With this metronome you can play a cycle of rhythms and polyrhythms one after another. It's especially useful if you want to make a long cycle of rhythms or a cycle of polyrhythms.
To find this metronome, download Bounce Metronome Pro, and select the Rhythm Cycle Metronome from the drop list. You get a free 30 day Test drive - with all the features completely unlocked. Get your free trial here.
As with the Basic Metronome, you can accent or unaccent beats with RIGHT CLICK, skip beats with LEFT CLICK, adjust beat volumes with MIDDLE CLICK or SHIFT + LEFT CLICK. For details see the page about the Basic metronome.
You can also play your rhythm with swing, or practice with a gradually changing tempo, or add a lilt to the bar timings. For more about this see the page about the Pro metronome.
Here is how you set it up to play 4/4 with 4, 6 and then 8 notes per beat:
You just do all the ticks per measure you want. So with 6 ticks per measure and 4 beats per measure, you want 4 ticks per measure for the beats, and 24 ticks per measure for the subdivisions (6 * 4). So you enter that rhythm as 4/24 - note - that's not a time signature. It is just a quick notation for entering several different numbers of ticks per measure simultaneously.
So for instance if you wanted a measure with a polyrhythm with 3, 4 and 7 beats per measure simultaneously you'd do it as 3/4/7.
You can actually do lots more than this, you can play different instruments for each measure, play each rhythm for as many measures as you like, with changes of tempo and so on - you do that using the Script window with its easy to use script. Basically you can do just about anything you like once you get into the details of how the program works.
But this metronome gives you a very quick and easy way to set up rhythm cycles.
