Cakewalk Sonar Metronome Settings, Routing, and Recording

greetings all this is a tutorial about using the metronome in cakewalk the tempo map how to input tempo changes into your piece or how to record the click track if you want to send out your demo for for example for collaboration with other people online you want to send out your demo you need the click track embedded in the recording you send them that way everybody's gonna be on time in the same so we're gonna do some different things here to show you how to use some of the metronome tools so force we're gonna start with the metronome settings right here underneath your display this is the tempo setting now you can click on that and type in any tempo you want it's going to set the entire piece the entire set of tracks to that tempo all the way across now which is good if you want one tempo but let's say that you know let me set this to 90 here now let's say that we start at 90 okay let's say measure five we want to change the tempo to something else so let's say we want to an abrupt fo change at measure five to 120 now if I set the transport to 120 and change this again it's not gonna change it there it's gonna change the entire piece to 120 see now it's at 120 at the beginning okay I want the beginning at 90 and I want a tempo change at 5 of 120 so we can enter that in a couple of different ways the easiest quickest way is to go to project insert tempo change and then type in 120 here now important it says change the most recent tempo well the most recent tempo currently is excuse me the beginning of the piece so if I change it again it would just change the beginning tempo I want an insert new tempo at and it's going to take wherever your transport is for this value now it if it's not if your transport is not where you want to put the tempo change you can enter it manually here so if I enter a six it's going to change the tempo at measure six beat one okay so now it should still be 93 measure five there we go and it changed to measure six it was the temperature change I'm going to control Z that because I really want the tempo change at measure five one twenty insert new tempo five one there we go all right now that's where I want the tempo change let me change this to something so we don't have to listen to all those clicks okay there we go so that's how you enter a manual tempo change using the that insert tempo command okay alright now we uh we also have the tempo map and I'm going to pull it up from the views here okay so we want to view tempo alt shift five is the shortcut to it okay now we can see that tempo change we just added here it's set to 90 and then it jumps up to 120 here we can zoom in the grid if we want to get a little bit more tight accuracy on things and we can zoom out if we want to see the whole entire piece all the different tempo changes and whatnot this way now you can also draw in tempos this way if you would like it's difficult because it's only as accurate as you can draw so you do have some issues now this will also respond to the snap settings you have going up here there we go okay you can see that measure 15 I drew in a tempo change four four quarter notes and it drew in four quarters let me zoom in on that okay so it's set here at 90 goes up to 97 okay and again we could if if it's not what we want we can we can just go ahead and draw it again and there we go it up to 120 so this is a way you can draw in your tempos you can change the accuracy two more points if you want yeah it's responding to that snap grid so there are different ways of getting to the resolution that you want this the closer the more dots you have the more humid it would be as far as the gradual tempo change but that's up to you so there's a way of drawing in tempos now of course you see here it Maps listed all those different tempo changes okay so there should be 16 of them here in this list now I don't like that I can delete it from that list as well so there's different places you can add now I don't think you can add you can't click in manually add one here as far as I know that the only way to manually add one is I believe is using this project insert tempo but again you can still edit the the graph right here in the tempo map so this is another way if you want to use this if you're listening to a recording and you're trying to line up to that recording and get a click track from that recording you can use this as one of those tools there's another way of doing it using audio snap and it just depends on which level of tedium do you want to use sometimes is quicker to you actually just adjust it with this drawing with a tempo map and sometimes it's quicker to use the the audio snap method so it just depends on what you're doing alright so enough on the tempo map and inputting and changing tempos so that's of course if you were doing it up front and you have a blank project that's that's what you want to do now let's say you want to record the metronome because again you're you're sending this out for other people to play along with so you set my grid to a more reasonable thing and actually better okay so the if we look at the console view because that's where the give you the console yeah so we can see that we have the two default tracks the audio track in the MIDI track the master track this is what is going out to your sound card the metronome typically goes to your sound card whatever the default settings are and then you have your preview which can be you can route it however you want it's sent to the master that's usually if you playback MIDI samples up here or audio demo things that you have in your library it usually comes through on that track so that's what that's for in in the in the mixer there so if you want to record the cakewalk metronome which is fine I can choose different settings if you do P brings up your settings and down here under advanced you have to have advanced C metronome under project metronome you can select different sounds for the metronome if you want to change them this is a little audio sampler I think within cakewalk itself to give you that metronome click and of course you can reassign the output if you assign if you reassigning here it will change in that setting down there on a console you'll notice that if you change it there or you can output using a MIDI note and you could I don't think you can hear it if you do that let's see yeah it's not audible anymore so if you want the audible metronome metronome you have to use the audio metronome okay apply rose and I should have a metronome back yes there we go okay so you want to record your metronome into a track over here so it's part of the the other tracks that you have okay what is the easiest way to do that so again there are a couple different ways of routing your signals this is one of the things I like patch points for so I'm gonna insert an audio track okay and I'm gonna call that click whoops have my caps lock on click and now I want to route the signal from here into here okay so now you can't route stuff generally speaking from the busses here into your tracks it doesn't seem to like to do that so I'm gonna do a new patch point okay and then over here for the inputs I'm going to use the patch point okay and now you can see the signal is reflecting here and if I go to the beginning of the track and armed this track to record and so on and so forth and then let's take a look at that track there okay and then we can see the audio data that it just recorded I'm unarmed that one and I will mute the metronome altogether so now the metronome is not playing back at all either in playback or record mode but I have the click track from here in the audio settings so that is the quickest easiest way that I know to send the click into a track use patch points boom you're done nice and easy alright let's say that for some reason you didn't like using the audio metronome from cakewalk you had a MIDI instrument you wanted to use instead so you can still route your metronome into a VST it's a little more complicated obviously but it's doable so you can open up your preferences by doing P and set the metronome here instead of audio use MIDI note now you can only choose one port and then here are the different MIDI notes that you can send so here you could program and I think this is a closed hi-hat sound that it uses specifically I prefer the wood blocks which is like an E and an F way up in the fifth row six octave but let's see we'll just use this for now now the other thing you have to do is you got to go to MIDI devices and you have to enable some you have to have some kind of internal MIDI routing so I have the loop b midi thing installed on my computer so i use that for my internal midi signal that way i can send the signal into it really goes out of sonar into this virtual midi controller back into sonar that's the only way that i figured out how to do this there may be another way but there's there seemingly no way to send the MIDI signal directly from the metronome into vias tea in a track here all right so I still have the click track audio that I recorded earlier make sure that's muted yeah okay and we're going to add an instrument insert instrument I'm gonna just do the default TTS from cakewalk okay it's I had set it to record now I want to sit with ya so because I routed the MIDI and the input is set to Omni here it's it's hearing that MIDI signal from the loopy MIDI and I can record that this way okay now what I've just recorded was MIDI data I didn't ring actually record a sound I recorded the MIDI click basically so that's a quick way you can create a MIDI click if you want to do it that way so this is just MIDI data and then let's see if I I can turn off the internal metronome now if I play back well let's see not record that was interesting I got some other MIDI junk going on in there for some reason not sure why so I you could have recorded both of those at the same time but perhaps you decided I don't like that MIDI note I want to go into the MIDI track and change that to a woodblock which is I need to be on channel 10 it seems that the channel 10 so it's some a drum track okay yeah that's what I'd like to use for my web blocks so I'm gonna select all hey so if I delete that hi hand I record earlier and replace that with that wood block and so on okay so there's a way of again using the internal tempo met tempo maps the internal metronome settings you had to record with a VST you could have plugged in any instrument VST this way and it would still work now let's see what happens if I play back both well let me just pull that track down so that I'm surely not triggering anything else in there so now it's it's own separate file and how did they line up together well there's probably gonna be some lag this way because I'm sending the signal out in and back through so there's gonna probably a few milliseconds of lag I don't know if it's gonna be able so it seems pretty tight there's another way to do it so that and then the last way of course let me just delete this track and I'm gonna do all that from scratch you could just actually just do your own MIDI track and make your own metronome clicks if you wanted to I've done this before with concert band pieces where I have mixed time signatures everything from seven eight to seven sixteen just doing that to help out my band members with getting a practice track for them because most metronomes are hard to program and that one was specifically hard for that piece so I just did a click track for everybody for the piece and use various techniques of doing that with this method so again I'm just gonna add an instrument and again I'll just use the TTS but you could do this with any VST synth you wanted to all right I'm gonna mute that and let's see now I do have this routed reroute that so that it is audio metronome again all right so let's see yeah and I'm gonna use the drum the drum track again so I will set this to output on mini channel 10 okay yeah I like to do a high pitch woodblock on the downbeat and then and then I a lower pitch woodblock on the other beats that's right I use the patch point so it's still going into track 1 I need to undo that let's send that back back to the master there we go ok or my click track are manually okay again this is difficult latency and stuff can actually make this more difficult we can quantize this to quarter notes yeah so again that's just in a quick way you can do that you can actually just do one measure let me just delete let me split this okay split okay and if I knew the piece had 100 measures in it I could control copy put that on measure 2 now I had my snap to one quarter so it should be exactly one measure long and then I can do pace multiple pace special and let's say if we had 110 measures that I could pay said a hundred nine times oh it won't it won't go past 100 okay well then there you go so we'll have to pace it a hundred times and it's still here and then just to do my last nine measures here I would have to pace it one more time but you get the idea okay so that's a another way of just doing a manual MIDI metronome for yourself if you don't like the internal sounds of cakewalk alright well I hope this tutorial was helpful for you and thanks for tuning in bye bye

Channel: Craig Gardner

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Keywords: Cakewalk Sonar, Tempo Map, Record metronome, insert tempo change, metronome settings, bandlab sonar

Id: rAXWJEYZcAU

Length: 20min 29sec (1229 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 29 2020