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@Mac

There are numerous (17) options in the pattern drop-down. As far as I can tell, these are the only options that might affect what I want (four straight even sounds for the metronome). Experimenting with all of those could take quite a bit of time. Don't mean to complain but it seems like a lot of work for a question this simple.



You must have missed this sentence I posted earlier in the thread up there:

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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.




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Can you tell me definitively if Band in a box supports this option hearing four even metronome sounds (of any kind)?



Unfortunately for both of us, the answer is, "Not at this time" -- at least, I've never been able to get the built in metronome to not accent beat one like that to date. Yeah, I know. At one time I did post it as a Wishlist Request but it seemed that nobody else was concerned with the issue. I also wanted User Selectable accents or no accent by the beat, wouldn't it be nice to emphasize TWO and FOUR when teaching Swing? A metronome that turns the beat around is nonexistent these days, to my knowledge. I still use the old fashioned clicker when teaching here, setting it to half tempo and teaching the student to turn the beat around in their head, hearing and playing to it as 2 and 4. The Backbeat. (You haven't really worked the old Bach stuff until you try it that way *grin*).

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If not, is there a way to play the lead-in bars endlessly? They have four straight even tones, but the loop function does not seem to include lead-ins.



The only way I've achieved non-accented Click Track inside BiaB is to not use the built in Metronome but instead use the Audio Loop feature after "rolling my own" single bar of 4 even hits. Don't know what you're after in the way of need, but this workaround does indeed get 4 even beats when I need them for teaching. I wish there was an easier way, of course.

Have Fun,


--Mac

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