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The Metronome plays a click track during playback and recording, with an optional count-in before recording begins. Mode, click style, and count-in are set from the Command Palette (⌘K); all three persist across sessions and sync across your Macs.

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Choose when the metronome plays

Set the mode from Command Palette → **Metronome Mode**: Command Palette → **Metronome On/Off** is a quick toggle — it turns the click on (Always) or off, whatever the current mode.

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Change the click sound

Pick the click style from Command Palette → **Metronome Style** — Hihat (the default), Click, or Woodblock.

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Groove-aware clicks

The metronome follows the selected track’s groove, so its off-beat clicks swing in time with the track. With no single track selected, it falls back to the project groove. See Groove & Swing.

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Set the count-in

Count-in is a separate setting from the mode — its clicks always play before recording, even when the metronome mode is Never. Set it from Command Palette → **Count-In** — Off, 1 Bar (the default), or 2 Bars. When recording starts with a count-in enabled:
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The playhead holds position

It stays where it is — nothing records during the count-in.
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The metronome counts the bars

Clicks play for the configured number of bars, and a visual overlay shows the current beat.
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Recording begins automatically

When the count-in finishes, recording starts on the beat.
The number of beats per bar follows the project’s time signature.

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Settings persist

Mode, click style, and count-in are saved automatically, persist across sessions, and sync across your Macs.
Last modified on July 11, 2026