[kyeates]

Ok, I did test it now - side by side with the old implementation and for me the new version works much better! The clearing of all LEDs in the old implementation always made me "wait" for beat "1" to reappear creating some hickup somehow. Now the dissapearing of the three later LEDs seamlessly leads to beat 1. Works fine! What do the others think?

The new icon also makes an up-to-date impression on the user reflecting the superb capabilities of this great program much better than the old one...

I don't like the present system for the visual metronome. To my way of thinking, beat 1 is the most important beat of the bar,yet the present system puts the least emphasis on beat 1. With beat 1 always being present, it never "appears" as the other beats do. I'd prefer it the old way or, if we stick with the present format,  

1) beat 1 turns a different color when it is beat 1
or
2) that beat 1 disappears when beat 4 appears so you will actually see beat 1 appear at the right time.

I am struggling to understand a visual metronome that does nothing visual for beat 1 of the bar.  

Perhaps, in the same way that one can choose the sound of the metronome and the choose to emphasize the first beat, perhaps there could be away to choose between the original  metronome display and the present display.