IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMAGES ON THIS PAGE NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. To try out Bounce Metronome you need to get the program from the download page. The images here are snap shots taken of the screen, and are meant to give you a taste in advance of what the Bounce Metronome visuals look like before you download it.
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How the graphics work:
You can click on the diamonds to skip any beat e.g. for syncopated rhythms. Click and drag on the beats to adjust the beat timings.
Use the triangles to the right to change number of parts or number of beats in the bar for each part. The triangles, squares and ovals to the left can be used to hide the bouncing ball for the part, silence the part, or change the instrument it plays.
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The window now has lilt and swing check boxes, Adjust Beats & Lilt, and the Dance etc and Combine Rhythms buttons, also Adjust Changing Tempo & lilt for Bars. There are also more windows and options available throughout the program - for details try out the program or see Details and Features
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Drum stick or Conductor's baton in 3D - skip - skip back
The shadows help to anticipate the exact moment of the beat precisely and the splash helps make the moment of the beat clear.
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Bouncing Ball Lyrics - "Song Car Tunes" - skip - skip back
The ball bounces on the lyrics. The shadow helps you to anticipate the next beat exactly. The red highlight shows the word you are singing now, and the next word to sing is highlighted in blue.
The metronome plays the beats of the rhythm as the ball bounces. Note that the metronome doesn't play the actual tune itself, just the rhythm of the tune. This is on my "to do" list for the future - especially if there is enough interest in this feature, I may add an option to play the tune ini some way - perhaps using abc notation, or maybe by synchronisation with a pre-recorded midi file.
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Adjust Beats and Lilt - skip back
Here you can click on the diamond at the top of any beat to skip it. Click on the beats themselves to adjust the volumes, right click to adjust times.
You can use the buttons to add swing or a lilt to the rhythm or adjust the percentage fields for fine tuning of the swing or lilt. The other buttons and check boxes let you adjust the lilt and swing in subtle ways.
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