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A simple flamenco metronome for Mac
Here's a simple AppleScript that will count soleares compás for you.
1) Double-click the Script Editor. 2) Past the following code into the Edit window. 3) Click the Compile button 4) From the File menu, choose the Save As… menu item. 5) Change the File Format from script to application. 6) Change the name to FlamencoMetronome.app, and save. 7) Double-click the resulting app to run.
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8 -- Flamenco Metronome -- By Paul Magnussen -- Version 1.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
display dialog "Beats per minute?" default answer "120" buttons {"OK", "Cancel"} set secondsBetweenCounts to 60 / (text returned of the result) as number
on idle activate if counter = -1 then say "Starting in " & (secondsDelay as string) & " seconds." set counter to 1 return secondsDelay else if counter is in {3, 6, 8, 10, 12} then say counter else beep 1 end if
if counter = 12 then set counter to 1 else set counter to counter + 1 end if end if
RE: A simple flamenco metronome for Mac (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
Hey Paul, nice idea and great work. Only that when i open the app, the books pops up to ask for the choice of the beat i want to use. As a default it gives 120. When i press ok, nothing actually happens. I'm using a Macbook Bro with a Snow Leopard operative system.
Any idea why it's not running?
Thanks in advance
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RE: A simple flamenco metronome for Mac (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
Hey Paul, interesting idea and thanks for sharing! In order to make it run, you have to check the "stay open" box when you save. At least, that's what I had to do.
Is there a way to have it just play the accent beeps louder than the surrounding beeps? The problem is that it doesn't keep compás when it says the beat number, as it takes longer to say the word than it does to beep, and there's nothing keeping the script in strict rhythm. I couldn't find a command that would change the volume of the beep, though, in my ~5 minutes of looking.
To be fair, there are quite a few free metronomes out there for Mac (though I don't know of any which can be programmed to play flamenco rhythms) and Jason's flamenco metronome at www.doctorcompas.com is absolutely brilliant, and is also free and works on Macs (use Safari, it's better than Firefox or Chrome for Java).
RE: A simple flamenco metronome for Mac (in reply to Adam)
Here is another free online metronome I found today. It's useful as you can set the number of beats to a cycle and accent any of those beats you choose.
E.g 12 beat cycle accent 12,3,7,8,10.
Or for a arpegio or rasgeo exercise you could set the appropriate number of beats to a cycle and then accent which ever finger you want to strengthen.
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Doesn't change the fact that the AppleScript won't stay in compás though...
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