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What's New - Monday January 11th 2010Intro - What's new in this upload - Earlier uploads and first release IntroThe version number is shown as 3.2 because it was originally one of the tasks of Tune Smithy. The release of Tune Smithy is currently at version 3.0. Next update of Tune Smithy will be version 3.2 (or later depending on what version date Bounce Metronome reaches by then) What's new in this uploadMonday January 11th 2010 Fixed minor bugs in sync of visuals with the sound played especially on slower machines. Some work on the Midi Sync Send window, which is still "WORK IN PROGRESS" Installer for: 11th January 2010 Monday December 28th 2009 You can now use Ctrl or Shift + left or right arrow to micro-adjust the tempo by a fifth, tenth or (both together) a hundredth of a BPM. Fixes some bugs in the synchronisation of the sounds played with the visuals. Also Ctrl + Shift + Z undo doesn't work for skipped beats - fixed. Installer for: 28th December 2009 Monday December 21st 2009 Adds sound to the animation save with a new window This includes an option to automatically convert midi recordings to WAV using the timidity plug in which you can get from the Extra Downloads page. Added support for Windows 7 multi-touch - to play chords with the PC Keyboard Player (Ctrl + K or Ctrl + 112) and in other places e.g. you can adjust the timing of several beats simultaneously or accent / skip several beats at once in the Bouncing Balls display. To try this out if you have a multi-touch device, switch on Recognise MultiTouch in the Options - General (Ctrl + 202) dialog. I'll be doing more work on this later. Many minor bug fixes and improvements in the synchronisation of the sound with the bouncing balls. Installer for: 21st December 2009 Thursday November 26th 2009 Minor bug fixes and improvements in layout. Installer for: 26th November 2009 Tuesday November 24th 2009 Bug fixes for the new window and some other minor bug fixes. Minor improvements in tool tip help for the new window. Installer for: 24th November 2009 Monday November 23rd 2009 window is now active - in the Tempo drop menu. What it does is to add a tap timing strip to the 2D bouncing balls window which you can use to practice tapping ahead of the beat, behind the beat and on the beat. Some minor bug fixes. Installer for: 23rd November 2009 Friday November 20th 2009 Added Time Signature to the 3D Bouncing Balls window - this makes it easier to change the time signature or number of subdivisions without any need to leave the 3D Bouncing Balls window. A couple of the windows had got rather large with too many features, and needed to be split into smaller windows. So, split the 3D Images or Animations - for Sea Sky, & Bouncing Balls... into two windows with a separate window for the 3D Bouncing Balls. Also split the Skins window into three, with separate windows for the buttons and for the skin animations. Some minor bug fixes Installer for: 20th November 2009 Thursday November 19th 2009 Big improvement in the animated skins so that they now work smoothly on a fast enough computer, with no flickering text at all. If you have an older computer the animated skins will have a very slow frame rate like maybe one or two per second or less. However, you can also show slide shows as the skin background on slower computers. Added example animated skin using animated caustics made with caustics generator from Dual Heights software. For a screen shot and more about the animated skins see Animated Skin. Also added animated sea examples for the 3D scene, preset to show the simplest example which is animated just by turning the image around in 3D so that you see the texture from different angles - gives an effect like waves breaking in a light breeze on a fairly calm day. Work on the script to permit continuously sliding scripted pitch of the 1/1, so e.g. you can have a continuous swoop of any note from say 50 Hz to 1000 Hz - with some example scripts. These work best with the Waveform instruments since they can be changed in pitch smoothly without the need to resound for every new midi note in the pitch range. Many minor improvements and speed ups in the skin refresh and minor bug fixes and minor new features. You'll see those if you go to More twice in the Skins window. Added option to convert folder of images into an avi file in Settings and Encoder (Ctrl + 238). Fixed some other bugs, mostly minor, too many to list individually. Installer for: 19th November 2009 Thursday November 5th 2009 Minor improvements in smoothness of animations in low CPU situations, particularly, if it needs to reduce the CPU load by dropping frames, starts by dropping alternate frames. Only drops consecutive frames if that isn't enough to reduce the CPU load below the maximum value the user has set. Added a Fast Timer option to the More version of Bounce Preferences (Ctrl + 228) - this lets you run the animations at more than the 32 fps which is the normal limitation for the slower timer. 32 fps is generally considered to be okay for computer animations but more than this may make them slightly smoother. Installer for: 5th November 2009 Wednesday November 4th 2009 Minor improvements in tool tip help and layout of some windows. Installer for: 4th November 2009 Tuesday November 3rd 2009 Later in the day: Added option to show rectangle behind the srt subtitles. Bug fix. Installer for: 3rd November 2009 3D Visuals - Sky, Sea, Textures or Animations (Ctrl + 235)If you select Tile or Tile reflected for the sea, you can now set the number of repeats in both directions and angle of repeat. One situation this is useful - to tile it with caustics to give an impression of the sea. With animated caustics you can get an impression of moving water. You can make these types of textures and animated textures with the Caustics generator from Dual Heights. I've been testing it here with caustics, and I'll add some examples in a future download. Will also probably use an animated caustic as the example for the animated skin feature as well when it is ready. Settings for Aninmated Textures and Skies (Ctrl + 238)Added option to show the srt subtitlesat the bottom of the scene, preset to switched on. Bounce Patterns (Ctrl + 227)Added option to bounce right to left first for bounce both ways and to bounce right to left instead of left to right for the bounce left to right option. Added new option Bounce on top of previous bounces. At present this is only for the bounce back and forth and bounce left to right. Could also do it for the bounce inside or outside ovals. Added new option Sync if possible - the idea is that if beats are a multiple of each other (or more generally have a common divisor) so that the ball bounces synchronise with each other several times in the bar, then the balls should bounce in the same direction as each other. Installer for: 3rd November 2009 Sunday November 1st 2009 Added gradient fill options to the plain background colour (either vertical or horizontal gradient fill) - this also works with the textures if you switch on fade to background colour - it will then fade to a gradient fill - but with texture the gradient fill is over the texture width or height with the plain background it uses the window width and height. Added an option to bounce upside down so that the bounces are off the top of the bouncing balls iwndow instead of off the "ground". Added check box to use the skin background seamlessly as the sky for the 2D bouncing balls. Made a bit more space to enter text into the Polyrhythm Metronome window. Renamed the Fractional Rhythms metronome to Fractional Polyrhythm metronome (more accurately describes what it does). Added option to read all the images in a folder as an animation - to use it drag and drop the folder containing the images into the Skins window with the experimental Animated skins feature switched on - the animated skins are still an alpha feature with the vanishing and flickering text but should be able to fix that soon. The images in the folder are used as successive frames for the animation in sort order - so this same approach if you set a longer time betweeen frames could also be used to make the skin a "slide show" of all the images in a folder. Installer for: 1st November 2009 Saturday October 31st 2009 Installer for: 31st October 2009 New version of the tempo dial with irregular sized notches like a standard dial for a metronome- notches of 2 BPM at slow tempi and going up to 8 BPM notches for fast tempi. The effect is to spread out the tempo markings more so that the Presto occupies a smaller region to the right of the dial. The old version of the dial is still available if you prefer it that way - go to the Tempo Dial - Visuals & Preferences (Ctrl + 223) and unselect "Uneven notches like standard dial". Improved layout and fixed some confusing messages in the out device capabilities wizards, also in the Out Devices Capabilities window (Ctrl + 106). Ditto, improved Edit the Melodic Instruments Menu (Ctrl + 157) and added capability to read menus of instruments in the Cakewalk .ins file format. Added option to show the bouncing balls as bouncing images or as bouncing animations. Use Shift + drop to drop any image or animation into the bouncing balls window and use it as the texture for the bouncing balls instead of the sky. Includes the bouncing text, bouncing polygons and the shadows, all will be textured. Also all can be faded or coloured with the bouncing ball colour. The images or animations can also be used as "sprites" with the background colour treated as transparent. You can choose which of nine possible pixels to treat as transparent from top left, top middle, top right etc all the way to bottom right - then any other pixels in the image same in colour or within a particular tolerance you set will also be treated as transparent. With the animations, the pixel is recalculated for each frame so it doesn't matter if the background colour changes between scenes. To find all this see Bouncing Balls & Sky Image or Animation (Ctrl + 236). Made it so that you can drop an image into the Skin & Textures window (Ctrl + 162) to make a new skin with that image as the background. Also added an option to show a plain background colour, set to anything you like, either just as a plain colour on its own, or to fade the image to the colour. This helps with high contrast images to make the text in the windows easier to read. As an experimental feature i've also added animated skins. The background image for the skin can actually be an animation, again just drop the animation into the window. The coding for this is nearly done, but it has flickering or vanishing text for the radios, check boxes and static text. I know how to fix this, pretty sure anyway, so may be able to fix it for next upload. This is an innovation as far as I know, I don't know of any other program that has animated textures for the skin. The animated textures may well be slow on an older machiine so are preset to 1 fps and also automatically pause when the program starts up. But I'm gradually speeding them up with various tweaks, and they have reached the point where apart from the flickering text they are tolerable on a modern computer, and can play e.g. 12 fps, enough to seem like continuous motion, faster if the animation has a small frame size. So, hopefully eventually can become quite smooth once I fix the flicker, by eventually I mean in a few days if all goes well depending on how much time I have to work on it. This work on streamlining the textures to make them suitable for animated skins also has had the effect of making the skin change more instantly and smoothly when you change settings in the Skins window and for window contents to update more quickly when you resize a window or maximise or restore a window.. Added a pause button for the bouncing balls even when the sound isn't playing. Both 2D and 3D. Added option to configure the height of the bounce - maybe you don't want the bounce to go all the way up to the top of the window. You can do that in Bounce Patterns (Ctrl + 227) which is also improved in its layout. Improved the layout of the Waveform Instruments menu (formerly Wave Shape Player but I thought Waveform Instruments describe what it does more clearly). Also added square wave as a new option and sawtooth, as frequently used waveforms. These can be rather harsh sounding for music, because of the sharp sudden discontinuous changes in the wave - particularly the square wave, so they are there mainly so that you can play them if you need them rather than for music making particularly. Put all the settings to do with the Mencoder animation conversions into a new window Settings for animated TExtures and Skies (Ctrl + 238). This leaves more space in the other windows and avoids duplicating the settings in the relevant windows. Added tempo strip to the bouncing balls window to make it easy to change tempo when main window is hidden. This is in: Bouncing Balls - Controls, Text and layout (Ctrl + 233). Adds arrow key shortcuts to easily change tempo by one BPM or one notch. It's left and right arrows for BPM and up or down arrows for notches. Numerous minor bug fixes. Here is the installer for this date: Installer for: 31st October 2009 Wednesday October 21st 2009 Adds option to hide the main window - go to File | Hide Main Window. Adds animated textures for the sky, sea, bouncing balls and background to the 2D bouncing balls. To find this feature go to and . Also in the More version for the 3D bouncing balls, added options to vary the material for the bouncing balls and the sea with choice of Ruby, Gold, Silver, ... Also added support for many more output formats to . This is done using MEncoder, so visit the Extra Downloads page to get it to add support for these formats. You will also be able to use any of these types of video as animated textures as well, i.e. for input as well as output. Supported file formats include: Separate Frames, .AVI, .MP4, .WMV, .MOV, .ASF, .MKV, .3G2, .3GP, .TS, .M2TS, .VOB, .FLV, .DAT, .RM, .RMVB .DPG, .FLI, .FLIC, .SMV, .STR, .SWF, .VIV, .OGM, .TIVO, .MMV Added some new options to . They configure what happens to the swing or individual beats for changes of time signature: Keep swing (preset to selected), Keep skipped beats, Keep Edited Beat Times, Keep Edited Beat Volumes. This can be useful if you want to e.g. vary number of subdivisions or vary the time signature based rhythms in other ways and keep the skipped beats, volumes etc. Also added warning message if you make a rhythm with time signatures after editing the beat times or volumes. If you don't need to see this warning you can switch it off in the More version of the window. Fixes some minor bugs Installer for: 21st October 2009 Wednesday October 14th 2009 Improvements in the SHIFT + F1 tool tip help for the metronome main windows - made the Quick Start nearer the top of the page and edited it for clarity and succinctness. Added a drop list of common denumerators for the time signature - as 1 to 16. If you use Backspace to delete a number then improved the tool tip you get about the BACKSPACE tempo tap to suggest you use Highlight and Delete as an alternative to switching off the tempo tap. Some minor bug fixes. Installer for: 14th October 2009 Tuesday October 13th 2009 Some minor bug fixes. Also, installer now includes many example instruments for the Wave Shape Player. I forgot to include them in the earlier installers, sorry. Installer for: 13th October 2009 Monday October 12th 2009 Added and to the window: This lets you start play at any measure (bar) in the tune - previously you had to start at a particular time but measures are often more convenient for rhythms. Also you can set it to stop automatically as well. Added Note On and Note Off instructions to the script, with examples in the drop list of special instructions in including an option to play them as repeating notes, also to play them with fade in and fade out. Now any controller can be auto scripted with new script instruction Controller for part, example: Controller for part 1 = controller 7 = 127 Also you can now morph the controller for any part over a period of time, e.g. gradually increase or decrease the expression, channel volume, modulation, tremelo etc - just as you could morph the tempo and volume etc before. Example instruction to show how to do this added to the list of special script instructions. Many minor bug fixes. Installer for: 13th October 2009 Installer for: 12th October 2009 Thursday September 24th 2009 When you have play script switched on in Script (Ctrl + 171) now shows that it is switched on in the main window with PLAYING SCRIPT prefixed to the title. Also the Script... entry in the menu is ticked. This helps with confusions where one may not realise that you have a script playing. Installer for: 24th September 2009 Wednesday September 23rd 2009 Minor bug fixes Installer for: 23rd September 2009 Tuesday September 22nd 2009 Added . Added Stop Play to the . This is useful if you want the rhythm to stop automatically after a set number of seconds, or bars after you press the play button. Also Beep which may be useful as an alarm for practice along with a script. Added several other script instructions (from the Tune Smithy fractal tunes tasks). Replaced "Bar" by "measure" throughout the help and the program for US users. If you are from the UK then it will be shown as "Bar" as before. Made the check box to choose which you want easier to find - it is now in Added "" to the same window. This lets you show any frame in the animation for any time by stopping the tune and the bouncing balls. You can then e.g. explore it at different angles in the 3D window and so on. This can be useful as a way to look closely at the frame for any desired time. You can then print the frame, save it as an image or copy it to the clipboard at any desired resolution using . Added , and to , also to . Installer for: 22nd September 2009 Friday September 18th 2009 Now you can use concentric ellipses for the bounce outside ellipse. Fixed some bugs in positioining for bounce inside and outside ellipse. Installer for: 18th September 2009 Thursday September 17th 2009 Minor bug fixes upload Installer for: 17th September 2009 Tuesday September 15th 2009 Minor bug fixes upload Installer for: 15th September 2009 Friday September 13th 2009 Minor bug fixes upload Installer for: 13th September 2009 Tuesday September 15th 2009 Minor bug fixes upload Installer for: 11th September 2009 Wednesday September 9th 2009 Minor bug fixes upload Installer for: 9th September 2009 Thursday September 3rd 2009 Program is now thoroughly tesed in Windows 7. Added. This lets you make smoothly looping animations of any of the rhythm videos e.g. for a web page. You can also make an image for any moment of time in the rhythm, and print it out to printer's resolution too if you wish (except for the bouncing lyrics - they are currently limited to your screen resolution). I'll be using it to add many more animations to this web site in the near future. Changed the way the option works in . It used to be on the same line as the word you are currently singing. But that makes the two words together very long so that if the window is narrow they can't easily fit in the screen. Instead now the next word in brackets is placed below the one you are singing now, which works much better. If you have it set to show the lyrics in canon however, e.g. for Frère Jacques,, then it will show the next word on the same line as before. Improved the layout for in . Also added the lyric itself as editable text so now you can edit the lyrics directly in Bounce Metronome Pro. If you want to add your lyric to the drop list you still need to edit it by hand for now. Later on (espcially if there is a lot of interest in this feature) I can do it so you can easily add lyrics to the drop list - or edit them, move it around, make different drop lists and so on, also add abc music capabilities as well so that the program can play the tunes for the lyrics. Added to . When unselected (which is the way it was before this upload), the bouncing numbers and letters bounced a bit above the "ground" in both 2D and 3D. That's because they bounced so that the descent of each character hit the line e.g. a y would hit, but most letters and numbers e.g. a, 1, etc appear to bounce a bit above the baseline. Added When ready, this should help you to synchronise the midi notes of the metronome when sent to another program that recognises the use of the Midi "Clock" messages to synchronise tempi. However it is work in progress, based on the same window in Tune Smithy 3.1 and will need some testing to make sure everything is working as expected in BM Pro. There may be nothing to fix, but if there are any issues, expect an update of it with next upload. Added an obvious button on the tempo dial which will appear there for the duration of test drive. This frees up the Standard Settings button which can now be shown in the test drive just as it is in the fully unlocked version of the program. You can also easily hide this new button at any time during the test drive. So it's not meant as a limitation or feature restriction in any way. It is just intended as a way to help any users who may want to buy the program and want to be able to find the Buy Now window quickly and easily. Installer for: 3rd September 2009 Friday August 21st 2009 Added option to. Minor improvements in way the tool tip works - main thing - if the help window isn't visible, then you get the ... at the end of the tip replaced by help saying that it is Shift + F1 for the extra help. Also minor improvements in the pan window and added the option to set auto pan for any part individually. Old installer: 21st August 2009 Saturday August 15th 2009 Better message for the "" message you get if you enter an incorrect user name or unlock key or a pair that don't match. I frequently get asked by users what it means, now the message itself explains what it means. Message now reads: "Sorry, this user name and unlock key don't match each other Have you entered your name exactly as it appears on your order e-mail? Any use of nick-names or alternative spellings will prevent the key from working: The best way to make sure of this is to COPY AND PASTE your USER NAME and LICENSE KEY from your order e-mail into this window. Please try again. Any questions at all, be sure to contact Robert Walker - support@robertinventor.com Thanks!" Old installer: 15th August 2009 Tuesday August 11th 2009 , in . - now preset to ON. Very minor bug fixes. Old installer: 11th August 2009 Sunday August 9th 2009 Improved layout of (Ctrl + 226), (Ctrl + 225), and Added to Added to . (Ctrl + 225) Added to . (Ctrl + 226) Added method of spinning the 3D bouncing balls around to view from different directions using Alt + click and drag - and zoom in / out with mouse wheel etc. - also added Alternative 3D views: ,, , . Added , and to . Added to the droplist of auto pan styles in Minor improvements in the visuals. Old installer: 9th August 2009 Monday August 3rd 2009 Added to - this lets you adjust the height of the blocks display in the bouncing balls display. Added to - this has the effect that the ball expands and shrinks during the bounce. Bug fixes. Old installer: 3rd August 2009 Saturday July 25th 2009 Minor improvement in message for play by file association, very minor bug fixes. Tuesday July 21st 2009 Minor bug fixes mainly to do with . Minor improvements in for the option to show the tips in a web page format. Monday July 20th 2009 Added . Fixed some bugs in this option and improved the layout of the web page format version of it, and made so that it is preset to show the tips in a web page format (previously available e.g. using its shortcut Ctrl + Shift + F1). Minor improvements in . Fixed some minor bugs. Minor improvements in the tool tip help. Old installer: 20th July 2009 (later version) Tuesday July 14th 2009 Put all the options to do with layout and text from into a new window . It had too many options for one window. Also improved layout of the window. Fixed some bugs in rarely used display options in those windows. Monday July 13th 2009 Minor bug fixes Sunday July 12th 2009 Added half circle controls to left and right of the bouncing balls display which you can use to show / hide the blocks or the parts adjustments. This means those extra check boxes can be removed from the main window leading to a simpler more streamlined look. Also you can show / hide them within the bouncing balls display as a separate window. The half circle controls themselves can be hidden if you prefer, using in the Some very minor bug fixes. Monday July 6th 2009 More Improvements and minor bug fixes for the Car Tunes Lyrics with bouncing balls main window metronome. Main thing - when editing the lyrics, you can just resave the file and the lyric for the Song Car-Tune Metronome in Bounce Metronome Pro will immediately get updated to match your changes. (Detects to see if the saved file is newer than the drop list). As a result, the button in the window is no longer needed, so that's been removed. Also added F1 tip for the Song Car Tunes Metronome and improved help for the button. Friday July 3rd 2009 Improvements and minor bug fixes for the Car Tunes Lyrics with bouncing balls main window metronome. Tuesday June 30th 2009 Several minor bugs fixed, and minor improvements and additions to the tool tip help. Saturday June 27th 2009 Several minor bugs fixed, and improvements and additions to the tool tip help. Monday June 22nd 2009 New version, now at 3.2 because of significant improvements in the layout and some important new features. Now the main window has a drop list of many different types of metronome. So now it is much easier to find the particular features of interest to you. The complete list is: Bounce Metronome Basic is completely new. In , added . This gives you the ordinary type of swing where only one size of beat is swung, normally one of the fastest beats. Also added which is again what you normally expect for an ordinary swing rhythm. Both are now preselected too. So when you try the Swing metronome you get the expected type of swing rhythm to start with. You can unselect these options to experiment with the lilt or lilt combined with swing type rhythms. The new F1 help for the swing metronome explains this in more detail, with two sections, one for swing rhythms and one for lilt. Added new feature to adjust the volumes of individual beats in the main window using the middle mouse button (scroll wheel used as a button in scroll mouse) or Shift + left click. Also you can now accent individual beats or unaccent them or make them quieter than usual with the right button. Improved display and the interaction with the controls in the bouncing balls display in many ways. One big improvement - if you click on a beat to skip it, or click on the other controls, the action now always happens on the down click, rather than on the release of the button as it did before. Normally buttons in windows are activated when you release the mouse button - so that if you change your mind and move the mouse off the button without releasing it, nothing happens. But in this context it makes more sense to activate on the press rather than the release - like a musical note which is played on the press rather than the release. Added silence keys shortcuts. If the keyboard focus is set to a button, check box or anything that doesn't expect character entry then you can use the number keys 1 - 9 and the first few letters of top row of the PC keyboard to silence or play the parts of the rhythm. For edit fields or PC keyboard player you can switch on these shortcuts with Shift + Space Added quick key shortcuts: Return key to play / stop the rhythm. The Return key is normally used for the default (i.e. preset) action in a dialog. So this is like making the play / stop rhythm the default action for most of the windows. The main difference is that when you press the return key then the keyboard focus stays with whichever control you are using, it doesn't jump to the Play button as it normally would. Backspace to set the tempo by tapping at the tempo you want. Again shortcut to switch this feature on even for text fields - use Alt + backspace. Similarly Ctrl + space to tap out a rhythm for the currently selected part using the space bar. Added option: to The new thing here is that you can now unselect this. This makes it easier to skip beats as you just need to click on the beat itself, not on the diamond or oval shape within it. So for new users, it is preset to unselected. Numerous other minor features. Numerous minor bugs fixed. To find out about the new windows in this version see the next section. New main windows in version 3.2Here are the new metronome main windows: Bounce Metronome BasicBasic metronome with time signature, and sub-beats. Bounce Metronome ProAll the features of the PRO metronome acessible within one window. If you want to focus on one particular feature then try one of the more specialised metronomes. Swing MetronomeUse this to practice swing or to use lilt for a more lively rhythm. Drum & Dance MetronomeFor drum rhythms such as paradiddle, and dance rhythms mixing crotchets, quavers and so on. You can select from a drop list of rhythms or enter a new rhythm. Polyrhythm MetronomeUse this to practice polyrhythms (cross rhythms) such as 2 beats to a bar with 3 simultaneously, or 3 with 4, 3 with 5 etc. Additive MetronomeTo practice additive rhythms such as 2 + 3 (i.e. 5/4 divided into two beats followed by 3 beats) or 3 + 2 + 3 etc. Additive Polyrhythm MetronomeHere you can make a cycle of rhythms and polyrhythms one after another. Useful for long additive rhythms with many rhythms one after another or a cycle that combines ordinary rhythms with polyrhythms. Fractional Rhythms MetronomeFractional rhythms here are ones with either a fractional (e.g. 2.2) or irrational (e.g. golden ratio or PI) number of beats to the bar. The beats drift in and out of phase with the bar line. Tap out a rhythmUse this to tap out a rhythm and then play the bouncing balls metronome to follow the rhythm of your taps. Harmonic MetronomeHere the idea is that each number of beats per bar is assigned a pitch, so e.g. 7 beats to the bar corresponds to the seventh harmonic, 5 beats to the bar corresponds to the fifth and so on. The results sound harmoniously together as they use pitches from the harmonic series. This idea is related to the Lambdoma arrangement of pitches, and to Theremin's Rhythmicon. Originally suggested by Barbara Hero and may be of interest for music therapy. Additive Polyrhythms Harmonic MetronomePlay a cycle of rhythms and polyrhythms one after another with the pitches following the harmonic series. Fractional Harmonic MetronomeHere the idea is that you can use fractional or irrational rhythms e.g. involving the golden ratio or PI and combine that with the idea of using pitches corresponding to the number of beats to the bar. So PI / 4 will be played using two pitches at a ratio of PI to 4 to each other. The golden ratio rhythms are particularly interesting here because the golden ratio rhythm is in a sense the most polyrhythmic possible rhythm (ratio of beats most hard to approximate using a rational number). Similarly the golden ratio pitch interval is the most inharmonic possible pitch interval. It's a pleasant interval actually on most instruments - some inharmonic pitch intervals are very pleasant sounding (the ones that are often hard on the ear are e.g. detuned fifths, close to a very pure interval such as a fifth, octave or fourth,but obviously not hitting it). So this combination gives the most polyrhythmic possible rhythm combined with the most inharmonic possible interval. A Version of Theremin's RhythmiconLets you play a version of Theremin's Rhythmicon using the number keys on your PC keyboard and the first six keys of the first row of letter keys e.g. q w e r t y as the keys of your instrument. Theremin's Rhythmicon is an instrument with sixteen keys. Each key silences or plays a rhythm with a different number of notes to the bar, starting from 1 for the first key, 2 for second key all the way down to 16 for the last key. Each key also plays a different note of the harmonic series. Fractal Tune MetronomePlay the rhythms using fractal tunes. This is just a taste of what can be done in this way. It may give some idea of what your rhythm will sound like melodically. It also introduces you to the fractal tunes you can make with Fractal Tune Smithy. Note - at present Bounce Metronome Pro is at version 3.2. but FTS is still at 3.0. Bounce Metronome Pro has many capabilities not in FTS such as the skipped beats for instance. So most of the tunes you make here can't be played in Tune Smithy itself until the release of version 3.0 hopefully some time in summer or autumn 2009. fixes some minor bugs. Improves layout for the main window. This is the last version that runs on Windows 98. Let me know if you need the software for Win 98, as I may be able to update the latest to run on Windows 98 but it needs some thought and investigation (perhaps putting the resources into a dll may work). None of the versions run on Windows 3.1 and earlier. New messages when you change to / from the Pro metronome, or show / hide graphics, or show / hide pitched instruments to ask to confirm that's what you want to do. New check boxes in main window and - previously those check boxes were rather hidden away in the Bouncing ball Visuals window. Also, is now preset to not show the parts adjustments as newbies may find them confusing at first glance, and they are easy to show with the new check boxes. Changed preset value to 60% for in. This gives better results for e.g. jig with swing (in Scottish Dance Music). This won't affect any saved rhythms, just changes the preset amount for new rhythms. The old value was 30%. Added a button to this window - that's useful when you have several parts in play at once and want only some of them with swing, e.g. to swing just the eighth notes in 6/8 with a steady rhythm for the dotted quarter notes. Renamed the drop menu to - to help make it easier for users to navigate to the swing windows. When you click on the horizontal triangles in the blocks display to increase or decrease number of beats for the part - now no longer resets all the beats for the part. Instead re-applies lilt to new number of beats if necessary - or just adds or removes an extra beat to the rhythm without changing the existing times. You can still use Shift + click on the arrow if you want to reset the beats for the part as before. Thursday April 30th 2009 fixes some minor bugs, and improves accessibility and layout for many of the windows. Particularly, very much improved layout for the 3D Visuals window and for some of the CSound windows. Also now if you tab to the help button with your screen reader then the tip for the button shows a list of all the shortcuts for the current window. Also with the Ctrl + Shift + F1 shortcut to show all the tool tips for the current window, the list now starts with a list of all the keyboard shortcuts for the current window. Old installer: 30th April 2009 Thursday April 16th 2009 fixes some minor bugs in the first release and improves the accessibility shortcuts and layout for theand windows. Old installer: 16th April 2009 First release: Wednesday April 15th 2009 New features since the last release of the Rhythms and polyrhythms task include:
Also many new minor features, tweaks and improvements of the other features, improvements in the skin, improvements in usability throughout, and simplification of many of the windows to make them easier to use. Also many bug fixes. For earlier what's new and bug fixes, see What's new (Tune Smithy) I plan to use the same version number for all the stand alone programs derived from Tune Smithy so that you can easily compare the stand alone programs with the same tasks as components of Tune Smithy. For instance since the version is 3.1 this shows you that currently Bounce Metronome Pro is currently more up to date than the main program. Old installer: First release 15th April 2009 Earlier uploadsCurrent upload: Earlier uploads: 20th July 2009 (later version) |
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