danson6 Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Hi all, I'm experiencing a weird bug in a Logic project - the click track seemed to disappear from my Mixer window and is nowhere to be found on the "All" tab. Sometimes when I open the project the click track plays, but sometimes it's not audible either (pressing K or clicking the button doesn't sound any different). Metronome output is set to 1-2 in Project Settings... thoughts anybody? Thanks! Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution fuzzfilth Posted April 16, 2021 Solution Share Posted April 16, 2021 That's a bug that crept up after Logic 10.4.5 changed its max instrurments from 256 to 1000. At the same time they changed the automatic numbering of the click instrument, which is driven by the metronome, from 256 to (number of instruments *you* created)+1. This is fine with new Projects, but an old Project's metronome will get confused if instrument #256 is not what it expected. There is no proven method to remedy this, 'Import click instrument from other Project with same number of instruments' or 'Add 255 idle instruments so click will be #256' or 'Import everything into a new Project' don't work reliably or at all. It appears to be fixed in 10.5 and up, where they changed the auto assignment of the click instrument back to #256, for now obvious reasons... What you can do if you need to continue using this very project in Logic 10.4.5 - 10.4.8: - Create a new instrument track - Load Logic>Utility>Klopfgeist - Set its Tonality to 0.01 - Open two Environment windows and set one to Layer 'Click+Ports', the other to Layer 'Mixer' - Scroll each window so you can see Click+Ports>MIDI Click and Mixer>Your new Instrument with Klopfgeist - Drag a Cable from MIDI Click to Your new Instrument with Klopfgeist - Open Project Settings>Metronome - Duplicate the settings from the Audio Click to the MIDI Click - Disable the Audio Click Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danson6 Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Hi Fuzzfilth - I'm actually on 10.6.1! But will still try out the method above - thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 ...It appears to be fixed in 10.5 and up, where they changed the auto assignment of the click instrument back to #256, for now obvious reasons... Sorry to be a pita, fuzz, but that doesn't happen here ? Opening a factory "Empty Project", Click is on inst1 when selecting audio track in the new tracks dialog, inst2 when selecting a SI track... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 When creating a new project with 1 instrument, I get this:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 And I get this... This is weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Any 'Untitled' project in User>Music>Logic unless that Untitled is actually open ? If so, you might look at an older, existing project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Nope. And I did jump from 10.0.7 to 10.5.0 and 10.5.1, never had any of the versions inbetween... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 I wonder if that is somehow stored in the preferences file ? Where else could it be ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 My thought too... I'll back it up and try again fresh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Ok, had to restart the mac to get the preferences to come up fresh, but still same, click on inst2... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
question Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 danielsonabend, there two other threads where we are discussing this metronome issue as well as the "track chaos" issue. David's tip was to not use a Logic Template from an earlier Logic version. I updated my template and the metronome issue seems to be fixed. Try using a fresh template using the newest Logic version and let us know whether that solves the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danson6 Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 Thanks all. My problem only appeared in one project (so far) so less relevant for templates, but still very annoying. Fuzzfilth's suggestion about MIDI click rewiring works some of the time though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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