Metronome and Polyhythm player 3.0   
by Robert Inventor   

This tool is especially useful for rhythm practice and explorations. It introduces many new or rarely encountered capabilities not normally found in metronomes - such as polyrhythms, long bars, syncopated rhythms and so on. It is easy and intuitive to work with, and there's no need for music notation.

You can play ordinary simple and compound rhythms with any number of beats to the bar. You can play any number of rhythms simultaneously to build up polyrhythms - such as three and four beats played simultaneously in the same bar, as is common in African and Indian music. You can also play long bars (hypermeasures) - repeating sequences of different metrical units, even polyrhythmic long bars.

You can also script your metronome. This lets you set it to slowly increase or decrease in tempo automatically, or change rhythm after so many bars and so on.

Other features include: vary the timing and volume continuously within the bar to give it more of a natural feel to it. Adjust volumes and times of individual beats by hand. Get groove from recording - either automatically or click on the starts of the notes by hand in the audio recording.

Play 5/4, 7/4 etc with the division where you like, using additive rhythms (examples included in the drop list of preset rhythms). Even play polyrhythmic compound time.

You can use a different midi instrument for each rhythm in a polyrhythm, or to bring out the subdivisions for compound time. You can also play the beats on melodic instruments, for instance to make pitched metronomes.

The script is easy to use, click on any control to insert its instruction into the script - then adjust the time when you want it to play, or use the morph instruction e.g. to increase or decrease the tempo.

Finally, you can use your rhythm to make fractal tunes in the Player or Composer tasks - for instance fit them to a chord progression.