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MusicJOT

by Mona Lisa Sound, Inc. more by this developer →

#242,669 of 719,896 by ratings on Apple · #7,556 of 20,928 in Music

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Category: Music

Description

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)

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