Polytactus Metronome
Manual
A short guide to tempo, time signatures, and the subdivision mixer.
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Overview
What Polytactus Metronome does
A metronome that lets you hear several subdivisions of the beat at once — accent, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, triplet, and a free n-tuplet. It works full-screen in portrait and landscape on iPhone and iPad. Everything runs on your device; no account is required.
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Start and Stop
Play button and needle
Tap the large play button to start and stop. The mark above the play button is the needle; it swings with each beat, so you can follow the tempo visually as well as by ear.
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Tempo
Setting BPM (30–300)
Change tempo four ways: tap the − / + buttons on the dial, tap the BPM number to type a value directly, drag the dial, or tap the circle below the play button repeatedly to tap-in a tempo.
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Time Signature
Beats and unit
Tap the time-signature control to set the number of beats per bar (1–16) and the beat unit (2, 4, 8, or 16). Compound meters are grouped into accents automatically.
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Subdivision Mixer
Six tracks
Each track — accent, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, triplet, and a free n-tuplet (2 to 16) — has its own volume slider. Raise the ones you want to hear and leave the rest silent. Blend quarters with triplets, add a 5-tuplet on top, or isolate the accents.
Tones and the n-tuplet value
Open the sound settings (gear icon) to choose a click tone per track and to set the n-tuplet number, including whether it spans one beat or two.
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Count-in, Repeat, and A/B
Count and Repeat
Count plays one extra bar before the main pattern starts. Repeat sets how many bars to play before stopping automatically, or ∞ for endless play. A/B alternation switches sounds every beat or every bar to sharpen your inner clock.
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Audible and Visible
Sound and visual modes
Toggle Audible to turn the click on or off, and Visible to turn the on-screen pulse on or off. With sound off and visual on, you can practise silently by following the swinging needle and the screen-edge pulse.
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Settings and Tutorial
Appearance and help
Open settings (sliders icon) to change language, theme (system / light / dark), and accent colour. You can replay the interactive tutorial there at any time; it walks you through every control on screen.