Vertical meters

Verticle meters +1

here is my +1 for this feature %)

Is there an official FR thread to support with voting and making this elevated?

Yes! Knobs are perfect if optional for replacing faders! :)

Maybe vert meters will get put in when we get multi channel meters. not much point doing one without the other in a devs point of view might as well do both ;) (I hope) ;)

+1 (including showing MIDI activity)

I sense a groundswell for this. :) Can't believe it's not in the pipeline. Seems an odd thing for Reaper not to have. Will be interesting to see exactly how it's implemented, what options, and other related functions (Go To Peak!!!) it arrives with.

I am very much against replacing the horizontal meters with vertical meters in the tcp - of course optional arrangement is fine as people can have what they want. Why oppose replacement? Because vertical meters do not allow visually aligning metering information across tracks whilst simultaneously looking at the waveforms. You are removing a capability for overview comparisons.

My Preference: (not that it's any more valid than anyone else's) 1. Hardware input metering which is separate from track metering. Metering input levels regardless of the status of any project audio tracks. 2. Once you have item #1 above all you really need on the TCP is "activity metering", small vertical meters for audio and midi activity. My 0.02...

Let me add that this all goes back to the "tracking levels" conversations. If people are tracking at proper analog gain staged levels and these tiny vertical meters are their only reference in the DAW... levels shouldn't ever approach full scale anyway so it's not really that important. If people want a reference perhaps the fine coders at Cockos could draw a line at a common reference point like the line in the graphic below. I intentionally clipped the signal about halfway through the video below to show that on these tiny meters TCP meters and even the mixer channel meters you only need to mark actual clips and hold the reference in case you happened to not be looking when it happened. The other stuff is generally unnecessary. If I want to see the actual hardware level I view the bigger and more detailed input meters.