Metronome is always on when starting a new project

[CristopherB]

Hi,
For some reason, the metronome is always on when I start a new project and I have to turn it off manually every time. Does anyone have any idea of why this could be and how I can solve it? Thank you.

[Maarten_Kruijswijk]

I’m not behind my computer now, but I think you can set a preference in playback options click. Ctrl shift P

[CristopherB]

Thanks for the reply, but as far as I can see, there’s no option. I see Beat subdivisions, sound, pitch and velocity and count-in, but no option to turn it off by default.

[Maarten_Kruijswijk]

And in the preferences? Ctrl,
Categorie Play?

Otherwise I don’t know. I think it should be off by default.

[CristopherB]

I don’t any setting there either. I wonder if I reinstalling is my only option?

[k_b]

Don’t reinstall.
We will find the preference setting for you.
In the mean time, this old thread might help:

Deactivate metronome during playback

Although it’s not exposed in the Playback Options dialog, in fact whether or not you hear a click during playback is controlled by playback options, so if you did click Save as Default in the Playback Options dialog with the click button on the toolbar illuminated, that would I think explain the behaviour. Try resetting to the factory defaults, or perhaps even removing your saved default playback options.

[StevenJones01]

Also, from the manual:

[k_b]

It is interesting though, that it seems impossible to find this through Dorico’s webhelp. Searching for “disable metronome” or “deactivate metronome” will result in hundreds of results on metronome marks…
https://www.steinberg.help/search/all?query=disable+metronome&filters=product_names_smtg~%2522Dorico%2522&content-lang=en

[CristopherB]

That did help, thank you very much! I tried this method and it seems to have worked.

Deactivate metronome during playback

Thank-you, Daniel! I just turned the metronome click button off, and then chose Save as Default in the Playback Options dialog, and – voila! – that fixed it! Which of the two available options . . . [image] . . . resets to factory defaults? (In this particular case – in which there are only two possibilities (click on/off) – will Reset to Saved Defaults automatically also do the trick?)

I’m glad I didn’t have to reinstall anything. Thank you again.