Changing Your Metronome Sound!
I was emailing ableton back and forth recently concerning the built in metronome and how to change its sound. I got an email back from them today (which is weird cause they finally responded to an email I sent them forever ago) saying,
“The Metronome is preset, you can´t take out the downbeat sounds.”
Or can can you????? Ahhhh, yes you can… (from an earlier post, although I thought it was posting as a separate issue)
So how do you change that sound? Here ya go (thanks to some friends on the Ableton forum):
To find them on your Mac…
1. Right-Click (option click) on Live.app
2. Show Package Contents
3. Contents
4. App-Resources
5. Misc
You will see two files of interest… “Metronome.wav” and “MetronomeUp.wav”
Rename your “MetronomeUp.wav” to “MetronomeUpBackup.wav” (so you keep that file if you want to change it back). Next copy the “Metronome.wav” and paste it to your desktop. Change its name to “MetronomeUp.wav” and move it back into “Misc” folder you just copied it from. Whaaa-La. Now your click will be a static sound.
If you want to change it back simply delete the file you created and rename the backup file to its original file name.
Pretty simple eh?
Thanks so much for this tip, man. You’ve just made using Ableton a lot more attractive to me. Believe it or not, this is one of the biggest problems I have had with Ableton - its terrible metronome sounds…
you can take it a step further! i took my boss DB-90 (Dr Beat) and recorded my own up and metronome sounds into logic. Then i imported the original ones, i lined them up and edited mine so that the clip was the same length and the click wave was synced up with abletons wav. Then i replaced abletons sounds with DR beat sounds and now my loop clicks match the clicks we use for non loop songs.