Metro Manual
Help Contents | Help Index
 Getting
Started-
- Getting Started
- The Basics
- Introduction
- Quick Setup
- Glossary
- Tasks
- Recording
- Audio Recording
- Editing
- Effects
- Effects Tutorial
- Adding Real-time
Effects to One Track
- Adding Real-time
Effects to Multiple Tracks
- Recording Auxiliary
Fader Movements
- Drawing Aux Fader
Movements in the Graphic Editor Window
- Applying Effects
Offline
- Notation
- Reference
- Troubleshooting
Introduction
-
- Detailed Setup
- Opening METRO
- MIDI Setup Without
OMS
- Setting Up MIDI
Time Code
- Selecting Record
Criteria
- Setting Record and
Play Preferences
- Countoff
- NoCountOff
- Wait for the first
note before recording
- Song Building Mode
- Multiple Take Mode
- "N" Tracks Maximum
Tutorials
-
- Your First Session with Metro
-
- Your First
Session with METRO
- Downloading OMS
- Opening METRO and
Setting Up MIDI (with OMS)
- Configuring Your
Audio Setup
- Creating New
Outputs
- Setting Up the
Metronome
- Using MIDI Thru
- Customizing
METRO's Window Layout
- Saving Preferences
- Creating a New
METRO File
- Importing an
Audio File
- Looping a Track
- Recording Your
First MIDI Track.
- Editing Your
First MIDI Track
- Recording a MIDI
Bass line
- Recording Another
Track
Getting
Deeper -
- Getting Deeper
- Customizing
Program Names
- Drum Machine
Style Recording
- Creating a Section
- Drum Grid
Recording
- Drum Grid Editing
- Adding Tracks
within the Graphic Editor Window
- Plugging In and
Testing a Microphone
- Setting Up Audio
Outputs
- Your First Audio
Recording
- Latency and the
Sound Manager
- Changing Audio
Volume
- Adding Effects in
Real-time
- Adding Offline
Effects
- Arranging with
Subsections
MIDI
Recording -
- MIDI Recording
Tutorial
- Setting a Port to
the Record Track
- Enabling the
Metronome Click
- Setting the
Record Mode: Replace or Overdub
- Beginning
Recording
- Naming Your Track
- Viewing Note Data
- Playing Back the
Track
- Playing From a
Selection or Bar Number
- Adjusting Note
Velocity
- Saving Your
Recording as a METRO File
- Enlarging the
Transport Window
- Playing and
Setting Cues
- Looping Playback
of Your Track
- Looping Playback
of an Area Within Your Track
- Looping Cues
- Auditioning
Programs
- Adjusting Current
Playback Tempo
- Recording Another
Track
- Displaying
Multiple Tracks in the Graphic Editor Window
- Selecting Tracks
in the Graphic Editor Window
- Naming the
Current Section
- On-The-Fly
Recording
Basic
MIDI Editing -
- Selecting Notes,
Tracks and Sections for Editing
- Selecting Data in
the Graphic Editor Window
- Edit Notes in
Selection Only Option
- Choosing a Zoom
Level in the Graphic Editor window
- Selecting
Noncontiguous Notes or Areas in the Graphic Editor Window
- Selecting Notes
Defined by Particular Criteria (Selection Filter)
- Editing Notes in
the Graphic Editor Window
- Repeatedly Pasting
Notes
- Selecting Tracks or
Track Regions in the Tracks Window Overview
- Choosing a zoom
level
- Choosing a select
quantize resolution
- Selecting Tracks
- Types of Data
Display in the Tracks Window Overview
- Selecting Sections
Advanced
MIDI editing -
- Editing MIDI Events
- Inserting Program
Events (Changes) into a Track
- Recording Program
Change Events
- Recording
Controller Events
- Controlling Tempo
- Entering Tempo
Events in the Tempo Dialog Box
- Entering and
Editing Tempo Events in the Section Event Editor Window
- Recording Tempo
Events
- Recording Tempo
Changes from Your Controller
Using
Outputs, Ports, and Faders -
- Using Outputs,
Ports, and Faders
- Using Metro Outputs
- Ports
- Creating Outputs
with OMS
- METRO Outputs
without OMS
- Naming Outputs
- Setting Output
Channels
- Auditioning
Programs from the Instruments Mixer Window
- Adding
Outputs/Faders
- Deleting
Outputs/Faders
- Faders
- Assigning Pan or
Volume Faders to Shape Controller Data
- Assigning SysEx to
Output Faders
- Recording
Controller Events Using Faders
- Viewing Controller
Events
- Recording One
Controller Event
- Recording Data on
Multiple Faders
- Grouping Faders
- Moving All of the
Faders at Once
- The Master Fader
- Saving Faders and
Output Setups
- Opening Old METRO
Document Files
Advanced
MIDI Recording -
- Advanced MIDI
Recording
- Tap Tempo
- Recording System
Exclusive Events
- Punch Recording
- Loop Recording
- Song Building Mode
- Using Song Building
Mode in Replace
- Using Song Building
Mode in Overdub
- Recording in
Multiple Take Mode
- Step Recording
- Step Recording from
a MIDI Device
- Step Recording with
the Pencil Tool
Working
with SubSections -
- Working with
SubSections
- Creating SubSections
- Editing SubSection
Start Time and Duration
- Duplicating
SubSections
- Cloning SubSections
- Copying SubSection
Tempo, Key Signature, and Time Signature Events
- Editing Tracks in
SubSections
- Expanding by
SubSections
- Deleting SubSections
Menus
-
- Metro Menu Commands
- The File Menu
- New
- Open
- Import Movie
- Close Movie
- Close Window
- Save
- Save As
- Save As Portable
Bundle
- Revert
- Import Audio File
- Export Audio Track
to File
- Mix Audio Tracks to
File
- Export As Movie
- Import MIDI File
- Importing MIDI files
- Export MIDI File
- Saving in Standard
MIDI Format
- Insert SysEx Data
- Links
- Preferences
- General
Preferences Pane
- Timing Preferences
Pane
- Buffers
Preferences Pane
- Movie Preferences
Pane
- Jukebox
Preferences Pane
- Thru Settings
- Interpret
Overlapped Notes As
- Middle C Is
- Note Colors
- SysEx Buffer Size
- Digital Audio
Playback Buffer Size
- Digital Audio
Record Buffer Size
- Page Setup
- Print
- Quit
- The Edit Menu
- Undo
- Redo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste
- Pasting a Section
- Clear
- Delete Tracks
- Archiving Tracks
- Multitrack Audio
Recording
- Audio
- Normalize
- Group Normalize
- Reverse
- Scale Amplitude
- Fade
- Cross-Fade
- Split Stereo Tracks
- Combine Regions
- Paste And
- Expand
- Expand by Channel
- Expand by
SubSections
- Expand by Loops
- Expand by Drums
- Get Section Events
- Merge Data
- Merge Tracks to New
- Extract Data
- Delete Duplicates
- Delete Time
- Insert Time
- Select All
- Set Selection
- The Options Menu
- Quantize
- Attacks and/or
Releases
- Quantize To
- Recognize Triplets
- Groove Named
- Track
- Groove Velocity
and/or Duration
- Strength
- Swing
- Duration
- Set Values To
- Scale to
- Add "N" Clocks
- Extend Durations to
Next Note
- Concatenate Notes
- Transpose
- In the Scale Of
- From the Scale Of
- Set All Notes To
- Using Map
- Human Feel
- Randomize Start
Times
- Randomize Durations
by
- Randomize
Velocities by
- Insert Random Tempo
Changes with
- Harmony
- Velocity
- Attack or Release
Velocities
- Set To
- Add
- Scale to "N"%
- Change Gradually
From "N" to "N"
- Change Gradually
From "N%" to "N%"
- Change All Selected
Notes To
- Channel
- Reverse
- Shift Events
- Continuous Data
- Audio Automation
- Pitch Bend
- Scale Time
- Scale Tempos To
Preserve Time
- Limit
- Thin Continuous
- Tempo
- Set Tempos to "N"
beats per minute-
- Set Tempos to
change gradually from
- Scale Tempo so
selection fits to
- Scale Tempo so
selection ends at
- Time and Key
Signatures
- MIDI Messages
- GM System On
- GS Reset
- XG System On
- All Notes Off
- All Sound Off
- Local Control Off/On
- Reset All
Controllers
- Omni Mode Off
- Omni Mode On
- Mono Mode
- Poly Mode
- The Windows Menu
- Ignore Positions
- Reset
- The Switches
Menu
- Bar Display/SMPTE
Display
- Selection Filter
- Playback Scrolling
- SysEx in Graphic
Editor
- Velocity Stems
- Pitch Bend Display
- Scrubbing
- Edit Notes in
Selection Only
- Double Click to
Event Editor
- Partial Track
Recording
- Automatic MIDI Thru
- Constrain Note
Dragging
- Audio Region Editing
- Show Audio Regions
- Zero Crossing
- Note Edit
Quantizing Mode
- Connect to DECK
- The Special Menu
- Looping Options
- Clear Selected Loops
- Modify Outputs and
Busses
- Output Groupings
- Restore Outputs
- Chord Entry Method
- Chord Type
- Enter Chord Mode
- Real-time
Arpeggiator
- Restore Cue
- Set Cue
- Zoom In
- Zoom Out
- Program Names to
Tracks
- Setup Notation Track
- The Setup Menu
- Record Criteria
- Record/Play
- Note Edit Grids
- Color Scheme
- Font, Size and Style
- Selection Filter
- Velocity
- Random Selections
- Assign a Rhythm
Pattern
- Groove Quantize
- Add Selection as
Groove
- Paste Groove
- Remove Groove
- Chasing
- Scales/Chords
- Tap Tempo
- MIDI Monitor
- Change Ports
- Program Names
- Extract Program
Names
- Program Name List
- Edit Program Name
List
- Open Program Name
List
- Clear Program Name
List
- Clear All
Program Name Lists
- Saving Program Name
Lists
- Subscribing to
Universal Editor/Librarians
- Sort by Names in
Pop-ups
- Sending Bank Select
Messages
- Drum Set Editor
- Select Drum Set
- Save Set As
- Import Set
- Export Set
- Delete Selected Set
- Add User Drum
- Drum Assignment
Display
- Favorite Controllers
- Nudging
- Digital Audio Setup
- For Metro Digital
Audio
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Direct Support
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: ASIO
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Sample Rate
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Bits
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Stereo
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Device Options (formerly Recording Options)
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Advanced
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Switch Without Stopping MIDI
- For Connecting to
Deck II
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Connect
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Open Documents
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Launch
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Quit
- Digital Audio
Dialog Options: Switch Without Stopping MIDI
- MIDI Machine Control
- Time Code
- MIDI Setup
- OMS MIDI Setup
- OMS
- OMS Studio Setup
- OMS Setup
Windows
-
- Memory
- The Sections
Window
- Working in the
Sections Window
- Naming a section
- Song Playlist
- Section Timing
Options
- The Tracks Window
- Selecting and
Moving Tracks
- Setting Track
Status in the Track Window
- Naming Tracks in
the Track Window
- Looping in the
Track Window
- The Bars Column
- Assigning Outputs
in the Track Window
- Ports and Outputs
- Changing a Port in
the Track Window
- Viewing Track
Levels in the Track Window
- SubSection Pop-up
Menu
- Tracks Window
Overview
- Zooming In and Out
in the Tracks Overview
- Setting Selection
Quantize Amount in Tracks Overview
- Selecting All
Tracks in the Tracks Overview
- Ranging Selection
Across All Tracks in the Tracks Overview
- Entering Markers
and Chord Symbols in the Tracks Overview
- Playback Options in
the Track Window
- Playback Quantize
- Playback Transpose
- Playback Velocity
- The Graphic
Editor Window
- The Track Titlebar
- MIDI Track Display
Modes
- Configuring the
Graphic Editor Window
- Notes Display -
MIDI Piano Roll
- Audio Display -
Audio Regions
- Working with Audio
Tracks and Audio Regions
- Drums Display
- Drums Display
Selection Tools
- Working with Drum
Sets
- Creating and Naming
a New Drum Set
- Transposing from
Drum Set to Drum Set
- Transposing from
Drum Name to Drum Name
- Selecting All Note
Data Across a Single Drum Name
- Showing All Drum
Names within a Drum Set
- Rearranging the
Order of Displayed Drum Names
- Adding a New Drum
- Nudging the Start
Time of Drum Strikes
- Muting and Soloing
Drum Names
- Scaling Velocities
of Selected Drum Strikes
- Changing Drum
Strike Velocity Ranges
- The Continuous Data
Display Modes
- Arrow
- Pencil
- Curve Tools
- The Pitch Bend
Display
- Viewing Pitch Bend
Events in the Notes Display
- Setting the Pitch
Bend Range
- Editing Pitch Bend
Events
- The Controller
Display
- Average Velocity
- The After Touch
Display
- The Poly After
Touch Display
- The Program Change
Display
- The Tempo Display
- Display Multiple
Tracks
- Zoom In and Out
- Audible Keyboard
- Markers/Chord
Changes
- Name and Set Marker
Location
- Name and Place
Chord Change
- Edit Markers
- Lock Markers or
Chord Changes
- Delete Markers and
Chord Changes
- Current Cursor
Position
- Arrow Tool
- Pencil Tool
- Forceps Tool
- Velocity Stem Edit
Tool
- Horizontal Keyboard
- Scale Tool
- Spray Paint Tool
- Tips for using Note
Spray
- Channel
- Rest, Note Value,
Velocity, % of Value
- Program
- Bank
- The Event Editor
Window
- ChangingTracks
- Event Information
- Selecting Events in
the Event Editor Window
- Selecting Multiple
Events in the Event Editor Window
- Setting Event Start
Time in the Event Editor Window
- Go To a Specific
Bar in the Event Editor Window
- Selecting and
Editing Event Parameters
- Inserting Events
- Placing Events at
Precise Locations
- Filtering Event
Display
- Event Types
- Note Events
- Poly After Touch
- Controller Events
- Program Events
- After Touch
- Pitch Bend
- SysEx
- Bank Select
- The Section Event
Editor
- Initial Tempo, Key
Signature, and Time Signature Events
- Selecting Events in
the Section Event Editor Window
- Selecting Multiple
Events in the Section Event Editor Window
- Setting Event Start
Time in the Section Event Editor Window
- Inserting Section
Events
- Placing Events at
Precise Locations in the Sections Event Editor Window
- The Instruments
Mixer Window
- Setting a Port in
the Instruments Mixer Window
- Setting a Channel
in the Instruments Mixer Window
- Selecting a Bank
Select Message in the Instrument Mixer Window
- Setting a Program
Number in the Mixer Window
- Setting a Pan Value
in the Instruments Mixer Window
- Setting a Data
Field Value in the Instruments Mixer Window
- Output Name
- Faders
- Muting and Soloing
Outputs in the Instruments Mixer Window
- Master Fader
- Snapshot Button
- The Markers Window
- Creating a New
Marker
- Shifting Markers
- Select All Locked
Markers
- The Transport
Window
- The Remote Control
Window
- Record Loop
- Rhythm Explorer
- All and None Buttons
- Rhythm Explorer
Algorithms
- Using the Rhythm
Explorer
- Note Pad
- QuickTime Window
- QuickTime
3.0
- Plug-ins Window
- Effects Window
- Dry
- Send
- Return
- Bypass
- Name
- Preset Menu
- Effect Parameters
- Metro's Effects
- Reverb
- Stereo Reverb
- Delay
- Stereo Delay
- Stereo Chorus
- Stereo Flange
- Tremolo
- Stereo Parametric EQ
- Mono Parametric EQ
Notation
-
- Using Notation
- Notation Overview
- The Notation Window
- Using the Notation
Window
- Adjusting staff
spacing in a single system
- Adjusting staff
spacing of all systems on a page
- Adjusting staff
spacing of all systems in a score
- Adding Measures to
a Track
- Using the Setup
Notation Track Dialog Box
- Opening the Setup
Notation Track dialog box
- Features of the
Setup Notation Track dialog box
- Adding or changing
the track name
- Adding or changing
the abbreviated name:
- Showing/hiding the
name or abbreviation
- Setting the staff
display options
- Changing the scale
of the staff
- Assigning an
instrument to the staff
- Selecting the clef
for a staff
- Selecting an
instrument range
- Defining a drum map
for a percussion instrument
- Showing/hiding a
track
- The Notation Toolbar
- Selection tool
- Selecting
individual notation symbols
- Selecting multiple
symbols
- Selecting
contiguous symbols
- Selecting
non-contiguous symbols
- Selecting all
symbols in a measure
- Selecting all
symbols on an entire staff line
- Selecting symbols
on different staves (lasso selection)
- Selecting all
symbols in a track
- Changing the pitch
of notes
- Copying
notes by option-dragging
- Moving symbols
other than notes
- Copying symbols
other than notes
- Editing symbols in
the score
- Eraser tool
- Notes Tool
- Selecting from the
Notes palette using the mouse
- Selecting from the
Notes palette using the keyboard
- Entering notes
- Rules for note entry
- Entering rests
- Entering accidentals
- Dynamics Tool
- Entering absolute
dynamics
- Entering dynamics
across each staff a system:
- Editing dynamic
markings
- Repositioning
dynamic markings
- Copying dynamic
markings
- Entering crescendo
and decrescendo markings (hairpins)
- Editing a hairpin
- Text Tool
- Entering page text
- Editing page text
- Entering rehearsal
text
- Editing rehearsal
text
- Repositioning page
and rehearsal text
- Selecting
font/size/style for text
- Expressions Tool
- Adding an
expression to the score
- Changing the length
of expressions
- Repositioning
expressions
- Editing an
expression
- Barlines Tool
- Inserting dotted
bar lines
- Changing bar lines
- Inserting single or
double measure repeats
- Inserting first and
second endings
- Transcription
Quantize amount
- The Score
- Key Signatures
- Time Signatures
- Initial tempo
- Displaying/hiding
tracks in the score
- Ties and triplets
- Voices
- Cursors in the
score window
- The View Controls
- View options
- Voice selection
- Track selection
- Bar selection
- Page selection
- Page selection
(arrows)
- Scroll bars
- Menu Commands
- Page setup
- Print
- Lyrics window
- The Button Bar
- The Lyric List
- The Lyric Editing
Area
- Using the Lyric
Window
- Adding the first
lyric
- Applying a lyric
- Adding more lyrics
- Adding Additional
Verses
- Changing the text
properties of lyrics
- Changing lyrics
- Moving lyrics
- Deleting lyrics
Glossary
-
- ASIO
- arm/record-enable
- amplitude
- audio port
- audio region
- Audio Interchange
File Format (AIFF)
- aux bus
- channel
- channel data
- chasing
- clipping
- controller data
- count off
- cue looping
- cross-fade
- digital audio
- distortion
- drum grid
- dry mix
- duration
- effects
- exponential curve
- fade
- fader
- gain
- General MIDI
- groove quantize
- instrument
- key signature
- linear recording
- Looping
- markers
- master fader
- meters
- Metro document
- Metro output
- metronome
- MIDI
- MIDI controller
- MIDI event
- MIDI sequencer
- MIDI Time Code
- mixing
- mute
- normalize
- Open Music System
(OMS)
- output signal
- overdub
- .OVV
- pan
- partial track
recording
- piano roll
- pitch
- playthrough
- port
- portable bundle
- preferences
- program
- program bank
- program name
- punch-in recording
- quantize
- QuickTime
- real-time
- recording
- replace
- section
- Session
- slider
- SMPTE
- solo
- Standard MIDI Files
(SMF)
- step recording
- subsection
- System Exclusive
Data (SysEx)
- tempo
- time signature
- track
- velocity
- waveform
- wet mix
OMS
Overview -
- OMS Overview
- OMS Updates METRO
About Your Setup
- OMS Associates
Information with Device Names
- Outputs Under OMS
- Update Outputs
Under OMS
Synchronization
-
- Introduction to
Synchronization
- Internal Sync
- External Sync
- Clock Sync
- MIDI Time Code (MTC)
- MIDI Machine Control
- Audio Clock
- Syncing METRO to
DECK II on a single Macintosh
- Syncing to Tape
(FSK to MIDI Clock)
Frequently
Asked Questions -
- Frequently Asked
Questions
- When I import a
MIDI file, what happens?
- How do I record
over existing music in a track (replace not overdub)?
- Why won't the
Rhythm Explorer loop my music?
- How do I rename a
track?
- Metro seems to
erase my whole track when I record...how can I change this?
- How do I save the
settings (metronome, count-off, colors, etc.) for my current project as
the default?
- I get no sound from
my MIDI track
- I get no sound from
my audio track
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