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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Extending the metronome pluginRe: Extending the metronome plugin
From: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum_at_orgis.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:46:51 +0200 Am Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:06:15 +0200 schrieb Al Le <al.le_at_gmx.de>: > Will it still be a metronome then? Or rather a beat machine? I.e. > another plugin. Well, my working title is "metronome2" right now and I'm working on a copy from the original one. I see the term "metronome" applicable to a device (application) that can play a pattern like "tick-tock-tock-tock" for 4/4 rhythm and "tick-tock-tock" for 3/4. Because that's what current hardware metronomes do. Well, actually, something like this is still called "metronome": http://www.thomann.de/de/tama_rw105_metronom.htm I had a cheap variant of that some time ago and it was fun playing with it as a drum machine in a sense, tuning in and out the various intermediate notes. Kind of overkill for a musician who just wants to keep time, though. The second point, being able to play tempo maps à la http://das.nasophon.de/klick/, could be argued to be more than a plain metronome. But actually, it is just an automated/programmed metronome. It still does tick-tock, not boom-crack;-) I see the point of adding it as a more complex variant in parallel to the current metronome (esp. since I intend to change the default sound to nicely annoying square wave, sounding similar to the electronic metronomes I know) ... though, what would be a good name, then? Alrighty then, Thomas PS: In the UISimulator, the metronome seems to struggle to keep time, similar to one of the worse ones I found for Android, where accurate timing is non-trivial.
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