Any visual 'time elapsed' kind of plug out there...?

[GaryG]

Maybe I'm overthinking this but... ...is there any plug out there that can visually display a period of time and where you are in it? (I'm not even sure how to describe this...)

So you could set the period to say 20 seconds and see some visual showing you where you are in the 20 seconds before restarting, a bit like watching the seconds hand on a clock sweep round once a minute..?

I'm not talking a big clock synced to your DAWs position or anything (using Reaper and it has that function), more like the little 'pie' chart in ableton that shows your where in a loop you are but free form (yeah, should have used that desc initially...)

Usage is for when I'm messing with virtual tape loops, silly long delays etc, not synced to the timeline or anything, just handy to see how long till the loop repeats etc.

Thanks.

[Ah_Dziz]

This could be built in reaktor. Using the granular delay and then scrolling through the buffer in realtime would be the simplest way (you'd have to set the buffer size to your target length). Any modular DSP thing would be capable as well. You could also do lots of the actual looping in an environment like that as well. I don't know of anything that "just" does what you are talking about though. There are lots of buffer effects that show the buffer head in realtime but in addition to their processing they are mostly tied to bpm rather than hs.

[electro]

Should be easy by chaining the right plugins inside an instance of DDMF Metaplugin.
https://ddmf.eu/metaplugin-chainer-vst- ... x-wrapper/

I use a single Metaplugin instance for all bit transparent Metering plugins.