Introducing Swiss Army Meter 6
Swiss Army Meter 6 is a full ground up redesign of the entire plugin.
The interface is built around five modules that can be reordered, soloed, turned off, or popped out into resizable windows. The Multi Meter Display is still there, but now it sits next to the Loudness Graph, Dynamics Meter, Stereo Scope, and expanded BPM / Pitch tools.
Version 6 adds RMS, PSR, and PLR readouts alongside LUFS, LRA, True Peak, Max Peak, and correlation. All the meters have been rebuilt for better accuracy and thoroughly tested agains ITU-R BS.1770 and EBU R128 test signals. Also you can now turn off sync transport and the meters will measure audio even if the transport is off.
Loudness Graph
The new Loudness Graph is for seeing loudness move over tim. It shows short-term LUFS, true peak overs, adjustable targets and ranges, zoom, and exact hover values.
Dynamics Meter
The Dynamics Meter is built around PSR and PLR. It’s measured by comparing short term LUFS to peaks and is really amazing way to see how dynamic or squashed your mix is.
Stereoscope
The Stereo Scope combines a Lissajous-style display with width, balance, and phase feedback. So mono, wide, and negative-phase material are easier to tell apart at a glance. The correlation meter also shows:
- Instantaneous Needle: fast marker showing the current correlation value.
- 3s Average Bar: Showing short-term average correlation over a 30-second interval.
- Sticky Peak Marker: Shows the maximum negative value received until a global reset or correlation range reset clears it. This way you can see when a section of audio had a negative correlation even if that section is passed.
Better CPU Management
The rewrite also manages CPU more carefully. Modules stay active when they’re visible, including popped-out windows, while heavier processing pauses when a module is hidden. Additionally, utilizing the Live Object Model, Swiss Army Meter can detect when you’re actively on a channel. When you move on to a different channel and the meter isn’t visible or popped out, it dynamically disables processing. This way you can use a lot more instances without the CPU hit.
BPM / Pitch
The BPM / Pitch section is cleaner and expanded too, with timing, note frequency, wavelength, and adjustable A4 tuning tools in one place.
It’s much closer to what I always wanted Swiss Army Meter to be: one place to see all the information I actually care about while I’m working, but also being flexible enough to adapt to the situation.
The new version is free for all current owners of Swiss Army Meter, the Workflow Bundle and the Everything Bundle.
Also if anyone has any other modules, feature ideas or changes they'd like, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Hope you all enjoy!
spktra
