Tonality: Piano/Guitar Chords 4+
Music theory, circle of fifths
Bryce Hostetler
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- £3.99
- 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."
The ultimate chord, scale, and music theory reference tool for musicians of all skill levels. Tonality allows you to view and hear a large database of piano/guitar chords and scales. You can run Tonality as an AUv3 MIDI receiver and view piano chords that match MIDI input you route to it, or as a MIDI source and send chords to other apps.
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 on it, or arpeggiate by swiping
- Search for chords by root, quality, and/or extension
- Reverse search for chords containing certain notes (on piano or fretboard)
- Sort chords by key, number of pitches, etc.
- View different inversions and omittable notes
- View a table of related scales (especially useful for jazz musicians learning to improvise)
- Chord identification - record a chord through your device's microphone and Tonality will transcribe and identify it. Options include overtone rejection.
GUITAR CHORD CHARTS:
- View guitar chord charts for all chords (even custom ones)
- Supports multiple guitar tunings and instruments
- Generate voicings by criteria such as fret range and number of fingers used
- 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 containing certain notes on a piano
- Sort scales alphabetically, by key, by number of pitches
- View scale degrees and note names
- View ascending and descending versions
- View scales on a piano and in the staff
- View all modes of a given scale
Three MIDI AUv3 PLUGINS
CHORD/SCALE IDENTIFICATION:
- Open "Tonality: Chord Identification" as an Audio Unit MIDI processor and 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 catalog, scale chords, or fretboard
- Full control of the voicing: you can 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
- Supports drag and drop to reorder
- Custom presets can be saved and shared across hosts
- Patchstorage integration for community sharing
GRAND STAFF
- View MIDI input in a grand staff. Also displays chord names in real time and lets you select the key signature to use
CIRCLE OF FIFTHS:
- Interactive circle of fifths: view key signatures and scales for major and minor keys
- Jump to relative or parallel keys
- View scale chords in the selected key (I, ii, iii, etc.)
EAR TRAINING:
- Learn to recognize notes, melodies, intervals, chords, and scales by ear!
- After each session, you can view what gave you trouble and create a level with just those things
- 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 chord symbols (and previewing them in real time)
- Works wherever the iOS keyboard does
CUSTOMIZATION:
- Create your own chords, scales, fingerings, ear training levels, and definitions
- Change color scheme
- Choose the playback instrument (piano, electric piano, guitar, or any .sf2 file)
- Choose whether to hide "weird" chords like B# major
- Show only basic chords/scales (for beginning musicians)
- Choose note naming (English or Solfège)
- Set speed/length of playback
What’s New
Version 8.6.1
Chord Pads:
+ Ability to change the output MIDI channel
Guitar:
+ Added all fourths tuning
- Shorten display names for new instruments so they fit better on very small screens
Ratings and Reviews
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!
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.
Best app for playing guitar parts on your iPad
The resizable Strum Bar is the killer feature. You can Strum and 'finger pick' guitar chords with one hand while selecting then with other. Works in any MIDI Fx compatible AU Host. Very responsive developer who actively engages with his users and will often implement their suggestions. Highly recommended!
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Bryce Hostetler
- Size
- 101 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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Requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 Jamm Hostetler
- Price
- £3.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Small Tip £0.99
- Medium Tip £2.99
- Large Tip £5.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.