Drum Solo Demo of Glimmer Metronome (+ Menus & Shortcuts)

I recorded a drum solo to demo Glimmer Metronome (click to see a video demo with audio). Glimmer Metronome is a Ruby-based metronome GUI app that supports different beat counts, click sounds, and tempos, including tap-based tempo calculation. It was built with Glimmer DSL for SWT using JRuby to help me with my drumming practice. Glimmer Metronome just received a new update in version 1.1.4 that adds menus and keyboard shortcuts, thus becoming more user-friendly when used via the keyboard alone. 

Here is another direct demo of Glimmer Metronome (click to see a video demo with audio).

Below is full documentation of Glimmer Metronome's features, including the new menus and keyboard shortcuts.

Enjoy!

Features

Beat Count Change

Tempo Change (hit ENTER repeatedly to auto-calculate tempo)

Click Sound Change (via mouse-click on beats to toggle yellow or white)

Menus

Action Menu

• Stop (CMD+S on Mac / CTRL+S on Linux/Windows)
• Play (CMD+P on Mac / CTRL+P on Linux/Windows)
• Mute (CMD+M on Mac / CTRL+M on Linux/Windows)
• Unmute (CMD+U on Mac / CTRL+U on Linux/Windows)
• Beat Count submenu (see below)
• Tempo submenu (see below)
• Exit (ALT+F4)

Action Menu - Beat Count

• Increment (CMD+= / CTRL+= on Linux/Windows)
• Decrement (CMD+- on Mac / CTRL+- on Linux/Windows)

Action Menu - Tempo

• Increment (CMD+ArrowUp / CTRL+ArrowUp on Linux/Windows)
• Decrement (CMD+ArrowDown on Mac / CTRL+ArrowDown on Linux/Windows)
• Increment by 10 (CMD+SHIFT+ArrowUp / CTRL+SHIFT+ArrowUp on Linux/Windows)
• Decrement by 10 (CMD+SHIFT+ArrowDown on Mac / CTRL+SHIFT+ArrowDown on Linux/Windows)

Help Menu

• Tips (CMD+T / CTRL+T on Linux/Windows)
• About (CMD+A / CTRL+A on Linux/Windows)

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