Bounce Metronome 4.5

Beginners find the bounce visuals wonderfully easy to use. Professional musicians are amazed by its advanced rhythm capabilities. It's like "your own conductor to help you keep time" SOS rev. 2010 Accessible for deaf, colour blind & visually impaired musicians, and especially designed to help musicians with metronome technique. RHYTHM FEATURES: * Steady metronome tick * All time signatures including odd, such as 5/4, 7/4, 11/4 etc * Swing * Drum rudiments such as paradiddles * Buzz rolls with any number of strokes * Notated rhythms * Additive rhythms like 3+2+3/4 * Flamenco Compás * Polyrhythms like 4:3 (cross rhythms). * Polymeters like 2/4 with 3/8 (same beat size for each rhythm, measures differ). * Rhythm progressions (e.g. for the sections of a song) COMPLEX RHYTHM FEATURES * 4/4 over 4/3 type polyrhythms (Brian Ferneyhough's notation) * 4/4 + 7/8 type additive rhythms for Jazz * Cycles of polyrhythms as in Indian music * Rhythm phasing as in music of Steve Reich SOUNDS * Accent any beat, or skip beats with a single click * Adjust individual beat volumes and times. * Auto accents (e.g. Jazz accents), * Sounds stereo panned to follow the bouncing ball as an extra cue for your position in the measure. * Use a different sound for each part or even every note * Harmonic metronome and rhythmicon to explore interactions of rhythms and pitches * Chord progressions played in time with the bounce * Use ny instrument, percussion or melodic, so long as it can be played via midi. * Beeps, and other sounds with its Wave Shape Player * Preview rhythm melodically, as a fractal tune TEMPO * Tap in time with music to set tempo * Set any tempo - not limited to 24 to 208 bpm * Fractional BPM. * Can do gradual tempo changes, faster or slower * Stepping progressions for speed drills * Programmable with tempo and rhythm progressions * Go silent briefly - to help internalize a precise sense of time.

Requirements:

sound card

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Major Update
Added tuplets to the Drum & Dance rhythm editor including nested and fragmentary tuplets as in the music of Brian Ferneyhough and Frank Zappa's black page. More flexibility for the automatic tempo and rhythm changes. Added Euclidean rhythms, and a Polyrhythmic Drum Machine preset.
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