Metronome: Tempo

Frozen Ape

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About this app

Featured by Apple as "New and Noteworthy" and "Staff Favorite".

Tempo is the premier mobile metronome app. It is used daily by performing artists for their gigs, teachers in their lessons, students for their practices and even golfers and bodybuilders in their training.

Tempo gives you the features you need without sacrificing usability. Its engine is written from the ground up for high accuracy and stability. Over that is wrapped an attractive and comprehensive single-screen interface. Flashing LEDs also serve as buttons to customize beats, enabling the creation of complex rhythms. Save your configurations as songs in setlists and share them with friends, including those using iOS devices.

Tempo features an innovative interface that morphs between five modes that each presents a different combination of functionalities optimized for the task at hand: Basic, Preset, Setlist, Practice and Gig.

Features:

Configuration
- 30 different time signatures: 1-13/2, 1-13/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 
• 6 rhythm patterns for simple meters and 3 for compound meters 
• Customize accents or turn beats off to create more complex rhythms
• Tap tempo function 
• Tempo ranges from 10 to 400
• Visual feedback in the form of pulsating LEDs

Setlists
• Store presets in multiple setlists 
• Advanced setlist management including search, overwriting, copying between setlists and multi-deletion
• Quick editing
• Share and backup setlists via email
• Setlists data file compatible with Tempo for iOS

Tracker and Automator
• Track number of bars played or time your practice
• Stop playback automatically when limit reached
• Automatic adjustment of tempo every n number of bars or n amount of time
• Coach Mode alternates between unmuted and muted bars

Sound
• Choose from 12 sound sets, including one optimized for live drumming click tracks 
• Volume control
• Multi-tasking support; playback continues outside of app

Miscellaneous
• Classical metronome and Italian tempo markings 
• Control setlists, tempo and playback with AirTurn Bluetooth controllers
• Five color themes

Ratings and reviews

I've recently switched to Android from iOS and was happy to see this app here as well. But unfortunately it's missing some fairly critical features around playlists. For starters, why can't I search for songs? It seems like a massive miss to exclude this feature. Also, why can't I add songs to a playlist from other playlists? More than willing to drop 5 stars for those features.

Updated: nice UI! Happy about more time signatures. Accent changes are good in that the metronome keeps going even if you change accents. My score digital metronome. Even sounds nice! STILL NEEDS A POLYRHYTHM FEATURE! March 2017: 2 stars... Good basic metronome... But Apple has some FANTASTIC features... which this does not have. My favorite and most needed feature is the Polyrhythm metronome.

I purchased the ad-free version for Android for my cell phone and my tablet. I need info on how to take a full catalog of songs I imported into Tempo and create set lists by choosing which songs from that full catalog to put into the set lists for upcoming gigs. If this is possible, I haven't found out how to do it or where to go for some actual guidance on using the app. Right now I'm creating 3 set lists from the start, even though I have a master set list of all the songs in our repertoire.