fiat cor - a metronome

fiat cor — a metronome

Most metronomes give you one accent on the first beat and nothing else.

fiat cor puts the whole bar on screen as a row of dots, and every dot is yours: tap it for strong, medium, plain or silent. A hymn in 6/8 wants three and three. A bar in 7/8 wants two, two and three. Sometimes you want the one to stay silent, just to see whether you still land on it. The pattern is the instrument, not a setting buried behind it.

The pulse is drawn as a heartbeat rather than a swinging arm, and it is meant to be usable on sight alone — in a church, late at night, with the sound off.

What it does

The whole bar as tappable dots: strong, medium, plain, silent
Odd metres are just a different row of dots — 7/8, 5/4, whatever the piece asks for
Save the tempos you keep coming back to
Follows your ambience, or wears Fiat colours instead

Your data

Your saved tempos stay on this phone, in one file. There is no account, no network access, and nothing is measured or reported. fiat cor asks for one thing: permission to make a sound.

cor — Latin, heart. It is where courage comes from, by way of French. Tactus was the other candidate and it is the more technical word, but a metronome is not a measuring stick. It is the beat you cannot help keeping.

One of the fiat family: small instruments that each do one thing and leave the rest alone.

Source and issues: github.com/munksh/FiatCor · MIT licence