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Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Audio Peak Level not dropping

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I don't expect this will ever be fixed, after all, it isn't meant for real world usage, but it just doesn't look right the way it works.
I know that you probably used the word because it was a short and handy way of transmitting what you think, but, just to clarify...

As I said before, the Type=Peak in AudioLevel does not need to be "fixed" just because it doesn't have a Hold setting, and whether it looks right or not is an entirely subjective matter.

Take a look here, they have professional references at the end of the page, so I reckon most of it is the standard there:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/audio/ref/audiolevelmeter-system-object.html
Nowhere on that page is a "hold peak" property mentioned, so peaks behave more or less like AudioLevel ones (bar some differences in the log10 formulas, by briefly looking at the AudioLevel source code I mentioned earlier).

On the other hand, here is an opposite example, where a hold setting does exist:
https://obsproject.com/kb/audio-mixer-technical-details

So, basically, having a hold or not has nothing to do with being right / wrong or correct / incorrect from a professional perspective, in order to need "fixing", it's simply a convenient setting to have for the user to better be aware of what the peak level is - given our "delayed" reaction when we see something (e.g. seeing right away, comprehending taking a while, translating into numbers taking a while, comparing the numbers with some other point of reference also taking a while, etc). We as humans, generally need the peak to hold because we're too slow to do the entire thinking process above in real time, or better said, as fast as the non-holding peaks move.

Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Yesterday, 8:48 pm



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