AudioKit Hey Metronome

Too much useless screens before I can use the app.. too much animation that distracts

A metronome you wish were human, that is how cool this software is. This little device is large and ongoing with inspiration, in time signatures, and divisions of the note, as well as wallpapers accompanied by inspired timeless sayings. What are you waiting for? Believe me; it will help get you past the procrastination into your flow - that is why it is crafted to be so fun. Hey Metronome! Buy it now!

I really like the variety of drum sounds with this app…much more fun to play to a drum pattern than the click click click of a metronome. Voice control takes a little getting used to, but lets you keep your hands on your instrument, without breaking the flow of practice. Nice app.

A nice piece of kit. Well done, thank you!

A great idea well executed but on my XS Max, there doesn’t seem to be any way to exit the app … swiping up leaves it running in the background, whether you want that or not. Force Close works, of course, but not everyone knows about Force Close. Would be a 5 star app with an Exit/Quit button, or at least make it recognize Hey Metronome! Exit and Quit. Update: The Developer’s response I would characterize as a “workaround”, not a solution. Playing in the background is a useful feature to some people, which still leaves the “how do I close this thing?” issue. I would hope that a means to close the app other than Force Close (or disabling background play) will be added in a future update. Another Update: Just tried disabling the “play in background” option and it doesn’t fix the problem. Swiping up to close the app still leaves the app running, as can be seen by the red “microphone in use” icon on the top left of the home screen. In other words, Force Close or rebooting the phone appears be be the only way to shutdown the app on an XS Max. As I said in my initial review, it’s a great idea well executed, but please fix the unable to shutdown issue. I know from experience that many iPhone users do not know Force Close even exists, let alone how to do it — for those people the app will be very annoying since they’ll be powering off the phone in order to stop the app. I should have made it clear that it’s not just the red icon showing on exit — the microphone no longer works. Neither Hey Siri or Hey Metronome work. The developer asked for an app that handles this issue, and I’d like to suggest Shazam. That app has a run in the background feature they call Auto Shazam and it is NOT on by default. You enable it explicitly and when you open the app again it tells you that Auto Shazam is active and tells you how to turn it off.

First I have to ask how soneone can say that an app is great and well executed and give 3 stars. Ratings are not a way to communicate with the developer. It's a way to tell others how good or bad an app is. Many people will skip past an app with 3 stars. Is that what you want. Or all you care about is to get your idea communicated? Send an email to the developer and change your stars to what it should be. This app is wonderful and again shows the total lack if greed in the hearts of the AudioKit people. It's the kind of app that everyone will use. It's obviously a 5 star app. How can a new idea that will be used by every musician be anything else, especially when it is first released. Of course there will be things that we will want to add to it, but that does not mean you should take off a star for every feature you think it should have. Think before you stink. If only people would stop thinking only about themselves and their own little petty desires, what a much better world we could have.

I decided to try this app, even though there are other metronome apps that I’m satisfied with. I am really impressed! It’s easy to use, the voice control is very useful, plus there are lots of sounds that you can choose from, like drum beats, instead of being limited to a click-click sound.

It’s ridiculous that you can’t use this app with Bluetooth. It just won’t. Only on your phone or aux out. You can’t use bluetooth nor AirPlay. You can’t even play audio from another app via Bluetooth and use this at the same time. Really, really annoying and unhelpful. Ugh.

Great metronome. It definitely clicks on time.. I don’t know what else to say

Let me start by saying all the stuff I like about this app. 1. User Interface - sleek and modern 2. Ableton Link - this is a game changer 3. Banks of preset songs 4. Ability to create set lists 5. Voice commands - super unique and essential However, I am facing some issues with it and I am not sure if these are bugs that I am facing or somethings that have been deliberately left out. 1. Screen Locking while metronome is playing - If I am playing visually by referring to the pulse or the beat labels, the screen shut down renders the app quite useless. I think it should allow the screen to stay on while the app is running. 2. While waking the app back from background or after a screen unlock, the sound stops. The metronome stops every time it is resumed (this is of course with the 'Play in Background' setting on. So pair that with the previous issue, not only the screen goes dark while playing, the playing stops when I try to get back into the app. Quite detrimental. 3. All the voice commands have equivalent touch gestures except for mute and unmute. Please help me locate it if it's there somewhere. 4. This may be a bug? When the screen locks out while playing, the sound of the beat becomes dull for a bar or two and keeps happening every few bars. Like it becomes extremely lo-fi and comes back up. As you can see, I have done some thorough testing because I appreciate the app for what it is. But I will only continue to use it if these issues are addressed in some form or the other. Thanks!