Welcome
Welcome to Mr. Bills Tunes.

This website aims to teach people about Ableton Live, electronic music concepts and sound theory.

Read more
Member Login
Forgot Password?
Join Us
Blog
Mailing List
Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty

Changing Metronome Sounds In Live

So, a few people have mentioned to me here and there over the years that it would be great to be able to change the sound of the metronome in Live to something else of their choice. Until recently I thought that the in-built click sound was the only option that we would ever have, however after reading around a little bit I discovered that this can be changed, and here is how you can do it.


For this tutorial I’m going to be using a Mac, however you can still apply the same idea on Windows operating systems, although it’s up to you to find where the metronome samples are (by the way if you do, could you comment that location on this post so other Windows users can benefit from that).


  • Go to your applications and find Live.
  • Right click on the Live application and select ‘Show Package Contents’.
  • Open the ‘App-Resources’ folder.
  • Followed by the ‘Misc’ folder.
  • Within this ‘Misc’ folder you will see another folder called ‘Metronome’ and this is where the click sounds are stored.
  • Open the samples folder and you will find two samples. ‘Metronome.wav’ and ‘MetronomeUp.wav’. These are the samples that Live references for its metronome.
  • Replace these samples with whatever you want, however they must be called ‘Metronome.wav’ and ‘MetronomeUp.wav’.

  • Shut and re-open Live and your click should sound different.

  • So personally I like to use the Klopfgeist clicks from Logic, so I’ve uploaded them here. If anyone else has some really nice click sounds, post them in the comments below. I’m definitely interested to have a few click sounds to choose from.


    Cheers,
    Bill.

    • Anonymous

      Hi all. Location of metronome samples on Win7-

      Local Disk (C:)/Program Files (x86)/Ableton/Live 8.2.5/Resources/Misc/Metronome/Samples…

      Cheers, Si

    Password Reset

    Please enter your e-mail address. You will receive a new password via e-mail.