I made a VU meter!!!

Yes, this is a Combinator with a WORKING VU meter (kinda of...)



Had so much fun with this one!

Check out the video of it working:


Of course I had to use the only buttons available that minimally resemble a "needle" (more of a pointer though...)
AND I also had to resort to loopMIDI to achieve this effect but I am sincerely hoping Reason Studio Devs address this situation soon so we will have this and many other possibilities available without resorting to 3rd party software.

Anyone willing to try this I leave here the combinator file:

VU-Meter.zip

[EDIT]
Beware that for this trick to work:
- you will need to install Tobias Erichson's loopMIDI: https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
- you will have to manually map the 2 needle buttons to loopMIDI Channel 1 CC 100 and CC 101.

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!