I don't see the big difference when programming music, but it makes a difference when you record playing a "real" instrument. If a song is 70BPM and the metronome plays quarter notes, there is a big time gap between every sound which means it is difficult to play precise. But if a song is 140BPM, quarter note metronome would work fine, but eight notes would feel very stressing.gol wrote: & what's the real advantage of changing from /4 to /8? I can imagine on a score sheet, but in a piano roll when you can already snap to the fraction you want?
For the step seq, ok (but again, it will change a lot in the next FL), but for the piano roll it's just a matter of snap lines being a little darker, I don't see what the problem is.
If one part of the song is 4/4 and the next is 7/8 there would be a problem because a quarter note metronome on a 7/8 beat would play on 1-3-5-7 2-4-6 1-3-5-7 2-4-6 etc. This is very confusing to play on since you typically want the kick on 1 and 5 and the snare on 3 and 7 on every bar. In this case I would only use a eight note metronome click throughout the song.
But, as you say, it's probably best to program your own metronome in the piano roll or step sequencer in such cases.