GigBeater Plus Metronome

About GigBeater Plus Metronome Android App

GigBeater Plus is an advanced metronome software for your android device.

You can choose between 13 metronome wave sounds and a predefinied midi sound.
The metronome tempo can be conveniently adjusted from 20 to 280 beats per minute with a slider
or press the +/- buttons with one/ten BPM steps. You can practice in 4/4 time, 3/4 time, or 6/8 time.
You can select the sound by pressing with long clicking on measure or accent or subdivision buttons.

List of features:
- Tempo tuning from 20 to 280 BPM
- Tap tempo
- Support both midi and audio sound generation
- Different sound each measure, subdiv, accent buttons.
- Adjustable tempo
- Beat subdivision as eighth, triplet notes
- Beat emphasis
- Adjustable volume
- Automatically turns off when there´s an incoming call
- Settings are saved automatically on exit
- Predefinied 3/4, 4/4, 6/8 measures only
- Programmable playlist
- Easy to use and edit with different bands, songs, songs of collection.
- Create groups of songs
- Export and import database in *.csv files
- Simple compose and edit playlist, with very useful checking out the current selection
- Easy to use playing of playlists
- Customize sounds in each measure for playing of the playlist
- Quick search of song by title, name of artist or number of song

Suggestions for the creation of playlist:

First steps:
First you must define a band by press band icon in settings pane.It'll be the selected one.
You can define groups. They will help you to simple sort the songs of playlist for the easy selection.

Second steps:
Then have to charge the list of songs one after the other in songs pane by pressing additional button.
The title and the name of the artist are mandatory fields.

Third steps:
You have to generate the collection from the songs of the selected band it called compilation.
This collection can contains additional attributies such as tempo, measure or information text.
You can check the tempo by pressing the play button. Use searching field both of collection
and songs pane for the title, name of the artist and number of the song.

Fourth steps:
In the playlist pane first define a new list by pressing additional button of the list.
A dialog box will appear so you must fill relevant information of the performance eg. title, date and location.
And then you can add songs to the list by pressing additional button of the song. Song selection can be easy with using of the filtered group or search by title, name of the artist or number of the song.ItYou must set the order of song in the list with help of +/- buttons.
If you want to add break to the list, now you can simple press the break button.The list can be modified later.
If you select any items of the list, you can move forward, backward or remove from the list.You can do the invert selection.


Fifth steps:
If you finalize the list and want to play it, you will press the playing list button.
During the playtime press next or previous button to step forward or backward the cursor of the song.
Even you can stop or start the playing of metronome immediately.In the other case yo can use the turning wheel
to look for the needed song.

All of the datas are saved automatically by exit. You can export and import the whole database in *.csv files by tables. These files are found in the "sdcard0/Android/Data/GigBeaterExport" folder with named previously.

First time you have to work hard to create the songs and fill up the collection, but after awhile the maintanence of your lists will be easily.If you play the instrument and have the band even take the concert with help of the playing list you can listen the next song of metronome beats for prewiev or during all the time of the performance. In this case your rhythm sounds the original tempo assuming you are able to synchronize to heard beats.

This app is ideal choice for practice or making live performance mostly for party bands.
Be precise, control your tempo all the time !