My harman/kardon CD491 died recently, and it was my only way of monitoring peak levels in my setup. Now I feel like I'm doing everything blind when it comes to recording and setting levels, because I can't see where they're set. Until I have the money to buy a mixer or something with a VU meter, I thought I'd just run one on an old Mac.
My Performa 6400 has RCA inputs on it. I'd like a piece of software that would just display VU meters for both channels onscreen. It needs to be adjustable so I can calibrate it to match the rest of my setup, and I need it to be at least as precise as the 20-segment display that was on the CD491.
I looked on VersionTracker, and found surprisingly little. I found VUmac and tried it, but it was incredibly slow on the 6400.
I also tried Coaster, and it was better, but still sluggish.
*Surely* there has to be something out there that can sample the audio input more than a few times per second and draw a graph on the screen, even on this old 6400? It's able to record audio sampling 44100 times each second, and I know the machine can draw to the screen fast enough, hasn't someone ever written an efficient piece of code to do this?
Also, any advice on a cheap consumer mixer that can act as a preamp for my turntable and provides a decent VU meter? I don't need any more than two or three stereo inputs...
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