Metronome in Sonar

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Metronome in Sonar
The Metronome Settings are located in the upper
toolbar. The metronome settings are the last
box. If you do not see your metronome settings,
go to the pull-down menu View ? Toolbars, This
dialogue box will come up and you mat choose
Metronome
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Metronome
Click on the Metronome settings and this dialogue
box will appear. Your setting should be set
to 1. Recording2. Measures3. Use MIDI note4.
Port 15. Channel 10 First Beat and other beats
will allow you to adjust the timbre and the
velocity of the metronome click
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Metronome
There are 8 boxes divided into four
categories. The first category has three options
all having to do with record count-in The second
category has two options all having to do with
when your metronome counts. The third category
has two options for what metronome you are using.
The final category is for your metronome
settings. By holding your mouse over these boxes
(and most boxes in Sonar) a dialogue box will
appear telling you the name of the box.
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Metronome

• Using the midi metronome is better than using the
  audio metronome for a number of reasons. First,
  we are not set up to isolate the signal so if you
  are recording audio you will get the metronome
  click. Second it helps to conserve your DSP.

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Metronome
The basic Metronome speed is controlled by the
tempo control in the upper toolbar. If you do not
see your metronome settings, go to the pull-down
menu View ? Toolbars,
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Setting the Metronome

• You should use channel 10 for your click track,
  (this follows GM standards)
• Set your first beat to the timbre that you want,
  use 127 as the velocity
• Set other beat to the same timbre and change the
  velocity to 80.
• You may need to make adjustments to this based on
  timbre chosen for click track and timbre that you
  uses when you are recording.