What is the Resounz Metronome?
The Resounz Metronome is a full featured Metronome, capable of far
more than nearly every Metronome available today. The Metronome is used to
sound rhythms (extremely accurately) of any complexity, from a simple,
repetitious pulse to the most complex of multi-metre, multiple rhythms.
Click on the image fragment to the right to see a full screen shot of the Resounz Metronome 3.
Please note: The Resounz Keyboard 3 runs on all operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, etc) and is self updating to the latest version.
How does the Metronome help me?
Rhythmic ability and accuracy are obviously very important to
any musician. Using the Metronome regularly will enhance your
awareness of basic rhythmic evenness, improve your ability to subdivide rhythms,
as well as give you the ability to hear complex rhythms accurately, and so
practice them correctly.
For example, maybe you have no difficulty performing simple cross-rhythms such as 2 against 3 (2:3 in ratio tuplet notation).
But what about 3 against 4 (3:4), or 4 against 5 (4:5), or 7 against 12 (7:12)?
The Resounz Metronome allows you to very accurately hear these rhythms - and much more complex ones.
If you have ever played any of Stravinsky's ballet music you will know how complex rhythms can become. Not to mention many contemporary composer's music.
And what about Bach? The Minuet from his fifth keyboard Partita has a 2:3 cross-rhythm almost throughout. Mozart's Oboe Quartet has some quite tricky multiple cross-rhythms.
Please see the right side of this page for some downloadable examples of what the Resounz Metronome is capable of.
What can the Resounz Metronome do?
The Metronome can be used, among other things, to:
- Play simple to very complex rhythms (up to 4 at a time)
- The tempo of the selected rhythm(s) can be adjusted from 30 to 300 beats
per minute
- The number of times the rhythm will be repeated can be adjusted from 0 to
100
- The rhythms can be saved and re-loaded individually or as a group
- The individual rhythms can be played separately or in any combination,
including all four at once
- Each of the four possible individual rhythm's instrument timbre (128 possible), pitch (any chromatic note), dynamic (ppp
to fff), and tick length (short or long) are fully customizable
- The individual rhythms are composed from a large selection of musical
notation, and are fully editable
- The Metronome is capable of playing ANY rhythm or combination of rhythms
imaginable.