MusicJOT 4+

Music notation w/handwriting

Mona Lisa Sound, Inc.

Designed for iPad

    • 3.4 • 14 Ratings
    • $49.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

New: Snap-to-Grid, Pickup Measures, Voices Collision Detection, Hidden Rests.

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 2.7

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.

Ratings and Reviews

3.4 out of 5
14 Ratings

14 Ratings

Xialy vier ,

Its getting better but

I was staying away from this app for awhile to let it get its bearings together, and honestly I was just frustrated with all the crashes and difficulty using it. But I came back to it today after about a year of not bothering with it to see what updates have been made since when I did contact customer support they got back to me very quickly and resolved one my issues with the app. For one it runs much smoother than before, and I'm having less issues writing the notes and getting them in the system correctly. But unfortunately about part way through a new project it crashed and scrambled the notes once I opened it back up and basically ruined my project. It does have a lot of potential, I really want to like it, but for now I'm not completely sold on it or the price I paid for it. Thankfully it looks like it has a dedicated team working on it.

gertie1 ,

Great new tool for composers

This app is a great new tool for composers. Anyone serious about having a tool easier to use than the big, expensive palette-driven desktop packages and one you can use on a train or plane should consider this app. This is not a toy, it is a full-featured composing tool for mobile users. The handwriting is magic and although it makes some mistakes, the developers appear extremely committed to continual updates. The interface is clean and easy to understand. The tutorials are clever and explanatory. I have contacted them with questions already and they have been very responsive. All the updates appear to be free. I don’t like getting lured into an app by a cheap price only to find that I have to spend more money just to get the thing doing something useful. Their approach seems more honest to me. I especially like the layers feature, which I’ve never seen before. When you’ve got lots of expressions and dynamics and slurs, it is easier to enter new stuff when you can hide all of that and just see the notes. I also think the palette (non-handwriting) aspect of the app is very well done. Dragging pitches up/down and durations left/right is super easy. They even have a little interval indicator when dragging pitches which is pretty cool. So you can drag a bunch of notes up and you can see how far (intervallic distance) you dragged before you even let go. Never seen that before. They’ve got the right approach to a monstrously difficult genre.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the wonderful review! No, definitely NOT a toy - but simple to use like a toy!

Skippah70 ,

Amazing music notation software

My review is from the perspective of a novice scholar of music notation. I've played guitar for many decades, but virtually always by rote. I recently made up my mind to return to learning music theory through books designed for guitarists. It then occurred to me that it would be nice to have an app for my iPad that enabled and simplified writing musical notation to preserve ideas born during my practice sessions. I found MusicJOT, which greatly exceeded my expectations in that not only can the app turn my chicken scratch notes into professional looking musical notation, but it will play the lines back to me immediately. So even a beginner can benefit from this software. Of course MusicJOT is loaded with tools that are presently beyond my training in music theory to use, but I look forward to learning how to use them effectively as I progress. For those who are already fully fluent in musical notation, this software offers limitless opportunities to realize your ideas in a publishable format. In sum, I highly recommend this product for beginning music theory students, particularly for class assignments, and for advanced musicians alike. This app is by far more the most sophisticated and powerful program I own.

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for the great review. Don't be afraid to dive into the Transformation Editor - it is loads of fun, and you can experiment like crazy without fear of messing up your score - all the changes are made to a copy of your score, so when you are ready to leave the editor, you'll be asked if you want to save them all or not. It's intensely cool! Check out the tutorials just for that feature on our website.

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