[doggit]

The goal was to create a metronome that is more challenging, more interesting and more effective than a standard metronome. Perhaps I have failed ;-)

Seriously, I believe that musicians tend to rely on the down beat being given to them too much. It's a bit of a crutch, i.e. it's easy to play along with a click. It doesn't really improve your 'inner clock' beyond a certain point because you are constantly given these obvious reference points. Take the down beat away (or have it fade out, as does with the software), and you get the subdivisions as reference points, which forces you to 'hear' the pulse internally. You're supposed to play along with the down beat/internal pulse, playing whatever you like, and not necessarily accenting or following the reference pattern.

Hope that makes some sense.