Hi Nickus, I just got to the studio and tried the master fader's level indicator and it works fine. Not sure what issue you're experiencing but I'd certainly check to make sure there's nothing blocking it like other open windows or notifications, etc.
Slau On Sep 19, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Nickus de Vos <bigboy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I updated to version 12.2 and now I have this teetering issue in a new > session I created. The session only have 2 tracks and the weird thing is that > the meeter on the stereo audio track works just fine but for the life of me, > I can’t get the master track’s meeter to work. Any ideas? > > Nickus > Sent from my iPhone > > On 08 Aug 2015, at 02:15, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> While troubleshooting something the other day for testing purposes, I had a >> situation where level meters weren't responding. This was quite unexpected >> because it wasn't as if there were a ton of tracks in the session. Now, some >> of you will recall that, when there are too many tracks within a session to >> display at once in the Mix window, the tracks that are technically >> off-screen will not have their level meter values respond. Any tracks that >> appear to be "to the left" of the Track List pop-up menu (still referred to >> as the "show/Hide" list but that'll change soon), are really off-screen and >> anything "to the right," is actually within the boundaries of the window and >> will update the level meters correctly. I've written about this before so >> anyone not familiar with this phenomenon can search the archive or look at >> their mail archive, etc. >> >> so, in this case, I was dealing with a session with only four tracks and the >> level meters weren't responding. I had reimported the files into a new >> session and the meters seemed to suddenly work. It was bizarre to me. Then I >> realized that, in the original session, somehow, the View menu's settings >> for the Mix window display were set to display everything. The window, >> therefore, was displaying mic pres, instruments, inserts and sends for both >> a through e and f through j, the I/O displays, meters, comments, etc. Of >> course, this meant that the contents of the Mix window extended beyond the >> edge of the physical window which happened to be sized relatively small. So, >> since the level meters were technically off screen (not horizontally but >> vertically), VoiceOver was seeing a reference to the level meters because, >> as we know, VoiceOver sees all kinds of things that aren't really visible >> but, since the meters weren't really visible, there was no activity to >> report, no actual levels to speak of so no numbers to report. In a case like >> this, either a page down or a zooming of the window fixes the problem. >> Creating sessions from templates would probably be useful in avoiding this >> situation to begin with but I'd sooner shoot myself than use templates. >> Frankly, if you receive sessions from others, there's no guarantee that the >> windows are going to be maximized and, chances are more likely than not, the >> windows are going to be all over the place, depending upon people's >> preferences. It's a good idea to get used to the possibility that a window's >> size might simply not be maximized at any given point. Zooming is great but >> even zooming doesn't necessarily guarantee that the window is going to truly >> be at its maximum dimensions. For those who use Keyboard Maestro, there's a >> single workflow item for tasks such as sizing the window. I set up a task to >> maximize the window to its largest possible dimension and it works >> flawlessly. Worth checking out if KM is part of your tool set. >> >> Anyway, again, this whole level meter thing caught me off guard. As much as >> I use Pro Tools, things like this rarely happen so, when they do, it >> sometimes takes me by surprise and I'm reminded that others might experience >> head scratchers like this perhaps more often than I might so I figured I'd >> share this little reminder. >> >> Slau >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
