Baton: Metronome

Zone7 Studios

In-app purchases

About this app

Baton is a metronome with its priorities straight: a steady, even click, controls you can hit from the music stand, and a free tier that is the whole instrument, not a demo of one.

THE WHOLE METRONOME, INCLUDED
• 20 to 400 BPM with a big dial, ±1 and ±5 steppers, numeric entry and a giant tap-tempo pad.
• Every time signature: 1 to 16 beats over 2, 4, 8 or 16, with 6/8 and 7/8 included.
• Shape the bar: tap any beat dot to cycle it through accent, normal, ghost or off.
• All six subdivisions: quarters, eighths, triplets, sixteenths, swing, offbeats. Subdivisions are not a paid feature in Baton, and they never will be.
• Pendulum, beat dots and screen flash you can read from metres away, driven by the audio clock itself. The screen stays awake while the click runs.
• Two click sounds: Classic and Beep.

CAST IT
Send the beat to the room: cast to a TV and the click plays there, with beat dots, flash and your skin on the big screen, while the phone stays the remote. Cast to a speaker and it simply clicks, loud enough for band practice. The click plays while Baton is on screen, and keeps going on your TV or speaker when you cast. Walk away and an idle cast tidies itself up after a few minutes.

BATON PRO, THE TRAINING ROOM
• Speed trainer: ramps the tempo up in steps, bar by bar, while you play.
• Gap trainer: drops the click out for bars at a time; the beat dots keep moving so you can check your internal clock.
• Polyrhythms: two voices against each other, 3:2, 4:3 and beyond.
• Setlists: save tempo, meter, subdivision and sound per song, then step through the gig.
• Six more click sounds: Woodblock, Sticks, Cowbell, Clave, Hi-hat, Marimba.
• Six more skins: Ivory, Brass, Velvet, Neon, Graphite, Glacier (Baton ships in Mahogany).

CALM ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE
• No ads · No accounts · No subscriptions
• Works offline: everything ships inside the app.
• Baton uses the network for the store's billing for the one-time purchase, and for casting to your TV or speaker if you use it.

PAY ONCE, OWN IT
Baton is complete without paying: every tempo, every time signature, every subdivision, the accents, the visuals, tap tempo and casting. Baton Pro is a single one-time purchase that unlocks the trainers, polyrhythms, setlists and every extra skin and click sound, including the ones we add later. Pay once, own it forever, and no subscription, ever.

From Zone7 Studios, maker of Ethereal, Brume, Sylph, Lore and Slate.

What’s new

- Minor updates & bug fixes