Bounce Metronome Pro is for Windows. Easy to use and powerful. Has a rich set of tempo features, rhythms, & the bounce visuals to help you keep good time.

• Simple and compound time 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
• 2, 3 and 4 subdivisions such as 16th notes
  This is your free to keep taster metronome so far

• All time signatures including odd, such as 5/4, 7/4, 11/4 etc
• Any number of subdivisions

So far this is Bounce metronome Basic for $6.99 with Discounts for education, retired and low income.

Then in the pro metronome you get:

• Swing
• Drum rudiments such as paradiddles
• Polyrhythms
• Mixed meters
• Flamenco Compás

Super-complex challenging metronome rhythms such as:

• 4/4 over 4/3 type polyrhythms for Math Metal & Death Metal
• 4/4 + 7/8 type additive rhythms for Jazz
• Cycles of polyrhythms as used in Indian music
• Additive rhythms with any number of measures for Balkan music

Get everything for $26.99 with Discounts for education, retired and low income.

Suitable for musicians from any musical genre.

Mobile & Mac users

Sorry no version available yet, but see this Poll - at thegearpage.net

However, you can run it on a Mac with VMWare Fusion under XP - probably also with Windows 7 if your computer has enough memory.

Skins

You can use any photo or work of art for the skin, even a totally animated skin: For more about this see Skins and Animations

Other things to explore with Bounce Metronome Pro

• Theremin's Rhythmicon
• Harmonic Metronomes
• Bounce on Lyrics
• Play any chord progression

See Bounce Metronome Explorations

This is the polyrhythmic harmonic series based Rhythmicon

(invention by Theremin - inventor of the Theremin musical instrument).
See: Theremin's Rhythmicon

• Accent measure beat
• Accent any beat
• Accents for any subdivision (e.g. Jazz accents)
• Use any instruments for each rhythm in a polyrhythm
• Use distinctive instruments for each type of beat or subdivision. Even a different instrument for each note in the rhythm.
• Convert any rhythm in beat boxing syllables into the same rhythm on percussion instruments
• Sounds can be stereo panned to follow the bouncing visuals
• 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.

Other metronomes

Is there any other metronome with anything like the rhythm and tempo capabilities of Bounce Metronome Pro? Other software metronomes

How does the Bounce 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.

• When you first play with a metronome, the bounce helps you get started.
• For experienced pros - it makes it much faster to learn new complex rhythms and ones with irregular timing.
• For everyone, the bounce continually encourages you to play more exactly in time, much as a conductor does with his baton.

More thoughts on why the Bounce visuals work so well.

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