MusicJOT

New Features * A new Target Staff feature has been added to the note palette that lets you touch to insert a new note in a staff, but have that note actually be inserted in a staff either above or below. This both speeds up inserting cross-staff notes and/or makes it much easier to add notes that have many ledger lines. * The first measure can now be set as a pickup measure with the ability to either include or exclude in measure numbering. * Lyric choruses are now italicized to differentiate them from verses. * Lyrics can now be positioned above the staff set up in the Staff Manager. * Road Map window now updates live making changes such as inserting/deleting measures, or adding/changing repeats. * Removed measure number at the start of system one in Page View as this is more conventional. * A more intuit way to cancel the inserting of new notes has been added, Advanced Settings: Cancel When Exceeds Staff Midlines. * When dragging to insert a new note and after moving into the cancel note area (exceeding number of ledger lines or beyond staff midlines), you can now simply drag back to the legal area without having to start over with a new touch. * When inserting a note that has been dragged into the cancel note area (above/below the staff), the note is now dimmed to indicate that. * A new insertion line that moves as you drag a new inserted note appears vertically between the outer lines of the staff which is helpful (especially when in multiple ledger line territory) to see exactly where the new note will be inserted. * A new cancel new note mode (when trying to insert a note too far above/below the staff) has been added to Advanced Settings: Sliding Palette. Bugs Fixed * Fixes an issue where the display dropdown, “Previous” was not cycling through all staffs to highlight illegal measures. * Fixed an issue where meters with a wide numerical denominator was too close to the previous clef or key signature. * General speed increase. * Some Settings menu items have been reworded to better reflect their function. * Regions can now be extended or moved by dragging their handles in page view. * Fixed an issue where if you didn’t tab out of the End Measure text field in the Transformation Editor’s main view when entering the Action Editor, you didn’t get the updated range. * Fixed an issue where an unexpected quit would occur if you tried to drag a slur from a voice which was not the current voice. * Fixed an issue where the display dropdown window was not closing when the Edit Menu window, audio view, or handwriting was opened. * Fixed an issue where if you were trying to insert a note using the note palette and were in pitch sliding mode and went out of bounds (above/below staff) then immediately went into non-pitch sliding mode, you couldn’t place a note. * Fixed an issue where if you were inserting a note in non-pitch sliding mode and toggled to a rest and had the audio on, dragging the rest still sounded audio. * Fixed an issue where playback was not starting from the current playhead position but rather, always from the beginning. * Fixed an issue where the visibly topmost system of any page in presentation view was not getting a measure number shown.

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.

New Features * Voices selector controls are larger now and easier to select. * Help balloons arrows are more translucent making the labels easier to read. * Added an on-screen zoom lock/unlock button for fast access (mimics control in the display dropdown menu). Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue where the pencil shortcuts action menu was not updating the action menu selected checkmark. * Fixed an issue where pencil shortcuts menu was not appearing for some iPad models. * Fixed an issue where handwriting was not respecting the option, “Edits With Pencil Only (vs finger).” * Illegal bar count in display dropdown now reflects the correct number regardless of its show/hide status. * Illegal bar buttons now correctly displaying the same for voice 1 and voice 2. * Dragging a lyric syllable no longer resets its line positioning. * Long runs of beamed notes with interior short durations better adjusts to maintain minimum distance from note to beams.

New Features * Changing Bluetooth devices or turning Bluetooth ON/OFF no longer kills audio. * Dragging up and down for pitch is now very fluid whereas before it occasionally got ‘stuck.’ * When entering notes in a new measure, the measure width no longer contracts. * Added a “Zoom Lock” button in the display drop down. When ON, two fingers no longer zoom documents which is useful when entering music, especially from the palette. * An inadvertent slow down in longer scores that appeared in v2.5 has been fixed. * The triple-tap to reset the document to 100% zoom has been changed to 5-taps, as the triple tap was a little too easy to inadvertently trigger. * Tuplets are now ‘smarter’ when entered, placing only a number on beamed tuplets and a bracket on non-beamed notes. * The Action menu item: ‘Reset Tuplet Placements’ now also repositions to default positions. * Display drop down window has been reworked. ON/OFF switches have been removed. Now the icon IS the ON/OFF button. * Metrics (formerly in an expanded part of the Display drop down) has been moved next to each show/hide display button. They have also been fixed, as under some circumstances, some were incorrect. * A new “Note Names” option has been added to the Display drop down. This shows the note name above every note. Distance above the staff can be dragged by the drag bar in the left staff view. * Illegal measure markers no longer appear for empty measures, significantly reducing clutter. * It is now possible to add courtesy accidentals which appear with parenthesis. Tapping with an accidental toggles the courtesy state ON/OFF. * A new bulk export has been added to enable exporting your entire library either in MusicXML or PDF. * A new dedicated ‘Rehearsal Marks’ panel has been added to the Edit menu. See the in-app help on this item. * Tempo marks are now attached to measures - not beats. * Both rehearsal marks and tempo marks now show on the top staff even after part extraction for viewing and/or printing. * With the addition of new style rehearsal and tempo marks, the Settings menu has an added: “Rehearsal Marks/Tempos Top Staff Only” option. * Reorganized the Edit menu into ‘Properties’ and ‘Attachments’ replacing the old ‘Measure’ and ‘Beat’ classifications. * The context menu item, ‘Flip Slurs/Ties’ now has a reset button ‘A’. Now the Flip button will toggle between above/below and the reset button resets to auto. * The context menu item, ‘Break/Join Beam’ now has a reset button ‘A’. Now the Beam button will toggle between break/join and the reset button resets to auto. * Adds a new Action menu item: ‘Convert Legacy Rehearsal Marks’. * Adds a new Action menu item: ‘Reset Audio’. * Volume and tempo are now set to 100% when loading scores. * Enhancements made to the text search box at the top now include finding on partial entries. * Numerous bug fixes. See "Updates" on the MusicJOT website for a full list of bug fixes and other changes.

New Features * You can now show/hide parts in the Staff Manager (part extraction). Useful for focusing on one part or printing parts. * New multi-measure rests appear in both Presentation and Print modes for groups of two or more measure stacks that are filled with whole measure rests. * Sorting scores in the score browser is now case insensitive. * Placeholder text for empty bookmark notes is now easier to read and isn’t cluttered with the Cut, Copy, Lookup, etc. menu items above it. * Added a comments field to document info for each score. * The score browser has a new improved look, plus adds the comments field which is editable right from the browser. * A new action menu item “Fill with Rests” fills empty measures with whole measure rests. * Context sensitive button, “Delete” clears a whole measure(s). If an entire stack(s) is selected, it deletes the entire measure stack(s). * Cut does the same as Delete but also copies to the clipboard. * Added a “Delete Staff” context sensitive menu button when an entire staff is selected, while the plain “Delete” button will just clear all the staff’s measures. * Deleting a staff from the Action menu now has undo/redo support. * Adding a staff from the +Staff button now has undo/redo support. * A long press on any staff name in Scroll View now will evenly distribute the staffs from top to bottom, while a long press in Page View will reset the system gaps. * Exporting MusicXML has been updated, correcting some issues and adding support for more features such as cross-staff notes. * You can now flip either a tie’s position or a slur’s to be either above or below the notes where before you could only flip slurs. A context sensitive menu button will now show Flip Tie, Slur or Shape (if a mix of shape types is selected). * Auto-scrolling (when extending a selection to the screen edges) is now much more reliable and easier to control, and now has a speed preference in the Score Settings dropdown. * The default ledger line width has been increased by a small amount. * Notes that end in a tie over a barline that have an accidental are now correctly not reiterating that accidental. * Added a triple tap gesture to the sidebar which toggles between the old display of staff name plus clef and key one over the other, to just clef and key drawn much bigger and in a normal side-by-side orientation and without the staff name. Bugs Fixed • See https://www.musicjot.com/musicjot-updates for a complete list of bugs fixed.

New Features * Greatly enhanced speed when invoking the score browser. * Dragging overlapping objects is now giving precedence to one that has been previously selected making it easier to grab hold of the selected object. * Bookmark any measure(s). Dragging the new bookmark menu icon to any measure saves a bookmark to that measure which is indicated at the end of the measure. This menu bookmark item doubles as a bookmarks dropdown for editing and navigating between bookmarks. * A shape’s start and end handles (slur, crescendo, 8va, etc.) can now be dragged in page view and can also now be attached from one staff to another as well as from one voice to another. * You can now “hold” an expression tool by double tapping in the expressions palette. This immediately closes the expression palette and sets the menu icon to the new tool, and flashes it to let you know it is persistently active. This allows you to enter that expression into your score without the palette open (to maximize screen real estate). Tapping on the flashing icon turns it off and goes back to normal. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue in scroll view that was inadvertently introduced in v2.3, where you could not drag an expression or note that was previously dragged far below the staff back up towards the staff. * Fixed an issue where searching for existing text from the top menu while in page view, the page did not scroll to the expected location. * Fixed an issue were the tie tool was not working across measures yet the shortcut item in the context sensitive menu was working. * Fixed an unexpected quit when you tried to insert a chord symbol that expected to have an associated fretboard, but the fretboard chooser was empty. * Fixed an issue where tremolos could have been dragged off of their note stem. * Fixed an issue when scrubbing in audio mode. If you repeatedly changed direction to scrub over the same beat, that beat was not re-articulating. * Fixed an issue where a newly loaded score could start playing measure 1 immediately because the user may have inadvertently double-tapped the Apple Pencil barrel despite not yet having interacted with that score. * Fixed an issue where, after playing back a region in the arrange editor, exiting to your score, then going into the main audio playback - the playhead was not appearing. * Fixed an unexpected quit when dragging a shape’s (slur, accel., 8va, etc.) right handle to the left past its left handle, then trying to undo. * Fixed an issue where after inserting a new slur from a note to a chord, undo was not working. * Fixed an issue when you had a slur that spanned multiple systems (in page view). If the right anchor of the slur ended in a measure that had a backward repeat, the slur was not drawing correctly. * Fixed an issue when creating a new score directly after having a score with more staffs than the one you are creating. This was leaving left over staff names on screen until you refreshed the screen. * Other fixes. Miscellaneous * Removed support for Adonit styluses.

New Features * You can now designate notes from one staff to cross and appear on any adjacent (above/below) staff. Beams and slurs follow along. * In addition to acting upon the entire score, these action menu items (Reset Tuplet Placements, Reset Manual Beaming Breaks, Reset Beam Durations, Reset Cross Staff Notes, Reset Measure Widths, Reset Manual Positioning, Reset (Extend/Clip) Measure Durations) now allow you to specify a prior selection. * Now saving and restoring changes made to the distance between systems in page view. * Going into page or presentation views now retains any manual measure width changes from dragging barlines. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an unexpected quit in the Transformation Editor when reverting duplicated regions. * Fixed region duplication in Transformation Editor when the duplicated region is the last user-defined region. * Fixed an issue where undoing the repositioning of fretboards was not working as expected. * Fixed an issue where it was possible to manual force a beam connection to a previous beam group even though there may be a quarter or larger duration note in the group resulting in a beam over quarter. * Other fixes.

New Features * When adding fretboards, you can now designate the starting fret. The fretboard chooser will automatically repopulate all possible diagrams based on the new starting fret. * Playback of fretboard or chord symbol formerly only played the chord symbol using a user designated octave. Now if a fretboard is present, the actual fretboard will be played, thus different diagrams of the same chord will sound different. * Playback of fretboard vs. chord symbol when dragging over with the Virtual Pointer or tapping directly on the element in the score will now play either the chord symbol or the actual fretboard. Scrubbing and full playback will now play the fretboard if they are present. * A noticeable delay of up to two seconds when first sounding notes has been removed. * The action menu “Transpose Notes” has been removed. The transpose panel from the main menu is much more complete. * Measure stack playback from the Apple Pencil barrel double tap shortcut now puts up a playhead and scrolls the music appropriately. * The entire beat sounds when adding a new note in sliding palette mode, instead of just the new note about to be added, so if you are adding to an existing chord, for example, the entire chord will sound with the new note. * When adding new notes from the notes palette, notes continue to sound until cancelled or the pitch changes. * Added an “All Notes Off” option in the Action menu in case of stuck sounding notes. * A “Don’t Change Chord Durations” option has been added to the notes palette. When adding to existing chords: the existing chord’s duration is used instead of the palette’s duration setting. * The Note palette has been redesigned to make the the new options clearer and better organized. * Fretboard note labels along the bottom of each diagram has been optimized to avoid crowding by using superscripts for accidentals. * Added parentheses around the octave designation in the Virtual Pointer when displaying the note passed over. * Added the display of chord name to Virtual Pointer when passing over a chord symbol or fretboard. * When using the note palette to insert new notes in static mode (sliding mode is OFF), the right side of the pitch rectangle now shows the actual note that will replace the main center note if toggled instead of the letter ’T’. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue when in dark mode, printing was white notes against a black background. Now printing color is correct. * Fixed an issue when using context sensitive menu’s octave up or down in rapid succession could continue sounding notes indefinitely. * Edit menu now resizes properly to visible sections. * Many other improvements.

New Features * Note palette now has two new buttons: Sliding and No Chord (as an icon). When Sliding mode is ON, you can now move to any location in the same staff and system simply by sliding your pencil right or left while maintaining pressure. As you slide, if the new note will be added to an existing note making a chord, the entire beat will become highlighted. When the No Chord button is ON, notes cannot be added to existing chords, useful if notes are so close together that inserting in between is unwontedly triggering add to chord mode. When in Sliding mode, cancel out simply by moving above or below the staff beyond a number of ledger lines which is now a preference that can be set in the Actions menu: Advanced Settings: Sliding Palette. * In static palette note entry (Sliding is OFF), the rectangular pitch indicator now changes color to signify that a new note will add to a chord. Bugs Fixed * Fixed an issue in dark mode where after selecting a button in notes or expressions palettes and moving to another button, the old button was not redrawing properly. * Fixed an issue when selecting items of different types (slur, then chord, etc.) sometimes wouldn’t select. * Now turning on text and tempo layers if editing in the lyric manager. * Fixes crash on undo after trying to insert a rest over an existing note with the palette. * Palette durations are now respected over existing notes thus changing those durations. * Adding a rest to an existing note with the palette now correctly changes that beat to a rest. * Fixed an issue where tap to select was sometimes not working. * Slurs, ties and other shapes now in the undo stream when toggling notes to rests. * Fixed an unexpected quit when tapping on a fretboard or chord symbol with EditingSounds: Pitch set ON. * Fixed an issue where tuplets were made to non-tuplets after changing durations in the Transformation Editor to a region. * Now all editing is disabled in Presentation mode. * Fixed an issue when a right side menu was down (Edit, Note Palette, or Expressions Palette), and the Next measure navigation button was used to go to the end of the score in scroll view, the last measure was not completely visible.

* Music engine completely overhauled with major performance boost now handles large documents. * Major user interface changes makes controls more intuitive. All user interface elements redesigned. * A new Presentation view has been added which shows the score paginated. * Support for Split Screen mode. * Support for Dark Mode. * Supports Apple Scribble. * In-app Help Reference Manual completely overhauled and expanded. * Getting Started tutorial available through Split Screen mode. No internet connection needed. * Action Menu completely redesigned. * Road Map display enhanced which now consolidates duplicate ranges. Selecting lines highlights measures in the score. * Numerous speed enhancements. * Hundreds of bugs stamped out. * Undo now supported throughout with few exceptions. * Printing overhauled now paginates properly with various user margin options included. * All managers (Score, Staff, Lyric, Chord) completely redesigned. * New Score browser. * Full iOS font menu support when adding text. * Now supports auto scrolling when dragging to the far right or left for selections and scrubbing. * Playback loops now have visual feedback in the score. * New Edit Menu coalesces all editing actions with collapsible sections. * Slurs can now be flipped. * Beams can now be broken. * Added 10 new factory examples that can be loaded ready to play: 1. Bach Invention 1 in C. Major 2. Bach Invention 2 in C Minor 3. Bach Invention 7 in E Minor 4. Bach Book 1 Fugue 5 in D Major 5. Bach Book 1 Prelude in 9 E Major 6. Bach Book 1 Fugue 15 in G Major 7. Bach Book 2 Prelude 19 in A Major 8. Bach Book 2 Fugue 19 in A Major 9. Bach Air from the suite in No.3 in D Major 10. Bach piano piece in B Minor * Hundreds of other enhancements.