KLICK(1)

💖 KLICK 💖 (like, the manual, bestie)

okay so <rainbow>klick</rainbow> is literally an advanced metronome for JACK — no cap, that's the whole vibe. this page is for section 1 of the manual, iykyk.

✨ NAME ✨

klick — an advanced metronome for JACK 🎵

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

klick [options] [bars] [meter] tempo[-tempo2/accel] [pattern]
klick [options] -f filename
klick [options] -i
klick [options] -j

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, klick is an advanced command-line based metronome that uses the JACK sound server. it's giving professional, fr fr. you can define complex tempo maps for entire songs or performances, which is lowkey iconic.

you can throw a single meter and tempo on the command line if you're keeping it simple, but if you wanna go full main character, more complex tempo maps can be read from plain text files. 📄✨

and alternatively (love an alternative), you can also run klick in interactive mode, where the tempo can be changed at runtime using the keyboard, or you can just follow tempo information read from JACK transport. options on options, bestie. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -f filename — load tempo map from file 📂
• -j — no tempo map, just follow jack transport 🚂
• -n name — set jack client name 🏷️
• -p port,.. — jack port(s) to connect to 🔌
• -P — automatically connect to hardware ports 🎛️
• -o port — OSC port to listen on 📡
• -i — interactive mode 🎹
• -W filename — export click track to audio file 💾
• -r samplerate — sample rate of export (default: 48000) 🎚️
• -s number — use built-in sounds:
  • 0: square wave (default)
  • 1: sine wave
  • 2: noise
  • 3: acoustic bell/click
• -S file[,file] — load sounds from file(s) 🔊
• -e — no emphasized beats 🤫
• -E — emphasized beats only 📢
• -v mult[,mult] — adjust playback volume (default: 1.0) 🔉
• -w mult[,mult] — adjust playback pitch (default: 1.0) 🎼
• -t — enable jack transport 🚀
• -T — become transport master (implies -t) 👑
• -d seconds — delay before starting playback ⏳
• -c bars — pre-roll. use -c 0 for 2 beats 🥁
• -l label — start playback at the given label 🔖
• -x multiplier — multiply tempo by the given factor ✖️
• -h — show help 🆘

🎀 TEMPO MAP FILE FORMAT 🎀

[label:] bars [meter] tempo [pattern] [volume]
...

like, that's the whole format. put it in a file, feed it to -f, serve. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the full documentation for klick can be found in HTML format at

/usr/share/doc/klick/manual.html

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dominic Sacre <dominic.sacre@gmx.de>

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this was klick version 0.12.2, dated January 2010, section 1 of the manual. go make some beautiful tempo maps, you absolute icon. 💅✨🫶