There's a new concept for us
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When you described the problem at first, I was thinking maybe the trim had something to do with it, that the signal out of the DAW had been trimmed down 12 dB and therefore there was a discrepancy between what you saw in the DAW meters and what happened at the gate.
If you are using a filter key that obviously explains everything. If you are using a bandpass filter with a high Q and a frequency above the fundamentals, the difference can quickly become very large indeed. One problem with trying to meter in a situation like that is that there will not be much consistency anyway due to the obviously dynamic content of the signal and the variation in ratio between the whole signal and the key signal. I'm not sure if metering would be much use in such a situation, it would come down to the ears and experience anyway. Now, I'm not sure when you would use the key filter in such a way that this discrepancy would show up. Gating a drum you would set the filter smack on the fundamental (wouldn't you) and the signal content getting through the filter would be somewhat closer to the unfiltered signal, I would imagine.
When using the gate in a more creative manner, I'd say that the ears would have to rule.
Moving the meters about to suit the application would certainly be a welcome feature for many reasons. I guess we can hope that one day......
One legitimate fear that Behringer might have is that providing us with too many options and functions too soon will lead to an exponential growth in support calls.
