JACK Meterbridge 0.0.4 [LWN.net]

Version 0.0.4 of JACK Meterbridge has been released. A meter bridge is hardware assembly that typically involves a row of audio meters that "bridge" across the top of an audio mixing console.

JACK Meterbridge allows a number of software audio level meters to be displayed on screen. The meters plug into the JACK audio connection kit, a software package that manages multiple connections to audio devices.

Jack Meterbridge currently has a selection of three meter styles, two of them resemble classic mechanical meters, either peak-reading or classic VU style, and one that is a vertical bar-graph style.

Jack Meterbridge is a good example of a virtual hardware device that can be plugged in to JACK. No doubt, many other such devices such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and tuners could be programmed to work with Jack. Hopefully, JACK will prove to be a good platform for developing a wide variety of new virtual audio devices.