X series Metronome question

I had that happen on one project, and I didn't know what was going on.  I created a new bus and gave it a different name and went to edit>preferences>project.metronome and told it to send output to the new bus I created.

Would that work for you?

Bob Bone

I wanted to bump this so people could see the image of the error I got.  I edited my post above, but that didn't move it to current status, so hopefully this will.

I also want to renew my request for information on what the actual properties of the Metronome function are: How does the Metronome bus output to its own bus?  Why does there appear to be a ProChannel preset called Metronome, but there's none to be found anywhere.

Anyone know about this?

Meaning there's something I have set that I can change, or I need to change my video card?

I've suspected I might not be using the best video card for this for a while.  I'm using EV3A GeForce GT and GS dual-monitor cards in my three systems and found later that those cards seem to be mostly for gamers, which I'm not.

First, I couldn't run X1 on my XP SP3 machine because soon as I did anything after X1 came up, weird things would happen on the screen and the program would freeze, requiring me to have to kill the process.  It definitely looked like some kind of memory or graphics problem.  Other people on this forum said they were running machines very similar to mine and had X1 up with no troubles.  8.5.3 and previous all ran with no problems.

So I bought this Win7 machine.  Mostly a dream to work with, except for that problem in the picture and the problems I've written about with R-Mix.  Others have had great success with R-Mix, so I tried it on my notebook and had absolutely none of the problems I'm have on this desktop, so again, video could be the issue.

Do you or anyone else know anything about EV3A GeForce (NVidea) cards or have recommendations for dual-monitor video cards that are better for use with the X series?  Or changes to settings for these cards?

No that didn't work for me, Bob.  Or rather, I couldn't test it.  It only happens on a very few projects, mostly from Sonar 1, and when I open them and go to Preferences, I get the screen in my post, therefore I never get the chance to switch to audio metronome or select an output bus.  I just have to do a Select All, Copy, then paste it all into a new project and move on from there.  Something funky about S 1, I suppose, as I don't recall it happening with any S 3 projects I opened.  (I remember there being problems with S 1 and S 2 where when a Pro Audio 9 project was saved, it ballooned to about 3-4x the original project size, with no changes made.  Sonar didn't begin to settle down until S 3.)