Level Meters

Level meters shows several things:

• The current level.
• Signal peaks are being shown by a single segment for 2 seconds.
• The peak recording level since transport start is shown by a red line (legacy color themes use a dimmed segment instead). Only recording audio tracks have this feature.
• The right-hand segment will start flashing if clipping occurred (ie. if the level exceeded 0 dB). This only happens if this overload actually is a problem:
  • Recording audio tracks
  • Recording MIDI soft instrument tracks
  • Master section
  • Group and Effect Return sections which are routed to the sound device (Pro edition only).
  You can click a meter to reset it, so it stops flashing.
• A speaker symbol appears to indicate output clipping in soft-monitored audio tracks (the meter itself shows the input level).

The Level Meters are based on DIN PPM meters, where 0db = 0dBFS.

If the audio signal is stereo a meter will display both the left and the right channel, the upper signal being the left channel.

You can rightclick a meter to temporarily change the size. Options are Small, Large and Huge. The latter can be used if you need to watch the meter from a distance (to set up recording levels for example).