Very Fine Tool

Fabulous app!

The Inspector mode is a really powerful and wonderful new tool.

The metronome is boundlessly customizable - to the point of being almost a full-fledged sequencer/drum machine. Includes “rhythm training” features, like cutting out for x measures and coming back, or programmed speed-up practice sessions (has timer but doesn’t calculate time of practice session automatically)
Odd time signatures, polyrhythms, and swing are no problem for this app. Features stochastic fill beats that you can dim as another way to “build rhythm security."

The inspector mode is the best part of the app though. It almost turns my drumming practice into a video game, and i’ve only used it for a day. Now for every beat, I can instantly how close I was to the metronome click, and whether i was ahead or behind. This could be used even beyond musical practice for mindfulness practice in theraputic applications.

I look forward to the inspector mode being improved and added to… I would like to see better live feedback mechanisms. As it is, there are red dashed lines appearing at the peaks in your the waveform against the grid of the metronome. There is also a “last peak” number in the upper right which tells you how close your last beat was to the metronome click - as a percentage of the duration of the beat. It would be nice to have more color-coded instant feedback whehn you’re playing, to make practicing even more like a fun video game (maybe even rewarding harp sounds - or pretty droning string harmonies start to play when you’re on a role of good timing) . Also, an explanation of “Peak Average” (is it really a true average? More useful would be an average of the absolute values, or an RMS). Finally, to be able to set the inspector to milliseconds instead of percentages as an option. But the point of this review is really, WOW, and THANK YOU, and Nice Job. This is a quite a fine app. Virtually no bugs. Runs great on my old machine. Great GUI. Good Help page on the internet. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to practice a lot and imbue their inner worlds with synchronicity.

Darbukarama about Metronomics HD, v1.5.1