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If you’re wrestling with your metronome settings or you’re just not feeling it, there’s no need to use the built-in metronome at all. Use the tools you already have to create something that sounds less like a hospital monitor and leverages all the flexibility of your DAW.
Get as creative as you want. Paint a loop into your arrangement and call it a day. That means you can duck it during quiet sections so it doesn’t bleed out of the headphones into the mics, or pan it to one side so the artist can control the level by moving their headphone off a little.
A soft human clap can put a little heart in motion and help you get an inspired take. Rather than navigate the clunky metronome interface, you can just use the tools that you normally use in your DAW.
Little workflow stuff like this doesn’t show up in a curriculum. It comes out of lived experience and real conversations with context, which is what a Beat Kitchen class is all about.
