Anyone Know how to Generate a Click Track in PT 5.1?

[fooloof]

A friend of mine has an older rig (PT 5.1 on OS 9). The way to generate a click track is different from more recent versions (just creating an aux track and opening an insert); the click comes straight from the computer's system through some sort of quicktime process. I found an article on it, but it was kind of complicated. It instructed the user to activate OSM (whatever that is) and some other stuff. Anyone know how to open the click and explain it concisely?

Many thanks.

[Vedat]

I think, back in those days, most people used an audio track for click. Line them up manually.

[Extreme Mixing]

Or MIDI to an external instrument. If you have the virus you could use that inside the computer.

[fooloof]

Thanks, Steve. I see we're neighbors. I live in North Hollywood, right by Van Nuys.

[iriegeorge]

Always did them through a midi track with an external controller, recorded to an audio track. was easier that way than trying the digi method of the time.

[John_Toolbox]

Basically, draw a measure of midi notes on a midi track, duplicate that region as many times as you need for the song, draw in tempo/meter events if there are any tempo or meter changes. Send the output of that midi track to an instrument of your choice, then open that instrument on an aux track(I usually used softsamplecell or samplecell with a hihat sample loaded for this, but if you don't have those you could use quicktime music as you mentioned).

A little more work than the newer versions, but it becomes easy once you've set it up once.