Metro Mate vs GainX2

Metro Mate is a metronome for drummers. Calm between the beats, clear on the beat. Free, open source, no ads, no subscription, no account. THE CLICK - A wave field of connected dots flows in tempo and jumps on every beat, accents hit harder - Tempo wheel from 1 to 300 BPM with a haptic tick per BPM and a stronger one every 10 - Beat grid with accents and note values from quarters to sixteenth triplets - Tap tempo, shuffle a pattern, save your own presets - 7 click sounds: Classic woodblock, Clean, Claves, Pocket, Cowbell, Punch, Deep - Keeps playing with the ringer on silent and in the background YOUR SOUND - Build your own drum kit for Learn: 8 snares, 6 kicks, 5 hi-hats, 4 open hi-hats and 3 practice pad sounds, each with a preview - Import your own one-shots from the Files app, for example an export from your DAW. They stay on your device LEARN - 70 grooves and exercises in 9 categories, Beginner to Advanced - All-Time Classics in the style of Funky Drummer, Purdie Shuffle, Amen Break and more - Funk and ghost notes, linear grooves, hi-hat work, kick independence, shuffles and triplets, accent studies, chops with R and L sticking - Every groove as a grid you can hear, played on a recorded funk kit - Dynamics on or off, accents and ghost notes or every hit at one level - Touch the grid to hear one column at a time, loop the part you are working on - Remembers your tempo for every groove, one tap back to the target tempo HISTORY - Week view with practice time per day - Month view with calendar, longest streak and tempo progress per groove - Stored on your device only Siri: "Start Metro Mate at 90 BPM". The drum and click samples are recorded instruments released under CC0, the Clean tone is generated in the app. The code is on GitHub, so the no tracking promise is something you can check.

GainX2 Dual Gain Utility Plugin (AUv3) GainX2 is an audio effect plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host application such as Logic Pro or GarageBand. Overview GainX2 is a gain utility primarily designed for use during live performances within an AU host controlled via MIDI CC (*). You can use GainX2 as a "helping hand" to mute or unmute channels, smoothly fade between them, or add additional switchable gain before a guitar amp sim. You could even use GainX2 to automate a one minute fade out at the end of a performance! GainX2 also includes a master volume with variable taper and optional damping. This feature is useful when controlling volume via a MIDI controller in your host, and avoids the "stepping" effect that you sometimes get when mapping MIDI CCs to a volume parameter. NOTE: If all this talk of MIDI CCs isn't making sense, or you primarily make music in a more traditional DAW such as GarageBand or Logic, then you probably won't find GainX2 very useful. Alternatively, if you like to perform live with an iPad and use something like AUM or Loopy Pro, then you might be glad of a "helping hand" to control gain dynamically and smoothly via MIDI. (*) Please note that GainX2 does not have a "MIDI learn" function of its own, so your host needs to support the mapping of plugin parameters to incoming MIDI CC messages. A B Indicators Above the view selector are indicators to show which gain setting is active, and these will be animated according to the fade time so you can see the transition between the two settings. Please note these are not interactive buttons that you click on. Controls Gain - Switch between Gain A and Gain B. Typically, you would map this parameter in your host to a MIDI CC switch (0 or 127) in your host. Note that at start up, GainX2 will default to the A setting, so you should think of this as the default state that you want. Gain A/B - Set the level of A or B. At minimum setting, this is essentially silence which is useful for fade or mute type applications. Please note that GainX2 can boost the incoming signal up to 12dB which could result in clipping, so please monitor, and be careful with your levels. Fade - Sets a linear (Lin) or exponential (Exp) fade between A and B. Exponential typically works best for a more natural sounding attack or decay. Time - Sets the time to Fade between Gain A and B. Volume - Sets the master volume. Typically you would map this parameter in your host to a MIDI CC (0 - 127). Taper - Sets the taper of the volume smoothing to linear (Lin) or exponential (Exp). Sometimes exponential will work better for CCs that are being controlled via MIDI expression pedals. Damping - Sets a variable damping or smoothing time to the volume control. This is useful if you hear "stepping" or sudden jumps when the Volume parameter is being controlled via MIDI. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson