New Features * The Settings menu has been rolled into the Actions menu and appears at its top now called, Preferences, while the Transformation button has been moved to where the Settings menu button was. A new Duration/Space toggle button now resides where the transformation button was. * This new Duration/Space toggle button affects what happens when you drag a note horizontally to the right or left. The default behavior increases or decreases the note’s duration as in prior versions. However, when the button is tapped, it changes to Spacing drag. Now dragging a note to the right or left, the note is positionally moved. This is very useful for inserting new notes in between otherwise tightly packed notes. * The Action menu item Reset Manual Positioning, now also resets any extra intra-note spacing added (from above). * The Edit menu for changing barline styles had used the word “Live” whereas the other sections use “Add/Update.” The designation “Live” was ambiguous and so it was removed. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue where if you deleted a staff or measures then went into the Transformation Editor, MusicJOT might unexpectedly quit. * Fixed an issue where with 1st and 2nd endings and in audio mode when playing - both endings would play instead of just the 2nd ending (when not using repeats). * The Settings men item, “Delete Last Measure” is fixed. * Fixed an issue that was inadvertently introduced in version 3.0 where you could no longer drag a barline to make extra room at the end of a measure. * The vertical position of rests less than a half note in duration has been corrected from a slightly too high appearance. * The Shift (music) right/left section in the Transformation Editor has been totally written and now correctly shifts for both voices and with any shift amount and with correct note splitting where necessary. * Fixed an issue where rotating the iPad when in the Arrange Editor was not correctly repositioning the right-most row button area used to move into the Master Arrange window. * Fixed an issue where opening the Action menu then tapping outside it to dismiss it, then opening it again very quickly would cause an unexpected quit. * Fixed an issue in all windows that use vertically scrolling tables where the heading area would slightly shift in color when scrolling upwards. * Fixed an issue in the Staff Manager where if you scrolled upwards, the buttons at the top might flutter their positions slightly. * Fixed an issue where the “Update/Add” buttons in each section of the Edit menu were appearing when expanding a section when they shouldn’t have. * Fixed an issue in the Reference Manual, in the Actions page, where some of the referenced links were broken. * Now switching pre-roll switch on/off recalculates necessary window height in the Transformation Editor Master Section.

New Features * You can now flip stems manually via a new Context Sensitive menu option. * A new Reset Flipped Stems has been added to the Action menu. * The help manual for the Action Menu now has added icons for each subject. * Chord text symbols now show the inversion number as a subscript. * A “Render Chord/Fretboard” feature has been added to the context sensitive menu. Selected chords or fretboards can be rendered onto the staff as a chord or arpeggiated notes. * Adds a quick access Help button to eight drop down menus/palettes. * Adds a “Voice Two Color” option to the “Score Settings” dropdown menu. * Adds a new “Colors” panel to “Advanced Settings” now used to set the color for voice two and other events (seen with “Colorize Events” is ON). * Edit Menu section’s icon and text color now changes to indicate when a subsection panel is active or inactive. * Top-right two button panel (Redraw and Zoom Lock) has been reworked and now includes zoom percent with a zoom percent popup chooser. * Improves visual look of slurs and ties that run on to and off of systems in page and print modes. * Dragging out slurs and other shapes in larger scores has been significantly sped up. * Slurs can now be canceled mid-drag by stopping with no target note highlighted. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue where if “Show Note Names” in the Display dropdown was ON, then either the audio view or Transformation Editor was opened, the note names would not disappear. * Fixed an issue where chord playback (from chord text) was not working in the Transformation Editor window. * Fixed an issue where if voice 2 was ON then the audio view was opened, the playhead would not appear. * Fixed an issue where inversions in the Chord section of the Edit menu after tapping on Play was not always sounding the correct inversion. * Fixed an issue where the context sensitive menu could have missing items or not scroll properly. * Fixed an issue when determining the MIDI note number when using double flats or double sharps. * Fixed a number of issues regarding the audio settings dropdown menu. * Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances, a double tap on the Apple Pencil when “Play” was set in the shortcuts popup, the entire score would start playing. * Fixed an issue where on rare occasions, trying to load a score unexpectedly quit. * Fixed an issue where fretboard note names were not included in the selected highlight color. * Fixed an issue where it was possible to swipe left or right in presentation view while audio was playing. * Fixed an issue when using the Road Map window to go to the start and end of a repeat set by tapping on a line in the table was off by one measure when scrolling. * Fixed an issue when using the 1st and 2nd taps on a row in the Road Map window. The first tap after opening the window now always scrolls to the first measure of the repeated section while the 2nd tap - to the end. Previously it had sometimes been reversed. * Fixed an issue when the Zoom Lock button was engaged yet under certain circumstances the display would suddenly zoom to 100% and move to the beginning of the score. * Fixed an issue where the temporary zoom percentage that appears while zooming was not re-centering itself after a device orientation change. * Fixed an issue where it was possible to drag a note in Presentation view which should not allow editing. * Fixed an issue where under certain conditions, a slur was not delete-able.

New Features * A new Target Staff feature has been added to the note palette that lets you touch to insert a new note in a staff, but have that note actually be inserted in a staff either above or below. This both speeds up inserting cross-staff notes and/or makes it much easier to add notes that have many ledger lines. * The first measure can now be set as a pickup measure with the ability to either include or exclude in measure numbering. * Lyric choruses are now italicized to differentiate them from verses. * Lyrics can now be positioned above the staff set up in the Staff Manager. * Road Map window now updates live making changes such as inserting/deleting measures, or adding/changing repeats. * Removed measure number at the start of system one in Page View as this is more conventional. * A more intuit way to cancel the inserting of new notes has been added, Advanced Settings: Cancel When Exceeds Staff Midlines. * When dragging to insert a new note and after moving into the cancel note area (exceeding number of ledger lines or beyond staff midlines), you can now simply drag back to the legal area without having to start over with a new touch. * When inserting a note that has been dragged into the cancel note area (above/below the staff), the note is now dimmed to indicate that. * A new insertion line that moves as you drag a new inserted note appears vertically between the outer lines of the staff which is helpful (especially when in multiple ledger line territory) to see exactly where the new note will be inserted. * A new cancel new note mode (when trying to insert a note too far above/below the staff) has been added to Advanced Settings: Sliding Palette. Bugs Fixed * Fixes an issue where the display dropdown, “Previous” was not cycling through all staffs to highlight illegal measures. * Fixed an issue where meters with a wide numerical denominator was too close to the previous clef or key signature. * General speed increase. * Some Settings menu items have been reworded to better reflect their function. * Regions can now be extended or moved by dragging their handles in page view. * Fixed an issue where if you didn’t tab out of the End Measure text field in the Transformation Editor’s main view when entering the Action Editor, you didn’t get the updated range. * Fixed an issue where an unexpected quit would occur if you tried to drag a slur from a voice which was not the current voice. * Fixed an issue where the display dropdown window was not closing when the Edit Menu window, audio view, or handwriting was opened. * Fixed an issue where if you were trying to insert a note using the note palette and were in pitch sliding mode and went out of bounds (above/below staff) then immediately went into non-pitch sliding mode, you couldn’t place a note. * Fixed an issue where if you were inserting a note in non-pitch sliding mode and toggled to a rest and had the audio on, dragging the rest still sounded audio. * Fixed an issue where playback was not starting from the current playhead position but rather, always from the beginning. * Fixed an issue where the visibly topmost system of any page in presentation view was not getting a measure number shown.

New Features * Snap to user defined grid for perfectly aligning expressions and other elements. * Ledger lines have been completely reworked. Now they correctly switch between wide and normal ledger widths when encountering note head collisions. * A new preference in the options menu allows the context sensitive menu to appear at the top instead of the bottom. * New context sensitive menu: Hide [selected] Rests. * New action menu item: Reset Hidden Rests. * New display dropdown item to show hidden rests plus a hidden rests count. * New display dropdown: previous/next buttons move to successive illegal measures. * New progress spinner to a tapped library browser score to indicate activity when loading scores. * New collision detection between voices 1 and 2 have been addressed. * Consecutive hairpins now have a small space between ends avoids run-together. * After rendering handwriting, the measure width now remains static making it easier to start a new measure. * Respacing score after handwriting rendering is now under user control with a new top-right Respace button. * Existing shapes (slurs, hairpins, etc.) now drag out continuously live. * Dragging shapes (slurs, hairpins, etc.) with their handles are now easier to attach to nearest note. * Guitar bends and glissandi now can only be connected to consecutive notes. * Ottava expressions are now initially distanced above and below the staff so they don’t get obscured by staff lines. * 8ba/15ba now defaults to under the staff. * Mode (Major, minor) has been added to the MusicXML export. * New pickup measures can be designated to any measure. * New action menu item: Pickup Measures has been added to clear/set. * Zoom lock button is now hidden during handwriting. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue where exiting from handwriting was not always restoring two finger scrolling. * Fixed an issue where rests could get “transposed” during a transposition operation. This would become evident when toggling from a rest to a note. * Fixed an issue where dragging a master staff barline to stretch or shrink a measure on one that previously had this operation performed would jump erratically. * Fixed an issue when dragging staffs: Note Names (from display dropdown) were not keeping their relative distance. * Fixed an issue where a rest might begin or end a beam group. * Fixed an issue where some accidentals in voice 2 were not drawing when first running the app until the voice 2 button was selected. * Fixed an issue where the score browser was unnecessarily slow. * Fixed an issue where dragging out a crescendo or decrescendo, the opening gap was half the width it should have been. * Fixed an issue where scrubbing the playhead in audio mode was not aligning properly to the sounding of notes. * Fixed a prior fix attempt assuring the help arrows in the help overlay would always run ‘underneath’ the help labels was incomplete and now works. * Fixes issue when in scroll view and the score was scrolled upwards, dragging the staffs up or down was not working. * Fixed an issue when selecting the Target popup in the repeats section of the Edit menu might have caused an unexpected quit. * Fixed an issue when from the Action menu, selecting an item’s submenu then exiting by tapping outside the Action menu, then returning to the Action menu, the submenu would not resize properly. * Fixed an issue where if you made a selection thus presenting the Context Sensitive Menu, then going into the audio view, then back out, the context menu was not dismissing even though there were no longer any selections present. * Fixed an issue when dragging staffs up or down where there was a slight jump in staff position from where the drag began.

New Features * Voices selector controls are larger now and easier to select. * Help balloons arrows are more translucent making the labels easier to read. * Added an on-screen zoom lock/unlock button for fast access (mimics control in the display dropdown menu). Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue where the pencil shortcuts action menu was not updating the action menu selected checkmark. * Fixed an issue where pencil shortcuts menu was not appearing for some iPad models. * Fixed an issue where handwriting was not respecting the option, “Edits With Pencil Only (vs finger).” * Illegal bar count in display dropdown now reflects the correct number regardless of its show/hide status. * Illegal bar buttons now correctly displaying the same for voice 1 and voice 2. * Dragging a lyric syllable no longer resets its line positioning. * Long runs of beamed notes with interior short durations better adjusts to maintain minimum distance from note to beams.

New Features * Changing Bluetooth devices or turning Bluetooth ON/OFF no longer kills audio. * Dragging up and down for pitch is now very fluid whereas before it occasionally got ‘stuck.’ * When entering notes in a new measure, the measure width no longer contracts. * Added a “Zoom Lock” button in the display drop down. When ON, two fingers no longer zoom documents which is useful when entering music, especially from the palette. * An inadvertent slow down in longer scores that appeared in v2.5 has been fixed. * The triple-tap to reset the document to 100% zoom has been changed to 5-taps, as the triple tap was a little too easy to inadvertently trigger. * Tuplets are now ‘smarter’ when entered, placing only a number on beamed tuplets and a bracket on non-beamed notes. * The Action menu item: ‘Reset Tuplet Placements’ now also repositions to default positions. * Display drop down window has been reworked. ON/OFF switches have been removed. Now the icon IS the ON/OFF button. * Metrics (formerly in an expanded part of the Display drop down) has been moved next to each show/hide display button. They have also been fixed, as under some circumstances, some were incorrect. * A new “Note Names” option has been added to the Display drop down. This shows the note name above every note. Distance above the staff can be dragged by the drag bar in the left staff view. * Illegal measure markers no longer appear for empty measures, significantly reducing clutter. * It is now possible to add courtesy accidentals which appear with parenthesis. Tapping with an accidental toggles the courtesy state ON/OFF. * A new bulk export has been added to enable exporting your entire library either in MusicXML or PDF. * A new dedicated ‘Rehearsal Marks’ panel has been added to the Edit menu. See the in-app help on this item. * Tempo marks are now attached to measures - not beats. * Both rehearsal marks and tempo marks now show on the top staff even after part extraction for viewing and/or printing. * With the addition of new style rehearsal and tempo marks, the Settings menu has an added: “Rehearsal Marks/Tempos Top Staff Only” option. * Reorganized the Edit menu into ‘Properties’ and ‘Attachments’ replacing the old ‘Measure’ and ‘Beat’ classifications. * The context menu item, ‘Flip Slurs/Ties’ now has a reset button ‘A’. Now the Flip button will toggle between above/below and the reset button resets to auto. * The context menu item, ‘Break/Join Beam’ now has a reset button ‘A’. Now the Beam button will toggle between break/join and the reset button resets to auto. * Adds a new Action menu item: ‘Convert Legacy Rehearsal Marks’. * Adds a new Action menu item: ‘Reset Audio’. * Volume and tempo are now set to 100% when loading scores. * Enhancements made to the text search box at the top now include finding on partial entries. * Numerous bug fixes. See "Updates" on the MusicJOT website for a full list of bug fixes and other changes.

New Features * You can now show/hide parts in the Staff Manager (part extraction). Useful for focusing on one part or printing parts. * New multi-measure rests appear in both Presentation and Print modes for groups of two or more measure stacks that are filled with whole measure rests. * Sorting scores in the score browser is now case insensitive. * Placeholder text for empty bookmark notes is now easier to read and isn’t cluttered with the Cut, Copy, Lookup, etc. menu items above it. * Added a comments field to document info for each score. * The score browser has a new improved look, plus adds the comments field which is editable right from the browser. * A new action menu item “Fill with Rests” fills empty measures with whole measure rests. * Context sensitive button, “Delete” clears a whole measure(s). If an entire stack(s) is selected, it deletes the entire measure stack(s). * Cut does the same as Delete but also copies to the clipboard. * Added a “Delete Staff” context sensitive menu button when an entire staff is selected, while the plain “Delete” button will just clear all the staff’s measures. * Deleting a staff from the Action menu now has undo/redo support. * Adding a staff from the +Staff button now has undo/redo support. * A long press on any staff name in Scroll View now will evenly distribute the staffs from top to bottom, while a long press in Page View will reset the system gaps. * Exporting MusicXML has been updated, correcting some issues and adding support for more features such as cross-staff notes. * You can now flip either a tie’s position or a slur’s to be either above or below the notes where before you could only flip slurs. A context sensitive menu button will now show Flip Tie, Slur or Shape (if a mix of shape types is selected). * Auto-scrolling (when extending a selection to the screen edges) is now much more reliable and easier to control, and now has a speed preference in the Score Settings dropdown. * The default ledger line width has been increased by a small amount. * Notes that end in a tie over a barline that have an accidental are now correctly not reiterating that accidental. * Added a triple tap gesture to the sidebar which toggles between the old display of staff name plus clef and key one over the other, to just clef and key drawn much bigger and in a normal side-by-side orientation and without the staff name. Bugs Fixed • See https://www.musicjot.com/musicjot-updates for a complete list of bugs fixed.

New Features * Greatly enhanced speed when invoking the score browser. * Dragging overlapping objects is now giving precedence to one that has been previously selected making it easier to grab hold of the selected object. * Bookmark any measure(s). Dragging the new bookmark menu icon to any measure saves a bookmark to that measure which is indicated at the end of the measure. This menu bookmark item doubles as a bookmarks dropdown for editing and navigating between bookmarks. * A shape’s start and end handles (slur, crescendo, 8va, etc.) can now be dragged in page view and can also now be attached from one staff to another as well as from one voice to another. * You can now “hold” an expression tool by double tapping in the expressions palette. This immediately closes the expression palette and sets the menu icon to the new tool, and flashes it to let you know it is persistently active. This allows you to enter that expression into your score without the palette open (to maximize screen real estate). Tapping on the flashing icon turns it off and goes back to normal. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue in scroll view that was inadvertently introduced in v2.3, where you could not drag an expression or note that was previously dragged far below the staff back up towards the staff. * Fixed an issue where searching for existing text from the top menu while in page view, the page did not scroll to the expected location. * Fixed an issue were the tie tool was not working across measures yet the shortcut item in the context sensitive menu was working. * Fixed an unexpected quit when you tried to insert a chord symbol that expected to have an associated fretboard, but the fretboard chooser was empty. * Fixed an issue where tremolos could have been dragged off of their note stem. * Fixed an issue when scrubbing in audio mode. If you repeatedly changed direction to scrub over the same beat, that beat was not re-articulating. * Fixed an issue where a newly loaded score could start playing measure 1 immediately because the user may have inadvertently double-tapped the Apple Pencil barrel despite not yet having interacted with that score. * Fixed an issue where, after playing back a region in the arrange editor, exiting to your score, then going into the main audio playback - the playhead was not appearing. * Fixed an unexpected quit when dragging a shape’s (slur, accel., 8va, etc.) right handle to the left past its left handle, then trying to undo. * Fixed an issue where after inserting a new slur from a note to a chord, undo was not working. * Fixed an issue when you had a slur that spanned multiple systems (in page view). If the right anchor of the slur ended in a measure that had a backward repeat, the slur was not drawing correctly. * Fixed an issue when creating a new score directly after having a score with more staffs than the one you are creating. This was leaving left over staff names on screen until you refreshed the screen. * Other fixes. Miscellaneous * Removed support for Adonit styluses.

New Features * You can now designate notes from one staff to cross and appear on any adjacent (above/below) staff. Beams and slurs follow along. * In addition to acting upon the entire score, these action menu items (Reset Tuplet Placements, Reset Manual Beaming Breaks, Reset Beam Durations, Reset Cross Staff Notes, Reset Measure Widths, Reset Manual Positioning, Reset (Extend/Clip) Measure Durations) now allow you to specify a prior selection. * Now saving and restoring changes made to the distance between systems in page view. * Going into page or presentation views now retains any manual measure width changes from dragging barlines. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an unexpected quit in the Transformation Editor when reverting duplicated regions. * Fixed region duplication in Transformation Editor when the duplicated region is the last user-defined region. * Fixed an issue where undoing the repositioning of fretboards was not working as expected. * Fixed an issue where it was possible to manual force a beam connection to a previous beam group even though there may be a quarter or larger duration note in the group resulting in a beam over quarter. * Other fixes.

New Features * When adding fretboards, you can now designate the starting fret. The fretboard chooser will automatically repopulate all possible diagrams based on the new starting fret. * Playback of fretboard or chord symbol formerly only played the chord symbol using a user designated octave. Now if a fretboard is present, the actual fretboard will be played, thus different diagrams of the same chord will sound different. * Playback of fretboard vs. chord symbol when dragging over with the Virtual Pointer or tapping directly on the element in the score will now play either the chord symbol or the actual fretboard. Scrubbing and full playback will now play the fretboard if they are present. * A noticeable delay of up to two seconds when first sounding notes has been removed. * The action menu “Transpose Notes” has been removed. The transpose panel from the main menu is much more complete. * Measure stack playback from the Apple Pencil barrel double tap shortcut now puts up a playhead and scrolls the music appropriately. * The entire beat sounds when adding a new note in sliding palette mode, instead of just the new note about to be added, so if you are adding to an existing chord, for example, the entire chord will sound with the new note. * When adding new notes from the notes palette, notes continue to sound until cancelled or the pitch changes. * Added an “All Notes Off” option in the Action menu in case of stuck sounding notes. * A “Don’t Change Chord Durations” option has been added to the notes palette. When adding to existing chords: the existing chord’s duration is used instead of the palette’s duration setting. * The Note palette has been redesigned to make the the new options clearer and better organized. * Fretboard note labels along the bottom of each diagram has been optimized to avoid crowding by using superscripts for accidentals. * Added parentheses around the octave designation in the Virtual Pointer when displaying the note passed over. * Added the display of chord name to Virtual Pointer when passing over a chord symbol or fretboard. * When using the note palette to insert new notes in static mode (sliding mode is OFF), the right side of the pitch rectangle now shows the actual note that will replace the main center note if toggled instead of the letter ’T’. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue when in dark mode, printing was white notes against a black background. Now printing color is correct. * Fixed an issue when using context sensitive menu’s octave up or down in rapid succession could continue sounding notes indefinitely. * Edit menu now resizes properly to visible sections. * Many other improvements.

New Features * Note palette now has two new buttons: Sliding and No Chord (as an icon). When Sliding mode is ON, you can now move to any location in the same staff and system simply by sliding your pencil right or left while maintaining pressure. As you slide, if the new note will be added to an existing note making a chord, the entire beat will become highlighted. When the No Chord button is ON, notes cannot be added to existing chords, useful if notes are so close together that inserting in between is unwontedly triggering add to chord mode. When in Sliding mode, cancel out simply by moving above or below the staff beyond a number of ledger lines which is now a preference that can be set in the Actions menu: Advanced Settings: Sliding Palette. * In static palette note entry (Sliding is OFF), the rectangular pitch indicator now changes color to signify that a new note will add to a chord. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue in dark mode where after selecting a button in notes or expressions palettes and moving to another button, the old button was not redrawing properly. * Fixed an issue when selecting items of different types (slur, then chord, etc.) sometimes wouldn’t select. * Now turning on text and tempo layers if editing in the lyric manager. * Fixes crash on undo after trying to insert a rest over an existing note with the palette. * Palette durations are now respected over existing notes thus changing those durations. * Adding a rest to an existing note with the palette now correctly changes that beat to a rest. * Fixed an issue where tap to select was sometimes not working. * Slurs, ties and other shapes now in the undo stream when toggling notes to rests. * Fixed an unexpected quit when tapping on a fretboard or chord symbol with EditingSounds: Pitch set ON. * Fixed an issue where tuplets were made to non-tuplets after changing durations in the Transformation Editor to a region. * Now all editing is disabled in Presentation mode. * Fixed an issue when a right side menu was down (Edit, Note Palette, or Expressions Palette), and the Next measure navigation button was used to go to the end of the score in scroll view, the last measure was not completely visible.

* Music engine completely overhauled with major performance boost now handles large documents. * Major user interface changes makes controls more intuitive. All user interface elements redesigned. * A new Presentation view has been added which shows the score paginated. * Support for Split Screen mode. * Support for Dark Mode. * Supports Apple Scribble. * In-app Help Reference Manual completely overhauled and expanded. * Getting Started tutorial available through Split Screen mode. No internet connection needed. * Action Menu completely redesigned. * Road Map display enhanced which now consolidates duplicate ranges. Selecting lines highlights measures in the score. * Numerous speed enhancements. * Hundreds of bugs stamped out. * Undo now supported throughout with few exceptions. * Printing overhauled now paginates properly with various user margin options included. * All managers (Score, Staff, Lyric, Chord) completely redesigned. * New Score browser. * Full iOS font menu support when adding text. * Now supports auto scrolling when dragging to the far right or left for selections and scrubbing. * Playback loops now have visual feedback in the score. * New Edit Menu coalesces all editing actions with collapsible sections. * Slurs can now be flipped. * Beams can now be broken. * Added 10 new factory examples that can be loaded ready to play: 1. Bach Invention 1 in C. Major 2. Bach Invention 2 in C Minor 3. Bach Invention 7 in E Minor 4. Bach Book 1 Fugue 5 in D Major 5. Bach Book 1 Prelude in 9 E Major 6. Bach Book 1 Fugue 15 in G Major 7. Bach Book 2 Prelude 19 in A Major 8. Bach Book 2 Fugue 19 in A Major 9. Bach Air from the suite in No.3 in D Major 10. Bach piano piece in B Minor * Hundreds of other enhancements.

Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue introduced in 1.3.9 that caused a crash when deleting entire staves. * Fixed an issue where Paste Special with Merge was not always “undo-ing” properly. * Other minor fixes. Features Added * Ties and slurs now will freeze above/below when in the presence of two voices. Known Issues * Undo not restoring ties in some instances. * Some screen redrawing is necessary after an email or print. * Copying selected notes instead of simply whole measures is not yet supported. * Paste Special using Merge involving tuplets has some minor issues. Best to save before implementing Paste Special: Merge.

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue where a tuplet couldn’t be changed - only deleted and reentered. Now changes in the panel are working properly. Fixed an issue where double tapping directly on a tuplet was not properly bringing up the tuplet panel. Removed “Key” as a transposing method in action menu for vertical dragging and reassigned all diatonic transpositions to respect the local key signature. Fixed an issue where toggling rest/note from the dragging pitch rectangle was not updating the right top button with the correct image blending mode for that image. Fixed an issue where grace notes, when starting a measure, were drawing incorrectly when in another, non-active voice. Fixed an issue when opening short documents after being scrolled to the end of a long document. Scrolling was not properly being reset. Improved performance for documents that have lots of shapes (slurs, ties, etc.). Improved slur positioning by now considering both endpoints note’s stem direction. Fixed an issue where deleting a tie in chordal notes with undo was not behaving reliably. Fixed an issue when deleting or clearing entire measures that contained ties. Undoing was behaving incorrectly. Current document is now saved when going to the Score Manager as a safeguard when in Manual Save mode. Grace notes that followed one or more blank measures are now drawing correctly. Fixed some ties that could have gotten corrupted. Fixed issues when trying to undo/redo after a paste. Fixed an issue where undo was unexpectedly quitting after deleting a measure stack. Features Added Added a Paste Special which has many new options when pasting copied measures. Notes can now be pitch or duration dragged when tapping and dragging directly on the note even when a (non-shape) expression is selected (the second button down from the top along the right side). Grace notes are now allowed on the first note in staff. Ties can now connect enharmonically equivalent notes. Added full undo support to insert measure before/after. Added undo/redo support for Live Change. Known Issues Undo not restoring ties in some instances. Some screen redrawing is necessary after an email or print. Copying selected notes instead of simply whole measures is not yet supported. Paste Special using Merge has some minor issues. Best to save before implementing Paste Special: Merge.

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue where the top of some scores might get cut off in the transformation editor’s preview area. Fixed an issue where short left to right strokes failed to recognize. Fixed an issue where grace notes following a 16th note or quicker were not behaving properly. Fixed an issue where you couldn’t change an interior note in a tuplet to a grace note. Fixed an issue where rests in a beam group were sometimes drawing with a half beam. This issue was inadvertently introduced in v1.3.7. Improved spacing of dotted notes. Whole measure rests are now centered in the measure. Certain expressions such as dynamics and tremolos can now only appear on a note once. Adding a different different dynamic (for example) simply changes the existing one. Improved vertical centering of grace notes on line or space. Features Added Dragging on a bar line in the measure number bar will expand that measure stack by adding space in between every note. This is very useful when trying to insert new notes in between notes that are very close together. Now restoring last zoom and staff positions when opening saved documents. Transposing notes from the Action menu now also transposes chord symbols and fretboards. New “Live Change” button in Static Palette allows direct duration change of tapped note(s) to current palette duration and note/rest. Added a user option to designate an Auto Save interval. Added tremolos (in expressions) with playback. Revamped the expressions/dynamics/shapes palette into a single palette. Now always in “Live Mode” so palette can stay open while inserting new expressions. Added ability to place a tuplet number without a bracket beam side (in addition to number + bracket note side). Added context sensitive “Flip Tuplet” toggle. Tuplet panel now defaults to most common triplet based on selected note’s duration. Known Issues Undo after a multi-staff copy/paste is still problematic. Best is to save your score before attempting any large undos. Collisions between voices may occur and will be addressed in an upcoming release.

Bugs Fixed Better auto beaming. Fixed an issue where the float rest user pref was stepping by half spaces even though it was labeled whole spaces. The problem is that half and whole rests could sit both on and hang off of lines when in the presence of another voice which was confusing. Chord symbols and/or fretboards now sound if present on tied-to notes. Fixed an issue when sometimes trying to insert a note was hitting a ‘dead’ spot where the insertion wasn’t working. Fixed an issue where it was possible to insert a new note in between two tied notes and the tie would remain. Tapping on fretboards now trigger the context sensitive menu for repositioning and deletion. Fixed an issue when a region started with any empty measures, a transformation (from the transformation editor) inversion would produce nonsense results. Features Added Added ability to drag rests vertically to avoid collisions when in the presence of another voice. Added user context sensitive menu option to break/join beaming on any beam-able note. Added user context sensitive menu option to re-beam whole measure(s) to default beaming. Added user sub division field in the meters panel along with reset to default allowing custom beaming groups. Added global reset all subdivisions to action menu. Added global reset all break/join beaming to action menu. Can now include rests in beams via user option to break/join beam. Added a new pitch dragging mode: “Direction” which moves chromatically up by sharps and down by flats. Added various alerts to actions (from the Action menu) that perform global functions providing an opportunity to cancel. In addition to the default “Cycling” notes/rests/tools palette (with only one of the three visible at a time), a “Static” palette has been added (Options: “Notes/Rests Palette”) which shows all notes, rests, and tools at the same time. Added a fretboard baseline offset preference to advanced settings. Added chord count to information statistics. Known Issues Undo after a multi-staff copy/paste is still problematic. Best is to save your score before attempting any large undos. Collisions between voices may occur and will be addressed in the next release.

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue in copy/paste that resulted in missing ties, slurs and other shapes. This happened when trying to paste from two or more staffs. Known Issues Undo after a multi-staff copy/paste is still problematic. Best is to save your score before attempting any large undos.

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue where undo was not working properly after selecting move to other voice from the context sensitive menu. Actions menu dropdown now sizes to maximum size all the time. Fixed an issue where not all scores were getting a delete ‘x’ (delete button) in the score manager after tapping on ‘Edit’. Fixed an issue where saving a document was not saving the current zoom level. Score now considers highest marking to properly adjust first system downward instead of just highest note. Fixed an issue where double tapping to open a panel when option: select deselects others was ON was not deselecting others. Fixed an issue when inserting new notes with the palette, the “tock” sound was repeating too much. Fixes an issue where upon first opening a document and trying to change a pitch with a tool, app could unexpectedly quit. Fixed an issue where after selecting a whole measure, then Action Menu: Move To Staff, MusicJOT unexpectedly quit. Fixed an issue in the transformation editor when after duplicating a region, the region couldn’t be edited without an unexpected quit. Fixed an issue where tapping on a chord symbol to sound then again on the same symbol was not re-sounding. Various other bugs and improvements. Features Added Added support for fretboards. Sped up drawing in large documents. Added preference for changing chord text font size and fretboard size. Added ability to change the distance between systems in page view by dragging staff name. Added dotted and solid line shapes in the shapes palette. Added numerals 6-9 and Roman VI-XII in the expressions palette Added Guitar right hand markings in expressions (i, m, a, p, c). Added ability to toggle note head to harmonic (diamond) and back. Updated help across various topics.

Features Added Added new sound libraries as In-App Purchases. After tapping on an instrument in the play window, the instruments chooser now has a dropdown revealing additional libraries purchased. Staff Manager now shows the sound library in addition to the instrument for each staff. Added additional user defined Apple Pencil Double Tap actions. This has both an new actions menu section and an on-screen (lower right) popup menu (must have 3rd generation iPad Pro and 2nd generation Apple Pencil).

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances the Welcome Screen could reappear despite a previous user’s session selecting, “Skip.” Fixed an issue where tapping to insert new notes was sounding the note twice. Fixed an issue where shapes (slurs, hairpins, etc.) that continued on a subsequent system were not drawing correctly. Deleting a key or meter from the context sensitive menu at the bottom now changes forward until a different key or meter, respectively, is encountered. Fixed a memory leak. Fixed an issue where if rests were included with notes in a selection and dragged for pitch, the rests would sound a pitch. Actions: Delete Selected Staff now has a Cancel button. Fixed an issue where invoking retrograde in the Transformation Editor in some cases was unexpectedly quitting or producing an undefined result. Various other fixes. Transformation Editor playback now respects chord and expression playback. Features Added Added support for the new Apple Pencil and 3rd generation iPad Pro. New Apple Pencil now uses double tap to switch between palette and handwriting. Expressions that affect playback (dynamics, ties, 8vas, etc.) now have a small indicator on their respective icon in their respective palettes. Trills now playback. Added a trills playback preferences section in Actions: Advanced Options. Added playback for staccatos and accents over notes. Abbreviated staff names are now shown in page view for systems subsequent to system 1. AirDrop TO MusicJOT now possible (previously you could only AirDrop FROM MusicJOT). Instrument chooser now allows auditioning of sounds.

Bugs Fixed Playhead position when moving into and out of full audio mode has been improved. Fixed an issue where play/pause/play was not resuming where the play head left off. Fixed an issue where changing the virtual pointer size live via preferences was not updating itself. Fixed an issue where glissandi between systems of more than one staff when split between systems was drawing incorrectly. Fixed an issue where tapping quickly on a context sensitive menu item was not always giving user immediate feedback. Fixed an issue when changing color themes a duplicate set of right side buttons was being created after an orientation change. Fixed an issue where “Tutorials” was not reaching our servers and came up with a 404 - not found. Fixed an issue where inside staff marks (such as tenuto, staccato) were not avoiding collisions with other marks if the note was on a line and outside of the staff. Features Added Minimum zoom level for full audio mode is now the same as in normal score view. If left side controls get too crowded, they are minimized. Added AirDrop to the Share menu. Welcome screen now has a “New Features” section which shows automatically with each new updated version. Added new animated gifs to Welcome screen highlighting new features. Added a new action menu item: Move events between staffs which can move text, tempo markings, chords and expressions en masse between staffs.

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue where exporting MIDI was not working. Fixed an issue where selecting the last region’s end measure in the transformation editor was unexpectedly quitting. Fixed an issue when inserting a new note then dragging left or right might place the new note in the wrong slot. Fixed an issue where the initial sounding note when inserting a new note with the palette method, was sometimes one step either higher or lower than what was indicated by the selection rectangle. Fixed an issue where deleting the last staff was not cleaning up indicated clef and key in sidebar. Fixed an issue when adding shapes (slurs, crescendos, etc.) where the start occurred later than the end was causing an unexpected quit when then switching to page view. Fixed an issue where the playhead could disappear. Numerous other bug fixes. Features Added Pitch dragging rectangle has been enhanced to show currently selected note, cancel area, and note/rest toggle. Chord panel added for creating lead sheets, etc. with chord playback. Chord editor added for adding user defined chords to augment factory defaults. Redistributed options from left slide-out drawer into the Options dropdown menu. Reorganized Options dropdown menu. Added new options. Added chord play, chord octave and range reset to audio dropdown settings menu. Reorganized playback settings dropdown menu. Known Issues Larger documents may slow down. This will be fixed in the next update. Measure bar might disappear temporarily when audio window is first active. Workaround: zoom or scroll will bring it back.

Bugs Fixed: Fixed an issue where the previous/next measure navigation buttons were exhibiting jitter. Fixed an issue where some of the controls in the options drop down menu were not resizing properly. Scrubbing with the virtual pointer now properly re-articulating notes just scrubbed. Fixed an issue where adding a shape, then dragging an endpoint, then undoing was causing an unexpected quit. Fixed an issue where adding or deleting a staff from the action menu might cause an unexpected quit. Fixed an issue when dragging the pitch indicator up/down to insert a new note would be jumpy if dragged quickly. Fixed an issue where handwriting a new meter in a measure with an existing meter was setting the meter to “0/0.” Fixed some issues with very high/low notes getting cut off from view. Dragging notes for pitch is now much more fluid with no above or below staff restrictions. Changing colors (themes) now changes all items immediately. Fixed issues where some windows were repositioning themselves improperly when the device was rotated. Fixed an issue where the virtual pointer was not updating it’s initial and final position after finger off and glide. Fixed an issue where trying to paste a measure with text/tempo markings attached to a multi-note chord was causing an unexpected quit. Fixed an issue where some legacy documents had their voice 1 / 2 stems frozen in the wrong direction. Those documents are now repaired on load. Fixed an issue where shapes were getting corrupted when sending notes to the opposite voice. Fixed an issue where the audio loop text fields in drop down were not allowing easy editing and clearing. Fixed an issue where composer and opus in page view weren't being repositioned when rotating device. Fixed an issue where a long staff name or abbreviation would unexpectedly quit. Features Added: Added a new Transformation Editor module. Creating and managing regions used in the Transformation Editor is now fully supported. Added new prefs: next/previous measure button speed. Added new prefs: duration drag sensitivity. Added new prefs: pitch cancel distance. Drag overlay now matches cancel distance. Tuplet brackets can now be dragged up/down. Added additional help items. If sound is on in Options, dragging to insert new notes now sounds pitch. Added a live search box to the reference manual. Removed four ledger line above/below restrictions. Initial sounding of notes with the virtual pointer has been sped up somewhat. Added subtitle in page view.

Bugs Fixed: Fixed an issue where there was too little text room for abbreviations in the Staff Manager. Fixed a bug where invoking the repeats panel from the last measure and then switching to another tab was crashing. Fixed an issue where adding a lyric to a note that already had text was crashing. Improved zooming and scrolling performance, especially with large documents. Fixed an unexpected quit with large documents on older iPads. Fixed an issue when popping up panels. Sometime they were either partially or totally offscreen. Fixed an issue where selecting at the very bottom of the screen was inhibited by the presence of the context sensitive menu whether visible or not. Fixed an issue where saving the document (either automatically or manually) might clobber memory and crash. Fixed a serious issue where some users could not load a previous score without crashing. Fixed an issue where some older documents that used multiple voices were flipping stems in the wrong direction. Features Added: Added visible drag handles to shapes such as slurs, hairpins, regions, etc. Added a virtual pointer style user pref. Added a Reset Defaults in the Options drop down. Added meter shortcuts to context sensitive menu. Updated help files.

Bugs Fixed Fixed an issue where a selected tool of any rest was inserting a note instead. Fixes handwriting for drawing ties on non-bottom notes in chords. Fixed memory increasing bug that could cause crashes after scrolling around. Fixed an issue where changing the abbreviated name in the staff panel could crash. Fixed handwriting where existing measures have multiple character meters such as 11/16. Features Added Removed crosshairs from virtual pointer and replaced with a thin circumference for a less cluttered look. Added a Staff Manager to allow re-ordering of staffs. Added abbreviated staff name. Added sort by length in score manager. We now detect unexpected quits and give the user the option of attempting to reload the prior document.