How do you turn off metronome & Layer/Split issues

Welcome, Soul Fish!

I'm not sure if I'm completely following your problem but . . .

Metronome settings can be found under the 'System' parameters. An alternative to making adjustments there is simply to press the TEMPO button and press 'Click[F7]' to toggle between the metronome sound ON or OFF.

As for your other concern, simply go to MIXER mode, simply go to the second page of options (containing effects routing info etc.) by pressing [F6] and highlight the 'K' option on the tracks that you wish to play 'Live' simultaneously. All other tracks should be recorded/copied/layered within the sequencer.

For example, you could even check the 'K' for the sounds you wish to record as a layer. Once recorded, the layered part will be recorded as a track containing multiple MIDI channels. Uncheck the sounds and then move to another track to add an additional sound. Hope that helps!

Cheers!
PiaKnowGuy
Film Score Demo

PiaKnow

I can click on the on off Click button in the TEMPO window but when I hit record to the left of the screen , where stop play rec buttons are, it starts clciking again, so I don't see what good that does. I want to turn it off while I record, and that is what I can't get it to do. I'm rying to record a song that changes tempo so it distracts me.

I'll try what you suggested on the Layer SPlit feature.

Thanks,

Soul FIsh

Hey Soul Fish.

Press Tempo after you hit the record button and then press 'Click'.

PiaKnowGuy
Film Score Demo

PiaKnow

"Press Tempo after you hit the record button and then press 'Click'"

I see. I guess I never thought about hitting TEMPO after I was getting
ready to record, but always set it before I started.

Hey thanks! Will get back to you on the layer split issue.

Soul Fish

I see where ;you can HIghlight K, but , maybe its my keyboard that's acting crazy. I can get it to stay at the same settings then it doesn't want to cooperate. Plus every time I change everything then go back to record, the tempo is back at 120 (default?) and I have to reset that too. It's driving me crazy. I was trying to play one track that had clavinet and piano, and it just wanted to play piano after I already had it set for both and it played both,
then when I reset it (again) I went back to the mixer and instead of being on track one it was now on track 2, so when I put it back on track 1, all the settings were lost again. after about a dozen times of redoing everything, and a lot of cussing, I got it to work, but it does this all the time. It seems this is programmed in a very left brained way and not real user friendly, at least for very right brained folks like me.

Still trying,

Soul Fish

To add to what I was saying, I was just now recording tracks separately, and after getting track 3 which was the bass line, which I had to redo the effects because they had changed on me, I went to track 4 which had sax on it,
stared to play it and now it had piano, so I had to redo that and start the recording over. Its like nothing stays put every time I change one thing a half a dozen other things not even related shift to something else.

Soul Fish

I love the demo you posted. I think the Fantom X oboe is the best there is!
My layer issue is:
Can you have different velocity and after-touch settings for different sounds in the same layer set-up?
What I am trying to achieve is a layered piano and strings set-up where the piano volume is controlled by how hard I hit the keys and the strings isn't.

@Soul Fish - You can set the behaviour of the metronome globally in the System setting menu. You can choose between Off, On during Playback only, On during Recording only, on during playback & recording and Always on. (OM, p.228)

@Soul Fish #2 - I'm not sure I fully understand your layering problem. In the Layer/Split screen, if the KBD checkbox is ticked then that layer will sound when you play the keyboard.
ALSO, if you have moved the cursor down into the layers you will see a black arrow at the left of the currently selected part (see picture, OM p.100). That part will sound when you play the keyboard too, regardless of whether or not the KBD box for that part is checked.

@TonyC - You can set the response of each layer to velocity and aftertouch and so on in the Patch itself (obviously, you'll have to save it as a User Patch to keep your changes). Then in the Performance they should behave as you want them to.

Hope this helps you both a bit!
Andy