Stilwind Software & Games now has its own site, for other apps please go here (stillwindswag)
Stilwind Software & Games now has its own site, for other apps please go here (stillwindswag)
What is Keep Ya Beat?
Keep Ya Beat is a kind of metronome and also much more than that. It's simple to use, very flexible and highly programmable.
You can use it straight out of the box, just play from the list of preloaded, well known rhythms. Or get creative - make and save your own rhythms, no knowledge of rhythm or music is needed, just mess around and enjoy yourself.
I'm sure it will help you to keep good time for playing or dancing to music.
What makes Keep Ya Beat unique?
Have a look at the following list - Main features. I've seen lots of metronome apps which do some of them, but none that do all, and there's a few that I haven't seen anywhere else!
This is what I believe makes Keep Ya Beat special:
Main features
Choose and play preloaded rhythms, accurate playback from 30-400 BPM (beats per minute).
Simple visual interface makes it easy to follow exactly where you are. Beat types allow fast changes of sounds, volume and display colours. It's multi-lingual, currently in English and Spanish. If you want to have it in your language and can do some translations, please get in touch!
Many popular rhythms already loaded including flamenco (half-beats are a synch), ballroom, latin american.
Many rhythm playing display preferences, adjust them so the way it looks as it plays helps you to practice.
Save your favourite rhythms with tag label(s) to group and find them easily with context searching.
Include your own sounds.
Simple drag 'n' drop editing rhythms or create new ones.
Complex beat patterns and syncopation are easy, you can sub-divide beats, and even have beats of irregular lengths to create really unusual rhythms.
Currently desktop version only:
Import rhythms from the downloads page, or shared by your friends... or music teacher!
Share your creations with friends and students. Or with us, we'll put them on the downloads page for all to enjoy!
Choice of themes, and the ability to switch to the OpenDyslexic font (available at dyslexicfonts.com)
Download rhythms
Keep Ya Beat comes with many well known rhythms already included. From time to time we might update these and they will be provided via an Android update. For the desktop version we'll post them on our downloads page. Check back often for changes!
And if you have created some already you want to share, please let us know, we'll post them on this site for the benefit of everyone.
Future plans
Development of Keep Ya Beat will continue to bring more functionality to the Android app. There's no plan to develop the desktop version further, which will now remain at the current stable release.