LED VU Meter

So, after the vintage one I had to come up with this. It's a fully working 2 channel LED VU Meter in a 1U combinator panel...



This one gave me a little bit more effort to make. I believe it is also a bit CPU intensive...

Check out the video of it working:


This time I used 20 square green and red light buttons (what a waste...) to resemble a L/R LED stripes.
Again, I had to resort to loopMIDI to achieve this effect but I hope Reason Studio Devs will check this out so we will have this and many other awesome features available in the forthcoming iterations of the new combinator without having to resort to 3rd party software.

[EDIT] Kudos to the makers of this fundamental Re I used to perform this trick:



Red Rock Sound | RE 180 Dynamic Driver
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Anyone willing to try this I leave here the combinator file:

LED VU-Meter.zip
[EDIT this is a new version - 03-09-2021 21]

Beware that for this all to work you will have to manually map the 20 led buttons each one to a CC on loopMIDI Channel 1 (more instructions on the Read Me file)
And of course you will need to install Tobias Erichsen's loopMIDI: [url=https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html<br /><br />ATTENTION: loopMIDI is a windows app so this will work well in Windows 10. For Mac users, I don't have experience but here are the common instructions on how to make a MIDI loop:<br /><br />"Setting up Midi ports (loopback) of a Mac.<br /><br />The IAC bus allows you to create any number of virtual MIDI buses. This driver is built-in to OS X (since OS X 10.4) and can be activated in the Audio/MIDI Setup Utility.<br /><br />To begin, launch Audio/MIDI Setup and select "Show MIDI Window" from the "Window" menu.<br /><br />Now double-click the IAC Driver icon and check the option "Device is online" in order to activate it.<br /><br />Add the ports you need from within this window."<br />]https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html

ATTENTION: loopMIDI is a windows app so this will work well in Windows 10. For Mac users, I don't have experience but here are the common instructions on how to make a MIDI loop:

"Setting up Midi ports (loopback) of a Mac.

The IAC bus allows you to create any number of virtual MIDI buses. This driver is built-in to OS X (since OS X 10.4) and can be activated in the Audio/MIDI Setup Utility.

To begin, launch Audio/MIDI Setup and select "Show MIDI Window" from the "Window" menu.

Now double-click the IAC Driver icon and check the option "Device is online" in order to activate it.

Add the ports you need from within this window."
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Have fun!