Testimonials and Reviews

Selected reviews, testimonials and online forum posts from users of Bounce Metronome Pro.
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Bounce Metronome Pro ,,, a clever PC metronome utility with visual options such as 3D bouncing balls, animated drumsticks and conductor’s baton graphics. (online summary)

 ... Rather like those used in karaoke machines, their rise and fall incorporates a ‘gravity bounce’ that feels like having your own conductor to help you keep in time.

...  I found it reliable enough to abandon audio clicks altogether and use as a silent metronome, which also makes it useful for deaf musicians. Studio owners could display it on screen in their live rooms to keep players in time without them requiring headphones... (full review)

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Martin Walker, PC Notes, Sound On Sound
Sound On Sound Magazine, 2010, online summary (scroll down a little)
Sound On Sound Magazine, 2010, printed review (subscription only)

This is by far the most powerful and flexible metronome that I have ever used.  GREAT software!

J. Weiss

...Bounce Metronome is really fantastic. The visual representation of rhythm is unique and invaluable for a frustrated beginning percussionist

Greg Moores

I love your polyrhythm metronome ... thanks for the very cool utility

David Kaplowitz

You have a truly great product. What I use it for is simulating being at a rehearsal and watching the conductor for tempo including time changes etc ..

I'm a returning Trombonist (after 30 years) who had poor music reading skills. Bounce allows me to setup a simulated "conducted" environment with the scripts created for each piece...

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Dan DelProposto

Terrific Robert! This program should be in the arsenal of every musician. There's something about the bounce that keeps the practicing vibrant

It's a great and fun tool.

Dan Axelrod

I play with two polyrhythmic drummers. This will help a lot ... thanks for your wonderful tool

Stan Lassiter

Wow! What a brilliant program!

... Thankyou again for providing me with this music software and the musical journey I am making with it. As an amateur and purely intuitive music maker, both TS and BM are opening so many 'musical' doors for me

Within minutes of downloading the software and just 'playing around' with its parameters, I was generating rhythms and beats and was literally conducting like a true professional. I learned more about time and signatures in those first few minutes than it had taken me a lifetime to from books!

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Alan Collins

I have been enjoying using your Bounce Metronome program to help with some of the complex timing of movements in Tai Chi. Your representations of time are very in sync with what I learn in Tai Chi...

Thanks for designing such a creative program

...Brian Eno said the problem with the computer is there isn't enough Africa in it. Well I find your program has some ancient China in it, some Africa, and some future in it.

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Steven Grainger

Wow, Robert your software is so creative and inspiring! You're a true artist

Kevin Hobby

 

I can’t stress enough the importance of not only having a good sense of time, but being a master of it (not that I am, mind you).
 
There is something real special about a group of Musicians who lock in together. It's almost a spiritual feeling, after a period of time playing together, knowing each other's style of playing & being really familiar with the songs, sometimes you hit a performance peak where everything that you’re playing seems to hit a zone. You don't think that you’re actually playing your instrument, you’re that relaxed & you can't stop smiling. It seems so effortless & you seem to get a natural high from the great sound that's being emitted.
 
When a Musician or group of Musicians have impeccable timing great things can happen.
 
The Bounce Metronome will help people to accomplish this great feeling of playing good/great Music together. I only wish this Technology had been around when I was a teenager.
 

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Gary Evans (Australia) 22 Sep 2011

Recent forum posts and discussions around the web:

Roland VDrums forum

Thanks. I can always use something that will help me evolve my skill level in new and exciting ways. I get bored very easily. Besides I hate practicing rudiments. Something visual like this is intruguing enough to pacify me for a while.......maybe.

Jazz Guitar at Google Groups

"The most flexible piece of metronome software that I know of is Bounce Metronome.  The Polyrhythms function alone makes it worth the cost."

From the Woodshed

“You need to check out 'Bounce Metronome' that's the one I use. It has SOOO many features, and is super simple to use.”

Amazing Software Metronome (thegearpage.net forum thread)

"The difference with this metronome is that it has so many functions, it's mind-boggling.The Polyrhythmic Metronome is really what I am focused on right now--eg, playing 3 over 5, etc. It took me about 5 minutes to get the hang of really playing it along with the Bounce Metronome."

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