Practice Mode

[bigboipete]

There is another metronome app, Chubby Click, that has a really interesting feature for practice. It increases the speed after every nth bar starting from and up to a given BPM limit. You can set the following values:

Start tempo BPM End tempo BPM Duration: This is the number of bars, the tempo stays the same Step: How many BPMs will the tempo be increased after one "duration"

Maybe this feature is something to consider for your long-term plans.

[thetwom]

Thanks for the suggestion. I saw this feature and I guess it is useful for some people. But as so often it is hard to find a good way to integrate it neatly. You could introduce a completely new screen/tab for this as, I guess Chubby Click is doing. But this would more look like an addon. More questions which arise is if these settings should also be saved in the scenes? And how to display these there?

So a good concept would be needed to integrate it. And in the end, we don't need feature parity with other metronomes :-).

[bigboipete]

For me it's not at all about "feature parity". It's simply a great feature to practice patterns (at least for drummers), because that's what you usually do, you start at slow tempo and if you're able to play it, you speed up step by step.

Actually I haven't thought about storing these settings as well. I guess it wouldn't be crucial to me. It should certainly have its own screen due to slightly different controls.

[thetwom]

If it takes a bit of time to set up some thing, one deserves being able to save it. Implementing a prototype is quick, but integrating it into the workflow needs a good concept. So at least in short term this will not come :-(.

Lets keep this issue open and see if there are many people who need this :-)