After some thought, and more rigorous experimentation with the Cakewalk bitmeter under various dithering settings, I have to concede the point that this really may not be that useful on a day to day basis- I cannot say I will now start using the Cakewalk bitmeter to improve my mix in any way. I am now inclined to strike this from my previous list, and just ask directly for: Flashing Light Meter!!!!Robin from www.rs-met.com wrote:O.K. but somehow i still don't get what it actually shows - the bit pattern of ....what? of one particular (pseudo-randomly chosen) sample inside some time window? or maybe the bit pattern of the maximum sample inside a window? the latter would probably make more sense but still i can't really see why this should be more useful than a simple peak level-meter (except being flickering erraticaly, if that's what one likes ). information content wise, showing such bit patterns would amount to a level-meter with a resolution of 6 dB. or am i missing something here?tranceglobal wrote: one of Cakewalk's programmers comments on some of the uses of their BitMeter plugin...
edit: but what could be interesting instead would be a kind of running histogram of the amplitudes. i think, i have seen something like that in izotope ozone
...hah, yes:
http://www.izotope.com/support/help/ozone/index.html
certainly a good source for inspiration as well. they also describe the bit-meter operation there, but i'm still a bit sceptical. need to think about it.
D.