Lo Facil Me Caga

A programmable metronome

Under GPL license

Lo Facil Me Caga it's the metronome for instrument players, composers, singers, musicians, etc. Interested in rhythmically complex music. If you need it you'll find a use for it. Main features are:

limitless number of sounds (as much as you can create)
structure definitions (using those sounds)
tempo changes
subdivisions
sequencing capabilities for all of the above
all of this described in a simple text file

it's up to your creativity what you can do with this features. Actually it's console based(not a problem but a feature). The grafical user interface(GUI) it's in progress. Runs on Windows(not a feature but a problem).

Here is an example of a file describing a sequence:

% lines beginning with a % will be ignored by the program

%===============
% Example file =
%===============


% sound definitions
stick = "bastoneto"; % bastoneto is the name of a wav file, it's not necessary
                     % to write the extension. You can also write the full
                     % path to the file.
hh = "cxarlestono";  % cxarlestono is the esperanto word for hi-hat
noise = "bruo";    

% structure definitions
entry = stick*3;     % repeat stick sound three times
three = noise, hh*2; 


% sequence
sinsekvo
  pulso 160 % tempo = 160 bpm
  entry     % play the entry structure
  eko       % lines above will not repeat again
  three*2   % structure used as measure
  subd 3    % divide by 3 current tempo
  three*3   % structure used as beat
  subd 1    % restore tempo
  % delete the comment character in the next line to play just once
  % fino
;
% END

You can get it here.