Metronome Touch

Greetings, thanks so much for your questions. We are trying to find a usable VoiceOver control by where someone can do exactly that, tap in a tempo. It is possible for us to show that option, which does appear in the app for non-VoiceOver users. We can try to come up with a way for VoiceOver to interact with that tap tempo option . VoiceOver more or less takes over the screen, in terms of sending taps through to the app. We will see if there is a way to bypass that option. It may be necessary to actually completely turn VoiceOver off with the triple-click of the power button or home button, depending upon your handset and if that accessibility shortcut has been enabled.

Right now, for the next thirty minutes or so, LOL, until we put an actual play/stop button in the swipe order for VoiceOver, that play stop function can be gotten to on just about any point on the main screen, by invoking the flick down with one finger, Actions method. So, it is currently an action. It will soon be an actual button. But from the action option, you can start and stop the metronome. Please let me know if you have more questions.

Hi John, Probably on this upcoming Monday, once the App Store folks accept the newest update build, you will find the update to Metronome Touch in your App Store. It now has the Play/Stop button, just immediately to the left of the BPM button, which by default is 120. It is a toggle button, double-tap on it once, metronome will start, double-tap it again, metronome will stop. Glad you got the Actions menu to function, hang in there for just a few days, while the new version is approved by the App Stor folks, and you will be good to go.

Hi Sarah, yes, if everyone is on the same WLAN and has either Metronome Touch or an app that is using the specific Ableton framework, by where one can sync up and control devices, then, yes, you or someone could start/stop and set tempo and the other devices on the network, again, providing that that device or application took advantage of the Ableton syncing framework, would all start/stop and have appropriate tempo settings. In case you wish to read about what Ableton is doing in this speciffic area, please check out:
http://www.Ableton.com/Link

Thank you for the nice feedback. We are still working on a VoiceOver compatible way to tap the tempo in, and still let the user's taps, go through to the Metronome Touch app, and not get intercepted by VoiceOver. I hope that your workout routines are extremely successful!

Good afternoon, we are definitely working on a way to bypass the VoiceOver screen-reader from intercepting the taps, which yes, you would have done from the change tempo area, in the standard non-VoiceOver view of the app. The programmer is working on updating a few of his other program offerings, and does have this option on the list to try to find a work-around. I also will report when we are ready to roll out that possible, and much asked for option.

I would suspect, but cannot tell for sure, that you would have to go through at least two program interface screens to get there. The app is going to look and act a bit differently when VoiceOver is not running. More of the visual elements are going to be present, which do not appear when VoiceOver is running. I cannot say for sure where you would have to specifically tap, to get to that function. Someone who may be able to use the app with you, may be able to show you where, and on which screens that tap tempo area is.

yes, for four-four, 12 quarter notes equals three bars. No decimal point values in this particular metronome, 94, 95, 96, ETC...

I am sorry that you appear to be having some difficulty with the new tap tempo option. Before this was released to the public, I tested this environment, probably 90 to 100 times. It was somewhat inaccurate, in about 3% of all tests. I say inaccurate, in that it may have been off by five or six beats. I simply nudged the faster or slower option, depending on what I was seeking. in a great many cases, I was right on the beat. It does require the user to use the split tap voiceover function, it does take some getting used to, but it is the best that we can do.
I usually will use one hand, take my index finger, and when I am in the tap area, hold that down, and then with my middle finger, I will try to be as precise as I can, and tap the beats in. I will then swipe back to the edit control, to see what the value is, based on what I was pretty sure I was tapping in. The sighted user, and the visually impaired user, must tapp at least 12 times, maybe a few times more, so that the tap algorithm, has a chance to sample the taps, and try to figure out the closest value. This is how it works for the cited user, and with the split tap function, this is how it will work for the voiceover user. as a drummer, my rhythm is consistent, if the person tapping, is not so consistent, I think the algorithm may have difficulty in figuring out the beat percentage. However, saying all that, if one is consistent, and taps along with the music, they should have success. I know I did. we definitely appreciate and value your feedback, I am simply saying, that I tested this every which way I could, and before it was released, I wanted to make sure that it was going to work. I also need to stress, one does need to be pretty consistent, to make this thing work correctly. That’s voiceover user, or no voiceover user. We have other options, and ways to save out beat, tempo and song presets, so this tap tempo feature for VoiceOver, was the best option that we could produce. It is the best we can do, and I hope that you will enjoy using the Metronome app. One of the things that we tried, was to use the accelerometer in the phone, and have the user shake the tempo in. That was a complete disaster, and needed to be scrapped.

Greetings, the programmer that I am working with, is from Germany. We do our best to communicate, but sometimes there is a language barrier. If someone has any code examples or any place where I can have him look in a programming guide for voiceover programmers, I sure would appreciate that information. If there is a way to make this single tap happen, such as in the previous reply, using GarageBand as the example, we sure would love to know how to do it, or where to look to begin the process of trying to make this happen. If anyone has any examples, and those of any programming forums or anything like that, I am certain that we would like to try to get the single tap method of working, again, such as the example in GarageBand, by where you can play an instrument, and still leave voiceover on. We are not sure where to turn for this useful information.

Greetings, I really appreciate this information. If you also have a URL for where my programmer friend can examine all sorts of cool voiceover and accessibility information, such as the very cool URL that you just provided, please feel free to send up another message, if there is a developers area, especially where accessibility may be concerned. My friend who designed this metronome app, is just getting started with learning about voiceover accessibility. I will be forwarding him your previous message, which contains the developer link, however, if you have any other master links, that will get him into the developers section, where he can examine more of this type of content, that would be awesome. Thanks again for your tremendous assistance.