Addmitedly it's the first release of this plug, hope it works better with V in the future. I say this because I can't get the evelope record automation to work, only the meter automation. Check out the plug and all will make sense.
Sorry, could I just confirm that you've tried the plug without success re. recording the envelope, but the meter output worked (if a little strangely)?
I haven't tried it but as it looks SO useful I'll give it a go and get back to you. Might take a few days, production pipeline is kind of in meltdown! This used to be a hobby, now it only lets me sleep a few hours a day.
It does work well. I copied the envelope over to an EQ plug and got an auto-wah effect going. Also cool for reverb effects: dynamically controlling room size and decay time, for example. Very cool, I imagine a more usefull application would be for dynamics though, maybe this is a way to 'link' compressors on different tracks!? (would be an interesting thing to investigate)
It made me realize that Vegas needs some more control in it's envelope manipulation, sure you can cut/paste and move groups of points around, but there needs to be a scale feature and maybe a switch to make it operate 'logarithmic' rather then 'linear' all the time, or a sort of envelope compressor or range control so that what you see on-screen better represents what you are controlling. A small point, yes... maybe there's an easy scripting solution to this.
I might have a fix for your problem with vegas, but since I do not have the software I cannot test. (it works very well with other software so this is just a "guess" about what Vegas behavior could be...). Are you interested in beta-testing the correction?
By the Way a new version enabling the user to tweak the output envelope is in work...
Another work around, though obvious to some of us, is to use a compressor in chain prior to this plug.
I noticed that the plugin has to be visible or else the envelops won't write. And you have to check either "OUT::VU Meter" options, not the other ones.
OH! To add to Pipeline's comment (or maybe this is what he meant) If you copy the envelope to a Volume envelope, it will scale up and down proportionally - this is great, just what I was looking for! Just cut and paste to your desired controller!
Thanks again for this plugin! Look forward to future developments!
the "Vu-Meter" parameter is what is seen by the user and thus only works if the GUI is visible. The right way to have it work is to use the "Envelpope R" or "L" parameters.
But it seems Vegas does not really support these params recording. I may have a fix to bypass Vegas strange behavior consequences, I'll upload the new version on the web site but before I'd like to have it beta tested so can one of you send me his email address so that I can send him the new version?
I was able to get it working. It is very cool. As far as scaling goes I wonder if BlueCat could add some parameters defining the lowest and highest outputs for the meter. Say a setting that you could set to -6db as the lowest reading allowed and -3db would be the highest output allowed. It seems like you would be left with an envelope pattern that fluctuates no more than 3db.
I could download a demo version of Vegas that so that I can test how that stuff works. And I have not been able to find a solution to have Vegas work with envelope generation that is not made in GUI (sounds crazy but that's true).
BUT I may have a workaround: in this case you will have to have the plugin GUI enabled to record all envelopes. Would that be OK for you? It will be a temporary limitation until I can find a true solution.
I'll try to contact Vegas developers to see why they have such limitations...
Digital Peak Meter 1.1 now works with Vegas, you can record other stuff than the Vu-Meter envelope provided that the GUI is active.
And for only 5 euro (yes guys, could not keep all this stuff free given the amount of donations...), you can get the "Pro" version with which you can reverse the envelope, choose the amount of signal or even offset the envelope.
where do you find euros? Some sort of tree? Is it a fruit? I would gladly send you five gyros, but you are probably closer to better ones than I am......
I wonder if the cashiers check guy at 7-11 can send euros for me
the digital peak meter has been updated to v1.1 :
- Added VST support
- It's now possible to record clip information
It still has the same limitation on Vegas though (need to have the GUI active to record automation due to Vega implementation). The Pro version is about to be updated too, and will be free for all registered customers who bought V1.0.
BTW did you produce anything with it? I'd be glad to see the results!
Thanks to bluecat for his active involvement here for offering this great plugin (one of the first to cross the audio/video boundary) at such a great price.
I have two questions that you may be able to answer:
1. If I put the meter Decay to 0 , what is the minimal distance between two created points in Vegas?
2. Is this minimal distance limit due to the Peak Meter or Vegas?