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DESCRIPTION
Metronome is designed with the practicing musician in mind which means that it's fast and easy to use. Nearly all of Metronome's functions and settings can be changed by using a single key. You won't have to put your instrument down to change the tempo (arrow keys) or the accent beat (number keys). Stop and start by tapping the space bar (or the Enter or Return keys). All these things can be done 'on the fly' without having to stop and restart the metronome.
This helps a lot if you are practicing something that you want to slowly speed up. No need to put down your instrument to adjust the speed, just hit the equals key and keep playing.
But with Metronome you don't even have to do that. The Accelerator increases the tempo at a rate you control. Why? So you can start a difficult piece slowly, and very gradually speed up without stopping to reset your metronome's tempo. The Accelerator will do it for you. You control the rate of increase AND when it increases and when it stops increasing. It's easy.
Metronome comes with two sounds, a snare rimshot for the click and a cow bell for the bell, but you can change the sounds to any ones you want using the Preferences. When you are choosing new sounds, you can preview/play them first.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.8.2a:
- Beats per minute (bpm) in text fields now behave correctly on non-English systems. If you use English as your computer's language, there is no need to update to version 1.8.2a, but this version will also run fine on your system.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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| Metronome User Reviews (11 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 10 2009 |
AARGL Well, I would like putting a 5 stars for the simplicity of use, the low sensitivity about the overall activity of the computer, but there are only two little issues that avoided it: - sometimes I've got a message saying that the sound selcted is corrupted, and I have to select it again. (actually the "Cow Bell" sound, chosen as "Bell sound") - it doesn't start in sync when hitting the space bar Apart from that, I love it. ;-)
(Version 1.8.2a) | |
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| Mar 7 2008 |
KJBIRD While I'm sure this application is a great help to many musicians, I use it to time exposures while doing photographic light painting in a darkened studio. Many thanks to the developer for this app.
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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 | Sep 3 2007 |
RON FLECKNER The bug mentioned in my previous post has now been fixed. Metronome version 1.8 (actually version 1.8.1) works as advertised. | |
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| Sep 3 2007 |
RON FLECKNER Hi there, I'm the developer of this thing. Version 1.8 has a bug in that it won't allow you to enter a bell accent other than '10' in the bell accent text field. This is a bug that slipped by me. I'll fix it ASAP. Until it's fixed, here's a link to version 1.7 which works as advertised, but without some of the newer features of v1.8.: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ronfleckner/metronome/met17.zip If you don't care about having a bell accent on anything above beat 10, then you can still use the newer 1.8 version. You can check if the bug has been fixed and the fixed version available via the app's Check For Update... menu item | |
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| May 31 2007 |
THEVALRUS For the record, the new version works perfectly for me, even with loads of other running apps. Kudos to the dev.
(Version 1.7) | |
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| Mar 26 2007 |
THEVALRUS I'm not sure how to "back up" a claim about a piece of software that doesn't work for me as it should, but nevertheless I'll concede that my previous review was sort of unfair. I did quit all my other applications and try again, as the dev suggested; the problem persisted, so it's not just my own error that caused it. Still, it's pretty clear that mine is an unusual case, so I'll offer a new rating of five stars to offset my previous one and get back in the good graces of the dev so he doesn't blow me off when I email him for support. Like I should have done in the first place. ;)
(Version 1.6) | |
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| Mar 18 2007 |
SQUAKO I wrote my own cheesy little applescript studio program for finding the BPM from a keytap because i couldnt find the program anywhere. Im glad to see someone has actually spent the time to build this program right, and hey, its a metronome also.
(Version 1.6) | |
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| Mar 4 2007 |
RON FLECKNER Obviously, blatantly, ill-considered review by THEVALRUS. Metronome works. You WILL get uneven beats or stutters if you run it while your system is busy doing too many other things. So will iTunes. The only way around this problem is to make the clicking occur in a specially configured thread which hogs the machine's CPU. I don't want to do that. If you're going to be doing practice with a metronome, why would you have a lot of other stuff running? You're practicing, right? THEVALRUS, the right thing for you to do would have been to email me. Your review, as it stands, is just a slur. You don't say anything to back up your claim. Please mail me or repost with a bit of background. And please try to be reasonable. Ron Fleckner
(Version 1.5) | |
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| Mar 3 2007 |
THEVALRUS Obviously, blatantly does not work; spaces beats unevenly. Unusable.
(Version 1.5) | |
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 | Nov 21 2006 |
KEVIN MCKENNA Great little app. The accelerator function is a great bonus too.
(Version 1.4) | |
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