User’s manual

Table of Contents
Simple metronome mode
Time signature settings
Metronome rhythm
Main menu
Playlists
Playlists player mode
Playlists creator
Metronome sequence editor
Editing, removing and exporting playlists
Cloud synchronization
Practice mode
Settings
Quick action settings
Recording settings
Camera settings
Ad-free mode
Metronome sounds
Speech synthesis and metronome sound balance
Hardware keyboard
Speech synthesis
Misc settings
About Camtronome
 Simple metronome mode
Options – application’s main
menu (p. 6).

Metronome wireframe – allows

setting metronome accents. When
metronome is playing, it also shows
current note being played (p. 5).

Tempo Tempo
decrease increase

Tempo slider
Time signature settings
(p. 4).

Play button – start or stop

Tap tempo – allows setting metronome
tempo by tapping

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 Time signature settings
Ticks per bar – number of Closes time signature
settings. Selected settings are
notes in one bar
persisted.

Sliders and buttons to set

Bar wireframe – notes Ticks per bar and Bar
rhythm value in bar. wireframe values.

Possible Bar wireframe settings:

Quarter note

Eight note

Triplet

Sixteenth note

Quintuplet

Sixtuplet
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 Metronome rhythm

Metronome rhythm – tapping

particular notes changes its sound. 3
New bar – new bar sounds and note mute are available.
sound.
Each note’s sound can also be changed
in application settings (p. 24).
Accent

Mute – note is not played.

Helper note

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 Main menu
Simple metronome – selecting this opens
Simple metronome mode (p. 3).
Playlists – launches list of playlists containing
simple or complex metronomes or audio tracks
(p. 7).
Practice mode – launches simple metronome
for practicing (p. 16).
Remaining ad-free time – shows remaining
time for using Camtronome without internet
connection (p. 23).
Browse recordings – shows list of Camtronome
Panel szybkich akcji (str. 19).

recordings.
Recording – quick setting to turn recording mode
on or off (p. 21)
Speech synthesis – quick setting to turn speech
synthesis on or off (p. 27).
Sounds balance – quick setting to set metronome
and speech synthesis pan (p. 25).
Camtronome settings – application settings
page (p. 18).
User’s manual – opens this user’s manual ☺

About – basic application info (p. 29).

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 Playlists
Playlists organizes your metronomes in groups. A playlist contains
metronomes (you can refer them as songs) and metronome is built by
metronome sequences. You can also import regular audio tracks to
playlists.

Cloud synchronization (p. 15).

Playlist name and number of metronomes it

contains

After tapping playlist, a playlist player page is

opened.
Long tap (slide left on iOS) opens context menu
having remove and edit options (and additionally
export on Android).

Button adding new playlist (p. 10).

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 Playlist player mode
Current metronome name

Tempo multiplier. Can slowdown or speedup all

metronomes (and audio tracks). Great tool for
practicing new songs or song covers (slowing down
audio tracks).
Current sequence’s time
signature Current sequence metronome rhythm

Tapping this opens

Current sequence’s metronome markers list.
tempo

Value showing current metronome sequence’s

Previous metronome
number of bars remaining.

Current metronome (or audio track) position slider. Value

on the left side shows current bar number and total bar
Metronomes (and audio
count on the right side. Infinite sequence shows ∞ symbol
tracks) list of loaded
on the right side.
playlist. Metronome
When audio track is being played, both values shows
being played is marked
current and total time.
by different background
color.
Next metronome

Camera preview. Shows up only when

Start or stop recording. Shows up recording mode is enabled.
only when recording mode is
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 Playlist player mode
Playlist’s metronome contains at least one
Expanded panel with metronome markers positions metronome sequence. In cases of complex songs
and names. If speech synthesis is enabled, all of them with tempo/rhythm/time signature changes over
are read as set in marker position. time, metronome has more metronome
sequences. Each sequence defines tempo, rhythm,
time signature and bar count of one song part.
This metronome contains one sequence and this
particular metronome setting will be played for
160 bars.

Recording mode disabled – camera

preview and recording buttons are
gone
Playlist can contain both metronomes and audio tracks.
Audio track can also have markers defined and speech
synthesis also works for them.
Audio track cannot have metronome sequences and
metronome (with metronome sequences) cannot have audio 9
track
 Playlist creator
After pressing Add playlist button (p. 7), playlist creator
window is opened

Text field to enter playlist

name.

Add metronome with metronome

sequences button. After pressing it, Tapping this button expands
a metronome with one metronome metronome’s markers list.
sequence is created. When metronome markers
are expanded + button
launches new metronome
Text field to enter marker editor dialog.
metronome name

Tapping this button expands

metronome’s sequences. When
Tapping this button
metronome’s sequences are
removes metronome
expanded, + button launches
with its all sequences
new metronome sequence
and markers.
editor dialog.

Add audio track button. Tapping sequence launches

Visible only, when all its editor dialog.
rows are collapsed.

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 Metronome sequence editor dialog

Tempo change panel –

slider and buttons.

Ticks per bar. Settings are

analogous to simple
metronome.

Sequence wireframe.
Settings are analogous
to simple metronome.

Loop count
It is possible to create endless sequence.
This kind of sequence must be the last in
Repeat until start of the
the metronome (useful feature when eg.
bar number
song outro is an improvisation and
Above mentioned fields are linked. Setting doesn’t have fixed length).
loop count value 32 means than it is
repeated until start of the bar number 33.

Discard changes Apply changes

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Metronome marker editor dialog In order to delete
metronome’s sequence or
It is possible to define metronome’s markers marker long press desired
which can inform whether time signature item and click trash bin icon
changes or chorus/verse is to begin. You can that appears at the top of
easly navigate to any song’s part. the screen.

Marker is readed when metronome This button removes whole

reaches this bar number. metronome with its
sequences and markers.
Marker’s name that is read when
metronome reaches particular bar.

A metronome can contain eg. 3 Metronomes’ reorder mode -

sequences: 32 bars in 8/8 and tap to change order of
tempo 140 BPM, 2 bars in 5/4, metronmes within this playlist.
tempo 220 BPM and 64 bars in
4/4, tempo 240.

Click "Collapse all" button (or system’s back button in

Android) in order to collapse metronome (with its
sequences and markers) and start adding new
metronome. When all metronomes are collapsed two
buttons for creating new metronome are visible at the 12
bottom of the screen.
Editing, removing and exporting playlists
Long pressing (slide left on iOS) playlist causes action
bar to appear. It is possible to export, edit or remove
playlist.

After pressing edit option selected playlist opens in

playlist creator (p. 10).

Pressing export option opens metronome export

dialog window (p. 14).

Caution. Export feature is available only on Android.

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Playlist export

Switches which indicate

which metronomes to be
exported.

After pressing export button, a

confirmation dialog appears. In case
of audio tracks, only markers data
are exported. Audio track should be
reimported after import.

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Cloud synchronization
After pressing cloud synchronization
button, an action dialog appears

Upload playlists – uploads playlists from device’s memory to

cloud. All cloud data will be replaced by device’s data.

Download playlists – downloads from cloud previously

uploaded playlists. All device’s Camtronome playlists data
will be replaced by cloud’s data.

Android only: In case of uploading playlists containing audio tracks,

uploading process may take more time. Its progress can be tracked on
system’s notification progress bar.

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 Practice mode
Launched by selecting "Practice mode" option in main menu (p. 6).

Practice settings button – launches window with practice settings.

Practice settings window contains 4

options:
Increasing and decreasing tempo, muting
whole metronome or muting random
metronome notes. One tempo changing
option can be combined with one muting
option.

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 Practice mode
Decreasing and increasing Tempo decrease
tempo: switch
Two tempo change modes are BPM value that tempo has to
available – tempo can change by change for after selected
selected BPM value after selected interval
number of bars or seconds Interval length after which
tempo change ocurrs

Interval unit list – you can

select seconds or bars

Muting metronome:
It is possible to mute metronome
randomly or every selected bar Muting metronome every selected bar
number number:
Mute 1 bar every 1 bar is set here. Such
settings will play 1 bar, mute for 1 bar,
play 1 bar again, etc.
Random muting:
Enter % chance of which each note will
be muted

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Settings
Quick actions settings:
Allows select what quick actions are visible in main menu quick
action’s section (p. 19).
Recording settings:
Select recording mode (audio only or video) and change recording
directory (p. 20).

Camera settings:
Select camera (front / back) and video recording quality (p. 20).

Ad-free mode:
Select Camtronome working mode (online with ads / offline without
ads). Contains ad-free time purchase options.

Metronome sounds:
Metronome notes sound selection from predefined list (p. 24).

Speech synthesis and metronome sound balance:

Set sounds pan of metronome and speech synthesis. Does not impact
audio tracks (p. 25).
Hardware keyboard:
Allows configure remote Camtronome control using external
bluetooth / USB keyboard (p. 26).
Speech synthesis:
Setting speech synthesis that can read metronome markers, metronome
names and confirm recording (p. 27).
Misc settings:
Select Camtronome language, theme (light / dark) and enable or disable
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Quick actions settings
Quick recording mode on/off:
When enabled, main menu contains If quick actions are set as on the left
option allowing enabling/disabling screen, main menu looks like below:
recording mode.

Quick speech synthesis on/off:

When enabled, main menu contains
option allowing enabling/disabling
Speech synthesis.

Quick sounds balance setting:

When enabled, main menu contains
option setting metronome and
speech synthesis sounds pan.

Pressing sounds balance button changes

metronome and speech synthesis pan:
left / center / right.

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Recording settings
Recording mode switch
When enabled, all metronome pages contains additional button that can
start/stop actual recording that works independently from metronome play
button. When audio only recording is selected, audio recording text appears.
When video is selected, camera preview shows up.

Recording format selection:

Tapping allows audio only or audio +
video recording selection

Recording directory:
Allows manual selecting recording
directory. DCIM/Camtronome is
default. Option available only on
Android.

Start / stop recording button

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 Recording
Audio recording in simple Audio and video recording in
metronome mode simple metronome mode Recording is also possible
when playing playlist’s
metronomes

Camera preview

When Camtronome is Recording button is

recording, button lights up in metronome play / stop
red color. button independent
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Camera settings

Camera selection:
Allows selecting back or front device camera

Recording settings:
Set recording resolution and framerate. This list varies
for each device model.

Rescan device cameras:

Restarts Camtronome and scans device’s cameras
once more.

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 Ad-free mode settings
Camtronome can be used in two modes:
Online mode – no time limits, but this mode requires constant internet connection
and ads are displayed.
Ad-free mode – no internet connection is required and no ads are displayed, but
each time metronome or recording has started, timer will count down. 15 minutes
is Camtronome start amount. When it elapses, it has to be topped-up by available
options or online mode has to be turned on again.

Ad-free / online mode switch

Watching short fullscreen video ad adds 1 minute

to offline time

Offline time purchase options:

Tapping button opens payment window.
Available purchases:
10 h – 0.99 $
30 h – 1.99 $
100 h – 4.99 $
Permanent unlock – 14.99 $

Purchased offline time is added to one device. It is not possible to transfer offline time to another device or restore it after
Camtronome reinstall. Permanent unlock removes all ads and ad-free time at all, forever, on all devices with one operating system
belonging to one user account.
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Metronome sounds settings
Metronome sound settings are available for three accent types:
new bar, accent and helper notes. Camtronome offers 46 different
sounds.

Select accent:
In order to select accent’s sounds, it has to be
tapped.

Scrollable list of available sounds:

Tap on sound name to hear it

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Metronome and speech synthesis sound balance

Set speech synthesis and metronome sounds pan

This settings does not apply to audio tracks.
When LEFT channel is selected, all speech and metronome sounds
will be played on left channel only and audio track will play on both.
Use when you have playlists with audio tracks containing background
tape (on one channel) synced with metronome track (on second
channel) to avoid accidential speech synthesis on background tape
channel.

Slider to set sound balance

Metronome and speech synthesis sound balance can be added to quick actions
in main menu.

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Hardware keyboard
Allows controlling Camtronome using remote keyboard.

In order to assign keyboard key to action, tap it and press required keyboard
button.

Key called DpadUp assigned

to start / stop metronome

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Speech synthesis settings
Enabling this option makes speech synthesis read metronome
markers when metronome or audio track is played. In order to use
speech synthesis, it has to be downloaded and configured in system
setting’s first.

Speech synthesis switch

Read metronome names – when enabled, speech synthesis reads current

metronome name. It happens when metronome is selected manually from
playlist’s metronomes list or when previous metronome has ended and
next one is ready to play.

Confirm recording – when enabled, speech synthesis confirms when

recording has started or ended. Usable when Camtronome is remotely
controlled by external keyboards.

Enabling and disabling speech synthesis can also be added to quick actions.

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Misc and theme settings
Language selection:
By default, Camtronome language is
determined by operating system. It is
possible to set it manually

Do not turn display off:

Blocks your device’s screen from turning off.

Practice reminding:
If enabled, Camtronome reminds you about
inactivity.

Turn light theme:

Changes Camtronome theme to light. Caution –
devices with OLED screens may have increased
battery usage.

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