Rhythms
Has everything you expect in a modern metronome, and you also get polyrhythms, swing, mixed meters and many rare and unusual rhythms
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All time signatures including odd (e.g. 5/4)
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Any number of subdivisions
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Polyrhythms of all types. Includes the rare and unusual 4/4 over 4/3 type rhythms (a desired feature for math metal etc.)
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Swing and syncopation
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Mixed meters of all types including the rare 4/4 + 7/8 type rhythms (a desired feature for Jazz etc.)
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Cycles of polyrhythms as used in Indian music etc..
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Flamenco Compás
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Drum rudiments such as paradiddles
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and many more rhythms
Suitable for musicians from any musical genre.
Sounds
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Accent measure beat
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Accent any beat
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Accents for any subdivision (e.g. Jazz accents)
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Use any instruments for each rhythm in a polyrhythm
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Use distinctive instruments for each type of beat or subdivision. Even a different instrument for each note in the rhythm.
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Convert any rhythm in beat boxing syllables into the same rhythm on percussion instruments
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Sounds can be stereo panned to follow the bouncing visuals
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any instrument, percussion or melodic, so long as it can be played via midi.
Pro musicians often have extra sound sets installed such as Garritan personal orchestra. There are free solutions too for increasing your range of instruments such as SynthFont and free sound fonts or .gig files, and VSTi and many other software instruments. Or you can play the sounds on any sound module or synth with midi input.
Why do the Bounce visuals help?
Many musicians have told me how much easier they find it to learn new rhythms with this metronome.
So - why is that? Think about that familiar moment when an orchestral conductor comes onto the stage at the start of a performance, silent and motionless for a moment or two.
Then he raises and drops the baton, and you hear a single chord with all the instruments wonderfully in time with each other. This simple visual cue is enough for all the players to come in, synchronised to within a millisecond or two.
In the same way the visuals in Bounce Metronome Pro let you see when to play each note before you come to it. It is easy and natural like anticipating the bounce of a bouncing ball.
This is helpful whether you are a beginer or pro or whatever your level of experience or training.
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For beginners struggling to play with a metronome at all - the visuals help you to see as well as hear the moment of the beat.
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For experienced pros - this makes it much faster to learn new complex rhythms such as polyrhythms, and ones with irregular timing such as swing.
Also for everyone, the visuals continually encourage you to play more in time and refine your sense of rhythm and tempo, much as a conductor does.
“I found it reliable enough to abandon audio clicks altogether and use as a silent metronome, which also makes it useful for deaf musicians. ”
Martin Walker, PC Notes, Sound On Sound Mag., 2010
Terrific Robert! This program should be in the arsenal of every musician. There's something about the bounce that keeps the practicing vibrant
It's a great and fun tool.
- Dan Axelrod
Skins
You can use any photo or work of art for the skin, even a totally animated skin
Other things you can explore with Bounce Metronome Pro include:
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Theremin's Rhythmicon
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Harmonic Metronomes
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Bounce on Lyrics
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Play any chord progression - just copy / paste any progression in standard chord symbols such as A7 etc. into Bounce Metronome and play it synchronised with the bounce.