I brought this up some time ago but it was not an area of focus for you at the time but you said we could discuss it another time. That thread is somewhere on this forum… ah found it here
Here is a snippet from that post…
“In Sound Forge for instance you can set a user defined threshold at which peaks can be detected in an audio file.
When one is cycling through takes it will be much easier to choose a take if you can also see a db marker placed on the file that shows the db value of on audio file at the exact point of a peak.
If I am choosing a take in a recording some might be louder than others or too loud. If I could see where the peaks are (as a marker with a db value) it will make the process of choosing a take much faster and easier without having to bring up the mixer to see the peaks.
Of course such a feature would be extremely useful during the mixing process as well. Podium can show peaks in an audio file (with the mixer)and very useful it most certainly is but when cycling through takes I want full screen real estate which means…no mixer.
Peak information remains very useful and I really think it should be added to any recorded sound event in Podium in the form of markers placed on an audio file. Soundforge, Sonar and I think Samplitude have something similar.
Being able to see a Wave Form Peak display marker also has many corrective uses when editing audio in general. It is not a multi faceted or featured addition to take comping but it will speed up the process of managing takes and the uses for Wave form Peak display markers go far beyond take management.
Only one single marker needs to be displayed on a sound event. That will show the highest peak in the file. As in Soundforge a user defined threshold for detecting peaks could be offerred for more flexibility. The marker could be red when above a user defined threshold and green when below it.
Even without a user threshold setting a default peak detection value that matches the mixer peak values could be used instead.”
Again maybe this is a small UI adjustment to Podium (in 2.20) from your perspective or something that would require more work I don’t know. Worth bringing up again though even for another future release IMO.
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