Hi WAS,

Prefs->Countin/Met and take a look at the options provided there.

About halfway down in the little Metronome window is a dropdown slot -- "Instrument" that allows for picking other sounds than the default "Sidestick" sound from the Percussion bank in your selected MIDI synth.

The sound is generated by MIDI and fires various instrument sounds in the MIDI synth Percussion Bank.

While we cannot get rid of that (rather annoying to me) harder attack on beat 1, changing of instrument to another patch that may be more easily heard overtop of the music playback is easy and works.

Sometimes when working with a student, I have to switch that over to the Kick Drum at first so that they more easily hear the beats. Once they start getting the notion that in order to play to a metronome (or with other musicians as well!) that is imperative that they have to always count internally for themselves in order to anticipate when to play, rather than waiting to hear a beat and then trying to "catch" it when its already too late in time to do so, I back off of that setting to something a bit harder to hear (and less BOOM_BOOM). The Closed HiHat is a favorite for the next level.

PS -- I also find it a good thing to invoke the Visible Metronome dropdown to display all beats all the time in numbers, as well. I usually set that to display in the upper RH area, out of the way of the chord grid and music notation.

HTH,


--Mac

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