Re: Metronome Click Export - Ping DXi or other options
September 18, 14 1:52 PM
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You could have proven your suggestion didn't work with two minutes of testing, but who would do that on an internet forum, right?
For those who are here for the original question rather than to hand out unsolicited legal advice: it seems like a soft synth with a groove clip is the best option. I used Dimension Pro, created a bar of 4 quarter notes in the piano roll view (I put the first note about a fifth above the others for the "hi" ping). For the program I went with the Percussion -> Hand Block 1 patch. You can then select that bar of click notes, hit ctrl + L and drag the end of it across the track, which will cause that bar to repeat as long as you drag. It will conform to any tempo changes in your track, which is nice. It will NOT automatically conform to the beat if you have time sig changes from say 4/4 to 3/4 - you would need to create a separate groove clip for the 3/4 feel. This is a painful process for songs with frequent time sig changes.
Too bad there's not an easier way to do this. I would request the feature if the Cakewalk feature request form wasn't unavailable (as it has been for months), but I suspect it has been requested many times already judging by the amount of posts about it. I don't know the architecture of the software, but if the click track is so vastly different than "normal" tracks that allowing it to be exported is a complicated problem, it wasn't designed very well in the first place.