VARIATIONS The Accelerating Metronome now includes ways to change the sound and feel of what you hear while you practice. The Dial sets the tempo. Variations give you a set of additional ways to make the Metronome sound and feel more MUSICAL. PULSE DIVISION gives you polyrhythms: up to three at a time, each with its own count from 2 to 10. You can set the sound and volume for each. SWING gradually transforms a metronomic pulse to Swing that you can set to every whole % from 50 to 75, with five industry standard feels marked where they fall. BEAT PLACEMENT moves the click off the downbeat and gives you three options for variety. GAPS give you a way to take Beats away, or whole bars so there is more 'space' in what you're practicing to. All of the Variations work on top of the Metronome BPM. They also play on top of the Accelerator and Interval Training, and any combination can be saved as a Custom Variation. VARIATIONS: PEDAL TONE Practice with evolving harmonic drones or rhythmic pulses on top of your metronome Beat, so you improvise over surprising and ever evolving accompaniments. Cello, Synth and Flute sound continuously. Pulse, Punk, Bells, Vibes, Piano and Grunge are struck on the Beat. An integrated Sequencer moves the Pedal Tone through harmonic patterns: fifths, whole tones, diminished, augmented, chromatic, or all twelve notes once. Set how often the note changes, how often the voice changes, and how often the Sequencer moves. VARIATIONS ROULETTE You can also hit the "Variations Roulette" button at the top of the Variations "drawer" to let the Universe deliver a spontaneous set of chosen Variations to practice with. Each Roulette category row has an ON/OFF switch on the right so you can audition and adjust and customize what the Roulette wheel delivered. The wheel at the top has an integrated level meter. INTERVAL TRAINING This is a new form of Ramp with its own Button and drawer. It enables three consecutive climbs from a slow tempo up to a fast one and back down again over a time you set. It is the Accelerator with three hills in it rather than one, so everything in that panel works exactly the way it already does: the presets, your own saved ones, the picture of the Ramp, the countdown, Restart and the practice Category. Three presets to begin with, and you can change the numbers and save your own. The Accelerator and Interval Training each have their own 'drawer', each keeping its own tempos, duration and preset. Both can be open at once, but only one can be active at a time. RAMP TIMING The Accelerator and Interval Training can now execute a Ramp in two ways. EQUAL BEATS provides the same number of beats at every tempo, so a slow step lasts longer than a fast one. This is how the Accelerator has always worked, and it is still the default. EQUAL TIME gives the same amount of time at every BPM, so every step lasts the same and the climb rises in a straight line. Thanks to David Snyder for asking for this. Every Ramp image in the app shows which one is on. The height of a bar is the tempo and the width is how long that step lasts, so in Equal Beats the slow bars are wide and the fast ones thin, and in Equal Time they are all the same. ONE TUNING REFERENCE FOR THE WHOLE APP The PITCH row on the metronome body sets the standard pitch for the whole app. Tap 432 or 440 or any of the others and every Pedal Tone retunes to it, including one that is sounding at the time, and the Tuner uses it too. One tap sets the standard, a double tap plays the chosen A. SPANISH, THROUGHOUT The AM App and the whole FAQ are in Spanish. Switch it ON in Settings. ALSO The FAQ now has 185 questions and a Search box that stays with you as you scroll. Type a word and the page narrows to the answers that mention it. Interface sounds have their own level, separate from the Beat. Landscape fixes throughout. And a long list of fixes, most of them found by the people testing this. Thank you.

INTEGRATED TUNER Access a new integrated tuner by tapping the tuning fork on the metronome body near the Dial. Features presets for Standard Tuning, New Standard Tuning, or Chromatic for any instrument. Concert A can also be set to global standards from 432 to 445. It listens through the iPhone microphone, analysis happens in the app, only on your phone. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent. TAP TEMPO or TYPE TEMPO Double tap the BPM number and type in your desired BPM with the soft-keyboard (40 to 232). Or simply tap a tempo on the center of the Dial to jump to the BPM of what you're tapping. ADJUSTABLE DIAL RESOLUTION Choose your preferred dial resolution: 8, 4 or 1 BPM. THE ACCELERATOR A. Ramp Down: In addition to setting your own tempo Ramps Up parameters, you can now Ramp Back Down at the end, deciding to do this in the moment or before you begin. During the Ramp Down, tempo comes back the same way it climbed. B. Stop at the End: You can also decide to 'Stop at the End' after your ramp completes instead of auto-continuing at the final tempo at the top of your Ramp. You can hear when you've reached the top because the Tiny Ramp Chime plays. And the Metronome stops. C. Restart Ramp: you can easily go back to the beginning without ending the session by hitting the Restart Ramp button conveniently visible on top of your currently playing Ramp graphic. D. Do not Log: you can turn off logging for the current session while it's running or turn it off before you launch the Accelerator for any session you wish to exclude from your ongoing Practice Log. ENHANCED PITCH REFERENCES You can tune by ear by auditioning pitches for every open string in Standard and New Standard Tuning, at the concert A you choose from 432 to 445. You can hear it as a Sine Wave for a pure tone, or Harmonic, which is an easier, full spectrum sound to help you tune by ear. TWO TOURS On first run, a 'Tour' launches to show you the primary features of the Accelerating Metronome: a Tour for the Metronome and a Tour for Settings. You can relaunch both Tours from Settings after their initial run if you wish to keep learning each time you open the app. ALSO NEW 1. Sound Banks: there are three new drum sounds beside the three classic Sounds, and you choose which Bank shows on the main screen. 2. Themes: a light theme, for daylight and for anyone who reads dark text more easily. 3. Custom Dial Colors: three sets or one you pick yourself. 4. A full screen Practice view, and a Simple Canvas, which puts the metronome, Spin and the Accelerator on one screen. 5. Landscape mode, throughout. 6. FAQ Enhancements: The FAQ is expanded and now includes a picture with nearly every question. 7. Credits and Contact: you can now see and be grateful for everyone who has directly influenced the Accelerating Metronome design (so far.) 8. Stability, Perf, Bug Fixes: this update includes a long list of features, fixes and polish, most of them found by the people testing this. Thank you. * * *