Music Production
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In FL Studio Automation Clips would be how to do it. Just start the volume of the clip layer at 0 and increase it however desired on the layer containing the click.
Automation Clips are just custom graphs for how the attribute should change over time.
I don't use reaper, but a quick search shows there is an equivalent.
Yeah that would work well if I were precise enough to know when to automate the click in and out. If I'm playing free-tempo, I won't really know when that click should begin.
My Reaper experience is more to do with dialogue editing than music creation, but I might still be able to help if I understand the problem correctly.
When you say "click", do you mean a single click, or the beginning of a click track?
Do you want the sound of that click to be included in the recording, or only heard by you while you perform?
Can you ELI5 the conditions where you want the click to start? Like, is there anything unique happening at that point?
Do you have the option of using a midi input device, even something as simple as a single midi button, that could trigger it to start manually?