Metronome
Any meter, any accent pattern, any tempo curve.
A metronome for real music
Most metronome apps assume 4/4 at a steady tempo with a click on every beat. Real music is not like that. Calcophony's metronome handles asymmetric meters (5/8, 7/8, the 3+2+2 groupings of Balkan music), per-beat accent customization, subdivisions beneath the main pulse, and gradual tempo changes over a specified number of bars.
Features
- Any time signature — arbitrary numerator and denominator, including compound and asymmetric meters.
- Accent patterns — mark individual beats as accented, normal, soft, or silent. Group 7/8 as 2+2+3 by accenting beats 1, 3, and 5.
- Subdivisions — eighths, triplets, or sixteenths underneath the main pulse, at lower volume.
- Tempo ramps — go from 80 to 120 BPM linearly over 16 bars. Useful for accelerando practice and graduated tempo studies.
- Count-in — off, one bar, or two bars.
- Sound sets — multiple click timbres to match context (wood, electronic, acoustic).
- Per-beat volume — balance individual beats, not just accented versus unaccented.
- Master volume — independent of per-beat volumes.
Who this is for
Jazz players working through a tune in 7/4. Classical students building up to an accelerando passage at pace. Drummers learning to feel an asymmetric groove without the internal count collapsing. Teachers setting exercises that need a specific accent pattern. Composers auditioning how a metric modulation reads against a click before committing it to a part. For audible rhythmic subdivisions inside a single pulse (e.g. a 7:4 tuplet of sixteenths), use Rhythm & Subdivision instead.