What the hell is wrong with the metronome?

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I’ve seen the countless memes asking for a better metronome…
The metronome in renoise does click and does clook.
What else should a metronomes do ?

(but that’s the same people who want a piano roll so…)

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The metronome should provide patterns on par with Autechre’s more rhythmic works /s

:stuck_out_tongue: :smiley: :rofl:

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needs gantz graf mode

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absolutely! And can it be rendered as a sample? :smiley:

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The metronome needs a shuffle/swing/humanize option… :laughing:

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Pretty sure most of those requests have to do with the lack of a volume setting.

It’s very convenient to have in S1 (my main DAW).

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A VOLUME CONTROL for the metronome in song settings, gsus x! Plus hold down drag on Metronome Button to set volume.

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These people could use any sound they like as a metronome.

  1. Add a metronome instrument with a UREI click sample or something
  2. Add a looping phrase with the beat pattern you want
  3. Stick the phrase in the first pattern of a “metronome” track
  4. Profit

The only thing it doesn’t handle is count-ins, but the existing metronome handles that more or less fine.

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where has this been all my life? :poop:

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I thought it was just a meme

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Indeed, I could add my own metronome to my song template. But it is a workaround, and we don’t like workarounds.

Do you have any neato metronome sounds for me? I want the cubase one.

On a sidenote: I find the current metronome lacking of a volume control an annoying problem actually. Usually my songs are mixed very quietly, and then I amplify on the master a lot. If I now enable the metronome, it is so extremely loud. I don’t care for gain staging at all, since the level meters do not seem to be too accurate anyway.

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I don’t have the Cubase click, but the UREI click cuts through basically anything, and it has basically no tail, so it marks the time without covering/coloring anything else:

UREI Click.xrni (2.8 KB)

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Interesting frequency spectrum that click has.
Depending on the musical material, a tonal or atonal metronome click can be helpful.

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Honestly though once I have enough of the track built up I turn the metronome off. Anyone out there use the metronome once they got some drums down or some riffs? Not being snarky. I could see if you got some real wild tempo shift stuff or big soindscapy stuff but you know hey just curious.

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Somewhere in the Renoise files there is the metronome sound wav, iirc - one could edit or replace that.