This software impresses professional musicians with its advanced rhythm capabilities, including all time signatures, swing, polyrhythms, cycles, rudiments, and rare notation like ♫ ♩ ♪♩. It also has a wonderful and precise bounce for a relaxing experience.
As a software tool, the bounce visuals of this program are incredibly easy to use for beginners. However, professional musicians are even more impressed by its advanced rhythm capabilities. Some have described it as having a personal conductor to help keep time. Additionally, this software is designed to be accessible for deaf, color blind, and visually impaired musicians, as well as those who struggle with metronome technique.
The rhythm features of this software are extensive and varied. It includes all time signatures, even odd ones like 5/4, 7/4, and 11/4. Users can also practice swing and drum rudiments, such as paradiddles, buzz rolls, and notated rhythms. This software is even equipped to handle additive rhythms, flamenco compás, and polyrhythms, such as cross rhythms and polyrhythmic cycles.
For more complex rhythm features, this software offers 4/4 over 4/3 type polyrhythms, 4/4 + 7/8 type additive rhythms for Jazz, cycles of polyrhythms, and rhythm phasing techniques. Users can also customize sounds for individual beats, adjust volumes, and choose from a variety of sounds, including harmonic metronomes and rhythmicons. The software also allows users to use any instrument, percussion or melodic, as long as it can be played via MIDI.
Users can set any tempo when using this software, and it can be programmed for gradual tempo changes or stepping progressions, making it ideal for speed drills. Additionally, users can tap in time with music to set the tempo, even at fractional BPM. It also offers a silent mode briefly, which can help users internalize a precise sense of time.
Overall, this software is an excellent choice for musicians at any level who want to improve their rhythm skills, and it offers a wide range of features that make it a powerful tool for any practicing musician.
The rhythm features of this software are extensive and varied. It includes all time signatures, even odd ones like 5/4, 7/4, and 11/4. Users can also practice swing and drum rudiments, such as paradiddles, buzz rolls, and notated rhythms. This software is even equipped to handle additive rhythms, flamenco compás, and polyrhythms, such as cross rhythms and polyrhythmic cycles.
For more complex rhythm features, this software offers 4/4 over 4/3 type polyrhythms, 4/4 + 7/8 type additive rhythms for Jazz, cycles of polyrhythms, and rhythm phasing techniques. Users can also customize sounds for individual beats, adjust volumes, and choose from a variety of sounds, including harmonic metronomes and rhythmicons. The software also allows users to use any instrument, percussion or melodic, as long as it can be played via MIDI.
Users can set any tempo when using this software, and it can be programmed for gradual tempo changes or stepping progressions, making it ideal for speed drills. Additionally, users can tap in time with music to set the tempo, even at fractional BPM. It also offers a silent mode briefly, which can help users internalize a precise sense of time.
Overall, this software is an excellent choice for musicians at any level who want to improve their rhythm skills, and it offers a wide range of features that make it a powerful tool for any practicing musician.
What's New
Version 4.5: Added tuplets to the Drum & Dance rhythm editor including nested and fragmentary tuplets as in the music of Brian Ferneyhough and Frank Zappa's black page. More flexibility for the automatic tempo and rhythm changes. Added Euclidean rhythms, and a Polyrhythmic Drum Machine preset.