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The missing metronome for PCO

v1.1.0

A metronome for your worship team — the set list and its tempos, live from Planning Center, with the click you actually play to.

What it is

The Click is the band’s timekeeper for Sunday. You pick a Sunday, and the set list is just there — every song, in order, each one already carrying its key and its tempo. No typing tempos into a phone before soundcheck, no sticky notes on the kit. Press start, and the count is honest.

It reads the week’s set straight from Planning CenterPlanning Center Online
The church’s own scheduling system, where the worship leader plans each Sunday. The Click only reads from it — it never edits anything., live. Whatever the worship leader plans is what shows up here.

How to play it

1. Pick the Sunday from the date at the top. The songs and their tempos load themselves.
2. Start & stop — the big button, the spacebar, or the left pedal on an AirTurnAirTurn Bluetooth pedal
   A foot pedal that pairs over Bluetooth and sends arrow-key presses. The Click maps the left pedal to start/stop and the right pedal to the next song, so your hands stay on the sticks..
3. Move through the set — the ◀ / ▶ buttons or the right pedal. Advance while it’s running and the click keeps going right through the change, so segues never drop a beat.
4. Tap any song in the set list to jump to it.

The tempo, three ways

Tempo isn’t one number. The Click keeps three, and lets them live together without stepping on each other:

• The home tempo — where a song lives. It rides along in Planning Center and follows the song everywhere. This is the one everybody shares.
• A session tempo — what this room, today wants. Tap − / + to nudge it. It holds through the whole set: across songs, a reload, even if you switch dates and come back. A rehearsal call shouldn’t evaporate the second you look away.
• Right now — the tempo your foot’s actually keeping.

When you’ve drifted off home, a quiet ↺ from 83 tag appears — one tap snaps you back. In the set list, a * sits next to any song you’ve bumped but haven’t made permanent. And when a tempo finally is the truth — this is the one, for everyone, from now on — tap the big number and Save. That writes it home, synced to Planning Center for the whole team. A nudge for tonight, a save for good.

The click

The sound is a real recorded sample, scheduled on a two-clock engineWeb Audio precise scheduling
A lookahead scheduler hands each click to the audio clock a fraction ahead of time, so the beat lands exactly where it should — it doesn’t wander the way software metronomes tend to. so it lands dead on the beat, every beat. Pick your subdivision — 8th / quarter / half / whole — and read the beat dots clear across the room. Don’t know the tempo? Tap the big number and type it in.

Built for everyone at the kit

Accessibility is the heart of this, not a footnote. The display is big and high-contrast so it reads from a few feet away. Turn on Voiceover in settings and it speaks every song change and tempo aloud. The beat dots sit as visible shape so you can feel the bar before one lights. You can run the whole thing from the keyboard or the pedal, and a screen reader is told out loud when the click starts and stops — whether Voiceover is on or not. If a musician can’t lean on their eyes, none of this falls apart for them.

Settings

Voiceover

Speaks song changes and tempos aloud — hands-free and low-vision use.

High Contrast

Maximum contrast for the stage and low light.

Keep Screen On

Holds the screen awake through the service (Wake Lock).

A few honest notes

The team signs in with one shared password — simple on purpose, the kind of thing you can hand a sub thirty seconds before downbeat. And because The Click only reads from Planning Center, it never edits it: if a song turns up without a tempo, the worship leader just adds one in, and from then on it’s there for everybody. The tempos you tweak with −/+ live on the device you set them on — the iPad lives in drum world — until you Save one, which carries it everywhere.