Metronome Click for 6/8 Time Signature

The Metronome settings will only give you bar, beat and division options. If you want a customized metronome, make a quantized MIDI track and assign it to a Virtual Instrument.

jord

more specifically, use the klopfgeist which is audio instrument 128. you can use that as a regular virtual instrument. set your beat up, hit loop, then hide the track.

i agree (with what you are bound to be thinking), logic ought to be a bit smarter regarding this.

6/8 is a duple time signature, in other words set your time signature to 2/4.

mate, that won't work if your in 6/8. 2/4 is 2/4 which is simple duple, 6/8 is compound duple. if you need your stuff in 6/8 it should be in 6/8 says i.

fast 6/8 is conducted in 2, so if you only need your click as a reference it works fine.

that'll work for only a very specific situation.

if you have written a piece in 6/8 and plan to record it, setting it to 2/4 will not give you the correct length of beat. the beat should fall on every 3rd quaver subdivision, but setting it to 2/4 will have it landing on every 2nd thereby making your tempo 33% faster.

sure, you could change the tempo, but that would start making things dangerously fiddly. you would have to smpte lock all regions and automation data just to record, and then it could get awkward with any tempo changes you have in there and any time signature changes you might have in there as well.

if you have a piece in 6/8 you should record it in 6/8 without having to resort to something as drastic as changing the tempo and the time signature just to get a metronome beat right. logic ought to be able to do a dotted value beat, but as it can't, we will have to write them for the klopfgeist AI.

...if you have a piece in 6/8 you should record it in
6/8 without having to resort to something as drastic
as changing the tempo and the time signature just to
get a metronome beat right. logic ought to be able to
do a dotted value beat, but as it can't, we will have
to write them for the klopfgeist AI.

This should be on the "short list" for the next update. Digital Performer allows you to choose dotted values for tempo and meter settings. There is no reason that Logic shouldn't have this capability. Especially with the new DP 5, there are some amazing new Click and Count-off features, especially for film scoring.

Having said that, you can do many of the same things in Logic (manually) by using the Klopfgeist instrument plug-in. Overall, an annoyance, but not a deal-breaker by any means.

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Michael Atwell wrote: This should be on the "short list" for the next update.

Absolutely.

Especially with the new DP 5, there are some amazing new Click and Count-off features, especially for film scoring.

Can you expound on this a bit please?

iSchwartz wrote:

Can you expound on this a bit please?

Sure I could, but it's easier to let MOTU do the talking for me. Here's the link that will take you specifically to the new click and count-off features in DP 5.

http://www.motu.com/products/software/dp/features50/click.html

I'm still thinking that I will end up working in LP 7.2, but DP has really got the tempo/meter/click/count-off options working well. Apple needs to take a look at DP and steal these functions. But don't get rid of the awesome tempo curves in the Global Tempo track! To me, that is the most musical way to do tempo changes, compared to DP and Pro Tools.

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