2233 SintraWorks has released Metron 1.3, an update to their professional digital metronome for iPhone and iPod Touch. The brainchild of a classically trained musician, Metron aids in the practice of runs, excerpts and complete compositions. Featuring an intuitive front panel, you can launch and start practicing instantly, while an organized back panel provides access to powerful extra features.

In addition to the usual single and multiple beat ticks of digital metronomes, Metron offers complex time signatures with beat grouping and dynamic accellerando and ritardando through a high-precision playback engine. A bar based sequencer offers detailed control over tempo changes. Additionally, Metron incorporates a tuner that can be calibrated to cent level.

New in version 1.3:
* Multi-bar sequences can be navigated (forward, rewind and rewind to start)
* An ample collection of percussive beat sounds has been added. (Snare, high-hats, bongo's, etc.)
* Silence as a pulse sound option was also added
* Beat sounds are played back when selecting them in the preference settings
* It is now possible to specify a note duration upon which to base a bar's tempo (Example: you can set a dotted quarter as the base for the tempo of a 6/8 bar)
* Sequences, bars and time signatures can now be created without needing to enter edit mode
* Sequences can now be backed up and shared with other Metron users, through a web-browser interface
* Some cosmetic changes to the front panel, to account for the new functionality
* Various bug fixes

Features in Detail

Metronome:
* Portrait and landscape mode
* Tempo from 10 to 400 Beats Per Minute (nominally, effectively between 2.5 and 800 bpm)
* Accelerando and ritardando ("Variance")
* Specify a factor between one quarter (0.25) and double (2.0) the current tempo (Useful when practicing complex sequences)
* Tap the tap pad to set the tempo
* Visual beat feedback in addition to clear and crisp audio pulses
* Accuracy: -0ms/ 3ms (0.003 sec)
* Locked screen proof

Sequencer:
* Create your own library with any number of sequences. A set with the most commonly used time signatures is included by default
* Create sequences with any number of bars
* Each sequence can set a countdown, a start tempo, a variance and whether the metronome stops at the end of the sequence or repeats the sequence from the beginning
* Each bar consists of one or more time signatures and can set a tempo and a variance starting on any beat. A bar can be set to play up to a 110 times
* A time signature can have between 1 and 64 beats over a dotted or undotted denominator (examples: 7/4, 2/8., 9/32, 1/2., 3/1)
* A time signature can be subdivided into beat groups. Grouping beats affects metronome playback. (Have accents on any beat you wish.)
* Mix bars of different meters and tempi at will, and interpolate between tempi between any two points in a score

Tuner (Pitch Pipe):
* Plays any pitch from octave 0 to octave 8
* Reference pitch: A4 = 440Hz
* Adjustable per Hertz or per cent level
* Choice of note names: C D E...etc, Do Re Mi...etc.

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch
* iPhone OS X 3.0 later

Metron 1.3 is available at the iTunes App Store for $1.99 (USD) in the Music category.

SintraWorks:
http://sintraworks.com/

Metron 1.3:
http://sintraworks.com/index.php/sintraworks/metron_home/

Purchase and Download:
http://itunes.com/apps/metron

Screenshot:
http://sintraworks.com/images/metron/metron_portrait.png

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