

User files can now be exported / imported in JSON format, which allows for more access and editing capabilities outside of Rhythm Lab itself.įor teachers, this means you can create one “master” set of users, and then export / distribute these same users in different groups, or in single-user files, to help organize your students by level, age, etc. Merge external user files with existing users with options to replace or merge data for individual users. User groups in any configuration – from a single user, to every user added to the app – can be created and exported.

Import and Export user files quickly and easily. There is no limit other than the limits imposed by your iPad for memory and storage. #7: Rhythm Lab 4.0 allows for flexible user & student progress tracking.Īdd as many users as you want. This allows for all kinds of cool and unique sounds. One cool way to use Audiobus with Rhythm Lab is to use an effects app (reverb, delay, etc) attached to Rhythm Lab inside Audiobus. Rhythm Lab is compatible with Audiobus 3.0, which is an amazing app that allows all types of audio apps to interact with each other.
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Rhythm Lab 4.0 also allows for MIDI input from any standard MIDI instrument, including Bluetooth MIDI devices. A good place to find Soundfonts is at the Polyphone Soundfonts page. In addition to the packaged Soundfont, you can load and select your own Soundfont (not all work with Rhythm Lab – must be GM-compatible and include at least one complete percussion sound bank). Starting with the included Soundfont (FluidR3_GM by Frank Wen), which has a large number of General MIDI presets and an amazing number of drumkit presets, you can find all kinds of interesting sounds to use, both for the tap pads, and for the metronome. Rhythm Lab provides a huge number of ways to tweak, change, and play around with sounds. #6: Rhythm Lab has extensive sound, audio, and MIDI options. They can also be shared using the standard iPad file browser (save to Files, share with AirDrop, send as email, etc.). Exported custom pattern sets can also be imported on other iPads from cloud services like iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Once created, custom patterns can be uploaded to the Rhythm Lab website, where they can be downloaded into Rhythm Lab on any other iPad. Once created and added to a custom pattern set, the pattern is immediately ready to tap on the Tap Screen.Ĭustom patterns can be exported to an external file in JSON format, so they can be shared with other iPads, or even edited in a text editor. #5: Rhythm Lab offers many options for creating and importing custom patterns.Ī Rhythm Lab user can copy any of the hundreds of included rhythm patterns and customize it, or create completely new patterns from scratch, or allow Rhythm Lab to create a completely new pattern according to parameters selected by the user. So patterns will always look natural and readable. Since Rhythm Lab allows for more than one rhythm simultaneously, interactions between rhythms in two or three voices must be considered, including the complexities that arise from simultaneous tuplet and cross-rhythm values. Rather than spacing notes with a simple proportional formula, Rhythm Lab’s algorithm considers the context and spaces the notes in a flexible way according to a logarithmic formula. Rhythm Lab uses a note-spacing algorithm similar to those used by high-end music notation programs. Many rhythm apps space the notes in a simplistic, proportional manner. #4: Rhythm Lab uses sophisticated note spacing. Rhythm Lab uses the Bravura font, a SMuFL open font designed by Daniel Spreadbury to be used with Steinberg’s Dorico Music Engraving software.

#3: Rhythm Lab uses a great-looking music font. pickup measure) without changing time signature. The first measure can be incomplete (i.e. Any number of different time signatures in a pattern, limited only by the number of measures. Multiple numerators (up to three), such as 3+2+3, or 5+3+4.Nested tuplets – tuplets within tuplets.Tuplets and tuplet variations, from duplets to 15-tuplets.Rhythm Lab also works for advanced students and musicians. Many beginning-level rhythms are included, and of course you can create your own very quickly and easily using the custom pattern features. Rhythm Lab works great with younger students.

#2: Rhythm Lab covers a wide range of levels.
