MusicJOT 4+

Music notation w/handwriting

Mona Lisa Sound, Inc.

Designed for iPad

    • $49.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Render Chords or Fretboards into real staff notes or as arpeggiated notes!

MusicJOT is a powerful, easy to use music notation app. Write with your own handwriting and watch MusicJOT render it into beautifully notated music ready for playback. Interact directly, quickly dragging notes around to change their pitch or duration. Included is a full-featured audio playback engine, featuring unlimited tracks and 128 built-in General MIDI instruments.

General
• Natural Handwriting Recognition
• Support for Split Screen mode
• Support for Dark Mode
• Supports Apple Scribble
• Support for chord symbols and fretboards
• Export to MusicXML®
• Export to MIDI
• Export as an image attachment
• Staffs limited only by memory
• 128 General MIDI sounds
• In-app sound library purchaes available
• Cut, copy, paste, undo and redo
• Paste Special with filters
• Two voices per staff
• Print to a wireless printer
• Definable Regions
• Custom beaming with beam breaking and joining
• Alternate notes/rests/tools palettes for non-handwriting music entry
• Searchable, context-sensitive reference manual
• On-line tutorial while working in Split Screen
• Auto rehearsal letters/numbers.

Navigation
• Unlimited view sizes
• Scroll, page and presentation views
• Live spacing
• Go to measure #
• Search for specific text
• Change music spacing

Notes
• Drag up/down for pitch
• Drag left/right for duration
• Double flats to double sharps
• Grace notes
• Floating rests
• Half step transpositions
• Octave transpositions
• Tuplets
• Courtesy accidentals
• Cross-staff notes

Dynamics
• Crescendo, decrescendo
• ppp - fff, sfz, fp P

Tempos
• Tempo text P
• Font, size, style
• Beats per note duration

Articulations & Ornaments
• Staccato
• Marcato
• Accent
• Dynamics
• Tenuto
• Harmonic
• Tremolos
• Guitar symbols
• Left hand pizzicato
• Fermata
• Up and down bows
• Roll chord
• Turn P
• Mordent
• Trill, Trill flat, natural, sharp
• Cesura
• Breath
• Pedal on/off
• L.H., R.H.
• Roman numerals (I - V)
• Numbers (0 - 5)

Shapes
• Glissando
• Bend hat
• Dotted line
• Solid line
• Tie
• Slur
• Slur Flipping
• 8va, 8vb
• 15ma, 15mb
• Accelerando/Ritardando

Lyrics
• Free, verse, chorus of unlimited number
• Auto flow into score
• Duplicate
• Find in score
• Span notes, group words, melismas
• Layers

Bars
• Normal, double, solid, dotted, final
• Repeats (playback enabled)
• Show repeat map
• Backwards, forwards, 1st and 2nd endings
• DC, DS, Del Segno, Coda, Finé

Text
• Free form text
• Placement - above/below staff
• Border option for rehearsal letters
• Font, size, style

Clefs, keys, meters
• Change selected only
• Change selected to next change
• Change selected to end
• Mid-measure clef changes
• Keys transpose up, down or none
• Measure duration clipping
• Automatic transpositions

Audio
• Change tempo, volume, pan, gain, mute and solo
• Scrub forwards and backwards
• Fretboards and chord symbols playback
• Create loops with visual feedback
• Playback with or without repeats active
• Change any staffs instrument sounds
• Add reverb
• Set playback range
• Dragging notes up or down to change pitch sounds note(s)

What’s New

Version 3.0

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.

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