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FS#4935 - Metronome options

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by good stuff (fattighjon) - Monday, 27 March 2006, 20:06 GMT+2
Last edited by Marc Guay (Marc_Guay) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 16:09 GMT+2
Task Type Feature Requests
Category Plugins
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Player Type All players
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Private No

Details

Hi
i think the metronome is great, and thought why not add some more functions, like using it as a guitar tuner? (using the built in mic in the h1xx)
how about an option for the metronome so the beat sounds a bit different on every 4th beat?

cheers
This task depends upon

Closed by  Björn Stenberg (zagor)
Friday, 12 December 2008, 16:09 GMT+2
Reason for closing:  Invalid
Additional comments about closing:  Closing all feature requests.
Comment by Joan (yannxou) - Thursday, 30 March 2006, 01:52 GMT+2
Hi, I agree totally. It would be nice to have lots of musician tools.
In the metronome I'd add the following options (so it can be used as commercial metronomes):
- beat (7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, triplets, ...)
- high-pitched sound on every beat
- Note playing (may be used for tuning): A,Bb,B,C,Db,D...
- Note octave
- Note calibration (default 440Hz)
- Optional visual effect on every beat (flash screen by changing background color or something like this so the tempo can be followed without listening)
- Simulated bouncing bar (like a real old metronome)

and this too:
- bypass/mute background music (useful for finding song tempos and tonalities)
Comment by Dominik (Lyke) - Sunday, 18 February 2007, 14:28 GMT+2
Oh, I agree with these points... I made some audio files for equal and meantone temperament as a temporary solution (see below).

But of much higher importance (and hopefully not such a great task!) is

- Optional visual effect on every beat (flash screen by changing background color or something like this so the tempo can be followed without listening)

(or just a flashing symbol) - this addendum would be great help for musicians.
   tuning forks.zip (158.3 KiB)
Comment by Nick (MadFerret) - Sunday, 10 June 2007, 13:08 GMT+2
On the subject of guitar tuner, would it be possible to sample from mic (acoustic) or line-in (electric) and then display the result like those guitar tuning programs on my PC i'm so fond of =)not sure what kind of processing power that kidn of thing takes up but I wouldnt have thought anything too amazing.
Comment by Luke Jolly (jollygamer321) - Thursday, 06 September 2007, 23:42 GMT+2
Hi, I totally agree that it would be could to have all those features but I was really wondering about the different sound every 4th (or more preferably on a selectable beat like Joan said. Sadly it looks like this feature hasn't taken must notice since this request has been around for over a year. It would be very useful to me if someone would add that feature.
Comment by Andrew Melville (AndrewMelville) - Wednesday, 09 January 2008, 14:35 GMT+2
I did some initial work on this sometime ago. It did work on my iRiver H320, and my iPod 5G 60Gb.

See here

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6255?histring=metronome

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