Export the click track

ClickSmith renders on your machine and hands you a file to save; nothing is sent anywhere. The Export settings button next to Export opens the export settings; the Export button itself always shows what it will produce.

Before you export

• Check the grid: under Tempo, Check the grid should read close to 100 % of beats within 10 ms. Go to worst bar shows you the one to listen to.
• Play the song through once. Beat 1 on the downbeat? Tempo changes on the right bars?
• Set the balance in Mix — the Song and Click levels are baked into the export, so set them to what you want to hear in the ears.

Layout

• Click L · song R (the default) — one stereo WAV, the click and every cue on the left, the song (summed to mono) on the right. This is the split most playback players and split-track stores use.
• Song L · click R — the same file the other way round, for rigs wired the old ClickSmith way.
• Click L · cues R — for in-ear rigs that take the song from somewhere else: the click on the left, the spoken count-in, the section announcements and your audio markers on the right, and no song. Turn on Voice cues (or add an audio marker), or the right side stays silent.
• Separate files (zip) — one zip with:
  • Song - CLICK.wav — the click (mono)
  • Song - SONG.wav — the song, in stereo if the original is
  • Song - CUES.wav — the spoken count-in and section announcements and your audio markers, if there are any
  • Song - TEMPO MAP.mid — tempo changes, time signature, named markers and one long note, so a DAW imports the map with the clip
  • Song - MARKERS.csv — count-in, click start, tempo changes and cues with time, bar and beat

Markers in the WAV

The split WAV and the CLICK file carry WAV markers (cue points with names): the count-in, the song's own start (named after the song) and every cue and audio marker. Most DAWs and playback players show them by name when the file is imported. MP3 files have no markers — the MIDI tempo map and the CSV in a zip still do.

Format

Pick the file type, the sample rate and the bit depth separately:

• WAV or MP3 · 320 kbps.
• 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz (the default) or 96 kHz. The song is decoded again from your original file at the chosen rate, whatever rate your computer's audio runs at, and the click is drawn at that rate too — nothing is just relabelled.
• 16-bit or 24-bit (the default) for WAV. 16-bit files are dithered, so a fading click or a quiet intro does not turn into distortion; silence stays true digital silence.

MP3 is for players that won't take WAV: 320 kbps, constant bit rate, encoded on your computer (the encoder loads only when you export an MP3). MP3 goes up to 48 kHz, so 96 kHz is greyed out for it. The file is lined up so the click lands where it does in the WAV. For anything sample-exact, WAV stays the right choice.

Silence before and after

Before (pre-roll) adds silence in front of everything, the count-in included — time for a player to start before the first click. After (tail) adds silence after the song ends — room for the last chord to ring. Both are in seconds (up to 60) and shift the markers, the MIDI tempo map and the CSV with them.

Count-in

Choose 1 bar or 2 bars. The count ends on the first bar line of the click, at that bar's tempo.

• Into the intro — the count plays over the song's intro when there is room; silence is added in front only for the part that doesn't fit.
• Before the song — the whole count-in is added in front of the song.

Voice cues

Count-in speaks the count ("one, two, three, four") on the count-in's beats; Count-in + sections also announces each cue named after a section — Intro, Verse, Pre-chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Solo, Break, Interlude, Outro, Ending, Drop, Half time, in English, German or Spanish ("Refrain", "Strophe", "Estribillo 2" work too) — one bar ahead. The voice goes onto the click side, under beat 1's level, or into the CUES file of a zip. Pick its language next to it (English, Deutsch, Español). Cues with other names stay silent. The voice is only in the export, not the preview.

Where the click plays

Click plays shows where the click starts and ends. After detection it starts where the steady beat starts (a free intro stays click-free). Set either end to the cursor, or Reset it to the start or end of the song.

Tempo map only

Tempo map only (MIDI) saves just the .mid file — handy when the audio is already in your DAW.

Your choices are kept

The export settings are remembered — on this device, and with your account on your other devices.

If the export fails

Export failed means the render did not finish. It happens in the browser: close other tabs, reload, load the song again and export before doing anything else. A song is fine; a two-hour set is not what this tool is for.