Tonality: Music Theory 4+

Chords, scales, and much more‪!‬

Bryce Hostetler

    • £7.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

"Best music app tool I own, period!"
"Never downloaded an app so fast in my life"
"Excellent app for music theory. It is brilliantly supported by the developer who is continually updating it... The app is indispensable for the reference and learning of music theory."

Tonality is the ultimate chord, scale, and general music reference tool for musicians of all skill levels. It allows you to explore a large database of chords and scales and comes with tons of MIDI/AUv3 functionality, including chord pads for composition and performance.

NOTE: Tonality will always be a one-time purchase with free upgrades. All IAPs are for tips only.

CHORDS:
• Chord dictionary with over 1,000 chords for piano and guitar
• Listen to a chord by tapping, or arpeggiate by swiping
• Reverse search for chords using piano or fretboard
• Identify chords from the microphone using a cutting-edge ML algorithm
• Search for chords by root, quality, and/or extension
• View different inversions and omittable notes
• View related scales

GUITAR CHORD CHARTS:
• View charts for any chord
• Supports multiple tunings and instruments (including custom tunings)
• Generate voicings by criteria including fret range, number of fingers used, and finger stretch
• Left-handed option

SCALES:
• Scale dictionary with over 1,000 scales
• Search for scales by root and name, and filter by various tags
• Reverse search for scales using piano or fretboard
• View scale degrees and note names
• View ascending and descending versions
• View all modes and scale chords

CIRCLE OF FIFTHS:
• Interactive circle of fifths: view key signatures and scales for major and minor keys
• Focus on diatonic chords in a given key and view Roman numeral analysis

EAR TRAINING:
• Learn to recognize notes, melodies, intervals, chords, and scales by ear!
• After each session, view what gave you trouble and create a level with just those items
• View detailed statistics about each training session and your training history

MUSICAL TERMS DICTIONARY:
• View musical terms and their definitions/illustrations
• Tempo, symbol, articulation, dynamics, and more

MUSICAL TYPING KEYBOARD:
• Special keyboard for typing and previewing chord symbols
• Works wherever iOS keyboard does - enable it from Settings->General->Keyboard->Keyboards->Add New Keyboard...


---- Includes 4 AUv3 MIDI Plugins! ----

CHORD/SCALE IDENTIFICATION:
• View the names of the piano chords/scales you play in real time
• Record identified chords and export as text/MIDI

CHORD PADS:
• Add chords via list, scale chords, fretboard, name, or MIDI input
• Drag and drop to and from other apps or plugin instances
• Full voicing control: edit individual notes' octaves and velocities
• Grid sizes from 2x2 to 12x12
• Strum bar for performing arpeggios or individual notes
• MIDI trigger mappable with MIDI learn capability
• Automation parameters for footpedal control
• CC mapping on XY axes
• Multiple velocity sensitivity modes
• Custom presets can be saved and shared across hosts
• Patchstorage integration for community sharing
• Export pad sets as MIDI/XML files
• Import Scaler chord packs (XML)

GRAND STAFF:
• View MIDI input in a grand staff in real time
• Detects chord names

CIRCLE OF FIFTHS:
• Control other apps with a circle-of-fifths layout
• Modify inversion, octave, extensions, and bass notes on the fly
• Auto-voice lead option


CUSTOMIZATION/ADVANCED:
• Create your own chords, scales, fingerings, ear training levels, and definitions
• Show set theory information for any pitch class set, including Forte numbers, pitch constellations, and Tonnetze
• Choose the playback instrument (load any .sf2 file)
• Choose note naming (English or Solfège)

What’s New

Version 10.1.1

Chord/Scale AU:
+ Fixed scale playback in the identification audio unit

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
29 Ratings

29 Ratings

Sonic Arfur ,

So, So Useful.

I cannot state how useful this app is. It helps you learn musical theory, if you are that way inclined. I find it particularly useful when i’m songwriting and i use unusual chords, as the app allows me to map equivalent keyboard chords (particularly as I’m not particularly adept on keys). I love the chord transpositions it allows you to view. I love the fact you can use a popup fretboard to draw chords and find out what they are called etc. Generally, It provides a fascinating insight to music. What’s not to love? If you have any interest in musical theory, or just interest in music, you are bound to get something out of this app. I now find myself wondering what I did without it!

Svetlovska ,

Still loving the app, still holding out for more :)

Great app, great dev, lots of useful updates (maybe time to dig out my ukulele again :) ) but still lacking the one thing I would personally find super helpful - a print out or capture, or at least a chord by chord step through of the ‘top line’ name of the chords displayed in the first row of the chord view applet.

That way, when I play a random noodling sequence I’ve made in Atom or Fugue Machine or whatever, I can transcribe the resulting chords to a written list, which I can then use to help me plug stuff into other helper apps like Chord Suggester, to work up the noodling into something better. (Yes, I am a musical dunce.)

At the moment I’m sort-of doing it by slowing the tempo down and hitting freeze each step. Works, wonkily, but it’d be much cooler if I could get a text dump of the top line somehow. Here’s hoping...

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback! Still working on more transcription tools. Let me know if you’d like to beta test at some point.

EDIT: The ability to export text (and MIDI) of detected chords is now available.

King Shaddai ,

Top Tone Tonality.

Great app that just keep improving - (improvements are free!).

Developed, by a Developer who is listening, helpful and implementing good ideas.

Need help with music theory? - This app will help you!

Need to create a chord progression?

- This app will help you!

It also has a range of AUv3 plugins, such as: the Pads - and the new Circle of Fifths.

Top App!

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FYI: It also provides iOS with a basic Musical Notation Keyboard - You set this up via ‘Settings—>General—>Keyboard—>keyboards—>add new keyboard..

Amongst other things this will give you the proper signs for accidentals. (♭ ♮ ♯).

Also typing chord names will display the notes on an optional piano keyboard - (within that same keyboard)..

Check it out!

King

Edit: just went over to the description and seen the developer has written very similar instruction to access the keyboard.

Minds and greatness and all that!

Bless!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the kind words and glad you’re enjoying it!

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