Open Metronome

Open Metronome is a small Windows application whose purpose is to help you work with a metronome that comes with support for user-defined beats per minute, custom rhythm patterns, as well as multi-voice WAV or MIDI sound options.

The tool sports a user-friendly layout that allows you to configure the dedicated parameters with ease. You cannot make use of a help manual but you can rely on tooltips for viewing short descriptions about the program’s features. Tooltips are displayed each time you hover your mouse cursor over a specific a parameter.

Open Metronome gives you the possibility to choose between a straight or simple metronome, or manually set up the number of beats per minute. You are allowed to play or stop the metronome.

The application lets you configure up to nine simultaneous voices per beat, set an instrument for each voice, adjust the volume of each voice, check out a blinker in the main panel and alter its size, as well as save the current settings as presets. The configuration settings can also be exported to a file on your computer so you can import them in your future projects.

What’s more, you can assign custom hotkeys for increasing or decreasing the tempo, playing or stopping the current selection, and switching between the straight and simple metronome. You are offered the freedom to adjust the number of beats per minute and set the number of WAV loops.

Tests have shown that Open Metronome carries out a task quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not burdened.

All things considered, Open Metronome comes packed with several useful functions for helping you work with a metronome, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.