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Backbeater lets you to monitor your tempo, without click-tracks or metronomes.

Built for iOS devices, the Backbeater is an easy-to-use tempo monitoring App for percussionists.

Backbeater consists of

• The Backbeater iOS App (free on iTunes)
• The Backbeater Drum Sensor
• The Backbeater Wiretap Headphone Splitter (optional)
• The Backbeater iPhone or iPod Hi-Hat Mount (optional)

Version 3.0 of the Backbeater App has many new features

• Analog (dial), or digital readout tempo display
• 4 different tempo averaging windows
• Drift indicators, to show how much your last strike varied from your average tempo
• Built-in optional metronome, with three different sounds
• Time signature selection, for musically-correct tempo readout
• Screen-tap tempo read-out for discreet feedback without striking drum
• Improved sensitivity adjustment, to select for playing dynamics
• Access to iPod library from within app, for playing along to songs
• Metrics to log accuracy, and optionally upload to Backbeater.com leaderboard!

Backbeater keeps you on the beat and in time, every time.

Version 3.0.2 Screenshots