Hey Ben, Its funny, but since I mentioned it I found a metronome that works much better than MetroGnome, which would quite often skip beats or play unevenly. The new one is called Dr. Betotte. You can find it here: http://homepage.mac.com/seishu/s's_works/ Has a better GUI and the developer is actually alive! :-) Yeah, I guess its just a GUI thing, but it seems like a drag to have to open up the whole drum program just for a metronome. I am a flute player and do hours of scales and patterns, sometimes moving the tempo up incrementally. Simple is good. I have written to the developer of Dr. Betotte about a couple of features I've been craving, and I'll tell you too: 1) The ability to create complex time signatures. I've been playing some Eastern European melodies that have time signatures like 2+2+3/8, 3+3+2+2/8, etc. I can easily do this in DB, but it would be nice to have a metronome that would handle it. 2) A friend of mine used to have this great thing called a Trinome. It was an electric metronome that had three different click sounds. For anu given period, say 3 seconds, you could subdivide in three different ways, thus being able to hear and internalize a steady complex polyrhythm like 3/4/5 or 4/5/7. Very cool. This can be done with DB, but you have to figure out what number goes into all three, create bars with the appropriate subdivisions, etc, It would be great to just be able to click "Polyrhythm" and then choose your subdivisions. I'm a polyrhythm geek, as you can tell. Let me know if this is at all interesting. The Dr. Betotte guy may or may not be interested in these developments, so if I can keep chewing your ear, great! Cheers, Ryk A. Groetchen windrag@earthlink.net On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 11:11 AM, Ben Kennedy wrote:
On 25 5 2003 at 3:06 pm -0400, Ryk Groetchen wrote:
Any chance you'd be interested in putting one together with what you've learned from Doggiebox?
Of the apps listed on VT, MetroGnome seems the most reliable/best features, but am not able to get a response from the developer about updates/bug fixes/new features. You've been so approachable, I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Hey Ryk,
I've just downloaded and am playing with MetroGnome. Funky little app! I have to say, before I opened it I was wondering to myself what good a separate metronome app is, if all you need is a beat at a given bpm (just sketch out a bar in doggiebox and loop it). However, the interface is cool and I dig what it allows you to do (experiment with different meters, accenting and subdivisions etc) which would be useful when working out an idea.
So what are your gripes about MG, and what bugs/features do you have in mind? I'd certainly be open hacking up a bigger and badder mentronome if it would be of use to several people :)
-ben
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