I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I can't find it in the help section. What I'd like to do is record the metronome in X2, and be able to tweak it after recording other tracks. Can I do this without using midi?

Hello there

Why would you want to do that?

Perhaps that's why the only way to do this would be to create a MIDI click, which is what I do if I need to take a click away for drummer to play along to, for instance.

Howdy. Interesting question guys. So how would you go about using midi to do this.  I didnt think you could record the click track at all. 
cheers
Xave

I know it was impossible in x1, for x2 ?
im not sure.
but I thought in mixdown options (export) there was an option export the metrodome.

I have never known it to be possible to mix down the onboard metronome with Cakewalk/Sonar in any of the versions I have used. That said, I've never thought to try it.

Anyway, I just have, in Sonar X2, by adding just one synth instance and creating a very simple eight bar sequence. I turned on the metronome so that it functioned in playback mode.

I then exported the entire mix and the metronome did not export. And to be frank, I did not expect it to.

As I said earlier, the only way to do this is to create a simple MIDI click track and then stretch that over the entire project. You can do that in less than a minute. If I was doing it, I would open up the simplest of my drum synths and use Step Sequencer to play one note for the down beat and a different note for the others. In Track View I would then stretch my new metronome track over the whole of my project. If I have Meter changes in my project than I would create a Step Sequencer portion for each Meter.

cheers

Thanks for checking into this guys. I ended up going a little old school to solve this, as I'm not a midi user. I put a 414 about a foot from one of my monitors and kept the gain up just enough to avoid feedback, and played the metronome sound I wanted in Sonar, and hit record. Worked like a champ. As to why I wanted to record a metronome, my son wants to cover a Foo Fighters song called "Stranger Things Have Happened". On the record, you can hear a windup metronome being wound, then the acoustic guitar comes in on the 4. You hear the metronome throughout the song. Thanks again. Randy

Ah, I see Randy, well, that  was probably the best solution anyway, by the sounds of it