TrueMetronome Lite 4+
Mikhail Motyzhenkov
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
This metronome app is created by a musician for musicians. Almost all metronome apps boast about their accuracy, but users with sensitive hearing notice inaccurate beats all the time. It used to be impossible to create a perfectly accurate metronome on a mobile device. Despite the failure of other apps, perfect time is possible for TrueMetronome: its unique engine creates perfect beats with ABSOLUTE ZERO error. For this reason, TrueMetronome is most accurate metronome app on any mobile platform.
Sound quality is the second issue for software metronomes. Serious musicians prefer a natural sound filled with overtones, but all metronome apps play short synthetic samples (so that the first sound stops completely before the next begins). Thus, you hear an artificial, dead sound. Moreover, the identical samples playing at the same frequency can drive any man crazy! TrueMetronome solves this problem thoroughly: all sounds are recorded from real metronomes, a beat does not affect the gradual decay of its predecessors, and each beat's sound is a little different from the others. All this contributes to the natural sound which is easier on your ears.
Finally, an aesthetic, thoughtful interface is an important aspect of any application, and TrueMetronome pays particular attention to it. Creating an electronic metronome interface is simple, but TrueMetronome does not cut corners: it recreates the look and feel of a real mechanical metronome; every mark on the scale is labeled with a tempo mark, the deviation angle of the pendulum depends on the tempo, and the tempo is selected by dragging the weight.
You can adjust the tempo in 2 BPM (beats per minute) increments by dragging the digital weight. This restriction prevents a change of tempo from accidental touches, and when you need greater precision in the selection of the tempo, there are "+" and "-" buttons as well. On the lower part of the metronome, you can turn the bell on and off and select the number of beats per measure.
To start or to stop the beats, simply tap anywhere.
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Key features
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- Perfect beats with ZERO error
- Natural sound without duplicate samples
- Realistic look and feel with particular attention to comfortable usability
- Optional bell on the first beat of the measure
- Selection from all known meters: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
- Tap tempo function
- Skins
Lite version restrictions:
- maximum available tempo is 160 bpm
- skins are not available
What’s New
Version 3.11.5
Built with latest SDK
Ratings and Reviews
Brilliant
As a teacher, this is perfect for my students to download. During CV19 it’s a great app to help everyone learn to keep in time and it’s just like the real pyramid model you can buy with adjustable beats in the bar and speeds. I only wish there was an 8 in the speeds but for some reason, it skips that number. On occasions for slow practise, it’s useful to count 8 quavers in a bar as opposed to 4 crotchets.
Great concept, lacking somewhat in execution
Pretty basic. That isn't a bad thing in itself – a basic no-nonsense metronome app, overburdened with precisely zero unnecessary features, but it's a little lacking in execution:
*the tempo slider is oversensitive (requires fine movement of the thumb to set)
*it's pretty finicky to start and stop the metronome. I like the _idea_ of dragging the ticker to start it, but in practice it's easy to accidentally move the tempo slider instead, (because the "hitbox" is far too large and has no activation timer), which is then a pain to set again)
*the tempo cannot be adjusted when the metronome is already ticking (the +/- buttons needn't hide once it's got going)
So, with a bit if polish and QOL improvements, this app could be great. As it is right now, I'm likely to keep using one of the other more "digital" looking metronome apps that are just less of a fiddle to work with. When you're drilling something that you're focussing hard on, you don't want to be bothered by something fiddly to use. The ease of accidentally sliding the tempo when you go to start the metronome is probably the biggest issue there.
Does what is says it will do and worth the paid price
I’ve only used this to count BPM for exercise so can’t comment on full use for music practice - however it works perfectly.
A great feature is that it keeps running as a background task, so you can hear the beat while doing other things.
Don’t complain about “free apps”, you should only expect to get a feel for the app in the free version, enough to make you want to pay for the real one. I paid for the app - it’s cheaper than a real device and it’s more portable
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Information
- Provider
- Mikhail Motyzhenkov
- Size
- 27.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Mikhail Motyzhenkov
- Price
- Free