Preview of the new piano booster metronome build.

[Louis B.]

The metronome is something that has been missing for some time. This is a work in progress release and there is no UI yet. I have created two possible metronome patterns: woodblock and metronome clicks and there is also a ballad type drum beat.

For the downloads please see this link PianoBooster Metronome preview release

To change the metronome either copy one of the existing metronome patterns on top of default patten or by editing the metronome patten file. Pease read the instructions here.

Please give your feedback especially what the drum instruments you prefer for the metronome. I would also like help choosing a suitable metronome icon for the PB toolbar.

There are also some possible classical piano pieces that I am considering  including with PB. please see PossibleBoosterMusic.zip on the above download link.

[Marc van der Peet]

Great will test it later this week.

[Marc van der Peet]

Hi @louis,

Tested it out. Metronome seems to work fine. Great job. However, have a bit of a problem when I try to change the sound. On a mac this:

open ~/.config/PianoBooster/metronome-patterns/Default.txt

Do not open a file. Any idea on what I could do wrong?

Are you open to other improvement ideas? Some ideas I had:

- Change speed -> bpm instead of faster / slower.
- Progress bar like a percentage (just like playground sessions).

Let me know if you need me to elaborate.

Cheers,
Marc

[Louis B.]

Ha I could not find where it had put that pesky file either. i had to printout a debug statement to find it. It is in:

 ~/Library/Preferences/PianoBooster/metronome-patterns/Default.txt

Regarding the BPM please see this post.

https://github.com/pianobooster/PianoBooster/issues/70

This is the screen shot for the proposed UI for the metronome.



the source file is called GuiMetronomeDialog.ui in the wip/metronome branch.  

I could display the starting BPM of the pieces and have two linked input fields for the percentage speed or the PBM and changing one field changes the other field. The actually internal way of adjusting the speed should always be in percentage speed. See the post above for the reason why.

Also just for testing the the volume to the right of the hands is used to adjust the metronome volume but it is not working correctly yet.

My thought on the default metronome sounds would be to use the the wood block sounds but I am not happy with the first beat sound. I don't know if the metronome bell is better with the wood block?

[Marc van der Peet]

Great thanks! Will look at it.