CLICK TRACKS

create a 32 bar click track and then recall it whenever you need and copy it a few times?

I could do that. I am only on my second attempt at completing a song so i have a ton of learning ahead of me. Thank God for FORUMS... Would be great if there was a really dry TICK sound instead of a wood block, or castinet, reverb included...

you can use any sample you want...

Select your drum track in studio mode.

Goto song mode and select an empty track. Find the note or notes on the keyboard that trigger the sound you want ( click, hi hat, bass drum whatever)

Hit record and a box will pop up on screen change input qtz (quantize) to grid and change resolution to 1/4.

Press play to start recording and after a 4 beat count in play the 4 beats on the keyboard you want.

Stop recording. You now have 4 beats as you want them with the sound you want.

select the phrase you just recorded in the window and press F3 to copy and keep pressing multiple times for how long you want it.

If you dont see F3 copy down bottom press song mode again.

YES! I'm not that dumb after all! I did it that way the first time. Not with quantize, but just microscope. Now I realize that was the hard way, but I needed to even out the velocity anyway. Is there a way I can take the reverb off of the patch I use? It sounds nice, but I think a drummer would get sick of it after a while. Its not so subliminal that way.

Press "single" mode.

Then F1 for Patch list and then F4 for rhythm set.

Scroll to the kit you want to take the reverb off and press F8 to select.

Press effects routing and turn off the reverb and chorus then F8 for exit.

Press "write" button and then F8 to select.. name the kit or leave it as is press F8 for ok.

On the next screen pick the position it will be saved in (leave this as default if only one) and hit F8 for write. This is not overwriting the original but putting a copy of it with no reverb in a user slot.

Go back to your studio mode and goto track 10. change the kit to the one you just made it will be before the presets in the first user slot.

I found the click sound I want. It is in the rhythm set called ANALOG KIT. It is the same tone that is the factory click you hear when recording. Problem is, when I start recording with that sound (following your directions) after the 4 count, the sound jumps back to a piano. I could change it in MIRCOSCOPE, but I don't know how to call up the ANALOG KIT in micro. Also, I think when I start recording, it plays the last song that I had open and that's probably where the piano comes from (since it still won't recall my studio set properly...) problems, problems....

The rimshot sound in many drumkits is pretty good for click tracks. It cuts through the mix without dominating it.

Its easy, it took a while for me to figure it out.
If you want the click track to be heard only by the drummer,here is what you need to do.

At studio mode,
1.Select any channel, but use the drum kit
2.go to Song, and record the sound you want the drummer to hear at the exact tempo of the song(clearly using quantize to have it perfect).
3.Then copy and paste that recording along the whole song.
4.Go to the studio screen and select that ClICK Channel and go to routing effects.
5.Select its routing to be B/B, instead of A/A,(have your Fantom Cable on the A side, and the Click cable (the one that goes to an external amplifier)in the B section.
6.By doing this, you as a keyboard player can play any song, using samples, and always stay on the correct tempo, thanks to the drummer.