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I assume I'm making life way too difficult. Advise please . . .

I'm making snippets of click track, one - two bars segments in the original DP file and exporting them to Live. Then I turn them into clips. This is so the drummer can count the tune in and have an on going click track. I have the outputs for his ears only. Can I do the same with the metronome in Live? I mean is this DUH?? Can I set the metronome up, perhaps using different sounds than the standard metronome sound in Live, and send this signal top a different output rather than the House 1/2. And can I set it up as 2, 4 or 6 bars ahead of the point where the song starts? Otherwise I'll set up the count cclicks and set the FOLLOW ACTIONS accordingly.

OK. I see where I can send the cue mix to outputs 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 whatever. How can I set up to start the tune after X bars of count?

Nobody knows? So you can't set a start point for the metronome, like a 2 bar count off?

take a look to options / diverse

there you go!

Hm. OK. Options. Is it also in Live 4.1? I don't see Diverse under the Options menu. I haven't yet found Options in refernce manual. But I need to look closer. Between the Super Bowl and ordering pizza.

Diverse must be in Live 5. I see no reference for it.

No metronome count in in Live4, it came along in Live 5.

Henry Robinett wrote:I assume I'm making life way too difficult. Advise please . . .

I'm making snippets of click track, one - two bars segments in the original DP file and exporting them to Live. Then I turn them into clips. This is so the drummer can count the tune in and have an on going click track. I have the outputs for his ears only. Can I do the same with the metronome in Live? I mean is this DUH?? Can I set the metronome up, perhaps using different sounds than the standard metronome sound in Live, and send this signal top a different output rather than the House 1/2. And can I set it up as 2, 4 or 6 bars ahead of the point where the song starts? Otherwise I'll set up the count cclicks and set the FOLLOW ACTIONS accordingly.

OK. I see where I can send the cue mix to outputs 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 whatever. How can I set up to start the tune after X bars of count?

you can't set the metronome to a different sound (afaik) but you can
set the cue to whatever out put you want, this is where the metronome
goes. we do the same in my band. for count ins and such i add
an extra scene at the beginning of the song.

also we don't like the click so we usually make a loop for the drummer to hear, and put it on the first scene of a song in a track and then
remove the stop buttons from the rest of the slots, so it just goes for the whole song.

i bet you can change the metronome sound. i'm almost positive that there's a file called metronome.wav somewhere in the program folders

longjohns wrote:i bet you can change the metronome sound. i'm almost positive that there's a file called metronome.wav somewhere in the program folders

Yeah, there is in this folder...

C:\Program Files\Ableton\Live 5.0.2\Resources\Misc

I'm assuming you'd just replace the files (there's 2) for the new noises you wanna use, but keep the file name the same.