Metronome 1.3 review (mac)

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Metronome is a free metronome for Mac OS X.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 165K
Developer: Ron Fleckner      
Price: $0.00
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Metronome 1.3 is audio software developed by Ron Fleckner.
Metronome is a free metronome for Mac OS X. It closely mimics a real world clockwork metronome in that it has a bell which you can set to sound at intervals of every 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats. But because it's not a real world clockwork metronome, you can also easily set it to sound a bell on beats 5, 7, 8 and 9, as well as set it to any arbitrary beat you like.

One advantage of Metronome over a real world clockwork one is that you can operate it almost entirely from your computer keyboard. Enter/Return will start or stop it, '=' (equals key) will speed it up, '-' (minus or dash key) will slow it down. Press any number key from 2 to 9 to get the bell to sound on those beats, or press '0' (zero) to stop the bell. Beats of 10 and above are achieved by typing into a small text field and hitting Enter or Return.

Another advantage is that you can set the speed (bpm or beats per minute) as fast or as slow as you like. The slowest speed is 1 beat per minute(!), and the fastest is whatever speed your computer can run at.

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:

  • An accurate Tempo Finder which allows you to tap any key to set a tempo.
  • Easy keyboard input to set a bell accent on any beat from 2 to 9, and a text field to enter any other arbitrary beat as the accent.
  • Stop and start the metronome by pressing the space bar or the Enter or Return keys.
  • Fast and easy tempo changing using buttons on the main window or the arrow keys.
  • Easily change the sounds in the Preferences.
  • The unique Accelerator which allows you to make Metronome speed up at a rate which you determine. This feature is designed to let you play a difficult passage at a slow tempo and gradually (at the rate you set) increase the tempo until it reaches whatever speed you want it to stop increasing.
  • Save and re-load groups of settings so you can quickly reset favoured groups of settings.
  • Presets with a quieter bell sound, click sound, or both.
  • Preset "Factory Default" setting to easily re-set all settings.
  • Runs at any tempo from 0.1 beats per minute (once every six minutes!) up to whatever your can computer can run it at.
  • Despite all this, it's still a simple metronome.
    This mac program is freeware, so you can download and use it absolutely free. Metronome 1.3 supports different languages (including english). It works with Mac OS X.

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