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Metronome

Metronome application for mobile phones.

Provides a convenient alternative to conventional metronomes, always available wherever you and your mobile phone are.

Assists musicians in keeping a regular tempo while playing or rehearsing. Provides metronome beats at various tempo settings from 20 up to 840 beats per minute and NEW Beat Patterns and alternative Visual beat display. An optional beginning of bar (bell) sound can be set for the appropriate number of beats in a bar.

The Detect Tempo function will determine the current tempo from multiple key presses and then synchronize its own metronome beat to the detected tempo.

Volume, beats per bar and tempo settings are adjustable via quick shortcut keys as well as from the main settings menu.

Includes Concert A tone for tuning

Available for most Java enabled mobile phones.

"... it's possible to enter a complex Buleria compas (Flamenco) as they call it in Spain. Great stuff ... After a long search finally someone comes up with a decent metronome that can handle complex patterns and is easy in use and portable!!", GJ 20th June 2009

"As a music tutor, this was one of the most useful and frequently used applications on my BlackBerry Curve", MM 8th July 2009

Features

Tempo: Musical tempo in beats per minute. Range is 20 bpm through to 240 or upto 840 bpm on many mobiles.

Volume: The beat and concert-A volumes can be changed independantly. Volume may also dependant on the phone's normal volume settings. The Audio Boost feature provides louder beat sounds where supported.

Beats Per Bar or complex Beat Patterns: This can be optionally set to provide a different sound (bell) at the beginning of each bar. The possible values are 0 (no bell) through to 20 beats per bar. Usual values are 2, 3 or 4.

If a more complex rhythm is required, a bar can be specified as containing two or more groups of notes. For example 3+2+2 would specifiy a 7 beat bar broken into three beats, two beats and two beats. It is also possible to play triplets, quintuplets etc. against the main beat. For example 2,3 specifies a 2 beat bar played together with a triplet. 2,3,5 adds a quintuplet.

Beat Patterns with one number against another (2,3 or 3,4 etc) can be used to learn or reinforce how these should sound. When using the Visual Beat Display, best shown at slow tempos, the cursor (grey line) only moves when one or other of the beats is due. This makes it easier to learn the correct timing.

Beat Sound: One or more different beats sounds can be selected. Once a sound has been selected, the application will remember it and use it again the next time the application is started.

Bell Sound: Set BELL sound used at the beginning of each bar (see Beats Per Bar). This setting may be ignored by some of the Beat Sounds which have their own dedicated Bell.

Concert A: Provides a 440Hz Concert A tone for tuning, with independant volume setting. Several alternative tones are provided.

Automatic Regulation: Some beat/bell sounds may not sound correctly, especially at high tempo settings. The application will attempt to detect irregular beats and adjust itself to enable a correct beat to be provided. If it is not possible to achieve a regular beat, the user is presented with the option of selecting one of the other sounds. Each type of sound is regulated individually, which allows for the optimum setting for each sound.

Auto Save: The above settings are saved on application exit and remembered for use next time the application is started. Auto Save also occurs if an incoming phone call is received.

Shortcut Keys: Tempo, Volume and Beats Per Bar can also be changed via the shortcut keys. The shortcut menu is accessed from the main menu or by pressing any of the phone keys 1 - 9. While the Shortcut Key Menu is displayed, the above values can be increased or decreased.

eg. Press key 5 to start/stop the metronome, key 3 to increase the tempo, or key 1 to decrease the tempo.

Detect Tempo: The application will automatically detect tempo when the 0 key is pressed several times. Listen to some music, press the 0 key in time to the music, and the detected tempo will be displayed. When you stop pressing the 0 key, the metronome tempo will automatically synchronize to the detected beat. For convenience, it may be possible to use the *, # or [space] keys instead.

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