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Is it me, or do you think that the implementation of such a simple feature
as a Metronome
is unnecessary confusing in Logic?
I posted the following notes on Apple's Feedback page regarding my
suggestions to
simplify the Metronome feature in Logic. If you agree with me, please send
your own note
to Apple or copy/paste my suggestions below, to put a little bit more weight
behind it. I
know this might not be high on the priority list for many, but it is part of
the clean up and
simplification process Logic desperately needs on its way to become the
"perfect app" that
we all want it to be.
You can check out my "Photoshop'ed" version of the Metronome
Settings page from the
following link:
http://homepage.mac.com/edgarrothermich/.Public/Screenshots/MetronomeProposa
l.jpg
Here are my thoughts:
First of all, get rid of the "MIDI Metronome Click" Object in the
Environment. The current
implementation of the Object and its Object Parameters are overlapping with
the
Metronome Settings in the Song Settings page in a very inconsinsten way. The
option to
have or have not the Click Object is only confusing.
The concept of a Metronome click is (and should be) very simple:
1) The Sequencer (Transport Panel) provides a button to turn on/off the
Metronome click
2) The Metronome Setting page provides controls to determine where the click
is send to
and the way it "clicks"
The Layout of the Settings page should provide a clear picture about what
controls are
affecting what:
1) The Metronome can be send to three destinations:
1a) External MIDI: This sends the click to a external MIDI module connected
to the MIDI
Interface
1b) Audio Instrument 128 (Klopfgeist): This is where the current system gets
confusing.
Klopfgeist is just the Audio Instrument "Klopfgeist" loaded into
the last Audio Instrument
channel 128. You can, and a lot of users do, load an EXS Instrument with
their own click
sounds. So just lets call this destination what it is "Audio Instrument
128". Klopfgeist can
still be loaded as a default.
1c) System Audio: I would label this destination not "Built-in
speaker", because the click is
sent actually to the System Audio and follows the setting of the
"System Preferences >
Sound > Output"
2) The settings for each click destination are laid out in 3 columns with
similar controls
positioned on the same row to make it really clear what settings affect what
destination.
I'm not sure if you can change system preferences from inside an
application, so I listed
the output destination of the System Audio as a Read-only setting.
3) The current slider for the "Tonality" affects only the
Klopfgeist plug-in on channel 128.
If you use any other plug-in, then the slider has no affect.
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