>One thing I truly truly miss from my Olden SGI Days is a handy app called >"apanel" whose sole purpose in life was to monitor and display audio >levels coming into the machine from (selectable) sources. Before I code >up some half-assed version of my own, I'm wondering if such a beasty >already exists (I don't recall seeing anything "out there"). > >I don't need no fancy bazillion-track plugin-enabled JACK-of-every-trade >thingy, just a simple display telling me when my input is clipping.
ALSA can provide ncurses-based meters all by itself. see the "meter" PCM plugin type. i don't see why you'd want to write a meter that only worked for h/w sources. writing one as a JACK client would let you attach it (or copies thereof) to any JACK output port, whether they be from h/w sources or applications. --p
