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cymsilly ·
For those who like the look of a VU here is an easy way to add one to your schematic. I used the animated knob and stripped out all the mouse controls as they are no longer needed. Go into the module, click properties, load your animation, enter height and width, adjust the envelope follower to taste and and that's it! VU Made Easy! As always, these are free to use in any way you see fit. Enjoy!
Part 1 of 3...as you're only allowed 3 attatchments per post 😕
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Andrew J ·
Nice stuff! Thanks for sharing yet again 🙂
Nu Audio Science ·
F***in brilliant
NAS
peterv ·
Cymsilly,
Very very impressive!!
infuzion ·
Very cool! Do these give accurate readouts?
cymsilly ·
infuzion wrote: Very cool! Do these give accurate readouts?
I traced real VU meters for the readouts so they would be accurate(the Vu's themselves are my work though), but as far as the wand is concerned i am not sure. I've been playing with the envelope follower and I think they are pretty close. As I have recently learned, real VU's are not very accurate, they give a ballpark idea of level and are not very precise. That said, I'm sure that the extraordinary minds that gace this forum can figure out how to set the envelope follower to give a precise reading. And if they do...please let me know.
Grent ·
help!! how is needed vu-t to make the knobmanben???
cymsilly ·
Grent wrote: help!! how is needed vu-t to make the knobmanben???
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I think you are asking if it is easy to make a VU in knobman...the answer is yes. Very.
etLux ·
Wow, these are just gorgeous, cym... makes me want to go build something just so I can use them... rofl!
Best,
David www.DavidSosnowski.com
philter5 ·
what a wonderful visual experience 😮 😮 😮 double thumbs up!
cymsilly ·
I was just wondering if anyone uses or likes my "VU Made Easy" prim...I have been working on some new VU graphics and didn't know if they were worth posting. All comments and suggestions welcome. Lata!
sunsynth ·
Hi cymsilly,
of course are they worth posting 😉
keep on going your great work - like them and will use it!
SUNsynth
philter5 ·
sunsynth wrote: Hi cymsilly,
of course are they worth posting 😉
keep on going your great work - like them and will use it!
SUNsynth
i can only agree with sunsynth. always great work what you´ve posted, so keep going on! my favourite vu is number 3 with it´s old school retro look. if you don´t mind i will use one of your vu´s in my next project!
cymsilly ·
Please use them, that's why I posted them. And thank you.
MegaHurtz ·
Absolutely great artwork!
cymsilly ·
I've been working on some new VU made easy modules. There are quite a few so there will be numerous posts for them. And of course they are free to use as always. Enjoy!
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This one is more than 5Mib. So if you want it message me and I will e-mail it to you.
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nix ·
D VU 1 😍 Thanks very much!
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stefan ·
Sweet!!!
Jay ·
wow! superb! i love these! thanks 😀
philter5 ·
😍 ...wow...nothing else too say...
sunsynth ·
Mr. VU is your 2nd Name ... right?! 😉
WONDERFUL WORK!!!
SUNsynth
McLowery ·
WOW man, Thanks for sharing those meters! Excellent work was put into them and it shows.
djn12inch ·
hello cymsilly ive got a problem (once again).. im a real novice but im getting there.. ive imported the vu meter and set it to my stereo out so everything goes through it, everything works the needle moves perfect but when i press a key, the meter flashes on and off the screen even wen its vst or exe
djn12inch ·
heres the file cymsilly dude! (bear in mind im new to this dont laugh at my work lol)
MichaelBenjamin ·
it flashes because it wants to display frames that are not there. you need to set a limiter to the frame number. go inside the module where the bitmap frame number to display is calculated, and put a float min there.
djn12inch ·
THANX
billz ·
great know i can make my stuff look like the PSP range
cymsilly ·
I have a question about the VU Made Easy stuff.
Would everyone prefer a transparent, generic working VU so that you can put your own background color, bezel and glass? I would include a seperate transparent .PNG glass image for all of them if you wanted to use mine.
Also, what would be a generic standard size in pixels that would accomodate most users? (just wondering) I would be happy to create custom VUs for anyone that needed them, or wanted them at no charge what so ever. It's just a lobor of love. (jeez I'm bored...LOL!)
cymsilly ·
Here's the transparent VU with seperate glass .PNG.
This one has only 55 image frames. I usually use 101 but 55 was almost half the size and no noticeable performance change.
sunsynth ·
cymsilly you make a real job of it 🙂
Thanks again Mr. VU 😉
mshilarious ·
I did a calibrated VU using one of cymsilly's VUs with I think accurate ballistics. One thing that really annoys me about a lot of real life VU meters is their scales aren't accurate! I have no idea why -6VU isn't always 6dB down from 0VU on a sine wave source, but I wanted my VUs to be as accurate as possible. But since cymsilly did an excellent job of executing all these classic analog designs . . . well, I probably went about 3 steps farther than rational . . . and it would be neater in code, but I'm not very good at code, so . . . 😊
I'm going to check some of cymsilly's other VUs and see if the calibration is the same 🙂
Code is free for all to use.
Edit: today I got the calibration tighter, and cut down on the math quite a lot 🙂 Unfortunately all of cymsilly's VUs seem to need their own calibration 🙁 It should just be a matter of adjusting a couple of constants in the calibration module . . . I updated the .osm file below.
mshilarious ·
Example calibrations for other VUs--I forgot to label both constants, so refer to the picture below:
VU made easy #1: Drop 0.01, Exponent 1.4 VU made easy #2: Drop 0.01, Exponent 1.1 VU made easy #3: Drop 0.07, Exponent 1.2 Transparent: Drop 0.01, Exponent 1.3
Essentially the drop constant is acting like a rectifier diode would in a real meter; if the VU meter has a minimum of -20, then you want to apply a drop such that the meter doesn't start to read until -20VU is hit. If the VU meter shows minimum below -20VU, then the drop should be smaller.
DigitalWhiteByte ·
http://neolit123.blogspot.com/2009/03/designing-analog-vu-meter-in-dsp.html#hcon
Dj-Grobe ·
cymsilly wrote:
How you generated the animations for VU? DFD VU 13.osm is what i need, but i need this with absolutly black background, so text and vu metter should be changed to white, and the shadow on needle should be removed. Can remove VU LEVEL INDICATOR text, and the text in the left VU? I apreciate if can help with this.
Dj-Grobe ·
I relly ineterested if can explain how you created that large png with animation, what sofwtware use. Aditional to that black vumeter i need, wit this led vumeter can be created. The way you use is easy, and really use very very low cpu usage : )
I need some vumeters for my software MonoTouchLive.
Something like this without the glss really be nice, i want add vumeter like that with all background in black 😍
please explain how you crate the graphics : )
I search all your psot and man every time you post something, you put very good and grreat works !! Congratulations!
philter5 ·
i think he has used knobman to create his beautiful vu´s. it´s a great software for designing knobs, faders, vu´s and a lot more!
phil
aliasant ·
I use photoshop for the VU back and glass images and SM primitives for the line. Knobman works great too but I like using SM for the line. More flexible that way.
Dj-Grobe ·
Thanyou, with knobman im bulding now the bakground i need for VU : ) Thanks !
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