Once done, it should look like the previous image. In this case you don’t want the metronome to sound through all your interface outputs as it does by default, instead you may want to select Stereo: Output 1 / Output 2 and Stereo: Output 3 / Output 4 in the metronome outputs. Now, you may want to listen to the metronome, and send the project’s metronome to the drummer but not to the singer to prevent bleed from the headphones into his/her microphone.

Here’s where the options get interesting, especially for larger studios or people with multiple outputs.Īs an example, let’s say you are recording a live session in a big studio, you’re listening in the control room through Outputs 1&2, Outputs 3&4 are the drummer’s monitor, and Outputs 5&6 are used for the singer’s monitor.

You can find the routing button just beside the Enable metronome checkbox. Recommended Read: Creating Tempo Maps in REAPER Global Metronome Outputīefore moving on to the next section, let’s check the metronome outputs (Yes! you can route your metronome however suits you!). The multiplier on the right allows you to effectively double or quadruple the clicks of your metronome per bar. (A) represents your strong accents, (B) represents your weak beats, and a dot (.) represents a silent beat, your Beat pattern should have as many symbols as the top number of your time signature. Here you can set up specific ways of counting, this can come extremely handy when your song has compound time signatures like 7/8 or 12/8. your Primary beat usually represents the strong accents, and the Secondary beat represents the weak accents in a bar.Īnd at the bottom of the section, is the Beat pattern that the metronome will follow for your project’s global tempo. Next, you find the level of your metronome, with a dedicated level fader for both click accents. Keep in mind that enabling count-in won’t record or playback any audio or MIDI before the position of your cursor, that only happens with the Pre-roll settings that I will show later. If you enable any of the Count-in options on the right, REAPER will play the set metronome for the amount of measures specified in the Count-in measures text field before playing back or recording from the position your cursor is on. These options can make your metronome only sound when you’re recording but not when you’re listening to what you recorded without having to constantly enable and disable your metronome. Below it, you can see checkboxes that modify how your metronome is going to behave. The very first option is a checkbox to enable your metronome. Recommended Read: How to Stretch Audio in REAPER (Time Stretch) Activation and Count-in

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