Comparison

Diosynth Live vs Accelerating Metronome

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Diosynth Live

Features
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Diosynth Live™ is the mobile companion app for ASM Diosynth®, designed for quick access during performance, rehearsal, and everyday use. Connect your Diosynth to a compatible iPhone using USB or Bluetooth MIDI, then quickly recall favorite patches and adjust important Setup and MIDI settings without needing a computer. Diosynth Live is organized into three main sections: Favorites, Setup, and MIDI. FAVORITES Keep your favorite sounds close at hand. • Quickly recall favorite patches in Perform mode • Manage and reorder favorites in Edit mode • Keep your Favorites synchronized with your Diosynth SETUP View and adjust Diosynth system and performance settings directly from your iPhone. Setup provides access to settings including pitch, key delay, breath and bite response, assignable buttons, pressure pads, gyroscope, joystick, vibrato, fingering, clock, audio levels, Master FX, and other instrument settings. MIDI View and adjust Diosynth MIDI settings, including Local Control, MIDI channel selection, Program Change settings, joystick and button assignments, and other MIDI-related options. CONNECTIVITY Diosynth Live supports: • USB connection • Bluetooth MIDI • Demo Mode for exploring the app without a connected Diosynth DIOSYNTH LIVE™ AND DIOSYNTH MANAGER™ Diosynth Live is designed for quick patch recall and convenient access to instrument settings while playing. Full patch browsing and editing, bank management, and firmware updates are handled using the Diosynth Manager™ desktop application. Diosynth Live requires an ASM Diosynth for full functionality.

About

Accelerating Metronome

This metronome gradually accelerates tempo during practice sessions, logging every minute played. It features customizable practice ramps, peak speed tracking, and visual progress reports to help musicians build consistency.

Highlights
  • Gradual tempo acceleration
  • Practice logging
  • Customizable practice ramps
  • Peak speed tracking
  • Visualized practice progress
  • Tap tempo functionality
  • Tuning reference
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Most metronomes only keep a tempo. This one accelerates gradually while you play, and remembers every minute you practice. Accelerating Metronome is a practice instrument, made by a working musician in Seattle over forty years of daily practice. This is not what a product committee would have asked for. It is a cross between a Stairmaster and Duolingo. Designed to motivate you to keep going and growing in your practice. ACCELERATOR Choose a beginning tempo, a target, and how long you want to practice. It climbs the Ramp in steps, so you invest your time playing rather than reaching for the Dial. When it reaches the target it keeps going at that tempo, and extra time is counted separately as Play Time. Practice and playing are not the same thing. And are not counted as if they were. Save and name your own Custom Ramps. PEAK SPEED Mark the tempo where you hit a wall so you have a visual record of your limits. We graph your Peak Speed(s) so you can see your progress. SPIN THE METRONOME Press this and let the Universe choose a tempo for you. Practicing only at the tempos you like is how blind spots appear. And this is the cure. Spin the Metronome before a Group Rehearsal to bring everyone into listening and warming up together beginning with a cue from the Muse. PRACTICE HISTORY: YOUR PRACTICE, VISUALIZED OVER TIME Every session is documented: when, how long, which tempos, and what you were working on. Name your own Categories and each one has its own color. The Calendar shows a month at a glance, with Celebrations and Gold after you have completed a full hour of practice. STREAKS + CELEBRATIONS A Streak counts the days in a row you practiced. Momentum may motivate you to pick up the instrument on an evening you had decided not to. And practice more than an hour every day from Sunday to Saturday and the whole week is celebrated in Gold. A ROCK SOLID METRONOME Tempo is set from a rotary dial you drag with your thumb, the way a hardware tempo wheel works. Three default voices with ten alt Sound Banks deliver a wide variety of sounds. Select a Time Signature, and the downbeat gets its own sound. An integrated Tuner and Tuning references from 432 to 445. TAP TEMPO + TYPE TEMPO Tap the BPM Window, and the tempo changes to what you tap. Press and hold to type in a tempo. MIXING The click plays over (or under) your other app's sound, music, podcasts, or a backing track without interruption. The Metronome keeps going when you switch apps or the screen locks. Beats align with the audio hardware's clock rather than a timer, so nothing drifts while you are not looking. Optional Haptics let you feel the Beat, the screen stays awake while it plays, and a Loudness Booster doubles the click volume. UNIQUE PRACTICE TOOLS Beat Map is a grid where you choose 1, 2 or 3 sounds per beat, and save your Maps by name. Group Loops captures and layers what you play, cut at the bar lines, as WAVs. Beat Oscilloscope lets you see where you play relative to the click. Beat Speedometer tells you the tempo you are actually keeping, worked out from the gaps between your sounds. Or press SPIN, let the Universe name a tempo, and find it from memory with nothing to hear. FLEXIBLE SETTINGS Display Size with three choices, for easier reading. High and Low Pass filters shape the click. YOURS, PRIVATE No account, no login, no shared analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no subscription. You buy it once. Your Practice History is only on your phone. Only two features send data, and both are OFF unless you turn them on: 1. Leaderboard, where you choose the name that appears, and 2. Find Quotes online, which sends a musician or artist name you type to Wikiquote. You can back up your practice history to your own Files or iCloud Drive whenever you like, in a plain file you can read, and import it onto a new device. It works offline. Portrait or landscape. In English, Spanish, Italian. An accelerating practice tool, to grow and visualize your work over time.

Screenshots

Diosynth Live4 screens
Accelerating Metronome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Diosynth Live at Free against Accelerating Metronome's $4.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Diosynth Live is free to download; Accelerating Metronome costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Diosynth Live versus Accelerating Metronome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiosynth LiveAccelerating Metronome
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAshunSoundMachinesSteve Ball

In-app purchases

None

Diosynth Live

No in-app purchases

None

Accelerating Metronome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Diosynth Live free?
Diosynth Live is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Accelerating Metronome free?
Accelerating Metronome costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Diosynth Live or Accelerating Metronome have ads?
Neither Diosynth Live nor Accelerating Metronome shows ads.

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