Astoria, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/17/2010 -- This metronome with its gravity bounce conductor can show you any rhythm precisely. You can use it to work with tricky rhythms such as swing, polyrhythms, mixed meters etc because the crisp conducting visuals help you play every note exactly in time. Range of rhythms available is vast.

Adds several new metronomes. Includes polyrhythms with mixed note types such as 4/4 over 4/3, Flamenco clock and mixed meters like 4/4 + 7/8 etc. Other new features including Go Silent Briefly, New features for the Gradually Changing Tempo, Custom Conducting Patterns, Instruments for individual beats and beat boxing, Flamenco Clock, Drum Rudiments, etc etc.

With it's crisp and precise Gravity Bounce Conductor visuals, it's like having your own conductor to help you learn even the most tricky rhythms and to help you keep time.

NEW SINCE VERSION 3.2

POLYRHYTHMS WITH MIXED NOTE TYPES

This plays rhythms like 4/4 over 4/3 - it's like a 4 over 3 polyrhythm but you count 4/4 in both parts - so the 4/3 though it has three beats to the measure of the 4/4 rhythm, is played with emphasis every four beats, so has a measure that is a third longer than the 4/4.

FLAMENCO COMPAS "CLOCK"

Plays the 12 beat pattern - basically a 6/8 alternating with 3/4 - which is needed for practice of many Flamenco rhythms,.So it is shown with the 12 at the top for first beat and arranged like a clock face, with balls bouncing inside the clock to show the beats.

MIXED METERS WITH MIXED NOTE TYPES

This lets you play rhythms like 4/4 + 7/8 or 2/4 + 3/8 - also with subdivisions and swing.

NEW WINDOWS

The Conducting patterns window lets you set your own custom conducting patterns - there I just mean the order of the beats such as 3 1 4 2 - doesn't yet let you record a conducting pattern e.g. with mouse or video and play it back.

The Label Beats lets you label individual beats as you like, including a beat boxing feature and an option to auto convert beat boxing syllables to corresponding non melodic percussion instrument sounds that get played on the same beat.

OTHER NEW FEATURES SINCE 3.2

Up / Down arrow key cycles through list of tempi (and optionally time signatures) you set for it. You can also cycle through time signatures at the same time as you change tempo - e.g. 80 bpm in 4/4 then 30 bpm in 3/4 with 2 subdivisions then 120 in 6/8 or whatever.

Go Silent Briefly - The idea here is that you continue to play when the sound stops. Then when the sound comes back again, aim to be exactly in time with the metronome, or as close as you can get to it.

One reason to do this is to help you to learn to keep a steady tempo without a metronome. You can also use it when you learn tricky rhythms e.g. polyrhythms etc, to see if you can keep them going during the measures when the metronome is silent.

Option to select separate instruments for each beat in the rhythm:

New features for the Gradually Changing Tempo - you can now do a stepping progression. E.g. suppose you have set it to gradually increase in tempo by 2 bpm over a period of time, then gradually drop down again by 1 BPM. Now you can also set it to repeat that endlessly as e.g. 100 102 101 103 102 104 ... Then you can set a maximum tempo to stop the stepping progression at, and also set what happens when the progression ends.

You can now export the animations with sound.

FOR DRUM AND DANCE METRONOME

More drum rudiments in the drop list for the Drum & Dance metronome.

New button to make a roll with any number of strokes and a buzz roll in Dance rhythms - or any other rhythms with skipped beats (Ctrl + 228)

Button to make it as a Buzz Roll.

The rhythm editor for the drum metronome now shows the size of the smallest note value as a drop list for all the notations. If you select another note type from the drop list - it remakes the entire rhythm.

So for instance if you want to show your paradiddles using eighth notes or sixteenth notes or whatever, just select the appropriate note value from the drop list and the rhythm will update accordingly.

FREE TASTER

Now has a free taster metronome - after your test drive expires or if you haven't yet started it - you can run the basic metronome as a free taster - with some of the features hidden. Basically like the other ones but the only rhythms you can make are the standard 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8. You can make other rhythms in the other metronomes and then switch to the free taster to play them, so this gives you a free (though deliberately a bit awkward to use) method to play any of the rhythms in the free taster.

FOR RHYTHMICON

New features for the version of Theremin's Rhythmicon - plays harmonic polyrhythms based on the harmonic series interactively - you can silence or play any of the sixteen parts to get different effects just as for the original Rhythmicon with many more features. Added subharmonics, different ways of choosing the harmonics, and option to use custom rhythm patterns for the polyrhythms. Includes as a preset a triplet alternating quarter and eighth note rhythm for all sixteen parts as an ex ample..

For more about the newest features with screen shots, videos etc, see
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/new-developments-in-bounce-metronome-pro.htm

Audio example:
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/audio/polyrhythm-with-many-mixed-note-type-rhythms.mp3

You can see a video of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bUr36B4jo

For the download, screen shots, and more information visit
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/metronome-software.htm
Direct download link:
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/Setup_Bounce_Metronome.exe

The download includes a free 30 day trial with all the features completely unlocked and a completely free taster metronome.

Original for this story - and links to previous press releases:
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/press_release_4_1_aug_10.htm

Software Name: Bounce Metronome Pro
First Release: Wednesday April 15th 2009
Capabilities: Bouncing Ball, drum stick or conductor's baton visuals. Accessible for blind, colour blind, visually impaired and deaf musicians. Rhythm capabilities include:

Any time signature, polyrhythms, mixed meters, cycle of rhythms and polyrhythms, polyrhythms or mixed meters with mixed note types, dance rhythms, drum rudiments such as paradiddles etc, Flamenco clock, swing, syncopated rhythms, gradual tempo changes, go silent briefly. Has melodic capabilities including the randomised fractal tunes and the harmonious intriguing harmonic polyrhythmic metronomes and a version of Theremin's harmonic polyrhythmic rhythmicon. Can play any midi instrument, also CSound instruments and its own in-built Wave Shape Player instruments. Can play any instrument for any beat in the rhythm e.g. for beat boxing. Many other capabilities.

http://www.bouncemetronome.com/

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