Metronomics Metronome

John Nastos

About this app

A metronome for real musicians.

A new kind of metronome -- use Metronomics to generate random patterns, sequenced grooves, or a combination of both to help you practice with more than just your typical click track. Enough features to keep a professional busy for years or start a beginner on the right track.

The only metronome that gives you complete control over how subdivisions are played -- add up to 10 subdivisions of any type (including custom subdivisions like 5/7) and have them played all the time, at random intervals, or in a sequenced pattern.

Features:
- Choose from 40 different samples for each subdivision, mastered for volume
- Generate patterns using random or sequenced variations of different subdivisions
- Include preset patterns such as claves or ride cymbal patterns
- Choose any number of beats per measure you like or practice mixed meters such as 4 + 3 + 5 where the segments of the bar get accented automatically
- Use any type of subdivision. Common types like quarter notes, sixteenth notes, eighth triplets, etc, or create your own. 5/7, 23/4, no problem!
- Take a rhythm and use the "offset" feature to move it to different parts of the measure to practice with.
- Email saved metronomes back and forth with other Metronomics users
- Track your metronome usage.
- Train yourself with "independence" mode where you can set some bars to be inaudible -- keep the time going yourself until the click starts again
- Variable swing feel -- choose how much each subdivision swings
- Play in the background
- Normalized sounds for good volume
- Web-based manual describing how to use all the features and hints about how they might be useful

Ratings and reviews

This is my favorite metronome and I use it for so many different rhythm exercises. There are so many cool features, like gap click, a sequencer, and tempo alteration. What makes it so impressive is that there are so many features, but the app is very intuitive to navigate.

The metronome/subdivisions etc is great, although two things I believe would make this much more user friendly are: 1) the start button not near any other buttons, I'm constantly hitting settings or saved. 2) a count in feature - it's very tricky to hear the initial 1 if you've got a complicated metronome set up. Still great, though these improvements would make it 5*!

This is much more than a simple metronome. You can create and play to almost any rhythmic structure, adding hits anywhere in a bar or even a line. Between that and great support (just had a small issue resolved within days of reporting it) this is highly recommended!

What's new

Bug fixes