Thanks Shawn! That makes sense... ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Brock To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:13 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: question on creating a click track question Brian, Something I do is to import the song into sonar, play it and use the tap tempo function. Some times its helpful to insert 1 bar of time right before the song, so you can slide the song back and forth to line up with the click. The tap tempo will get you within a few beats of the true tempo of the song, then you can align the intro of the song up with the click, and gradually change the tempo from say 95 BPM to 96 BPM, until you get it just right. There are better and more sophisticated ways to do this, but I'm just giving the one that works for me. As for having a click live, lots of times I will use a shaker loop, or procussion loop as the click. If you have to, just have a separate project file which has your click for each song, or you can put all the clicks for the gig in 1 project file and use the insert new tempo for each time you change songs. Obviously, you will want to do a few other tricks, maybe set up a marker for each song, that way you can jump to each song quickly... Shawn Brock ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Howerton To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:01 PM Subject: [ddots-l] question on creating a click track question Hello, Just am curious to see if this will work. Eventually I will be completing my internship and am looking to become a music director for a church. Currently, the music director at the church where I am working is using a program called Digital performer and he is creating a click track off of demo tracks of songs that the choir will be singing, and this click of course will be used with the band while playing live. Is there a way for us to be able to do this in Sonar? Basically, he is using an actual track off of a cd and creating a click track from the track on the cd. it looks like he's doing tempo maps and everything. Just wondering how this all would work in sonar. Also, does anyone ever use click tracks in sonar during live situations and am wondering the easiest way to do this.... I will be working in a small church working and they will not have the money for in-ears but maybe we can use a headphone amp to run the click for me and the drummer? Just wondering what my options would be for this so I can think through teh best way to do this as well... Thanks for any help, Brian