Extra Downloads

Extra Skins - Animated Skins - Midi to Wav - Extra Video formats - Extra sound formats - CSound

Extra Skins

You can add many new skins to Bounce Metronome Pro with these installers:

For an idea of what they look like see the Activity Timer Extra Skins page - these extra skins are the same for both programs.

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Animated Skins

For an idea of what they look like see the Animated Skin page.

There's one animated skin included with the program already - to try it out choose Animated Caustics Skin in the Visuals menu of Bounce Metronome Pro.

I've made a number of other animated skins using caustics in the same way. This installer will include those and possibly some more. But I haven't made it yet. Ready fairly soon - let me know if you are particularly interested to see it, won't take long to do just that I have other things which tend to take priority so I haven't got around to it yet.

Meanwhile though, you can also drag and drop any animation you have into the Skins window to use as an animated skin - then use the fade to background feature if the text is hard to read (as it probably will be for most animations). For instance here I tested it with the animation that comes with windows 7 - an animation of seals, birds and other wildlife running in the background behind the text, which is rather a nice effect.

(EXTRA ANIMATED SKINS NOT YET READY, WILL DO THEM FAIRLY SOON)

This skin installer will add extra animated skins.

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Midi to Wav

This adds the Timidity plug in, which you can use to convert midi files to audio files.

bounce_metronome_timidity_midi_to_wav_setup.exe [4.4 MB]

This is used to add sound to your exported animations of the bouncing visuals in EXPORT ANIMATION ... (Ctrl + 234). It's also used for the button to convert your saved midi file recordings to WAV in the Record to File (Ctrl + 11) window.

It installs a copy of timidity into a subfolder of the programs folder, and also installs the timidity sound font so that you can start doing midi to wav right away with no extra configuration needed.. If you have timidity already installed you can use that instead, configure Timidity in the Add Sound to Animation Export (Ctrl + 242) window. You can also use that window to change the sound font for the midi to wav rendering, and change the volume, also advanced users can vary the parameters for Timidity, e.g. to add effects such as reverb.

Timidity is licensed under the GPL Open Source license - which means you can't modify the code or use it as a dll in a commercial program. However, here I'm using it here as a command line tool. This is acceptable under the GPL. See Can I release a non-free program that's designed to load a GPL-covered plug-in?.

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Extra Video Formats

Bounce Metronome Pro comes pre-installed with avi only.

This installer adds the MEncoder plug in to add .mov, .mp4, .flv, .asf, .mkv, .3gp, .flv and many more video formats.

You can use these file formats for the animated sky and textures and for the option to output animations as movies.

bounce_metronome_video_encoders_setup.exe [4.4 MB]

Note on the MEncoder license:

MEncoder is licensed under the GPL Open Source license - which means you can't modify the code or use it as a dll in a commercial program. However, here I'm using it here as a command line tool. This is acceptable under the GPL. See Can I release a non-free program that's designed to load a GPL-covered plug-in?. Indeed, many other commercial programs are bundled with MEncoder, for examples see the list under Video Encoding Tools and later on the MEncoder Projects page.

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Extra Sound Formats

Bounce Metronome Pro comes pre-installed with midi, waveform audio and mp3 suppport. Quite possibly that may be all you will ever need.

If you wish to add extra audio recording formats such as sun au, ogg vorbis, etc, to Bounce Metronome Pro, you can do it with this installer:

bounce_metronome_sound_encoders_setup.exe

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CSound

The CSound options in Bounce Metronome Pro give you more options for rendering audio clips, also for playing in realtime too if you use it with CSoundAV.

Most users don't need this, but if you want to explore more instrumental sounds for the rhythms then it may be useful to you.

Add CSound support with this installer:

CSound_Setup64_With_Manual.exe [1.75 MB]

This CSound installer adds a minimal version of CSound, with just what you need to be able to make CSound recordings using Bounce Metronome.

After you have installed it, Bounce Metronome should find it automatically and use it to render CSound recordings.

For those who already have recent versions of CSound and prefer to use those in Bounce Metronome Pro as well - you can browse to find your CSound Renderer in Bounce Metronome Pro's CSound Renderer window (Ctrl + 180) - go there and browse to find consound, winsound, or csound, all of which can be used to render the scores and orchestras.

Even if you already have your own version of CSound, you can install this one as well - it does no harm to have extra copies of CSound on your computer.

You need CSoundAV if you want to play your CSound instruments in real time. You can start it up from Bounce Metronome Pro from the Csound Instruments for Parts window (Ctrl + 169).

You get it here: CSoundAV download page

For more about all this, see CSound for Bounce Metronome - and particularly Using CSoundAV with Bounce Metronome.

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