Previously, there was an idea to break out the front panel metronome controls to an outboard keypad & display.
https://hackaday.io/project/80525/log/175545-outboard-front-panel-standing-up
A more practical idea is to pass the headphone output into an outboard box which mixes an outboard metronome with the headphones. It would have preset tempos & a display. It wouldn't put the metronome sound in any recordings. This of course, could be combined with the Wifi recording idea
https://hackaday.io/project/162680/log/181769-wifi-audio-from-the-cp33
It would now be a raspberry pi 4 outside the keyboard, with the existing board of 10 years staying inside the keyboard to capture the I2S signal & send it over USB. The pi would have a standard web interface on a phone. It would add metronome sounds, reverb, dynamic range compression, recording, & VU meters. Recent experience with the ALSA mmap mode showed the latency of audio processing in Linux can be imperceptible if you just don't use any hyped libraries.
Helas, the reverb & compression could never be as good in realtime as it is in Cinelerra. That uses long windowed FFT's & readahead buffers. It would have to use really short FFT's or FIR filters.
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