A metronome that allows the entry of custom rhythms.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2019-10-27.
This app may no longer be actively maintained.
About Rhythmic Metronome
Rhythmic Metronome is a music & audio app developed by Robert R. Enderlein.
Download Statistics
Rhythmic Metronome has been downloaded 90 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 38 times.
User Ratings
Rhythmic Metronome is rated 4.57 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 400 ratings.
App Information
Rhythmic Metronome is FREE to download. The APK download size is 322.50 kB. The latest version available is 1.1. The last update was on October 27, 2019.
Technical Requirements
Rhythmic Metronome requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2014.
Description
This ad-free metronome allows the entry of custom rhythms to help musicians play in time when playing songs with complex rhythms. Rhythms can be made up of whole notes down to sixteenth notes (including dotted notes, triplets, and ties) and rests of similar duration. Time signatures can be specified to accentuate the clicks on the downbeat and slightly accentuate every second beat (or third beat in e.g., 6/8 time).
The tempo can be entered with a keyboard, selected among a drop-down list of Italian tempo markings, or adjusted with buttons.
The rhythm and tempo can be saved in the application's memory. The rhythm can also be copied to and pasted from the clipboard. Go to the import/export screen (accessed through the big "floppy disc" button icon) for this.
This metronome is audio-only and does not provide "visual clicks".
An advanced entry mode (reached by clicking on the "keyboard" icon on the keyboard) allows for the entry of notes, rests and time signatures of arbitrary duration. E.g.,: Enter "n1/32" for a thirty-second note, "n3/64" for a dotted thirty-second note, "n1/7" for a septuplet (seven notes in the time of one); "r1/64" for a sixty-fourth rest; "t7/4" for a 7-over-4 time signature. It is also possible to group notes with parenthesis. Individual notes and rests and groups can be played multiple times by appending an asterisk and a number. E.g.,: "(n1/2n1/4*2)*3" would play three times: half-note, quater-note, quater-note.
Copyright 2014, IBM Corp. Copyright 2018, Robert R. Enderlein.
---- Known bugs:
The rhythm entry field does not allow moving the cursor by tapping, making selections, or copy/pasting. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move. Use the import/export screen (accessed through the big "floppy disc" button icon) to copy or paste.
If the application sleeps for too long, the rhythm entry might be replaced by "x". I suggest you save your rhythms often, and reload them if that happens.
---- Source code is available at:
https://github.com/robertre2/ch.e7n.metronome
---- Attributions:
The metronome click soundtrack is from soundbible.com "Metronome", recorded by Mike Koenig, license: Creative commons attribution 3.0.
The musical note images where generated with Lilypond (www.lilypond.org).
Some of the code was based on Periklis Ntanasis's BeatKeeper (https://github.com/MasterEx/BeatKeeper). License: UNLICENSE.
Some of the code was based on Maarten Pennings's tutorial for creating a custom keyboard (http://www.fampennings.nl/maarten/android/09keyboard/index.htm). Licensed under Apache License 2.0.
The Italian tempo markings where taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo#Italian_tempo_markings) under an Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
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It has lots of options far beyond a usual metronome app, but needs experimentation doing that. A dedicated webpage and examples would be a "nice to have". I wonder if sound is used from sound files or generated by the app itself? I would like to edit the sound/pitch of ticks, or just chose plain ticks without any downbeat and have an option for setting the volume. How accurate in time are the ticks that are produced?
★★★★★NasiDAfilly· Jul 27, 2019
I am so grateful for this app. It really helped me practice for my band auditions when the rhythms were confusing, and it was summer so my band director wasn't there to help me. It's really useful and easy to use. Again, I am so grateful this exists lol.
★★★★★Emily Nelson· Apr 3, 2019
I have rummaged through every other rhythm app and couldn't find one as good as this.
★★★★★D H· Dec 10, 2020
Exceptional way to improve subdivisions. Would be better with added time signatures and maybe faster bpm options but as is it is the best metronome app out there by far.
★☆☆☆☆Doug Toland· Jun 11, 2021
Will not rotate correctly on Chromebook
★☆☆☆☆Szczepan Hołyszewski· Feb 16, 2020
Downvoted with vengeance for LYING outright in the first sentence. This metronome does NOT let you enter custom rhythms. There is a fixed set of allowed time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8. "Fixed set of choices" is the DIRECT, POLAR OPPOSITE of "custom".
★☆☆☆☆Dan Lo Fat· May 23, 2019
Nobody knows with TNR drawers on the number keypad, and you don't have instructions anywhere. No settings for accents or anything like that no settings for different sounds. At least make it so that the app comes back with the previously loaded hatter, so I don't have to keep loading it every time we go back into the app
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