How to add metronome to console mixer?

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2011/04/25 00:41:11 (permalink)

How to add metronome to console mixer?

The newer versions of X1 have a metronome strip in the mixing console view by default, but when I open up older projects in X1, that metronome strip is missing, and I can't hear the metronome at all no matter if I check the playback or record and make sure it's using audio metronome. How can I add a metronome strip back into the mixing console so I can hear the metronome again?

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    rbowser
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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 00:48:30 (permalink)
    Interesting--!  The audio metronome goes directly to your interface, and shouldn't be dependent on a channel strip.  This seems odd to me.

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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 00:52:51 (permalink)
    is it with the other busses in the track view?

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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 00:55:31 (permalink)
    M@ B


    is it with the other busses in the track view?


    The metronome bus is oddly part of the default Sonar template, but if it's deleted, you still hear the metronome, because it actually doesn't go through the bus.  It goes directly to your sound card.

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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 00:59:20 (permalink)
    In this particular project, it is missing from the buses, and I'm trying to find out how to get it back. It should still be audible even if that bus strip is deleted, but I can't hear it anymore, and I'm thinking if I could somehow get it back visually, I'd hear it too?

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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 01:00:19 (permalink)
    The metronome bus is
    oddly part of the default Sonar template, but if it's deleted, you still
    hear the metronome, because it actually doesn't go through the bus.  It
    goes directly to your sound card.

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    oh... i'll gracefully bow out of this one then.
    good luck lunatique.
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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 01:05:23 (permalink)
    You can just add a bus, call it "metronome" and go to Preferences and route the metronome audio to this bus (look in the Project section of the preferences)

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    Re:How to add metronome to console mixer? 2011/04/25 01:28:31 (permalink)
    Bigdogs


    You can just add a bus, call it "metronome" and go to Preferences and route the metronome audio to this bus (look in the Project section of the preferences)

    The weirdest thing just happened. I had created a bus, and as soon as I renamed it to Metronome and route it to the master bus, the metronome was audible again. This doesn't make sense since in the metronome preferences, it was routed to the main audio interface output, so none of the bus routing should have been a factor at all. Anyway, I have it back now.

    Thanks!


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