PolyNome: drummer's metronome app -- NOW AVAILABLE

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Lucas Ives
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PolyNome: drummer's metronome app -- NOW AVAILABLE

Postby Lucas Ives » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:45 am

I've been collaborating with Joe Crabtree on a project that's just about ready for release, so I wanted to make a pre-announcement here as I think there are a lot of folks that might be interested.

Joe and I had exchanged some emails about our playing, and met up in NYC a couple of months back. Long story short, he pitched the idea of doing an iOS version of his Pyramid software.

PolyNome is a metronome with features useful to any serious musician, but has some specifics that make it especially appealing to drummers. Features include:

- improve your inner clock by adding bars of rest to the click
- play any polyrhythmic combination of rates 1-32
- play cycles of rates
- build a "rhythmic scale" over any click rate
- play common stickings at any rate, over any rate (eg.
paradiddles at a quintuplet rate over a click in 7)
- accent notes and note groupings (eg. play as paradiddles and accent
every 3rd note)
- timing accurate to 44.1kHz
- tap tempo input
- high quality sounds tailored to the iPhone/iPod
- supports iOS v4.3 and above

How you combine these components is up to you -- the possibilities are almost endless.

We're going to be running a promotion when the app first releases at a discount. Get all the details at polynome.net,Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @PolyNomeApp, and I'll be sure to keep HoD in the loop, too.

Stay tuned!
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Steve Holmes » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:07 pm

Cool, good luck with it guys!
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby fun-k » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:48 pm

cant wait !!1 good luck guys ...
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Riddim » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:20 pm

Will it be able to do polyrhythms with 4 different sound sources, e.g., 17/3/19/29? I've got a Greek wedding coming up....
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Isaac Lee » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:33 pm

Nice! Can you make it possible to use wave files from the device for custom click sounds?
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Lucas Ives » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:35 am

Riddim wrote:Will it be able to do polyrhythms with 4 different sound sources, e.g., 17/3/19/29? I've got a Greek wedding coming up....


You can easily set up that cycle. The rhythms over it are built from 2 sound sources (one for each hand), plus a 3rd for the click. Add various stickings and accent patterns and you should be able to get anything you need.

Isaac Lee wrote:Nice! Can you make it possible to use wave files from the device for custom click sounds?


Because of the way Apple sandboxes apps and the media library, I can't get the low-level sample access to the iPod library I'd need (which is what I think you mean?). It's possible we may add something down the road that allows you to download audio files from the web and add them to the app.
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby joecrabtree » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:28 am

Riddim wrote:Will it be able to do polyrhythms with 4 different sound sources, e.g., 17/3/19/29? I've got a Greek wedding coming up....


You can do exactly that with OctopuSequencer :)
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Lucas Ives » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:39 pm

Here's the app in action, Joe demoing variations on the rhythmic pyramid (think Stone Killer) -- as well as some other features:



Really can't wait to get this thing out the door and for you guys to play with it.
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Lucas Ives » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:27 pm

Here's another example, this time using the rest feature to setup time check -style patterns. We'll even provide some presets to get you going.



Coming real soon.
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Re: PolyNome: drummer's metronome app

Postby Cheggs » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:49 pm

This looks awesome guys. Congrats.
Any plans on releasing it for Android phones at all? I'm rocking a Samsung Galaxy S2, but would love to get this app.
Cheers.

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