The scopes are nice, but this shows what the channels are doing in a more familiar mixing-desk-meter-way.
It also shows which channels are high energy (usually drums) by painting the meter with either scope- or highlighted-color.
That way, if the master vumeter peaks, you can look at the highlighted channelmeters (channel 4) in order to know which notes/samples to lower in volume/eq etc, to get that sausage-perfect mix without using dynamic-plugins.
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In modtrackers, triggering multiple samples on the same row, easily accumulates in the mid-frequencies (becoming peaks), so it's almost guaranteed to end up with a 'weak'-sounding mix (unless careful eq'ing of samples).
The milkytracker master vumeter helps a lot while eq'ing samples, as well as the clipping indicator.
Fortunately these days the loudness wars have been replaced by better speakers, metering & eq'ing. (something which is all possible in milkytracker without becoming a pluginhost like renoise).
coderofsalvation
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6 months ago
The scopes are nice, but this shows what the channels are doing in a more familiar mixing-desk-meter-way. It also shows which channels are high energy (usually drums) by painting the meter with either scope- or highlighted-color. That way, if the master vumeter peaks, you can look at the highlighted channelmeters (channel 4) in order to know which notes/samples to lower in volume/eq etc, to get that sausage-perfect mix without using dynamic-plugins.
background
In modtrackers, triggering multiple samples on the same row, easily accumulates in the mid-frequencies (becoming peaks), so it's almost guaranteed to end up with a 'weak'-sounding mix (unless careful eq'ing of samples). The milkytracker master vumeter helps a lot while eq'ing samples, as well as the clipping indicator. Fortunately these days the loudness wars have been replaced by better speakers, metering & eq'ing. (something which is all possible in milkytracker without becoming a pluginhost like renoise).