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Look-y Look Settings

In some settings an audio metronome is, like, totally not gonna work. So yeah, we invented the visual metronome—basically a light show for your eyeballs to keep you from driftin' off-tempo like a amateur. The visual settings section in metronome settings serves up these options to make the blinky thing look however you want it to look.

Behavior

The behaviors section is where you tweak how this light-up metronome actually acts. You can mess with:

Wanna turn the whole visual metronome on or off without losin' your other settings? Boom. This is it.

Animate Fade

When you flip this on, the blink color slowly fades away over the beat instead of just snappin' off like a light switch. Default is Off (because we know you're lazy).

This decides how fast the color bounces back to normal. The default is Normal, which keeps the color flashing for half a beat (that's a 1/8 note, if you're countin'). Pick faster & you're halvin' the time each notch. Fast = 1/16 note. Faster = 1/32 note. Slow is the full beat, for those of y'all who need extra hand-holdin'.

Colors

This is the color that flashes when the metronome is, ya know, metronomin'. Tap a row & boom—the Color Builder shows up so you can make your own color or pick from these presets: Black (no flash), Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Grey, or Teal (the cool default we picked for you).

Down Beat Color

The color that screams "FIRST BEAT OF THE MEASURE!" aka the down beat.

Up Beat Color

All the other beats that aren't as important. They know it.

The visual metronome blinks OnSong's menubar like it's havin' a seizure (but, like, musically).

Opacity

You can dial down the intensity so it's not annoyingly bright. Pick anything from Off to 100% in 10% chunks. We defaulted it to 100% because we're jerks.

Primary Display

Besides blinkin' the menubar, OnSong can also flash the border around your main screen. Helpful if you're rockin' without a menubar or just need moar visual oomph.

Opacity

Slide it from Off to 100% in 10% increments. It's cranked to 100% by default because we wanna make sure you really see it.

Thickness

You can also make this flashy border thicc or thin:

  • None = no border flashin' at all. This is the default (boring).
  • Hairline = like, barely there. One pixel of subtle.
  • Thin = 2 pixels. Still kinda shy.
  • Medium = 4 pixels. Now we're talkin'.
  • Thick = 8 pixels. Getting noticeable.
  • Thicker = 12 pixels. Pretty dang obvious.
  • Thickest = 24 pixels. It's basically a neon sign at this point.

External Displays

When you're flexin' in stage monitor mode, your bandmates might also want to stare at a metronome. This section lets you tweak how that looks.

Full Screen

Wanna make the metronome flash across the entire external display? Yeah, you can do that. Default is Off but you can crank it between 10–50% opacity.

Opacity

Controls how see-through the border around the external display is. Slide from Off to 100% in 10% steps. We set it to 80% by default (we're thoughtful like that).

Thickness

Make that flashy border as chunky or dainty as you want, scaled to 720p standards. Pick from None, Hairline (1 point), Thin (2 points), Medium (4 points), Thick (8 points), Thicker (12 points), or Thickest (24 points).

OnSong 2026 — Last Refreshed March 18, 2023