Ableton - Click Tracks

[fmckinnon]

Hey Gang,
What's the easiest way to "record" the Ableton Click track - so you can have an actual audio file of the click track (I am recording now using the built-in metronome thingie that beeps) ... is it possible to somehow bus that output over to a track?

Ableton gurus - please do share!
Fred

[kcampos]

I think the easiest way is to just create an audio track, pick a tone or rimshot and just pencil in the midi notes for a measure. Cut and paste it out.

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[fmckinnon]

Kyle,
Do you mean create a MIDI track - when I click a new Audio Track, and then try to use one of the kits in Impulse, it makes a new Midi track

[kcampos]

Sorry, yeah midi track.

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[Kilroy]

I wondered the same thing, so I built an Impulse kit that uses the Ableton metronome sounds. I just "play" a measure of 3/4 or 4/4 and then just loop it out the length of the song in a track named "CLICK". Then I route that track out separately on my firebox for the band's ears.

I can try to send it to you if you want. I am not sure how to create an ALP yet, so I may just send it to you as a one track Live set and you can cut and paste it into your own stuff.

K.

[fmckinnon]

Hey,
Great idea - I did what Kyle mentioned above - I clicked in a Quarter note (tambourine) on 1 - 2- 3 - 4 ... and that's just looping non-stop .. I guess that's OK for now, but it's not a true audio track, and it loops as long as the song plays - so I guess that isn't ideal?

Kyle - were you thinking I should copy/paste it throughout the length of the song?

[Kilroy]

If you want it to be audio, you can render just that track out, and then bring it back onto an audio track. Or you can right-click on the track and click Freeze and it will temporarily convert it to an audio track.

JK