How to make a double-time click?

[Dan Pinder]

Does anyone have an easy way to generate an eighth note click without changing the metering? I'm not dealing with a steady tempo and meter but lots of changes, as comes with film music. Obviously, I need it to follow the already complex tempo/meter map.

Any help is appreciated.

[Drew Mazurek]

use a delay plugin and it'll follow the map. automate it when you need to change notes.

[Dan Pinder]

That's clever. Thanks, dmazurek.

On a simple session, I could change the designation of each tempo change to a different note value, but that's impossible on some of these hairy ones.

I'll try it.

[Seeee]

chose the note value in the pop up menu in transport. chose a 1/8 instead of a 1/4. thats the real way to do it.

[TXDigi]

delay will work in most cases but it also depends on how extreme the time changes are. The delay that follow will always be at the tempo it came from previous so it may sem like the like rushes or drags sometimes. Id hace something like Reason follow via rewire with a simple click you come up with. Since it is midi based it will follow tempo changes correctly

[ricupad]

Go to MIDI > change meter, there's a 'click' setting: you can choose values between whole notes and sixteenths. Oddly, I can get accents only on downbeats, if somebody knows how to accent every quarter note, chime in.

R.

[Dan Pinder]

All great responses. I don't think the Transport trick works for me because I'm using the conductor at all times. I noticed that the Change Tempo window does have a "click" note-value menu but that also seems to affect the overall bar counts as well. Gotta RTFM I suppose.

[ricupad]

Note: in the Change Tempo window you select the resolution (and it affects the bar count); but it's in the Change Meter window where you can change the Click value, and that doesn't affect the bar count.

R.

[Drew Mazurek]

thats the real way to do it.

if it works then it's real buddy.

[Dan Pinder]

Note: in the Change Tempo window you select the resolution (and it affects the bar count); but it's in the Change Meter window where you can change the Click value, and that doesn't affect the bar count.

R.

Just sussed that out. At least there will always be fewer meter changes than tempo changes in my world anyway. Though it would be great to have a global setting that would interpret meter changes in a meaningful way. For example, going from 4/4 into 12/16 and just seeing the fact that a 16th note gets one beat equates to "a 16th note gets one click". Quarter-note click into sixteenth-note click. I suppose there are no hard and fast rules for this.