hay everyone :-)

First post and a nice easy one I expect :-)

is there a way to set the click tracks precount?
Id like mine to be 8 beats instead od 4 as 4 is too short :-)

Thx alot :-)

First off, welcome to the forum!!

In regards to your question, unfortunately there is not a way to adjust the pre-click count. I sympathize with you on this issue as I have had times when I needed a longer count. We just have to start and be ready. Hopefully Prop's might implement this in future versions or patches. Until then, we will just have to make due. Good Luck!!

Dose

hay :-)

ah smeg :-( Im sooooo used to using 8 clicks from using ablton argh :-(

cheers :-)

There isn't a way to do it as Dose said...

But there IS a cheeky little workaround.

Highlight your entire project, and move it along 2 bars to the right.

Then when you are recording from the start of your track, you get 8 clicks of nothing, et voila, your count in! If you're going from the middle of your track, just put your locator 2 bars away and let your music count you in.

Maybe that will help....

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Yaeh I thought of pushing the music back 2 bars too but as your say that doesn't work for mid-song recording.

The prob with your workaround for midsong recording(althugh fine for fresh recordings) is i VERY often want to start recording mid riff if theres a fuck up in the riff. Say My guitar part has a bum note halfway through i want to start the track at the start of that riff but only have the recording start from beat 3 for instance.... is there a way to do that? placing the left marker at the point i want the recording to start doesnt work as it starts recordng right from the start :-(

Thx :-)

Sadly i know exactly what you mean.

My only advice would be to duplicate the sequencer track that your riff is on, and overwriting the midi information on that track, then creating 'good' blocks and then transferring those blocks onto your original midi track, wither that or practice the art of punching in at the very last minute.

As you say, without an official pre-count this is pretty difficult at times, especially with complicated hook lines.

I admit, when i mess up on recording, I usually start from an easy section, hit the * key at the last second and start playing, then quickly hit * again when i'm finished, and draw in any automation or single notes that have been erased.

I know its not the solution you were after, but I guess we have to make do with the tools we are given, right?

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hay :-)

Thx for the advice :-) The * sounds like it will help on the rare occasions i use a keyboard but 99% of my works done via midi guitar so i need to be sat back and have both hands on the guitar :-(

I like the idea of having a seperate sequencer though but in order to do that id need to reroute my sound into the new seqencer till ive got it rgiht then route it back or have the instrument twice perhaps.

Cheers :-)

P.s. to anyone considering turning their guitar into a midi guitar i have some advice. DO NOT! buy a roland or ANY other midi converter than the Axon AX100!
<wouldnt let me link sorry>
The axon is the ONLY one that works in a very special way of reading the click from the plectrum rather than reading the soundwave itself so there is NO delay in cionversion!
Unlike ALL others which need to read the soundwave and hence, have a longer converstion time the lower the note :-)

If you go to your sequencer track that you want to record your riff on, right click on the left part (where it shows what the sequencer track is called, with the Mute and Solo buttons), and duplicate your track. You can then select the same device (combinater 1, 2, 3 or whatever it is that you were using that you are using for your other track) so no re-routing required. You can then delete the original notation on the track (having the same device playing the SAME notation, duplicated across tracks will cause issues! I reccomend deleting the notation on your duplicated track - or muting the previous one). I could show you this in 5 seconds, but it's not as easy to explain it, haha.

I commonly duplicate tracks and have the same instrument playing multiple sequencer tracks - it makes it easier for editing AND arranging. You can then mute the track you don't want to hear on the sequencer menu (NOT the mixer).

Hope that might help somewhat.

Also does your MIDI guitar have any programmable buttons on it?

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