Helpful!! Thank you!
Haptic not working
Response from developer
Sorry to hear you’re having issues. It works on mine. Try turning haptic off and then back on with the switch in Maestro. (Scroll down on the first screen). You may want to check other setting you have in Settings: Sounds & Haptics.
Great App!
Basic Features, Only
- 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.
Response from developer
First, Thank you for your support. Second, the app doesn't care what notational unit gets the beat. (The selectable note values represent beat subdivisions, not the time signature.) So the 7/4 or 7/8 distinction is irrelevant. 7/4 or 7/8 still has 7 beats in the measure. the tempo of those 7 beats (180 bpm) is well within the apps range. The reduction of the pattern doesn't reflect a half/cut time as much as accommodating a tempo that would prohibit conducting every beat. It's very awkward / distracting to conduct a complex pattern (other than staccato) at over 200 bpm. I hope this clarified the functionality of the app, if not please email me at support@patrickqkelly.com. Thanks again for your support and kind words.
Indispensable!
No time signature and tempo speed is very limited
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.
Response from developer
When conducting, 7/8 looks like 7/4 and 7/2 and 7/16. Conducting patterns reflect the number of beats in the measure. The music notation needs to know which note value represents that beat.
Baton styles?
Tempo
Response from developer
You can drag your finger up/down anywhere on the screen to change the tempo as well as the +/- buttons.
Amazing
Excellent tool to learn baton movement
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.
