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Drumstick MIDI Metronome (Mirror)

Drumstick Metronome (a.k.a. kmetronome)

Drumstick Metronome is a MIDI based metronome using the ALSA sequencer.

The intended audience are musicians and music students. Like any physical metronome, it is a tool to keep the rhythm while playing musical instruments.

It uses MIDI instead of digital audio, allowing low CPU usage and very accurate timing thanks to the ALSA sequencer. This means that you also need a MIDI synthesizer for sound generation, because the program does not produce any sound by itself. The best results come from using a hardware synthesizer, but you may also use software synthesizers instead.

For brief building instructions, see INSTALL.

Downloads

Sources: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/

Developers environment

You need the following software:

• CMake 3.14 or later
• Qt libraries 5.12 or later
• ALSA library
• Drumstick libraries 2.0 or later

Getting the development sources

Compiling and hacking the SVN sources is a bit different compared to the distribution tarball. You can get the latest sources either using a sourceforge user account, or the anonymous user (with read only rights). The SVN client
documentation for SourceForge users is available at https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/SVN%20Overview/

1. Check out the module drumstick from the SVN repository.         Host: svn.code.sf.net         Path: /p/drumstick/code/trunk         Module: drumstick

There is also a Git mirror at GitHub

example:

$ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/drumstick/code/trunk drumstick

The module 'drumstick' is also used by other projects in a similar way as an independent shared dynamic library.

You need to configure, compile and optionally install drumstick libraries.

2. Check out the module kmetronome from the SVN repository.         Host: svn.code.sf.net         Path: /p/kmetronome/code/trunk         Module: kmetronome

There is also a Git mirror at GitHub

example:

$ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/kmetronome/code/trunk kmetronome 

4. Configure and compile

$ cd kmetronome
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug \
           -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/Qt/5.12.11/gcc_64/ \
           -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/
$ make VERBOSE=1

5. Hack and enjoy!