Reaper Metronome for Compound Time Signatures

[funkycornwall]

I have noticed that Reaper metronome output is unsuitable for compound time signatures at present. It is fine for simple time like 4/4 or 3/4 but doesn't behave properly for compound time signatures such as 9/8 or 12/8 time. If you set the time as 12/8 (what we refer to in the UK as compund quadruple) then this should be thought of as four beats in a bar (like 4/4) but with each beat being a dotted crotchet (dotted quarter note) rather than a standard crotchet (as in 4/4). What Reaper metronome does is to click each quaver beat (eighth note) so you get an unhelpful metronome beating 12 beats instead of the required 4 beats for 12/8 time. In 12/8 time it is four beats in the bar, needing 4 metronome clicks, with each beat is subdivided into three but not requiring clicks fpor those subdivisions. Similarly 9/8 (compound triple) time should be giving three metronome clicks and not the 9 subdivision clicks as it currently does.

I think this should be addressed and presumably shpould be quite simple to achieve.

[EvilDragon]

This is a matter of using a different metronome base unit. It is obvious that Reaper uses quarter notes in /4 meters and eight notes in /8 meters, since that's default even in classical music. Compound meters should be added definitely, though - with user-definable ticking pattern. I had a similar FR, vote here:

http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=1586


I'll have to redo that mockup once. Basically it was like a mini-piano roll in which you could enter notes to tell the metronome how you want it to tick by positioning the high and low metronome click sound how you want. So you could make 5/4 to tick as TIK tak tak TIK tak, or TIK tak tak tak TIK, or TIK tak TIK tak tak, etc. Depending on how you accentuate the rhythm in your song.