Time Trainer
The Time Trainer is for working on your sense of time, so you can hold a steady tempo without the music or a metronome to follow. It mutes the whole mix, the metronome included, for a few seconds at a time, then brings it back. Keep playing through the silence. When the music comes back, you hear whether you stayed in time.
The Trainer menu is at the top of the mixer. The shortcut is T. While the music is muted, the speaker icon on the Trainer button turns red.
Settings
- Music: how long the music plays between silences, on average. 3 to 60 seconds.
- Silence: how long each silence lasts, on average. 1 to 30 seconds.
- Randomize: varies the length of each stretch, so you can't predict when the music stops or comes back.
- Amount: how much the lengths vary, from ±10% to ±70% of the average.
These settings are the same for every song.
How to use it
Start with short silences and make them longer as you get better. It works with the tempo control and loops, so you can train on one part of a song at a slower tempo.