Pipers Metronome

Avoir Technology

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About this app

The Piper's Metronome™ is easy-to-use. Achieve greater control and precision with your playing with this one-of-a-kind, totally intuitive metronome packed with powerful tools built all styles of bagpipe music. The easy-to-follow, ring-style display makes playing along easy and fun.

Smart Presets make it quick to get started with easy-to-understand, pre-programmed settings for every type of pipe tune and one-tap speed levels tailored for every tune type. Customize everything for your own personal look and feel.

Learn and master the expression of your tunes with the powerful Pulsing and Rhythm settings. These ground-breaking tools allow you to adjust and customize the pulsing, pointing, beat-emphasis, and rhythmic stress to achieve the perfect feel for pipe style tunes, such as 2/4 marches, strathspeys, reels and more.

Build, save and share custom sets. It’s easy to create sets for MSRs, Medleys, or any other combination of tunes with introductions, including pipe band style attacks. Add your tunes and customize the transitions with time signature and tempo changes, and any number of bars or beats. Save all of your sets and share with friends and bandmates in a single click.

It's easy and quick to get started:

• Press the button to choose your tune type (default is 4/4 March).
• Set your tempo quickly using one of these ways:
• Use the tempo adjustment slider. Make finer adjustments using the + and - buttons.
• Tap in your desired tempo using the Tap button.
• Choose a pre-set speed from the Level button (1: slowest, 5 is fastest)
• Tap the Rhythm button to add additional rhythmic patterns.
• Choose your Pulsing level to enhance your musical expression.
• Press the play button. Enjoy!

The Piper's Metronome™ is a powerful and full-featured metronome that will help you achieve better musicality and control. Try it out for free and then upgrade to the paid version to unleash all the super amazing features, including creating custom tune sets like MSRs and Medleys and sharing them with your friends.

Ratings and reviews

I am having some vision issues in my old age and feel that slightly larger numbers and fonts on the main screen would make the controls more visible. Other than this, this is a pretty fine metronome. The presets for pipers are hugely helpful when learning a new tune from scratch, and are great for finding and solving issues in your rhythm control along the way.

For the price of a chanter reed, I just downloaded the best metronome I've ever used. VG for beginners and experts, bands and soloists. Creating a click track for a band set is easy, as all our standard tune formats are already programmed into the app. You can pinpoint specific measures and beats of a click track easily as well as quickly altering the tempi. The pulse function for solo-style 2/4 marches and strathspeys is huge. I've never seen this feature in another metronome. Thanks!

I would love to give this app 5 stars, but it's nearly impossible to set the tempo! You have a slider that jumps 10bpm every time you lift your finger, or a +/- that goes by 1/3 bpm. The Tap feature seems to work OK, but as a new piper, I need to dial it in. Also, the bpm numbers are so small my eyes can't read them. If the tempo interface were improved, I'd happily pay the $20 they nag you for. Suggestion: make the slider 3x as big, have it slide in 5bpm increments, use +/- for single bpm.

What's new

Some minor bug fixes, make the account creation optional, and update for recent Android versions.