Metronome on stage

The stage view has its own metronome strip in the top region — separate from the practice popover and scoped to whatever song is currently up. Beat-aware visuals, no click by default, optional broadcast to the whole band.

The strip

The strip lives in the top region, below the now/next title row. It shows BPM, the current pulse, play/pause, and a kebab menu for sound + time signature.

When you switch songs, the metronome auto-applies that song's BPM if it has one set. Time signature is sticky from your last setting.

[screenshot: stage strip — pulse indicator + BPM]

Visual beat (edge pulse)

The screen border flashes on each beat. The accent is configurable in Band settings under stage-view options:

• Beat emphasis: downbeat-only — flashes on the 1 only. Quieter, less visually noisy.
• Beat emphasis: all beats — every beat flashes, with downbeat brighter.
• Visual beat: off — disable the edge pulse entirely.

The visual beat is per-band, not per-user — every member's stage view uses the band's setting.

Visual-only mode

The metronome strip's kebab menu has a visual-only toggle. When on, the pulse animation runs but the audio click is silenced. Useful when you're listening to a backing track or click from an in-ear monitor mixer.

In-ear broadcast (leader only)

The band leader can broadcast the click to every member's device via the same Durable Object sync that handles song position. With broadcast on:

• The leader's metronome state (BPM, time signature, sound, downbeat phase) ships to every follower.
• Each follower's stage strip mirrors the state and aligns its audio scheduler to the leader's perceived downbeat.
• Members listen on their own in-ear monitors or earbuds.

To enable: the leader opens the metronome strip's kebab menu and toggles Broadcast click. The button is only visible when you're the leader AND the sync connection is open.

Heads up: Broadcast click requires a feature flag (metronome_broadcast_click) to be enabled for your band. Bands in the private beta have it on; new bands may not until the feature is generally available. If you don't see the option, the flag's off.

What the metronome doesn't do

• It doesn't follow the song. The BPM is locked to your setting (or the song's BPM); it doesn't drift or sync to a recording.
• It doesn't drive autoscroll. Autoscroll uses song duration; the metronome doesn't touch it.
• It doesn't show on the practice popover the same way — that's a separate compact panel.

What's next

• Band sync — the same DO channel carries metronome broadcast.
• Per-song metronome — the practice version.
• Stage view overview — the bigger picture.