On/off click automation in the conductor track

[BERLY]

Hello,
I cannot remember how to program a "OFF" or "MUTE" event in the Conductor track for the metronome to stop playing at a time while recording.
I did that a long time ago but I don't find out how I did it…
Thanks for any help
Best regards
Christophe

[stubbsonic]

There's probably an easier way to do this, but here are two:

Record an audio or MIDI click to stop where you want.

Or, send the click to a particular bus, then bring that bus into an aux track and mute the aux track.

I'm sure others will pop in with much more easy methods.

[BERLY]

Thanks Jon, yes of course, I know it's a possibility. But there's a way to do that in the Conductor track. I already did that a long time ago, but I cannot find how I did…

[stubbsonic]

In the conductor event list, you can add an event called "click change", then choose "click Tacet" as one of the click types.

[BERLY]

Yes ! Thanks Jon, that works !
But unfortunately, after created Tacet events in the event list, I can't see and manage them inside the Conductor track. Unless I'm missing something…?
Thanks

[stubbsonic]

Looks like I can see the event in the TO, but only if there's nothing else in it (like a tempo change). And I can always see them in the event list, but can't see them at all in the Conductor's graphic editor unless I select it in the TO (then it will show as a selected item at the top of the window).

Perhaps MOTU hasn't been especially robust about keeping that particular feature fully functional in all windows.

[HCMarkus]

I always have my click bussed to a fader… makes it a snap to adjust level on the fly, not to mention automate if you desire. Also, you can use sends to send different click levels to various monitor mixes.

[ovaltine52]

Okay, I need to jump in here as I'm having trouble figuring out "tacet click":

I figured how to get to "tacet click", I add it at the spot where I want to silence click. Shows the little metronome where I inserted "tacet click". Go back to the top expecting to hear click on & click off where my "tacet click" icon is. NO CLICK, PERIOD. What am I missing?

Thankew in advance.

[stubbsonic]

It's possible this feature isn't used much, so if there are bugs, they might be unreported.

I can think of a couple things you can try. Make sure that the tempo mode is set to conductor track (and not the tempo slider). Try adding a click event at the beginning of the sequence that just enables the click. Perhaps it needs another event to turn it back on?

[BERLY]

Finaly, I've made the choice to add an aux track for the click, because I've tried the tacet function, and I also got bugs so it's not reliable enough.
Thanks to all for your help.

[ovaltine52]

Could you please tell me how you're getting click into an aux track? Are you turning it on/off with automation?

[HCMarkus]

Set up Aux Track with a spare mono bus as input (I labeled a bus "Click" in Bundles window)

In Click Preferences (double click the metronome icon), set output of audio click to that bus.

[ovaltine52]

MUCH thanks.

[HCMarkus]

MUCH thanks.

My pleasure!