Hi,
My name is Steve Blevins, I have been using Sonar since 2007. I have seen many post about recording a count in and click . There are a few ways you can accomplish this, but simple way to do it is..figure out how many beats your song is and and the tempo and go to this site http://metronomer.com/ and save it as a mp3. Set your tempo in Sonar create a track and import the mp3. Allow the measures you need for click count in. If you already have a song finished and you would like to create bass, drum and vocal backing tracks for rehearsal, just repeat as listed above, mix to an mp3.


Just and FYI to Cakewalk..it would be nice if you could allow the metronome to be recorded as a track as a future add-on.
Steve

dogfall - thanks for the post. I use a method that can be done within Sonar.

I insert TTS-1 as my top track/folder (not a SIT, but separate MIDI/audio tracks). I set TTS-1 to play the drum sounds which are very useable for this. I tend to use the cowbell. I have a stock (ready to go) 1 measure clip that I have a available, but I could easily tap out and quantize a fresh one.

When I start a song I have that one measure MIDI clip and I can copy it across 100 or 200 times, whatever. Takes about 2 seconds to do.

It plays at the tempo of the song. Whether I slow up or slow down the tempo.

Mute or keep in play back as desired. It can also be recorded if I had a reason to do that.

All that said, this is lined up with Sonar's metronome, and I use Sonar's metronome generally speaking for tracking takes until I have enough drums or percussion that I don't need the metronome.