Mixer peak indicators.

[mikobuntu]

Mockup of how this could look on the Fx mixer....

To improve the mixing functionality, useful for for both song construction and final mixdown we should implement a GUI element which will indicate the highest peak of every cahnnel.

this will work in the following way.....

(1) Optional switch for on/off in the config settings (1a) Optional switch on the GUI element itself ( code can be taken from the master waveview on the main toolbar )

(2) The indicator will hold and display the highest peak reached by its channel until a higher value is received on that channel.

(3) Left click will reset the indicator to wait until it receives another highest db reading. This is the main benefit of having this functionality as we can see that we are above our threshold or too high in a separate channel, which is forcing the total of all channels to cause Master fx channel to rise above 0bd ( aka clipping ). So we can now lower the volume slider in an FX channel and see what the new db value is easily.

(4) If the peak indicators value is >= 0.0db it will be highlighted ( red in my example.)

This behaviour is consistent with Ardour and Hydrogen drum machine

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note that i have done a keyword search in our git repo and cannot find this as a feature request, so if it is a replica i will merge this comment into it thanks MIkobuntu

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