Metronome Blue

Jim Levy

About this app

Welcome to a unique metronome app you will love. Unlike other metronome apps, Metronome Blue stays with you. If you speed up or slow down a little, the app does too…and it tells you what your tempo really is. Plus, this metronome is super easy to set up and use.

Metronome Blue is useful in rehearsal situations when you’re leading from the piano. As you play, you may realize you actually should speed up or slow down from your Target Tempo; as you do so, you see what your new Target Tempo should really be. In live performance, Metronome Blue can keep you on tempo unobtrusively.

This app is also extremely useful for private practice. You can proactively correct your own tendency to rush or drag as you play. Plus, just like your digital piano, no one has to hear the metronome but you.

FEATURES

• Supports English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian languages.
• Plug-and-play setup with your MIDI gear. MIDI Devices dialog confirms your MIDI interface is connected.
• Indicator for incoming MIDI events.
• Attractive, uncluttered screen.
• Quickly set, increment, and decrement your Target Tempo with just a few taps.
• “Tap 2× to set tempo” button, for syncing Target Tempo to live music.
• Numeric displays of Target and Actual Tempos.
• Beat blinker, plus back-and-forth moving dot.
• Drift gauge: a speedometer-like display of the Actual Tempo’s deviation from Target.
• Adjustable color coding for drift level.
• App not fooled by your eighth and sixteenth notes “between” the beats.
• “Private Click”: app can send beats as MIDI events to a drum synth for just your ears.
• “Public Click”: what we all know and love; choose from many different click sounds to play through your phone’s speakers.
• Reset button quickly sets Actual Tempo back to Target Tempo.
• Pause button, with automatic resuming when you play notes.
• Onboarding tutorial walks you through the basics. You can always revisit the tutorial.