MIDI CLICK TRACK?

hey guys
I notice the MIDI CLICK at the bottom of my track list, how can i activate it?
Pretty much, i want an audible MIDI/Metronome click for this project. Im trying to make a backing track. Left channel will be a click with the backing tracks, right will be simply the backing tracks
Anyone? I can get MIDI data in, but all it does is give me piano sounds
thanks in advance!

BuckB,
THus far, i cant make sense of that midi click track thats there by default. Would be really nice if you could just place any MIDI data in there and itd just give a 1 2 3 4 reguardless of data
BUT
A workaround that was given to me by the kind people at harmony central
Use an Audio Instrument Track, and set the instrument to Klopfgiest..just make sure your MIDI data is on every whole note of whatever you like. At first it just makes tone noises, but if you tweak alittle, you can make that sharp metronome sound.
Not my idea of easiest, but im writting my backing tracks in guitar pro, so it takes 2 seconds to create a new track, put 4 counts, then duplicate til end of song, and just have logic click to that. I tried the copy/paste and id ALWAYS get some offtime beats
hope that helps

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BuckB,
THus far, i cant make sense of that midi click track thats there by default. Would be really nice if you could just place any MIDI data in there and itd just give a 1 2 3 4 reguardless of data
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A workaround that was given to me by the kind people at harmony central
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