Grooves
A Groove is literally the rhythm track on the Metronomo screen. Under the “let’s groove” experience, Metronomo allows ad hoc practice with your edits saved for the next time you open the app.
Grooves can be named and saved to a local library on your own device.
For exporting and importing Grooves, see Export and import.
What a Groove holds
- Name is the title of a saved Groove; names must be unique, case insensitive
- Tempo of 20–480 BPM (see Tempo)
- Beats and accents as the repeated bar (see Beats and accents)
- Subdivision as slots per beat (see Subdivisions)
- Count in of 0–8 bars (see Count in and timers)
- Alarm and Pause timers (see Count in and timers)
What belongs to the app
Some settings are stored either as device state or as your personal preferences. Loading a Groove does not change them, and none of them appear in an export file. These include:
- Volume and mute, maintained as device state
- Beat, percussive or tonal
- Appearance, system, light, or dark
- BPM slider resolution, a 20–100 BPM window
- Apply changes, when an edit reaches playback
- Pause behaviors: restart, alerts, and pause clear
- Anonymous analytics opt-out
The working Groove
The working Groove is stored as you go and restored when you next open the app. Closing Metronomo mid-session does not lose the rhythm you were building.
Saved Grooves
Save a Groove via the button menu. On an unsaved Groove the menu offers Load Groove and Save Groove. Load Groove is disabled until your library holds a saved Groove.
Save Groove asks for a name. A name already in your library is refused, case insensitive.
Once a Groove is saved and loaded, the header carries its name and the menu provides the following options:
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Save Groove | Opens the Save dialog box. |
| Rename Groove | Renames the loaded Groove. Unsaved edits stay unsaved. |
| Revert Groove | Discards your edits and restores the Groove as it was last saved. Requires confirmation. Disabled until there is an edit. |
| Delete Groove | Removes the loaded Groove from the Groove library. Requires confirmation. |
| Load Groove | Opens the Groove library to select a saved Groove. |
| Let’s Just Groove | Returns to the unloaded Groove state. Requires confirmation if there are working edits to a loaded Groove. |
Saving a loaded Groove
Save Groove on a loaded Groove offers two choices. For a Groove named Waltz:
- Update Waltz writes your edits over the saved Groove. Change the name field to rename it at the same time. If there are no edits, this choice is disabled until you change the name, and then it only renames the Groove.
- Save as new Groove saves the Groove, with or without edits, under a new name and loads it. The new name defaults to the old, plus an appended number, for example: Waltz (1). This can be edited.
A Groove with edits opens the dialog box on Update Waltz, with Waltz in the name field. A Groove without edits opens on Save as new Groove, with Waltz (1) in the name field.
Either way, the name must be unique in your library.
Loading a Groove
Load Groove opens your library and lists your saved Grooves. Each entry shows the Groove’s name and a summary of its settings.
Use Find to filter the list by name. Find is a simple text search that matches any
character sequence in a Groove name, ignoring case. For example, huff would find both
Slow Shuffle and Huff the Haptic Dragon.
The same screen offers Let’s Just Groove at the top as a route to the ad hoc experience.
Losing work
Three menu options can throw away unsaved edits to a loaded Groove: Revert Groove, Load Groove, and Let’s Just Groove. If there are unsaved edits, each of these actions requires confirmation before continuing.
The Groove library is saved in Metronomo’s private storage on your device. Uninstalling the app or clearing its storage (on Android) deletes saved Grooves permanently; there is no cloud sync. Use Export to save a copy of your library any time you want.