Easiest way to make the click track do double time

[Killahurts]

I have a song that is in 48bpm, and I want to keep it as that for arrangement reasons. But the performer I'm recording practiced the part with a metronome at 96bpm, and needs to hear that from the click track while we record. I looked in the preferences under click track defaults, but I don't want to set any defaults, it's just for this one project. Any suggestions? I could swear I used to know this..

[rickorick]

What I have done is print the click at 48 then copy it to another track and move that track over an eighth note and now it’s double time. Easy no thinking.

[Killahurts]

Thanks! Yes that would work, and it may come down to that.. but I'm hoping for a more elegant solution.

[joelkk]

If you are using the conductor track for your tempo, you can go into the Event List, make sure you're on the conductor track and add a Click Change from the drop down menu. Specify what measure you'd like it to start and choose beat click. It will default to a quarter note but you can double click on the quarter note icon and choose eighth notes instead

[stubbsonic]

Yea, so set the tempo control source (disclose triangle in lower right corner of transport "display" area) to conductor track (if it isn't already).

You can put a click change event at the top of the conductor track, but another way is to just stick a Meter Change at the top of the song. Set it to 4/4 or whatever meter it is. On the right side of that event is a "Click" and a note value, and you can just set that to 8th notes. Set it back to quarters when you're done.

[Killahurts]

Perfect! Thanks guys! This is the best way to do it in my case, because as Stubb says, I can change it back to 1/4's when we are done recording the performance.

[SMS]

This feature in DP is extremely flexible. You can set up pretty much any kind of click you want with accents wherever you want them. Shooshie has a great explanation of this somewhere on this forum.