Saving Preferences With everything now in place and properly configured, let’s Save Preferences so that your custom environment awaits you each time Metro is launched. Let’s also set one more preference in the process. To save preferences (and set selection color): Choose Preferences from the File menu. The Preferences dialog box appears. Click the General tab. While the General Preferences dialog box is open, let’s also configure how Metro displays selected notes. By default, Metro displays notes by color according to MIDI channel, 16 channels display as 16 colors. When working with OMS or MSS and Metro Outputs, channel data associated with individual MIDI events becomes irrelevant (since all channel data on a track is reassigned on the fly by Metro Outputs). Let’s make better use of color by configuring Metro to display selected note data by color. In the Note Colors field click the Use Color for Selection Info button. This instructs Metro to use a color to denote selected note and drum events, the default selection color is red. Click the Save button to save all of your configuration settings and exit the dialog box. Remember that saving Preferences stores the parameters of Metro’s current state as the default configuration. Metro Outputs, window positions, Metronome settings and other relevant setup information are saved as part of the Metro Preferences file. The next step in your first session is Creating a New Metro File.