drumstick-metronome(1)

drumstick-metronome1

A drumstick command line utility for playing a metronome pattern.

Usage

drumstick-metronome [options]

Overview

This program is a Drumstick example and utility program. You can use it to play a MIDI metronome pattern.

Arguments

The following arguments are required:

-p|--port= client:port

An ALSA client:port specification that will be subscribed in order to send MIDI events to it. The client portion can be a number or a name, like in "20:0" or "KMidimon:0".

The following arguments are optional:

-b|--bpm= BPM

Tempo in beats per minute. Default is 120 BPM.

-h|--help

Prints a summary of the command-line options and exit.

-v|--version

Prints the program version number and exit.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 7–8
  2. 9–10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

License

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, considering as source code any files used for the production of this manpage.

Author

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <[email protected]>

From drumstick 2.11.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.