January 2016

24/01/16

Update January 23rd 2016 - Bounce Metronome Pro

Youtube Video

Steve Reich's melody for Piano Phase played slowly on five phasing pianos in Bounce Metronome

New features: can now set the tempo dial to show notches at fractional BPM - usesful if you want to customize it to show a small range of tempi and then click to set the tempo to the nearest 0.1 BPM etc. Can now show bouncing musical note names. Added Steve Reich's melody from piano phase to give examples to show how the vary tempo feature works with abc notation.

Hugely speeded up auto remake for the music notation rhythm, making for smoother editing of the text. Can set a different number of syncopating parts for each of the rhythms in the syncopated African polyrhythms window. And various other minor otptions and bug fixes.

To update, visit the download page and you can install on top of your existing version. For Mac OSX, visit the Bounce for Mac Beta download page.

In detail:

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24/01/16

Update January 23rd 2016 - Bounce Metronome Pro

Youtube Video

Steve Reich's melody for Piano Phase played slowly on five phasing pianos in Bounce Metronome

|New features: can now set the tempo dial to show notches at fractional BPM - usesful if you want to customize it to show a small range of tempi and then click to set the tempo to the nearest 0.1 BPM etc. Can now show bouncing musical note names. Added Steve Reich's melody from piano phase to give examples to show how the vary tempo feature works with abc notation. Hugely speeded up auto remake for the music notation rhythm, making for smoother editing of the text. Can set a different number of syncopating parts for each of the rhythms in the syncopated African polyrhythms window. And various other minor otptions and bug fixes.

In detail:

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13/01/16

Update January 12h 2016 - Bounce Metronome Pro

The main new options are

* Can now use abc notation (Beta) - not all its features but enough of it so that it is now practical to use Bounce Metronome for entering compositions with rhythms and pitches in any of the sixteen parts. Has the carol Silent Night for SATB as a preset to show how the notation works. As I show in another video, you can transform the abc notation into any tuning system you like, and so this gives a way you can use standard abc notation to composse microtonally. Doesn't have suppor for microtonal abc yet.
 
* Added midi time code sync (Beta).
 
* Many improvements in the Automatic Tempo and Rhythm Changes with Accelerating Tempo, Accents, etc. (Ctrl + 264) window window.
 
* lots of other minor options and bug fixes.
 
To update, visit the download page and you can install on top of your existing version For details of the changes, see Change log and Bug fixes.
 
For the Mac version, go to the Bounce for Mac Beta page