Need Click Track Help

[fredgold52]

I have installed Audacity 1.2.6. Having a great time with it! It's a great program so far. I feel the need to have click tracks to help me with hte time shift thing that happens now and then. I've tried everything I can think of including reading the instructions, but with no success. Can someone tell me how to go about generating a clock track?

Thanks Very much,
Fred

[fredgold52]

Well, no reply yet, so I tried doing a search on this forum. For the words click track I am told the words are "too common" and so are being ignored. That's alot of help isn't it! When I tried them as one word, the search function returned nothing at all. Hmmmm.

I don't know what else to do.

[Yog-Sothoth]

Generate > Click Track

http://www.willamette.edu/wits/idc/mmcamp/audacity.doc

[kozikowski]

Is there a way to generate that document so we don't have to own Microsoft Word to see it? Can you cut and paste?

My way too fuzzy impression of a click track is the three or four seconds of ticking to establish the beat right before a performance. Like the drummer hitting the side of his snare. I've never used it as a stand-alone track throughout a performance.

You can't open up an Audacity project in four or more tracks, select one track and generate clicks in it?

Koz

[Yog-Sothoth]

Click tracks are generally used to make sure the performers keep a steady tempo throughout a recording session. When you have different people coming in at different times to record their individual portions for the same project, this is a necessity. In the final mix, the click track is not present, of course.

If you only want one measure of clicks (as a count off), just generate one measure at the tempo you want.