AudioKit Pro have released Metronome Hero, available via two subscriptions options:
- Monthly – $2.99 per month
- Annual – $29.99
Metronome Hero scores the hits and note attacks you play, shows where you land relative to the beat, and can automatically adjust the tempo to help you improve.
Rush a note and you see it instantly — while your hands still remember the mistake. No listening back to a recording. No waiting for someone to tell you. You feel it and you see it at the same time.
A 7-zone timing spectrum tells you not just whether you’re on beat, but how far off and in which direction.
Setting the quantization to sixteenths doesn’t mean you have to play every sixteenth note. Play your own rhythms — long notes, short notes, rests, syncopation. Metronome Hero only scores the notes you actually play. Take a breath, leave space, be musical. All that matters is that when you do play, you’re on beat.
Sync tempo across every app on your network with Ableton Link. When Metronome Hero changes tempo — auto level-up, level-down, or manual — every connected app follows instantly.
Connect multiple devices on the same local network and practice as a band — everyone stays on the same tempo grid and gets scored individually. On iPhone and iPad, Band Sync uses Ableton Link for timing.
iPhone, iPad & Mac
Full-featured rhythm training with touch, audio, or MIDI input. Portrait and landscape. Session recording with camera overlay on iPhone. Native Mac app with keyboard, mouse, and MIDI input.
Apple Watch
A fully independent rhythm trainer on your wrist. All six visualizations, digital crown controls, and its own level meter.
Load Metronome Hero as an Audio Unit plugin in your DAW, hit play on a backing track, and practice with host-synced timing feedback. The plugin follows the host transport and scores incoming MIDI performance.
Features include:
- Directional Feedback – See that you consistently rush the backbeat, or lay back on beat 3. That specificity turns repetition into improvement.
- Fight the Rush – Rushing is the most common timing problem — and the hardest to feel yourself doing. Metronome Hero skews its hit zones so that laying back is scored more generously than pushing ahead. Over time, this trains you into the pocket naturally, without thinking about it.
- Accuracy & Consistency – Two independent metrics track your playing. Accuracy measures how close each hit lands to the beat. Consistency measures how steady you are over time. Five difficulty levels — from Chill to Pro — tighten both thresholds.
- Musical Tap Sounds – Every tap or MIDI hit can trigger a musical note. Choose from 10 instrument voices or 8 drum sounds. Set a chord voicing so each beat lands on the same notes, reinforcing your timing.
- Session Tracking – Every session records accuracy, rating distribution, tempo progression, best streak, and duration. Review history on a practice calendar with iCloud sync.
- Flexible Time Signatures – Practice in anything from 1/4 through 5/4, plus 6/8 through 16/8. Add subdivisions from eighths to thirty-seconds and swing feel from subtle to hard shuffle.
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