I prefer to make a single bar of MIDI with a quarter note on the sidestick (note # 37 on channel 10 for GM synths) set velocity to 127 (full) Then you can copy that one measure and paste it however many bars your song is. That way you can make it as loud as you want .. even add PGPeakLimit to it and make it excruciatingly loud ..
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I find it difficult to hear my metronome. Is it possible to increase its volume independent of track volume?
RealDrums count-ins are part of the audio associated with RealDrums. RealBand allows access to the audio in the two bars labeled -2 & -1 in the timeline. You can adjust the volume or use an insert effect to make the two bar count-in louder.
MIDI metronome settings are available under "Options" > "Preferences ..." or Control + F5 > "9 Metronome". The midi metronome volume already defaults to the maximum volume level of 127 so there is no relief there. But you can change the midi drum instrument note from the default of 42 (F#3), closed hi-hat, to a more aggressive sounding midi drum instrument note.
One other note concerning the above 2 suggestions. Adding an effect (like PGPeaklimit) to boost the volume will act on the whole synth, so ALL MIDI assigned to that synth may be louder as a result.
This is why I create a MIDI click track as described in my earlier post. That way I can assign that track to it's own instance of the desired synth and thus make only that click track louder when using PGPeakLimit (or other methods of boosting the volume). Other instances of the same synth remain unaffected.
Another way would be to generate said click to it's own audio track, which allows some other options, like the Trim in the FX area. Still need an original MIDI click track to do so, as described in my first post .. Lots of ways to skin a cat, just explaining why I use mine.
I want to be able to control just the click track and affect no other tracks with the changes. So I usually opt to take the 2 minutes and make my own click track.
To be honest I created a 100 bar MIDI track and saved it as click.mid long ago. Now I can import that .mid file into my RB projects (Load Scrap function), and because it is MIDI it will adjust to the tempo map of the song and end up on it's own track. Then I have all above mentioned options open to me. I can post a link to my click.mid file, but it's easy enough to create your own if needed. Start a new project, enter 4 quarter note events for the first measure of the song (using the desired MIDI channel/note), copy that whole measure, then paste it at the very beginning of the next measure and put '100' in the repetitions box, click OK then save it as click.mid .. done.
FWIW I've found that by converting the click to audio I can usually get the click loud enough to make even the most challenging client wince.
"it's not loud enough" .. (turn it up) "it's not loud enough" .. (turn it up another way) "it's not loud enough" .. (convert to audio, compress it and PeakLimit it)
"DUDE; turn it down!" (giggle)
Last edited by rharv; 09/25/1901:26 PM.
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Hi rharv, Thank you for the very useful information. It seems that RealaBand designers have included a very lot of of helpful features in the DAW but seems to fundamentally lack in one of the most basic requirements for musical composition.
One anomaly (probably my fault) came up when I tried to create the click trick you alluded to.
I created the 4 beat bar as you outlined. I made the velocity of beats 2, 3 and 4 less than beat 1 so that beat 1 would be easy to distinguish.
However, when I copied the bar using the 'repeat feature' I noticed the velocities were incorrect on the copied bars. The strong beat was followed but just 2 weaker beats before the strong beat came in again. It looked like 3/4 rather than 4/4.
If I copy one bar at a time by moving the insertion point to the start of the intended destination then all is OK.
I'm sure this is something I am doing wrong but I would be grateful for any opinion.
You can find metronome loops readily availbe for use online and add it as a loop track. The closest to a proper "4-on-the-floor" loop, which comes packaged with BiaB and that I find very usable for this purpose, is:
It's more of an electronic kick than a click track, but it works.
Note that the tempo will stretch by default, but if you want more volume on it relative to the other tracks you can easily accomplish that by setting the decibel offset to a positive value of your choice.
Hope that helps :-)
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