Weird Meter Behavior - or is it normal?

[Salvatore Sorice]

Using current Sonar Version: 2025.09 (Build 038). 

Maybe it's always been this way, but today I noticed that the Playback Meter in the Inspector view is oddly different than in the Track view. Not sure how to explain, but the meter in the Inspector does not visually "agree" with the one in the Track View. It's "missing" some of the bars that fill the meter as sound is played (only showing the peaks), sometimes it only shows one meter bar (in this video sometimes only the right bar is displayed at a lower volume), and sometimes a single bar remains when play is stopped. 

Is this normal behavior? Could I have some weird setting enabled?

 

[msmcleod]

The meter options are likely different.

The "missing" bits you're seeing are the peak holds.

There are a BUNCH of different metering options, and it looks like you've got the inspector / console view set to different settings (which is a perfectly normal thing to do).

For example, here's the options for the playback meters within the Inspector:



There are equivalent options in the Console View and Track View,  for Record, Track, Bus and Hardware Output metering.
 

[Salvatore Sorice]

Thanks Mark. I thought I had them set to the same settings. Will check when back at my PC.