Maestro

Best most natural way to display a metronome - for anyone that works with a conduct

This is an excellent app for both general use as a metronome, and to learn conducting patterns both as a musician and as a conductor. The visual indicator is the key to being able to tell which count of the bar you're at by sitting the iPhone in your peripheral vision. Stupid bars and flashing lights might keep a basic beat, but all require staring and focusing directly on some unusable animation to find which count it's up to. The only other visual cue that came close to this was a bouncing ball metronome. I'd love to see some set list functionality added to this, a bar counter, and maybe some alternate visualisations like bouncing the ball off the walls to maximise the visible size for group use.

I had already bought this app for my iPad and had to buy it again to get the watch version. The watch app does not support gestures, glances, complications, haptic feedback or the speaker. A stupid orange dot and not much more. So a waste of money.

The app store needs more music education style tools like this one. a cool idea! And so clear and simple. Thanks for notifying me of this app, I will use it well. I have a few groups I conduct and I even teach these conducting patterns to my year 7 classes. This could be something I suggest they buy! Two things, could you also have diagrams of the conducting patterns and even some music lists you recommend buyers of this app practise to? Keep an eye on my blog because I will defintely write a good review on this. Wrightstuffmusic.

This app is helping me follow the conductor ! I practice with it on my stand. Thanks

I really love this app...t’s very simple to use and do recommend. If I could make a small suggestion, it would be nice if I could cast the the graphic to my smart tv. It would make it easier for group to see.

Pros: - Conducts in 3 different kinds of styles with an option to reduce the pattern (as if in half-/cut-time). - Offers a variety of patterns that accommodate quarter-note patterns. Con: * Cannot use the eighth note for the beat. This means that, if you want to get a 7/8 pattern at 180bpm, you will have to settle for a 7/4 pattern that tops out at 120bpm in 7/8. That said, this is NOT a viable tool for practicing asymmetrical compound meters. If this changes, my review will change to 5 stars. The aforementioned feature could be extremely beneficial for visually keeping up with quick meters (which is something with which a lot of people struggle when moving from high school literature to collegiate literature). Furthermore, should this change occur, I will gladly use this all the time and recommend it to my peers/colleagues. But, for now, I’m afraid the tempo/meter limitations render this app inferior to other metronomic apps.

Hi, I purchased this to help me with my compositions and music notation. I learned that there’s no time signature to select. And Temple does not go higher than 240 bpm. there’s no way you can do conducting with 140 bpm in 7/8 time signature. i’m very disappointed.

Greetings developers! I was wondering if perhaps different styles could be implemented instead of just a weird looking ball. How about a small dot which is the same diameter as the line? Maybe a trailing path that fades option? Also a larger, more visible “start” “stop” button would be nice. Thank you so much, your work is greatly appreciated!

Too bad tempo is variable only by incrementing with a nudge button.