NSM Groove Metronome vs Audio Object

Groove Metronome helps musicians see, hear, and trust the click. Built by Nathaniel School of Music, it combines a clean practice metronome with visual beat maps, accent control, subdivisions, polyrhythm, polymeter, rhythm assist tools, setlists, and audio/MIDI analysis. Use it for daily practice, teaching, rehearsals, and stage work. The main wheel stays readable on phone, iPad, and desktop. Setlist Studio gives performers a concert-focused view with big controls, song timing, quick tempo changes, sharing, backup, and panic recovery. Analyzer helps you import audio or MIDI, estimate tempo, inspect markers, and then apply the tempo only when you choose. Highlights: - Large visual metronome wheel - Time signatures, subdivisions, accents, and mute states - Per-beat beat map patterns - Polyrhythm and polymeter practice views - Jazz, dotted, and triplet rhythm assist - Setlist Studio for concerts and rehearsals - Audio and MIDI tempo analysis - Offline-ready browser core - Tasteful sampled click sounds - iPhone and iPad friendly controls Groove Metronome is designed to feel simple first, then deep when you need it.

Audio Object is a pocket-sized music instrument for iPhone. It looks and works like a small piece of hardware — a wooden body with an instrument panel on each face. Pull the wood edge and the body rotates to the next face. WHAT IT DOES - Four-track looper with bar-quantized recording and per-loop trim - Three-voice drum machine as the click track — kick, snare, hi-hat with a per-step accent grid - Eight-pad sampler with grid, auto, and tap chopping, two switchable banks, three-band EQ, varispeed tuning - Project save, load, and WAV stem export with tempo map - Streams audio to any Mac DAW over USB (Inter-Device Audio & MIDI) - Sends MIDI clock over USB — Ableton, Logic, and Bitwig lock transport to the phone - Records stereo from any Core Audio interface (iRig, Focusrite, MOTU, and others) HOW IT WORKS Six faces. Perform pads on one, sampler on another, click and time signature on a third, projects on the back, I/O on top, master on the bottom. No menus, no tabs. Every control lives on the body. The click track is not a metronome. It is a three-voice drum machine with per-step accents, subdivisions from quarter notes to swing, and time signatures from 3/4 to 12/8. Set up a kick-snare-hat pattern, press record, loop on the beat. The sampler holds eight pads across two banks. Record from the mic or load from Files. Chop by grid, by transient, or by tapping markers. Each pad carries a three-band EQ, varispeed pitch, and an amplitude envelope. All eight play polyphonically. Recording quantizes to the bar, the beat, or runs free. A dedicated loop-adjust face trims each loop to the sample — drag the region brackets, snap to the grid, hear the result while the brackets move. Plug the phone into a Mac over USB. Audio Object appears as an audio input and MIDI clock source. The DAW locks transport to the phone's tempo. No drivers, no setup. Plug a USB audio interface into the phone. Audio Object names the device on screen and records through its preamps at up to 48 kHz stereo. WHAT IS NEXT A synthesizer — bass, chord, and lead modes — is in development for the next major release.