Level/VU-Meter

[Ole_D]

Hello Daslight-Team and Forum-Users,

I'm new in Daslight 5 but worked myself through all available manuals, forum topics and aunt google and couldn't find the settings for a level- or VU-meter effect (DL 5.0.3.1).
I see that DL 4 had this as a feature (p. 34 "Audio Patters [...]"), but DL 5 doesn't provide it any longer, or did I overlook something?
Audio devices, mics, LED rails and DVC Gold including plenty of Universes do their job fine for every other FX (Perlin, Plasma, Text, ...), but I cannot find the "level meter" FX anywhere, neither in edit or live mode.
Does somebody have a hint where to find this feature - if still available?

Many thanks in advance,
Ole

[artyfunk2]

Try the Pulse Setting.

[Ole_D]

Hi artyfunk2,

Thank you for your answer and sorry for the late reply: I tried it (in Live and Edit), but the pulse setting just reacts e.g. with dimmer or other features, but it's not underlying a mapping enabling the LED's reacting like a VU-meter, or?
Hmm... Maybe I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, but I have the feeling that this feature exists in DL4 but not DL5 anymore (I saw other posts claiming the same "feature-loss" from 4 to 5).

Still scratching my head but thanks for any ideas enabling this nice effect,
Ole


p.s.: Screenshots in this post...
https://forum.daslight.com/viewtopic.ph ... ter#p14505
...prove that the effect 'has' been in DL4 at least, and that it's sometimes not working from version to version, too...

[Sprifi]

Unfortunately, in Daslight 5 There doesn't seem to be that option, alternatively you can create that effect with a little patience in the “steps” section

[Ole_D]

Hi Sprifi,

Yep, I tried that already, but somehow I did not achieve similar results...
...but thanks for your reply!

Ole

[azca_dj]

I've asked about something similar.
viewtopic.php?p=25780&hilit=psycho#p25780
Is this what are you looking for?

[Ole_D]

Hi Azca,

That is somehow pointing into the direction, yes (thanks for sharing)...
In an ideal world I could use my LED-Rails not just with a dimming feature, but also as a huge wall of VU-Meters or a kind of frequency level meter (in particular when we incorporate crowd-mics animating the audience, and their feedback could literary drive the meters visually etc., but I am quite aware that this is a kind of "luxury request" vs. a must-have...
Anyhow, maybe it's coming back into DL5+x some time, in the meantime I'm quite happy with the functionalities of DL in general.

Many thanks for your hint again,

Ole

[azca_dj]

Other way to do that could be using an external app with FFT analysis and coding that information into midi messages (8bit resolution). I'm not able to do that thing...

[GregorCologne]

Please let us know if you have found anything, I'm interested in this, too. (Privately.)

[S.lellwitz]

Es gubt ein VST Plugin namens MIDIVU.
So wie ich die Beschreibung lese sollte das ganze damit umsetzbar sein

[86bibo]

Unfortunately, in Daslight 5 There doesn't seem to be that option, alternatively you can create that effect with a little patience in the “steps” section

That would not be the same, as it don't react to the real music volume or frequency.

Es gubt ein VST Plugin namens MIDIVU.
So wie ich die Beschreibung lese sollte das ganze damit umsetzbar sein

Theoretically yes, but you need an additional software and in theory you have already the tools on board with the pulse triggered scenes. And even if you use an external midi source, it will not come close to a real VU meter. Can you set a matrix effect based on a value of an external midi signal in a way that you set the height of a pixel or matrix effect related to this?