Update, 5th June 2014 - Sample precise sample playing, multi-touch keyboard and muliti-touch theremin, easier to use tempo and rhythm changes, polyrhythmic subdivisons, other minor features and bug fixes.

This upload brings you - first new option to import any samples you like as new non melodic "instruments" to play the rhythms - and do all the playing within Bounce Metronome itself at extremely high precision timed at the sample level in the audio stream.

If you have a touch screen device with multi-touch - tested on the Surface Pro - you can now play any of the on screne keyboards with multi-touch so you can play chords by touching several points at once. With the surface Pro you can get ten finger multi-touch - each finger plays a different note.

Then - in the automatic tempo and rhythm player - added a new "All in one" window which you'll probably find helpful if you use that feature. Other minor details and bug fixes.

New Sample Playing feature

You can take a sample you recorded yourself - or one you downloaded, for instance from freesound.org - or many other online sources for free, and for commercial samples and sample packs - and in an easy process, just browse to find it to  import it into Bounce Metronome and you can immediately play it as a new percussive instrument.

The advantage of this is that you can have extremely high precision if everything is done in Bounce Metronome itself at the sample level instead of going via midi - well sub millisecond precision of timing. Also lets you use any sounds you like for the clicks.

Here it is in action

That video also shows the polyrhythmic subdivisions in action - it's just a minor feature - but you can now make these rhythms more easily by selecting polyrhythmic subdivisions from a drop list of default subdivisions - or enter them into the subdivisions field as e.g. 2:3:5 or whatever it is you want.

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