How to add a VU meter to show the signal level of any of my tracks

Question

I want to be able to show VU levels from selected tracks in AUM. Example: output from a looper.

I saw something Dan was talking about using MusicIO (but can't find it now). Four meters were bouncing to the sound of the drums. I really, really, really want to have that.

I looked into MusicIO but it appears to be only iPad <> laptop. I have only iPads: AUM (and all sounds/fx) on one iPad and MD on a second, dedicated iPad. No laptop or external gear in my current setup.

I know AUM shows levels, but the whole point is to see everything one glance on the MD iPad and not have to switch around between tracks on AUM.

Is this possible?

Steve

ThinAirX

Answer 1

EDIT: VUPlug is unsupported in M1 Macs and currently unavailable.

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Prolly this link: https://www.smore.com/e5bfv-extra-features-pack

But looks like VUPlug is a DAW plugin, don't see it avail for iPad / AUM.

MDP2 speaks Midi, AUM is doing audio.  So you need something to convert the audio to a midi value for display.  The VU meter for midi data is in MDP2.

Maybe the AUM folks know a solution.

Comments

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I know MDP2 is MIDI. I was hoping that somewhere in the iOS universe somebody had already built something to convert audio to MIDI and load into a bouncing meter.

I do know about FAC Envolver, an AUv3 that does this conversion. I have it and use it for side-chaining. There's an old post on Aubiobus Forum that tells how to make a meter out of it. I'll try that. I was holding back because of the CPU load, especially if I'm monitoring more than a couple tracks.

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We made that with our partners at musicIO as a VST. I'm still shocked that no one made anything like that before us (or after). Fast forward to now: I'm not surprised that there's nothing prebuilt for this, especially for AUM. Don't hold back on CPU load (premature optimization)! See what happens and if your device doesn't catch fire, you're in the clear.

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this plugin is now mostly dead. Next thing would be this https://remotify.io/community/question/vu-meter-possible but we don't know it.

Answer 2

EDIT: VUPlug is unsupported in M1 Macs and currently unavailable.

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Prolly this link: https://www.smore.com/e5bfv-extra-features-pack

But looks like VUPlug is a DAW plugin, don't see it avail for iPad / AUM.

MDP2 speaks Midi, AUM is doing audio.  So you need something to convert the audio to a midi value for display.  The VU meter for midi data is in MDP2.

Maybe the AUM folks know a solution.