ReaComp meter issues with higher buffer settings (FIXED)

[k235]

Hey people,

I have recently noticed (and fixed) an issue I had with the ReaComp gain reduction meters.

I found out that the meters were not updating correctly, instead they were "flickering", and irritably so. Audio was not affected, I think, but the jumpy metering really got on my nerves. Playing around with the RMS size values in ReaComp (which I thought I had changed accidentally) didn't fix it. Somehow I figured out that reducing the audio (!) buffer size got rid of the problem. (I had the buffers set really high, 4x4096 iirc).

I don't know if this is unavoidable or not, I just thought I'd let you know.

Edit: ReaComp input/output meters and the meters for my other plugins were not affected as far as I could tell

[downpilot]

Although this is a very old thread, I had that issue recently and changing the buffer size fixed it here, too... when it's set to 4096, ReaComp reduction meter flickers. Reminds me of an issue I had with video rendering, where it did not work when the buffer size was (not?) set to 512. Weird.

[Dstruct]

Confirmed (5.22 x64, 4096 samples buffer).

[Justin]

Fix coming in next 5.23 pre

[jamesp]

This behaviour seems to have re-appeared (or at least is still present in V7.22 but I didn't notice it in V6.xx). I normally use my Zoom interface with a 4096 buffer to be absolutely sure of no pops and clicks and I have only recently noticed that the gain reduction meters in Reacomp are flickering. Setting the buffer to 2048 seems to fix things while the problem seems to get progressively worse as the buffer size increases above that.