Please add a MIDI command to mute/unmute the metronome (CorOS 3.2.0).
I use the metronome with the looper when recording but once the loop is recorded, I don’t want to hear it anymore but I can’t change it with my foot. I have an external midi footswitch controller that I want to use for that.
I notice that the mute/unmute parameter’s value can be assigned per scene but it’s a bit too much for my usage to have to dedicate a scene just to mute the metronome.
Yeah, there’s a million things missing in MIDI implementation. I don’t need this feature specifically, but +1 for improving overall MIDI flexibility.
You can stop the metronome sound with your foot.
When on tap tempo screen you can stop metronome sound with footswitch just above the one that activate tap tempo screen.
Follow the lights: nowe i don’t have my qc near but i believe that you have to press the blue light (the others are all green inside tap tempo screen)
Thanks alfosigno12, I did not know that.
I still think a dedicated MIDI message is required because the method you mention requires multiple footswitches operations to accomplish the required muting/unmuting…
Thanks again.
I for sure we need a midi command for the metronome, but the real problem is that it is ALWAYS going, you can only unmute or mute it.
I think it will be really more useful if it could be set to play or stop status.
Imagine a scenario when you need to record a loop when a song is already started: how cool would be if you could tap the tempo and only when you hit REC the metronome start?
Then if you need to stop the loop how cool would be if the metronome stops instead that mute?
If the metronome is muted and in a certain moment you want to play your loop, it will play out of sync with the click.
What we really need is play stop metronome options together with looper Rec /play /stop functions .
Do you think I have to open another tread for this?
These are options I did not think of, it is interesting. I use an external MIDI controller for the looper functions so I know I could program a footswitch to send a metronome-mute command and a loop-play command at the same time if I wanted to - of course an external midi controller allow for much workflow customization.
With your suggestion, setting the metronome to start with the record function would mean that it would need to start when record is ‘armed’ not just when record actually begins so the user have time to sync himself with the device but I think it could work nicely.
I hate boring looping, for me it all has to be fast, when I play live.
So no, for me the best way would be to start the metronome just as soon I hit the rec switch, without having to arm it first.
I just play my acoustic song alone and in a certain point, when I know that I’m only a few bars far form when I have to record something, I hit the tap tempo to set the bpm, so that when I start recording I have a metronome that let me play on time and (with quantisation activated) I know that the loop length will be perfect even if I hit the Play switch a little early or late.
And is very important to me that when I hit Stop the metronome will be also stopped, not muted, otherwise it will be impossible to hit Play again (when needed later in my song) in Sunch with the click.
While I’m still using QC looper for my gigs (controlled via midi with 2 Pirate Midi controllers) I’m experimenting at home Loopy Pro app on my iPad, and I’ve programmed it just as described above. It’s fantastic!!
My idea was to use Loopy Pro with QC, live, but when the metronome has landed I was thinking it could be what I missed to use QC standalone.
But until it can be only muted/unmuted instead of stopped/played, to me is totally useless
The thing here, that I think everyone’s missing, is that loopers on these units is just a practice tool, not a seamless performance tool.
I’m still all for them making it more useful for live use, but I doubt that’ll ever happen.
Might just have to get a dedicated looper if you do live looping regularly and need the quantization.
I’m a bit more blunt but I don’t mind, it’s about sending a clear message. MIDI implementation totally sucks eggs and is so far behind the competition, any competition really, that they might as well drop it altogether. Well, not just totally drop it but you get my drift. This is such an essential part of modern gear setup that Neural should be ashamed to have ever released it like they did.