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.

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.