There are several VU meter simulations available as plug-ins.  I have looked at several of them, but have invariably found them unconvincing.  VU ballistics (the way the pointer moves) are tightly specified, and it takes a very fast update rate to make the pointer accurately model them.

I know RME appreciates a challenge, and I'd love to see them succeed.  But may I suggest, if a VU meter (or two) is really useful to you, you actually go out and buy a real one (make sure it conforms strictly to ANSI specs) and as I do, connect it to a spare line out.  (You might find some "going spare" at a local radio station that has recently "gone digital".)

(ps. For real "radio" work, it has to be internally illuminated!)

I would love to have a HW vu meter. They do show some things that the daw really doesnt.
but, hauling that thing around on location when i wanna travel light sometimes, would be kind of defeating the purpose.
I think if anyone can make it, its the RME guys. HAppy with all the stuff they got.

Would be sweet to have that as an option in digicheck, since it got pretty much everything else.

Gonna check out klanghelm. Thanks for the tip.