creating midi file from Logic's metronome [SOLVED]

It's been awhile, but isn't there a way to create a midi file of Logic's metronome that follows my meter changes?

I know I can generate midi from the click prefs but how do I record that midi onto a track in the session to then be exported as a midi file?

 

thx

In Audio MIDI Setup's MIDI window, make sure the IAC driver is online and at least one bus exists.

 

Open the environment window, go to the Clicks and Ports window and select the Metronome icon. In the Environment's inspector, set the "Port" parameter to an IAC bus.

 

R-enable a software instrument track and record the metronome.

That was quick...."you want fries with that?"

I knew you'd know.

Thanks David.

one minor note....

In addition to setting different midi notes, you also have to turn off polyphonic clicks if you want separate notes for accented and unaccented. Otherwise you'll get stacked notes on the downbeats.

You can set the midi metronome output port to the IAC bus in the metronome settings page.

No need to open the Environment at all.

When you add a new software instrument, it will keep receiving the metronome output until you go back to the metronome settings and change the midi out port to "off".

Glad you got it working. Thanks for adding all those little precisions, too. Could be useful to someone else looking to achieve the same thing!

 

By the way on my machine when I tested this, all the notes were a few ticks before the grid, so I would have to quantize the MIDI region before exporting it.

That's weird. My recorded metronome midi was consistently four ticks early. If you have input quantize on, the midi is recorded tight to the grid.

Yeah mine too was consistently 4 ticks early.

we may have just discovered a rip in the space time continuum.

Interesting post, thanks for the tips, might be useful sometime in the future.

 

Could the 4 ticks offset be related in anyway to plugin latency compensation?

 

Cheers,

Arnaud

Could the 4 ticks offset be related in anyway to plugin latency compensation?

No: we're working with a MIDI signal here, and Plug-in latency compensation concerns only audio signals.

It's tempo dependant.

45 BPM ≈ 1 tick.

300 BPM ≈ 10 ticks.

Then it looks like it might be a constant offset time-wise (setting aside rounding errors). I think it is linked to relying on the IAC bus.

 

 

Instead of the procedure above, do the following:

 

Open an empty project, create a software instrument track (Drum Kit Designer is a good candidate), go to the Environment, click & ports, and simply draw a cable from the metronome to the sequencer input (nothing else at all). You now can directly record the metronome on the instrument track.

 

On my setup, there's no offset this way, and midi events are recorded exactly on beats.

Instead of the procedure above, do the following:

 

Open an empty project, create a software instrument track (Drum Kit Designer is a good candidate), go to the Environment, click & ports, and simply draw a cable from the metronome to the sequencer input (nothing else at all). You now can directly record the metronome on the instrument track.

 

On my setup, there's no offset this way, and midi events are recorded exactly on beats.

Even better! Thanks for offering a better solution.

You're very welcome

 

Happy to help others here, I'm not very active (or, rather, active very often) on this forum, but it's a wonderful resource.

 

Cheers.

That's how I now remember doing it. Good to know the IAC bus option too.

Then it looks like it might be a constant offset time-wise (setting aside rounding errors). I think it is linked to relying on the IAC bus.

 

 

Instead of the procedure above, do the following:

 

Open an empty project, create a software instrument track (Drum Kit Designer is a good candidate), go to the Environment, click & ports, and simply draw a cable from the metronome to the sequencer input (nothing else at all). You now can directly record the metronome on the instrument track.

 

On my setup, there's no offset this way, and midi events are recorded exactly on beats.

 

Here's the idiot-proof version for those who have never worked in environment before. I like having a separate individually adjustable click track:

 

1) Make sure tempo is as you wish it to be. Create a MIDI instrument track and choose instrument Utility->Klofgeist. Leave that track selected

 

2) From the Logic Main window, Open Environment window. WINDOW->OPEN MIDI ENVIRONMENT

 

2) At Upper Left Corner of Environment window , Pull down menu "Layer" with default value "Mixer" to choice "Clicks and Ports" ( Layer->Clicks and Ports)

 

3) Click and hold on the little arrow in (MIDI Click icon) and drag to (Sequencer Input) icon there is some confirmation I forgot but I accepted. A line should stay when you release, something like appears below.

 

4) Close Environment window

 

5) Make sure the click track you created is in Record mode and start recording. Boxes should appear, sent from the metronome to the track. Those notes comprise your click track.