Bounce Metronome Pro is the metronome with the bouncing visuals. It beats out the rhythm with the precision of a drum stick or conductor's baton - even for rhythms with swing, syncopation and so on. To find out more - What is special about this metronome software
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“Its secret is incorporating various visual options such as 3D bouncing balls, animated drumsticks and conductor’s baton graphics. Rather like those used in karaoke machines, their rise and fall incorporates a ‘gravity bounce’ that feels like having your own conductor to help you keep in time”
As Reviewed in Sound On Sound Magazine, January 2010
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It is often hard to play exactly in time with a metronome. Now with these new conductor visuals, you can now do this much more easily - even with swing rhythms and the like.
The metronome plays this with sound (and without the occasional pauses during playback you may get with this flash movie).
You can use it as a silent metronome too. Its unique visuals mark the beat with all the precision you need to play exactly in time with a silent metronome.
You can try it out before you buy and find out for yourself what a difference it makes.
Prices: $9.90 for just the Time Signature metronome. $26.99 for the Pro Metronome with swing, polyrhythms etc. (UK prices: £4.99 and £17.99).
It has separate metronomes for the different ways of using the software. With all these metronomes easily selected from a drop list, this software can adapt to your specialist needs.
The sea is animated when you play it - that's an extra touch which makes it pleasant and relaxing to use the metronome. I have taken care over the design so that your many hours of metronome practice can be a pleasant experience.
In fact, you can use any animation you like for the sea or for the sky, even as an animated texture for the bouncing balls or baton. You can even watch a movie in the background with subtitles while you practice with the metronome - if that is your thing :-).
The splash effect helps you to see the moment of the beat clearly.
You can use the numbers to the right to set the time signature and number of subdivisions. You can also use the triangle controls to adjust the beats per measure by hand to make polyrhythms - so in this way can do many tasks entirely within the 3D window.
You click on the dial to set the tempo. You can also tap at the desired tempo with the backspace key (chosen because it is large so easy to use when practicing). It also has an option to vary tempo gradually over a number of seconds or minutes to help with your practice.
You can also use its special easy to use musical script to script all the tempo and time signature changes for an entire musical piece. Then just click the play button and watch it conduct all the rhythms for the piece.
Keyboard shortcuts - use the left and
right arrow keys to increase tempo by 1 BPM at a time or up or down arrow keys to vary by one notch at a time. This works throughout Bounce Metronome Pro.
You can use the Return key to stop or start the metronome - again this is a large key on the keyboard so easy to use while practicing, when it could be fiddly to click on an on-screen button with the mouse.
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Your unlock key also unlocks the "fractal" tunes for Tune Smithy - make fractal music intricate as snowflakes - your very own royalty free music. To read about this feature or to try out the fractal tunes to see what you get, visit: Play and Create Tunes as Intricate as Snowflakes.
Software Conductor, drum sticks and bouncing ball to mark the start of each beat crisply and in time with the sound.
Conducting patterns, and other bounce patterns to help you hit the beat with precision
Set any Tempo with the handy dial.
Any time signatures including odd time signatures like 5/4 etc.
Beat subdivisions
Play the bar beats, beats and subdivisions with different instrument sounds
Accent beats or skip beats
Swing
Or steady tick
Drum and dance rhythms
Syncopation
Any tempo including fractions of a BPM.
Gradual changes of tempo
Polyrhythms (cross rhythms).
Additive rhythms and rhythm cycles
Adjust individual beat volumes and times.
Harmonic metronomes, metronomes with fractal tunes and version of Theremin's Rhythmicon
Song Car Tunes ball bouncing on lyrics
Many more features
There, Theremin's Rhythmicon was the first historical "Drum machine" which played harmonic series polyrhythms. The simulation in Bounce Metronome Pro lets you explore this fascinating concept.