3hhh / klickly

Command-line metronome using lilypond snippets

klickly

A command-line metronome using lilypond snippets to support arbitrary musical patterns.

Features

• loops lilypond snippets infinitely at the tempo given on the command-line
• arbitrary musical patterns can be used as loops
• option to dynamically increase the tempo
• highly configurable
• common metronome patterns included
• scriptable
• MIDI output

Installation

1. Install the dependencies, namely lilypond and (optional, but recommended) fzf, e.g. on debian-based systems via apt install lilypond fzf.
2. Install a MIDI synthesizer and a sound font of your choice (e.g. fluid-soundfont-gm). The default configuration expects timidity, which can e.g. be installed on debian-based systems via apt install timidity.
3. Download this repository with git clone https://github.com/3hhh/klickly.git or your browser and copy it to dom0.
4. Move the repository to a directory of your liking.
5. Symlink the klickly binary into your dom0 PATH for convenience, e.g. to /usr/bin/.

Usage

Execute klickly without arguments on the command-line to obtain an overview of its capabilities.

Uninstall

1. Remove all symlinks that you created during the installation.
2. Remove the repository clone from your file system.
3. If unused, uninstall the dependencies, e.g. on debian via apt purge lilypond fzf timidity.

Copyright

© 2024 David Hobach GPLv3

See LICENSE for details.