Metronome
Custom meters, accent patterns, and built-in tempo ramps.
A metronome for real music
Most metronome apps assume 4/4 at a steady tempo with a click on every beat. Real music rarely works that way. Calcophony's metronome handles asymmetric meters such as 5/8 and 7/8 (including 3+2+2 and similar groupings), per-beat accent customization, subdivisions beneath the main pulse, and gradual tempo changes over a specified number of bars.
Features
- Custom time signatures: numerator up to 32 with standard beat-unit denominators, including compound and asymmetric meters.
- Accent patterns: mark individual beats as accented, normal, 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: move linearly from 80 to 120 BPM over 16 bars, or any other pair of tempos. 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
The metronome is built for the moments when a basic click falls short: a jazz player working through a tune in 7/4, a classical student building up to an accelerando passage at pace, a drummer learning to feel an asymmetric groove without the internal count collapsing, a teacher setting exercises that need a specific accent pattern, or a composer auditioning how a metric modulation reads against a click before committing it to a part. For audible rhythmic subdivisions inside a single pulse (for example a 7:4 tuplet of sixteenths), use Rhythm & Subdivision instead.