Metronome with only tempo beats?

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Hello.
Is posible to use the metronome without de measure sound? Sometimes we only need the tempo beats.
Thanks.

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Hi,

Yep, by using custom metronome sounds. In Options → General look for this section and set them both to the same sound file.

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For convenience, here are the default Cantabile metronome sounds:

CantabileMetronomeSounds.zip (49.5 KB)

Classic Measure Sound = “Ding.wav”
Classic Beat Sounds = “Tick.wav”
Modern Measure Sound = “PingHi.wav”
Modern Beat Sound = “PingLo.wav”

Brad

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Hi Oriol,

This will work

Go to options > General

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Switch mode to Custom

Choose your own metronome sound and load into both slots

hope this helps …

regards

edit: I saw where Brad posted on this before me so just go with what he said.

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Thanks for the reply.
I have tried this, but with this solution, I can’t quickly switch between metronome with beat measure and without beat measure.

It would be great that in metronome controls, inside the menu measure, there were the possibilty to select a kind of 0/1 measure.

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Hi @oriol

Interesting idea however many plugins will explode if they don’t receive a valid time signature from the host. So I think it still makes sense to be able to select a time signature - even if the sounds for measures are being suppressed.

I’m trying to refrain from adding options/settings for every possible thing in this version so let me think about this for a bit. Implementation is trivial, but keeping the app’s UI sane is important.

Brad

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Would it be helpful / possible for typical plugins to be able to choose time signature like a “1/1”? This way the sound should always be the same, right?

EDIT: Consistently I should call it “1/4”, I guess…

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I’m not sure how most plugins would respond to unusual time signatures like that. Sounds risky given what I’ve seen some plugins do.

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And simply muting the measure sound?

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Yep - that would be a better option but need to think about what the UI for it would be. Logged it

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OK, I’ve added this for the next build (3120), but the UI is not obvious because I don’t think this is an often used feature.

Right click on the sounds button and there’s a menu option to enable/disable the measure sounds:

The setting is saved globally.

Brad

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great!
i just was about to ask for that feature…

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