Polymeter 0.0.07 is a major release, and introduces song view, which lets you arrange your tracks on a conventional timeline. The idea is that you can "paint" with your polymeter loops, and be confident that regardless of how they're dubbed in and out, their phase relationships will always be preserved; in other words, your tracks stay synchronized through all your transitions, just as if they had been playing continuously from the start of the song. And what a difference that makes!
There are least two scenarios. You can either create your arrangement from scratch in song view, or you can record a rough live mix, and then use song view to refine your dubs. In the original DOS software, song view required a whole separate app (called Stencil), but today it's just another view. The first screenshot below shows song view.
This version also includes many UI enhancements: General MIDI patch and drum names can optionally be displayed instead of numbers, popup edit controls and drop lists now affect the sequencer's output immediately, column widths and order and splitter bar positions are persistent, etc.
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