PocketPipes 4+

PocketPipes is an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch/Mac player for bagpipe tunes (abc and bww files) with lot of options. Polyphony and drones produce a very realistic bagpipe sound. A vertical bar shows the note being played on the sheet music. PocketPipes is your partner for practicing, with your own tunes. Statistics about recent playbacks help you to drive your training sessions.

PLAYING OPTIONS
- bagpipe chanter sound or practice chanter sound or whistle Bb
- polyphonic capacity (one file for each voice: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th). Select the first one to play in a polyphonic way.
- defining a section of the tune for playback (to focus on few measures when training, with long press on the sheet music). The area outside the section is grayed.
- loop mode
- playing with or without drones
- C natural, or C natural + F natural
- metronome
- optional 5-7-9 attack before each play
- tempo tuning for the current tune


TUNES HANDLING
- the app proposes to install demo files automatically when the tunes list is empty (it includes few polyphonic sets)
- importing tunes with the Finder (drag&drop), from a Dropbox(TM) account, or from email attachements
- if you define PocketPipes as the default app you can also use double click on abc or bww files
- file sharing : you can send tunes or sheet music as email attachments
- file uploading to the user's iCloud Drive (wav soundtrack and pdf sheet music)
- sheet music printing
- categorization (tagging) of the tunes allows to work on subsets within the personal tunes (i.e. Marches, Slow airs, To learn, Next performance ....). See in-app help. More flexible than folder hierarchy. When categorized, a tune appears in blue color.
- searching by keys, crossed with categories
- statistics on recent playbacks, crossed with categories
- file edition in textual mode
- backup/restore of the data to/from iCloud, giving a way to align different devices with the same data


USER INTERFACE
- contextual menu with a long press on the tune title or the sheet music
- two specific pop up controllers to handle playback options
- category editor
- window resizing
- ability to colorize some parts of the tunes (non standard feature)
- clear and dark modes
- help book (including useful links to abc and bww tunes data bases on the web)

Nota: tempo setting and section marks are made persistent at tune level

Available ressources on the support web site: Packs of tunes, ABC tutorial, FAQ, tips ...
See FAQ for specific questions