Click Track Options

[shanabit]

*Connect an audio cable from one of your I/O boxes outputs, lets say #5 for example
to the I/O Box Input #5 to make an input output audio loop. Any port your not using will work.

1. VST Connections window, Output tab, clik ADD buss, select MONO. Clik the AUDIO DEVICE and select your I/O box, to the right, select your Device Port #5 in this example
2. Label the buss CLICK OUTPUT
3. In the CLIK column, **clik it to enable clik on that output buss
4. Go to the INPUT buss tab and create a MONO buss and again select your device and the same device port, # 5. Label it Record Clik
5. Create a MONO audio track and select the Record Clik input for the input of the track in the inspector
6. Record enable the track
7. Enable your clik on the transport
8. Hit record to record the clik.

**You can adjust the VOLUME of the clik on the clik setup under transport/metronome setup

This will let you put ANY effect on the click you wish as an:
1.Insert or
2.Send effect. you can also at this point do an
3.Audio/Plugins/ select your effect and then process it to apply the effect to the event.

***Or, if you want, instead of #3, you can now do a FILE/Export/AudioMixdown and check the box to create a new track and put the file into the pool so youll have the EFFECTED CLIK in the project as well.

You can then route the clik however you like via a send from your I/O box or use the control room mixer to do that routing

This is just one workaround

I just recorded the clik with Delay and then again with Reverb, works fine

this method will allow you to NUDGE your audio event if you want to to put the clik behind or in front of the beat slightly as you would like

I think the BEST way is to simply record a sound you like, cut it down to like a quarter note or less length and copy this part to every quarter note donw the time line. Select all the audio events with your Object Selector tool and do the GLUE tool to all of it, BOUNCE it down to a new track and voila. you can then add you effects as you like

Hopefully this will help someone. If YOU have another way, please post it

[shanabit]

Per Captain Caveman,

"1. You can create as many funky sounding audio click tracks as you want and create a Library to use them in any project.

2. You can route the click through a VSTi.

3. You can use any audio files for Hi and Lo and use the amazing Control Room routing to send a click track anywhere it needs to go.

[HowlingUlf]

What about using a MIDI track + a VSTi of your choice, as a metronome++?
All the beats follow the project tempo
edit the parts to follow the dynamics of the music

[Ade]

And then create a PLE which can toggle mute on the track named Click - or whatever you want call it. Assign a key command.
Now you can turn off your customised click track with a key command regardless of where you are in the program!
Take it further and assign two more PLEs to turn up/down the click track.

[Martini]

how about a proper 6/8 click -- 2x4d instead 6x8 ???

[Daryl]

how about a proper 6/8 click -- 2x4d instead 6x8 ???

I seem to remember a thread at idiot.net about the metronome, and there were a lot of good suggestions about how it could be improved. Of course the usual trolls tried to wreck the discussion, although unintentionally exposing their ignorance at the same time. :rolleyes:

I'll see if I can find it, and re-post some of the suggestions here.

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[BJF]

Is this the topic you are looking for? (http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=107478)

One will have to wade through the waffle of one of the B-list members of I.net

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[Daryl]

Is this the topic you are looking for? (http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=107478)

One will have to wade through the waffle of one of the B-list members of I.net

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Ah yes, young Jedi, you have found the source. :)

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[The dman]

I'd like to see a tempo type track for the click track where you could stop and start it at different measures or lower the volume during breaks for example.

I know I can do this with midi but it would be convenient.

[resonator]

And then create a PLE which can toggle mute on the track named Click - or whatever you want call it. Assign a key command.
Now you can turn off your customised click track with a key command regardless of where you are in the program!
Take it further and assign two more PLEs to turn up/down the click track.

That's exactly what I HAVE TO DO most of the time, because many drummer hate the Cubase audio click and will perform way better when you use samples of their own metronomes that they're used to hearing.

That's great advice for anybody - If you have a drummer just raising an eyebrow about the click, try and give them the clicks they're used to - you'll be surprised how much better they'll play!