Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: metronomiconic
Version: 0.0.2
Summary: The music learner's metronome with double/half tempo feature
Home-page: http://github.com/trueneu/metronomiconic
Author: trueneu
Author-email: true.neu@gmail.com
License: MIT
Download-URL: https://github.com/trueneu/metronomiconic/archive/v0.0.2.zip
Description: Metronomiconic
        ==============
        
        Metronome which does all you'd expect from a metronome, and has a unique
        double/half tempo feature! An iconic metronome.
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        ``pip install metronomiconic``
        
        It requires python3+ to run.
        
        Do you know Victor Wooten?
        --------------------------
        
        In one of his videos on working with metronome, this incredible musician
        showed an exercise to build one's rhythm feel: you play a groove/a
        phrase to a comfortable click tempo, say 120 bpm. Then, when you feel
        you're in the pocket, you drop the tempo 2 times, but play the same. You
        just end up with less clicks to hear. When you're confident you've
        caught the pulse, you drop it once again. In the end, you're playing the
        same fast groove in 120 bpm, supported by only 1 click per 2 or even 4
        bars. Isn't that an incredible exercise?
        
        But here's the problem: when practicing, you need to stop and adjust
        your metronome tempo carefully for a few seconds, effectively losing the
        pocket and feel. With ``metronomiconic`` it only takes one keypress.
        
        Please read further.
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        Install it.
        
        Create a directory under your home directory called ``.metronomiconic``.
        Place there two or three sound files (``bar.wav``, ``beat.wav``,
        ``division.wav`` which can be omitted, and if it is, you will be unable
        to hear subdivision notes).
        
        A collection of default click sounds from popular DAWs can be found
        `here <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1053122/metronome%20samples.zip>`__.
        The reason I do not include them in distribution in simple: they are not
        free, and the free ones I've heard... well I don't like them.
        
        You're ready to go. Type ``metronomic`` in your favorite terminal
        emulator.
        
        Press space bar to stop or start. Use arrow keys and arrow keys with
        shift to change tempo. Use digits, alt+up and alt+down to change time
        signature (1 to 9 for beat count and 1,2,4,8,16 for beat length are
        supported). Tempo is measured with quarter notes.
        
        Press p to stop/start play subdivisions. Press t, q or s to switch
        triplet, quintuplet or septuplet subdivision mode starting with the next
        bar (normally, every beat is subdivisioned in sixteenth notes).
        
        And now for the most cool part: doubling and halfing the tempo.
        
        Press u or d to double or half the tempo from the next bar.
        
        Notes
        -----
        
        I'm a learning bass player, and I couldn't get why I can't find a
        metronome that would do this half/double thing for me, so I had to come
        up with my own. The 'learning functions', as I call them, that include
        half/double and tri-, quintu- and septuplet modes work from the next bar
        played. All the other changes take place immediately.
        
        I've tested metronome's accuracy for a little while, but so far I can
        say it's pretty accurate, compared with a few hardware, DAW and online
        metronomes.
        
        Do not look in the code! It's very messy and unmaintainable, and there
        is at least one very dirty hack.
        
        Released under MIT license.
        
Platform: Posix; MacOS X
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Environment :: Console :: Curses
Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Other Audience
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia
