Metronome widget?
Soothing beat for a long workday and menial tasks
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 by WarOtter | Discussion: Widget talk
Heyall. I'm looking for some sort of widget or applet that reproduces a metronome effect, possibly using sound effects available on my own computer or even included, and of course, customizable tick lengths. Anyone know where I could find this? Or if anyone with some programming skills and a musical knack could be interested in making one, I have a few ideas:
Customizable sound tick - allow for any wav file to be used (under a certain time length, to prevent insane looping); possibly allowing a series of sounds (like a list for every tick in a sequence, looping when it gets to the last one)
Adjustable tick length - just like on a real metronome, you could make the weight on the bar work as a slider to adjust the tick(little info panel at the bottom to tell you what BPM you are at, or allowing you to input into the window to get a precise measure.).
Skinnable & animated - allow for different designs, i.e. an upside down metronome (pendulum action) and make it look like it's attached to window edge, etc.
Well that's all my creative juices for now. Work does that.
Customizable sound tick - allow for any wav file to be used (under a certain time length, to prevent insane looping); possibly allowing a series of sounds (like a list for every tick in a sequence, looping when it gets to the last one)
Adjustable tick length - just like on a real metronome, you could make the weight on the bar work as a slider to adjust the tick(little info panel at the bottom to tell you what BPM you are at, or allowing you to input into the window to get a precise measure.).
Skinnable & animated - allow for different designs, i.e. an upside down metronome (pendulum action) and make it look like it's attached to window edge, etc.
Well that's all my creative juices for now. Work does that.
PurrBall
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:20 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:20 PM
I have a real metronome.. but a gadget would have volume control 
Hitchhiker427
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:00 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:00 PM
They have one for the Vista sidebar: Here
WarOtter
Reply #4 Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:11 AM
Reply #4 Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:11 AM
Well for those of us who don't have/want to upgrade to Vista a DX widget would be perfect.
seldomseen
Reply #5 Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:26 AM
That's me. I'd just like to have an adjustable metronome to pick guitar to and play with my kids as they learn. Thx for the thread!
Reply #5 Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:26 AM
| those of us who don't have/want to upgrade to Vista |
That's me. I'd just like to have an adjustable metronome to pick guitar to and play with my kids as they learn. Thx for the thread!
WarOtter
Reply #8 Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:10 AM
Reply #8 Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:10 AM
I would say it would be between like 180 bpm, and 30 bpm. But don't quote me on that, as I am no expert in the mechanics of metronomes.
thomassen
Reply #9 Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:33 AM
Reply #9 Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:33 AM
I must be 10 years at lest since I had a metronome. Never used it though.
SirSmiley
Reply #10 Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:17 PM
Reply #10 Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:17 PM
Professional Metronome 1.9 Shareware but, license given if you create a skin for it.
WarOtter
Reply #11 Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:54 PM
Reply #11 Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:54 PM
Hehe...
heh...
Metro Gnome:
Took me an hour to find images I liked, but the pun alone was so worth it.
BTW the name Metro Gnome is already used by a metronome for the MacOS
heh...
Metro Gnome:
Took me an hour to find images I liked, but the pun alone was so worth it.
BTW the name Metro Gnome is already used by a metronome for the MacOS
rabidrobot
Reply #13 Friday, January 19, 2007 1:06 PM
Reply #13 Friday, January 19, 2007 1:06 PM
And when the Metro Gnome, in a time of personal crisis, leaves his urban home and returns to his roots, visiting the Garden Gnome in ancestral suburbia...just imagine the hilarious confusion and modern exploration of a clash of cultures as they come to terms with their seemingly incompatible value systems and rehash an old family feud that has kept them apart so long. Then the touching conclusion as they realize, maybe, just maybe, they aren't so different after all.
Or maybe the Metro Gnome has just left his garden home, coming to the city to be a cast member of reality tv-show "The Unreal World", where his fondness for pipes is found not to be quaint, but the major source of tension in episode 3.
Great image, WarOtter!
Or maybe the Metro Gnome has just left his garden home, coming to the city to be a cast member of reality tv-show "The Unreal World", where his fondness for pipes is found not to be quaint, but the major source of tension in episode 3.
Great image, WarOtter!
WarOtter
Reply #14 Friday, January 19, 2007 3:59 PM
Reply #14 Friday, January 19, 2007 3:59 PM
rabidrobot: I believe you just described Perfect Strangers in reverse 
That image was actually one of my first image composites. I normally only work with vector graphics. I pretty proud for my first try.
That image was actually one of my first image composites. I normally only work with vector graphics. I pretty proud for my first try.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:00 PM