Easiest way to get a click

[Paul_m]

Hi All,

My first post!! I'm glad there is a place to get some answers. I just bought an 001 this weekend. I'm using it with my shuttle SB51G that I just bought too. Everything is going swimmingly. Currently using WIN 98 because I am poor.

I was originally going to buy an MBOX but for twice the money you get a lot more than twice the capability so I made an impulse decision and bought the 001. I'm glad I did. With the same logic I should have bought the 002 but I am paying for this all on plastic as it is.

Anyway....having a grand time recording so far. My big question, how can I get a click to play through the headphones? Is it that screwed up that I need something midi to play through? I don't get it. But I am guessing that's what's going on. I have nothing midi. I just want a click. What's the easiest, cheapest way to get a click track through the 001? I'm all ears.

Thanks
Paul

[Mikael Jönsson]

Eric Day of Digi Engineering posted the following: posted August 31, 2000 01:45 PM
"MIDI output in PTLE is locked to the audio clock (as opposed to the motherboard or CPU clock), so there should not be drift between MIDI and audio. Also, PTLE makes it pretty easy to set up an audio click track.
1) import some audio to be used as the click (a closed hi-hat, for example) onto an empty audio track at time zero (1|1|000)
2) select "grid" edit mode, "bars & beats" time format, and "1/4 note" grid value
3) select the first 1/4 note of the click track (from 1|1|000 to 1|2|000)
4) press Alt-R (for repeat) and enter the number of 1/4 note ticks desired (four times the number of measures for 4/4)

This is what I do when I don't want to use a MIDI device for the click.

Eric Day
DAE Engineer"

[freakuincy]

not using midi?

then i would just record a very short anything loud
into the PT (audio) and edit it down to a 32 note and
paste it on your grid at whatever speed you want your click. likely every beat on every bar or whatever.

may not be right - but it has worked for me.

freak

[Paul_m]

Hey,

Thanks for the excellent info. I guess I'm in the right place for learning. I tried it last night with a hand clap (I have no percussion instruments sadly) and it worked great. One question, say I want to change the tempo, is there an easy way to change the grid after the fact and move all those claps in relation to the grid? I had to erase all of them and realign them with the new grid. It would be great if I could change them all at once.

Thanks again,
Paul

[freakuincy]

ther is probably a easier way than mine but -

since it is so easy to copy and paste (REPEAT/DUPLICATE),
just erase all but the first note and reset your bars and beats with the new tempo entered.
once the tempo and first click are right - duplicate/repeat

freak

[Paul_m]

Thanks, that's basically what I was doing...I was just wondering if you can do it without the cutting and pasting, can you move the grid and have all the clicks move at once?

Paul

[TooLoud]

Here are some more thoughts on this in another thread...

[freakuincy]

select all > put PT in slip mode and move
everything (in 1 track or all tracks) to your desired location using the hand tool.