Publish a Github release containing the plugin source along with metadata plugins.json
Tag your Github repository with studiorack-plugin so it can be discovered
Wait for the studiorack-registry to index your plugin (every 24 hours)
Check the registry feed for your plugin to appear

Can't get the traKmeter visible in Cubase 9.5 Windows 10

Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful plugins. I got the K meter 64 .dll running in Cubase (but it get's black listed every time I startup Cubase) and unfortunately the traKmeter doesn't appear in Cubase. Also when I put the 64 bits .dll's of both plugins in the same folder Cubase can't find it. (res-scan in the plugin manager doesn't help either). In Reaper they both work without any problem!
Regards,
David