Groove Pattern Metronome

Mihael Bele

About this app

Features:
- does not drift
- no ads or data collection
- simple one screen UI
- quickly create complex patterns
- set accents freely
- accents subtle to exaggerated
- different first/other beat sounds, regardless of accents
- create polyrhythms
- count-in
- tap tempo
- limit the number of repeats to 1-4 or 8 times
- multiple metronome sounds to chose from
- flip UI for left/right handedness or to use easily with single hand on a larger phone
- remembers last used settings

Pattern notation
- in "Beats" mode, every digit represents one note (beat) where digit "1" represents accented note
- in "Bars" mode, every digit represents the length of the bar in which the first note of the bar is accented
- dash (-) character represents one beat of pause (silence) in both modes
- colon (:) character represents repeat instruction, it is used for shortening pattern text representation, where a number in font of the colon is repeated number of times after the colon ("number" is a single or string of digits)
- dot (.) character in "Bars" mode represents "over" word in polyrhythm definition, bars at both sides of dot character are played simultaneously
- space character is used as a non-mandatory separator that is used for easier readability or for differentiating numbers from digits
- use top right menu to see the examples

UI logic
- all black text is clickable, all gray text is not
- tempo can be entered manually by tapping on the number, increased/decreased by tapping or by pressing and holding (+)/(-) button, or by tapping on the TAP button (TAP button works only when pattern is not playing)
- PLAY/STOP/HOLD button: playback starts when the button is released, playback stops when the button is pressed down
- if STOP button is held down for more than one second, playback is restarted automatically when button is released
- when using "count-in" feature, press and hold PLAY button to delay playback start

Limitations
- max number of beats in a bar in "Bar" mode is 9
- if played loud, your phone may compress accents

What’s new

WearOS app abandoned.