Actually, now that someone asks…we have this still undocumented feature…yes, you can replace the woodblock click with your own sounds, if they adhere to a certain spec.
Here’s how to do:
- Prepare 3 WAV files of following spec: 44.1kHz, mono, 16 bits, signed, little endian
They can be of any length but only a maximum of 1s will get read. - Create the folder
Win: C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\DoricoBeep
Mac: /Users//Library/Preferences/DoricoBeep - In that folder create a textfile called UserBeepConfig.txt
- The UserBeepConfig.txt shall contain on 3 lines the paths to your custom click sounds. Here an example of how it looks like with me:
C:\Users\ustoermer\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\DoricoBeep\UserBeepHi.wav
C:\Users\ustoermer\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\DoricoBeep\UserBeepMid.wav
C:\Users\ustoermer\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\DoricoBeep\UserBeepLow.wav
The sounds can also be anywhere else on your disk and named whatever you like, just give the right paths.
The specified sounds then replace the Metronome’s built-in woodblock sounds.
If you want to revert to the woodblock, simply delete or rename the UserBeepConfig.txt.
And you have to restart Dorico for the new setting to take effect.
When we find the time, we will make a nice GUI around this and more easily accessible, but don’t know when this will happen.