Free Metronome Software?

[Alto Saxy]

Anyone know of any good ones? (one with the tap feature would be nice, in order to find the tempo of a song)

[Jeff Flatt]

I've got this one and it's great

http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.shtml

The latest download didn't work for me so I got version 1.3 which works just fine. Have fun.

[gary]

Why do you want software vs a conventional metronome, which is portable?

[Alto Saxy]

Why do you want software vs a conventional metronome, which is portable?

I prefer a louder source (such as my computer speakers) so i can hearr the beat more clearly over my playing (i have god awful rhythm). However, conecting a portable metronome to my comp speakers is unpractical since i record my playaing using the comp, so inorder to play back the recording, id have to switch it back to the comp, and then back to the metronome

[Riff]

The Matrix MR-800 is by far the loudest metronome I've ever heard. So loud in fact it gets annoying if you're not playing. I have no trouble hearing it over my playing. As I recall it only costs about $20 too.

[Dog Pants]

There are a few "freebie" metronome downloads out there. Some are mediocre whilst others aren't worth the download. If you don't want to go portable, as Gary suggests, try using the style maker in BIAB. It aint so hard and you can make up a couple of 16th and triplet click patterns in a matter of minutes. I'd grab one of the later model Seiko jobs myself.

[Stretch]

This metronome works much like the traditional Seiko type but can be potentially much louder with computer speakers:
http://www.metronomeonline.com/

[benmcnicoll]

crystal metronome from www.milsoftware.com (http://www.milsoftware.com/) is pretty good I think and only $9.95 with a 30 day free trial.

What i like:
It has a selection of different sounds (i prefer a highhat sound as it cuts over the top better) and a tap tempo feature. You can also select subdivisions and bar lengths with different emphasis on each. The subdivisions also include various swing values. You can enter a tempo directly or use a slider, and a click to either side of the slider takes up the tempo in 10bpm increments.

I use this while teaching as I my real world metronome doesn't cut across 2 or more horns with enough volume and i was forever putting it down under books and having to go hunting for it.

The only negative i experienced is that on my Windows 2000 PC when i had inadvertently switched my display to 16 bit colour some of the buttons didn't show what they were.... but you could see where they were and very quickly work out which was start, pause or stop. Anyway, this may or may not have been limited to my PC.

I don't work for them, i just found it better than the free ones i tried.

[BlueNote]

Last I knew, the Matrix (I think) could be connected to your stereo system. That is why most of those digital metronomes come with a plug-in, so if you need it louder than it is able to go, you can feed it directly into your stereo system. A couple years ago, the saxophone section at my high school had a sectional. I remember the lead alto brought his metronome and hooked it up to his stereo (which was right next to us), so we ALWAYS heard the beat, no matter how loud we were playing. It did get annoying, though.