Metron (Professional Metronome)

HIGHLIGHTS

The Metron (Professional Metronome) is now available for $2.99 for both iPhone and iPad owners.The application is supporting English language. It weighs in at only 8.0 MB to download. It is highly advisable to have the latest app version installed so that you don`t miss out on the fresh new features and improvements. The current app version 2.6.1 has been released on 2014-11-18. For ensuring consistency with the device you should take into account the following app compatibility information: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Bottom Line: For more information about Metron (Professional Metronome) check developer Antonio Nunes`s website : http://sintraworks.com/index.php/sintraworks/metron_home/

Extensive tutorials don t seem to exist App crashes every few times you interact with it Do not recommend     Waste of money JeremyC76

This app is great for programming tempo changes accelerandos ritardandos and other tempi modifications I made a sequence for every rehearsal section Wonderful for consistent practice Little buggy at times but if your a music professional this is a MUST HAVE                     Great App for the Marching Arts dj-jazzynimms

This 5 app needs to look the part We all have shiny beautiful devices and I for one actually care how the app looks I use this app a lot and it would help to have something nice to look at The features are great but it s kind of a downer that this app looks very D I Y and unprofessional             PLEASE IMPROVE UPDATE GRAPHICS Palikat

Great app to have on the phone No need to carry a separate metronome                     Great app StringBasSix

I love that it goes down to 1bpm Very flexible love it                     My favorite metronome richbajo

The app keeps crashing every time I try to use it There s nothing to review or say about it because I can t use it even though I paid for it     Crash and Burn thompson_0920

I love it It s got the right pitch and everything I use it everyday for practice                     Great Violinobsessed

This app is amazing Using the custom function I was able to put In a score for a ridiculously complex work add accelerandos and ritards As a professional musician I highly recommend it                     Amazing jptunes01

You won t find a better product on the App store Stop looking and download the product Works flawlessly                     Best Metronome Ever Tobyj422

Simply the best metronome I could find It s very loud and it s incredibly easy to control and understand It has more features than I ll ever need but I ll take that over missing features any day                     The best Megalodon99

The app works exactly as I need it to I love all the functions it has and because I take my iPod everywhere I always have it to help me practice now even in my lessons with my teacher who also loves the app                     Exactly what I wanted Silme7

It so good it makes my butt tingle                     Dis Met seanvanr

The best metronome I ve used It s capable of delivering ANY slow steady pulse                     Total adaption to the score Davidirving19

I enjoy the many options for different patterns I use this fort High School drumline It s been very effective                     Excellent app Bxcpeder

Fantastic app Highly recommend this metronome to any musician worth every penny                     Fantastic LUK3N3SS

Perfect if you want lots of features and control over them I m the kind of guy who wants even more features than this has so I hope the updates keep adding them If you prefer simplicity this ain t your metronome An analogy it s the metronome equivalent of Finale notation software                     The right metronome for me benmcdmusic

I was looking for a metronome that would do auto advancing of tempo and this fit the bill It can do really complex things with custom beats ala a sequencer if you re practicing a difficult piece of music with various meters and tempos My needs are not that complex The biggest thing this app needs is a UI overhaul The main screen tap targets are very tiny and there is no reason they need to be Apple HIG suggests a minimum 44x44 tap target and the buttons are smaller than that They should be as large as possible and possibly have some mechanism for advancing more than a single bpm for a button press tap and hold for instance The Play Pause button should be the largest button on the screen And how about implementing some gesture recognition A tap anywhere not otherwise intercepted by a target could be used for play pause Swipe up down could raise lower the current tempo by some fixed amount determined by a setting Lastly I ve noticed some bugginess with the beat indicators not functioning correctly with variance being set and or adjusting the tempo and or variance on the fly as it s playing The indicators get lost and don t animate correctly                 Great tool needs UI improvements typo_kign

I bought this app because its very clean and every beat is in that same time like witohut laggs wchich are in free metrnoms                     Metron Smyku26

Great capability but has some bugs Settings keeps changing on their own Tap feature is flakey Not very intuitive in setting up I d give it a 5 for capability for the price if not for the bugs             Mwm11 Mwm11

Awkward app Not intuitive Worst problem is it crashes half the time I try to add a new sequence iOS 5 0 1 iPhone 4s         Not together Bopbud

I searched high and low to find this app I wanted to re create the metronome sequence that Virgil Donato used in his Video Power Drumming It s an 7 bar sequence preceeded by an 8 count and the tempo bumps up from 100bpm to 200bpm in increments of twenty and repeats itself starting from the 8 count again until you re done with several single stroke variations It s a killer workout for your chops but all of the Virgil magic distracts you and or discourages you and makes you lose count and you miss the tempo changes So i wanted to emulate it so all i have to worry about is me during the excercises So mission accomplished and it s perfect and totally customizeable It s too much though if you are just wanting a steady pulse or just to work on one time signature I have 4 other Metronome apps and they all center on some aspect of timekeeping that the others don t This is an awesome addition to my toolkit and I can t wait to dig deeper into it later PROBLEM the video clips on the website are out dated I initially purchased this based on the demo online only to discover that the interface has changed It took me another 45 minutes to do what I wanted via trial and error I don t sight read music but I do have an idea about meters and subdivisions A begginer or a total score illiterate will get frustrated and give this app bad reviews as you have probably already read a few C mon guys it says professional metronome in the title If you want a little clik tink tink tink then just buy the freebee ones I ll give it 5 stars when they update the web videos I really think that is probably whey some people are disgruntled about it All the reivews are from 2009 and 2010 and are reviewing 2 0 or 2 1 This version is 2 5 2 Just get up to date and it ll be cool                 For Intermediate or Advanced musicians doublekix338

I bought this for accelerando capabilities and it s more than delivered Also the mixed meter stuff is EASY to figure out not sure what everyone else s deal is My only problem is that this is ergonomically tricky to use on the fly the controls are so small that if you want to flip back to a slow tempo if you want to repeatedly practice an accelerando for example it takes several seconds to find an exact tempo that s more than 4 bpm away If you attempt to slide the control with your finger instead of using the 1 or 1 buttons you ll overshoot by 20 clicks almost always Even expanded on the iPad it s not much better I d still buy this app for accel and multi meter but I hope the interface gets updated to be more ergonomic Thanks             A ok Mixophrygian

A good versatile metronome It a bit of time to figure it out but it is not a simple single time metronome It is complex but worthwhile to learn I am happy with it and use it often                 Good solid metronome Bluteau

Especially now that it does background metronome I m almost embarrassed to say I only use the app to pace my cadence on my exercise bike and I use it because my regular metronome drives everyone crazy when it tick rocks away My family would probably rate this 5 stars or more                 Good app marvmax

Nigh impossible to configure the way I want it E g can t figure out WHY those stupid dot beats are inserted at the end of each bar phrase Let alone HOW to get them the heck out of there     Awkward as All Get Out Chuck Pelto

This metronome has a lot of great features The ability to create a tempo map for a whole song with tempo time changes is very useful You can also save your tempo change sequences apply a tempo scaling factor to the whole piece and have the metronome speed up or slow down slightly each time through amongst other useful features It was just a little counterintuitive how to setup a sequence and setlist but it makes good sense when you get going Overall this metronome has horsepower Money well spent                     Excellent with slight learning curve amun3

I have played drums and guitar for seventeen years or so Regardless of what my focus has been on musically I have been a metronome fanatic After a bit of a learning curve I was able to program looping bar patterns with periodic tempo increases for the eight exercises in the Rudimental Cookbook As soon as you get a handle on this app the applications are endless Please keep this app up to date so I can continue practicing with it Very pleased                     Very Useful Justin Ford

It is very difficult to figure out how to get the app to work because the directions are impenetrable for starters After messing around with it for a couple weeks here and there I was finally able to program a 6 4 5 4 pattern into the thing Or so I thought As I pressed the play button the screen went blank and the app froze Now I tap on the app I get a blank metron screen and then back to the home screen after a few seconds I wrote the company two weeks ago and they did not respond I m deleting the app after I finish this review I would recommend frozen ape tempo 2 It will do mixed meters and is reasonably easy to figure out how to use     Don t buy this app Allston J

It s really comprehensive However it has no tap to tempo app in it I wish it went higher though 220 is way too slow It would be nice to have it go up to at least 500                 Pretty good manamongmen

I hate this app I m sitting here feeling like I have to learn a new programming language All I want to do is set up a bar of beats with audible subdivisions but it beats me how to do it even after consulting the user guide I definitely should have chosen the other app I was considering and now will have effectively paid more for once I buy it as I will never use this present app     As unintuitive as can be Mikeyboards

Where do I start this metronome leaves so little to wish for You can tap along to music to find out its tempo use the tap pad which is visible in portrait mode at the bottom center with the little happy man SintraWorks logo in it or simply tap a tempo to set the metronome tempo Not sure why the previous commentator did not find it since it is so obviously there and listed as a feature right here in the iTunes app entry Simple traditional practicing is as easy as with any well designed metronome but you get so much more if you need greater flexibility The control over ways to vary beat speed and beat patterns rhythm is virtually endless There is a large array of controls but efficiently implemented and laid out Since the default values are so well chosen you only need to change those controls that are appropriate for the task at hand And if in spite of the intuitive interface anything is unclear there is even an integrated user guide behind the About tab to dispel any remaining doubts Many practical adjustments can be made in an instant but if you want you can spend some time essentially creating your own well compositions I could list so much of what s possible but quite a few of the previous commentators have already touched on the possibilities so I ll keep it very short if you want near absolute control over your metronome this is it I m so chuffed a developer rethought metronome design from the musician s perspective so we can wield all that power in a way that makes musical sense I really have only one feature on my wish list for Metron setlists but I ve been told that is already in the works And in a way very basic setlist behaviour is already available trough the list of sequences One last thing the developer proved to be very responsive and appears to enjoy direct feedback from customers                     Excellent Composer At Large

It s official With this app my iPhone has finally become my perfect music studio                     Wow tonywanggs

Could be cooler looking The icon makes it look like it s going o be a stylish but it really isn t The sequencing part is cool Great amount of time signature possibilities Would be nice if there were a way to tap the tempo you wanted I have another metronome app that you can do that in That other app also looks MUCH cooler Great for 99 cents                 Nice find Trumpetgeek1010

For everything you can do with this app it is easily worth a LOT more than a buck Try finding a machine in a store that does all this and see what you d pay This thing is AMAZING                     An Incredible Find mrdj24

This is an amazing start Being a percussionist and playing pieces with all sorts of mixed meters and 5 let 7 let things is grueling but this has definite potential to help with a few updates If there was an option to edit more than one beat at a time it would definitely help A LOT For example If I wanted to program it to play a quarter note five let over 4 quarter notes or 8 eighth notes I couldn t with the way it is now but if an update allowed me to do so it would MUCH appreciated Also perhaps an update that allows the metronome to play two voices as to outline whatever duration of notes you want as your downbeat plus the quarter note five let or whatever you re trying to play above it as to hear how it fits in with your desired down beat                 Great app Here are some ideas for possible updates SnareFlare

This is a great dr beat app for 99 This does so much Everything from mixed meter to color assignment for beats and even a pitch pipe Incredibly worth the buck                     Amazing app drummerEarl

I really didn t understand what was so unique about this app until I bought it and started playing with it It s not JUST a metronome with a dizzying array of options it s a fully programmable rhythm sequencer Got a song with changing rhythms and tempos that you d like to practice without having to stop to change your metronome settings This is your app You can program entire songs into the app with changing rhythms tempos accelerando and ritardando and play the entire song through with the metronome sequencer keeping the ever changing beat Sequences can be saved for later use Brilliant                     Wow a metronome AND fully programmable rhythm sequencer GnuUser

This metronome seperates itself from all the others by incorporating endless combinations of mixed meters and the capabilities of accelerandos Brilliant and reliable                     Definetly a must have drummadwid11

What can I say it does what it s supposed to do a visual might be nice Also please improve the pitch pipe                 Adequate Ryster22200

I am a professional musican and music teacher and I highly reccommend this ap I have tried every ap out there and this one s the best AND only a dollar                     Metron is the best metronome for iPhone emosensei

Everything you can ask for plus some for a dollar                     Great 05sss95

As any professional classical musician knows a metronome is an every day tool Before this app I was unable to find a stable software metronome The others always have a hiccup or some other disturbance to the beat that makes them practically unusable Not this one this is as stable as your Dr Beat In fact I am away on a concert trip rigjt now and this is the first time i left my metronome at home This app goes way beyond basic functions to boot You can even program this for changing meters Finally I can practice music that changes from all kinds of meters with different beat lengths with a metrome This was designed by a pro musician and it shows The beep sound is loud and clear The beat range is huge There is even a pitch pipe One request I have is to be able to change tempos in traditional increments 120 126 132 etc While is nice to have the freedom to adjust in single increments I do a lot of practice with the regular numbers For a first release this has the care and polish that all develpers should be pitting into their work Bravo                     The best metrnome app you can get John Goyeau