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Some Ideas to fine tune the Metronome
#1
I been using the metronome fairly steady for the last three months and I would like to suggest a few small improvements which would be helpful.

1- Volume

I run Pianoteq along with Mobilesheets on my windows 11 machine (Asio4all sound driver for Pianoteq, windows drivers for Mobilesheets)  and there is a substantial volume mismatch. Windows 11 has a a app volume mixer to turn down Mobilesheets, but it forgets the setting as soon as Mobilesheets is closed. For  the windows version of Mobilesheets, it would be nice if I could set maximum volume (about 25% in my case) in the options area, and then have the volume slider scale to that volume.

2  Beat subdivisions sound

Beat subdivisions play a different sound then the Fx beat, and while this has lots of  merit, (e.g., up beat, down beat) it would be nice to have a switch so the subdivisions will play the same sound as the beat. I often use double timings just to introduce a "think beat" into the practice, and I find a continuous FX sound better.

3 Types of beat subdivisions

I looks like it would be pretty easy to add swing beat subdivisions to metronome.  Instead of eights occurring at {0,500} out of 1000, a triplet swing of {0,667} would be helpful, as well as a slightly slower {0,617} Fibonacci (golden ratio) swing and a slow swing of {0, 559}.

Since asymmetrical beat timings like the swings listed above or waltz sways from 3/4 time are nonexistent on traditional metronomes,  I am not sure you would want to diverge from the norm. Maybe other people can chime in on whether they would find them useful?
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#2
Well, if we're asking for metronome beats, I'll piggy-back on this to request to ask for uneven rhythms like 5, 7 or 9 beats in a measure, but I'd like to hear the pulses, but not all the beats, so for 
5: 2/3 or 3/2
7: 3/2/2 or 2/2/3
9: 3/2/2/2 or 2/2/2/3 or 2/3/2/2
These all occur in Greek, Turkish and Balkan music.

I don't actually expect you to do this, as it's pretty complex for an app that is not primarily a metronome. Soundbrenner does this, but it's an external app, takes too long to find ones I set and I can't save a rhythm and tempo combo for enough individual tunes.
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Wendy Cutler
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