Again, an update to the metronome tool, but this was a rather large one, especially 'behind the scenes'. The update was done because of a couple of mails I received from swimmers. I didn't really know swimmers used metronomes, but it does make sense. Their needs are different from runner's, however - BPM's as low as 30 are not something I ever thought of as a runner. One of the swimmers also mentioned that it would be really helpful to generate metronomes in steps of 1 BPM in stead of the 5 BPM the previous version of the tool offered.
The new version of the metronome tool, with 1 BPM increments
Offering metronomes by increments of 1 BPM meant either much manual work (for every frequency I had to manually generate a 1 minute click track in Audacity, resulting in almost 200 manually created and converted files), or radically changing the way I generated the 1 minute tracks. I opted for the latter, as it meant both a (small but fun) programming challenge, and it would be more lasting solution. From this version on, I am using a Python script I wrote to produce sinewaves in NumPy.
You can start using the new version of the metronome tool right away at https://www.reuneker.nl/files/metronome. Happy swimming and running!
