How to deliver a click track to a musician.

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How to deliver a click track to a musician.

Post by petrecrice » Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:21 am

Hi Ableton Experts,
I'm familiar with how to listen and adjust the metronome. What I can't figure out is how to route and record the metronome audio without using an external audio interface. Is this a case for Rewire? I guess I could easily Rewire Ableton with Logic running as a slave, but that seems a little hefty for a simple task.

Purpose? It's part of what I deliver to the other musicians & studios I work with (using other DAWs) and to the publisher.
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Re: How to deliver a click track to a musician.

Post by petrecrice » Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:44 am

I found the metronome.adg file and I guess I can make clips with midi info....each for every time signature...but that's not ideal.
There must be a way to get access to that signal, either midi or audio.
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Re: How to deliver a click track to a musician.

Post by chapelier fou » Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:31 am

Come on, that's not so painful to make your own click track...
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Re: How to deliver a click track to a musician.

Post by ttilberg » Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:56 pm

Regarding your comment about different clips for each and every different time signature -- wouldn't you just need to make one clip with the high pitched click first, and then copy paste like 12 - 16 lower click notes after on each beat, and then you could just adjust the loop length for your various time signatures? Loop 3 beats = 3/4 time, loop 4 beats = 4/4 time, loop 5 beats = 5/4 etc.

If you are specifically talking about routing the audio through a separate audio channel, separated from some other audio stream, but without an external interface, you are going to have a bad time.

If you had an external interface the matter would be trivial:
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/mixing/
15.6 Soloing and Cueing

I'm not sure if I'm following you entirely though. Regarding rewiring into Logic -- that's nonsensical. Whatever you are doing with that cue track can be done directly through Live, there's no need to add a layer of complexity to it.
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