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To use a metronome click with AU

MIDI instruments and AU instruments cannot playback simultaneously. Therefore, if a Audio Units product (like Kontakt for Finale with GPO) is chosen as your playback device in MIDI Setup, extra steps are required to sound a metronome click during your HyperScribe Sessions:

  1. From the MIDI/Audio menu, choose Instrument Setup >  Audio Units Instruments. The Audio Units Instruments dialog box appears.
  2. Click the 1-16 popup menu and choose Instruments for Finale 2010 (if it’s not chosen already). Then click the Edit button to the right. The Aria Player for Finale appears.
  3. For channel 10, load the Basic Orch Percussion sound. If all eight slots are full, replace one of the instruments with the Basic Orch Percussion sound and reassign the replaced instrument on a different set of channels.
  4. Close the player and click Close to dismiss the dialog box. Setting the channel to 10 ensures the metronome click will play normally if MIDI is set as the playback device.
  5. From the MIDI/Audio menu, choose Click and Countoff. The Click and Countoff dialog box appears.
  6. Change the Note fields for both Down Beats and Other Beats to 56. This will produce a side drum hit when using the Aria Player for Finale and a cowbell when using MIDI.

Note that you could use a different Audio Units product instead of the Aria Player for Finale, although the sound and patch number for the click sound would be different than the one used for these steps.

 

 

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