Time signature count in

When punching in at a time signature change, i'd like to be able to have the count in, in the time signature of the bar that I am punching in on. As default if I have say 2 bars count in, it will count those two bars with the 2 bars time signature right before the bar that we punch in on. This is not veyr helpful, how do I have the count in of 2 bars be the time signature that we are punching in at. Thanks!

You could bounce a couple of bars of the new sig click and place them before the punch.

But in a reading situation you'd have to make the transition on the fly anyway...

If there's no tempo change you could simply create a new software instrument track and program your own click.

When punching in at a time signature change, i'd like to be able to have the count in, in the time signature of the bar that I am punching in on. As default if I have say 2 bars count in, it will count those two bars with the 2 bars time signature right before the bar that we punch in on. This is not veyr helpful, how do I have the count in of 2 bars be the time signature that we are punching in at. Thanks!

 

I hear you Devon8822. I have this same issue, not so much with time signature changes, but with with tempo changes. I want to punch in in the new tempo, but as it happens, also right at the tempo change. (This is actually really common in my workflow I notice.) But yeah, the count in is in the old tempo. My work around for this is to create a 1 or 2 measure click track in the new section with a software instrument, bounce the file in place (into an audio file) and then drag it immediately in front of the punch in. I suppose that would work for time sig changes as well.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Adam

TICK - 'Allow tempo change recording' in settings/recording. If i remember well, it will change the count-in to the appropriate time sig/tempo if you start to record from the time sig. change.Not in front of Logic, give it a try.

TICK - 'Allow tempo change recording' in settings/recording. If i remember well, it will change the count-in to the appropriate time sig/tempo if you start to record from the time sig. change.Not in front of Logic, give it a try.

No, that's completely unrelated.... that's option is for recording the tempo changes themselves.

Here's one workaround:

 

1) Add the Klopfgeist track to the Arrange area: open the mixer, click the "All" button, control-click the Klopfgeist channel strip and choose "Create/Select Arrange Track".

 

 

2) Right where the tempo change is, control-click the Klopfgeist track and choose "Create Empty MIDI Region". Double-click and in the Piano Roll, insert notes to create your count-in. Here I create a 4 beat count-in:

 

 

3) Click "Bounce Regions" in the tool bar to bounce that count-in to a new audio track.

 

4) Double-click the new audio region to open it in the sample editor.

 

5) In the sample editor, deselect Edit > Lock Arrange Position When Moving Anchor" and drag the anchor (orange house-shaped thingy at the bottom) all the way to the right of the file:

 

 

6) Your count-in is now perfectly in time:

 

 

Hope that helps.

Here's one workaround: (...)

 

Hope that helps.

Well, yeah, the pretty pictures help.

Another choice is to choose a tempo alternative and set it to the new tempo, play the parts in and then return to the original tempo track. Obviously it only works if you are nor listening to audio that is not chasing tempo.