Metronome afractal
winget install --id=afractal.Metronome -e Highly performant, easy to use, minimalistic digital metronome desktop app
Metronome is a high-performance digital metronome designed for musicians seeking precision and simplicity. Built with Electron, this minimalistic desktop application offers a seamless experience for practicing and maintaining tempo accuracy.
Key Features:
- Real-time tempo adjustment from 24 BPM to over 200 BPM
- Support for common subdivisions including triplets, duplets, and quintuplets
- Overlay UI mode for use with other applications
- Dark theme support
Audience & Benefit: Ideal for musicians, composers, and producers who require accurate timing. Metronome provides a reliable tool to enhance practice sessions and performances.
Available via winget installation, the application is designed with a focus on functionality without unnecessary complexity.
README
Metronome
Features
- simple & intuitive designer
- ability to change the tempo fluently
- subdivisions support
- overlay ui
Changes
v1.0
- new overall design
- new titlebar design
- new subdivisions design
- components ui improvements
- logo design
- added dark theme styling
- enabled theming
- tempo input usability improvements
- stability improvements
- non-blocking timer implementation
- autoupdater support
- configure windows distro
- added licenses window (hidden)
v0.3
- easier tempo methods
- double click to reset tempo
- support 16th notes subdivisions
v0.2
- add multiple beat sounds
- improve sound engine logic
- implement tempo change
- play strong/weak beats (for 4/4)
- support subdivisions
- bpm input is editable
- added ableton clicks as the default
v0.1
- create initial ui design
- add build system
- add test suite
- initialize project
- add documentation
Documentation
Tempo range, from slowest to fastest:
| Italian | English | Number of beats per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Larghissimo | very, very slow | < 24 |
| Adagissimo | very slowly | ≈ 24 |
| Grave | very slow | 25 – 45 |
| Largo | broadly | 40 – 60 |
| Lento | slowly | 45 – 60 |
| Larghetto | rather broadly | 60 – 66 |
| Adagio | slowly with great expression | 66 – 76 |
| Adagietto | slower than andante | 70 – 80 |
| Andante | at a walking pace | 76 – 108 |
| Andantino | slightly faster than andante | 80 – 108 |
| Marcia moderato | moderately, in the manner of a march | 83 – 85 |
| Andante moderato | between andante and moderato | 92 – 112 |
| Moderato | at a moderate speed | 108 – 120 |
| Allegretto | moderately fast | 112 – 120 |
| Allegro moderato | close to, but not quite allegro | 116 – 120 |
| Allegro | fast, quickly, and bright | 120 – 156 |
| Vivace | lively and fast | 156 – 176 |
| Vivacissimo | very fast and lively | 172 – 176 |
| Allegrissimo | very fast | 172 – 176 |
| Presto | very, very fast | 168 – 200 |
| Prestissimo | even faster than presto | > 200 |
License
This product is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.
Made with :heart: by @afractally