Hello All,
 
I know that others have asked about how to record the metronome to a track, and answers have been posted...problem is that not one of those "solutions" is working for me...maybe I'm missing something along the way.  Can anyone who knows how to do this post a video or screenshots??
 
I'm using latest version of Sonar Professional.
 
Thanks in advance!


James
LONG STORY

Your post doesn't denote your hardware, but if you have enough extra I/O on your audio interface, a simple physical loopback would work.  Route the metronome output to something other than your main pair, and a couple of jumper cables to a stereo input with monitoring turned off. 
 
I have many questions but the main two are:

• What were the solutions that wouldn't work?
• Why do you want to record the metronome?

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Mixing.14.html#1750602
 

1. In the bus pane, set the Metronome output to New Aux Track.
2. This creates an aux track in the track pane. Enable record in this new aux track.
3. Make sure the metronome is set to make sound during playback, and start recording.
4. The new aux track will record the metronome sound in real time.

What Craig said. Should be the best, most simple solution.
 
I met a guy who had a rather unique way of accomplishing the same thing: he enabled an audio track to record, stuck a mic in front of his monitor, muted everything but the metronome, and recorded it that way. I thought he was going to pass out when I showed him the method Craig advises above.

Anderton

1. In the bus pane, set the Metronome output to New Aux Track.
2. This creates an aux track in the track pane. Enable record in this new aux track.
3. Make sure the metronome is set to make sound during playback, and start recording.
4. The new aux track will record the metronome sound in real time.

+1 great advice

The documentation is essentially the same w/ illustrations.

I have been using recorded metronome for years for adding a click track to backing tracks I produce for live gigs.  There used to be a DXi by Mike Norman called Ping Audio Metronome.  The beauty of it was you would simply insert the plugin to a track, select whatever sound you wanted for a click. the note value, and BAM!, you had a metronome that could be rendered in a matter of seconds rather than recording the entire length of the song in real time.  Since it was made in 2002, it no longer is functional on a 64bit machine (plus I lost the serial#), but I used it exclusively for that purpose until recently on an old XP machine.  I think it would be a great new and easy feature to include with Bandlab.  What I do now in its absence, is to record a 1 bar phrase of 1/4 notes to midi track assigned to a hi hat or whatever sound you like, to a drum track of a VSTi like Edirol, copy and paste it the length of the song, and mix it down to another track. Voila!, click track that will follow the tempo and any changes in the song. Hope this helps.

I've always found it extremely easy to generate a metronome tempo/click in Audacity. Export it to wav and drag it into cakewalk.
 

Generate Instruments or Metronome

• : Generates a track with regularly spaced sounds at a specified tempo and number of beats per measure (bar).
• : A synthesized pluck tone with abrupt or gradual fade-out, and selectable pitch corresponding to a note.
• : Produces a realistic drum sound.

Hope it helps!
 
Nick T

I never use the metronome. Simple drum patterns are much more flexible and are simple to render into audio.