Free
Touch Notation
Musical score handwriting app
⭐️3.0 / 5
Rating
🙌21
Ratings
📼2 vids & 6 scs
Content
📦w/o updates
Updates frequency
🗣❌ unsupported
Your locale
🧾$0.49 - $4.99
In-App Purchase
- Versions
- In-App Purchases History10
- Price History
- Description
- FAQ
All Versions of Touch Notation
1.2.004
June 15, 2021
- Fixed a bug that the size of the file created by PDF export may become abnormally large.
- Fixed an issue where natural input might be mistaken for lyrics input.
- Various other bugs fixed.
More1.2.003
January 20, 2020
Fixed an issue that prevented lyrics from outputting when exporting to PDF or printing.
More1.2.002
December 26, 2019
- Added the ability to input lyrics.
- Added layout functions such as page break.
- When spacing with no measure selected, the vertical position of the staff and lyrics is now automatically adjusted.
- Various other bugs fixed.
More1.2.001
December 20, 2019
- Added the ability to input lyrics.
- Added layout functions such as page break.
- When spacing with no measure selected, the vertical position of the staff and lyrics is now automatically adjusted.
- Various other bugs fixed.
More1.1.003
October 30, 2019
- From this version of Touch Notation, the supported OS is iOS11 or later.
- Fixed an issue that prevented handwritten videos from playing correctly in the Help function.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some settings and properties such as tempo and font size to change to the minimum value when closing windows under iPadOS13.
- Various other bugs fixed.
More1.1.002
May 22, 2019
Added link to an online video on the handwriting input page.
(This countermeasure is necessary, as the videos embedded into the help pages no longer play on iOS 12.2 or later.)
More1.1.001
March 19, 2017
- Added support for entering and editing drum notation.
- Added 5 new score templates that include drum percussion.
- Added support for entering grace notes.
- Added support for writing abbreviation symbols.
- Added ability to resume score playback using a > gesture
- Various other small fixes.
More1.0.106
July 12, 2016
- Improved recognition accuracy when writing certain numbers and symbols.
- Various other small fixes and improvements.
More1.0.105
February 25, 2016
Improved accuracy of handwriting input when using iPad Pro + Apple Pencil.
More1.0.104
December 4, 2015
Fixed unexpected app termination when touching the main edit screen when Touch Notation is run on the iPhone 6s/iPhone 6s Plus.
MoreTouch Notation In-App Purchases History
$0.49
Sound Set: Strings
Allows the selection of 16 different strings sounds to be used as a part voice.
More$0.49
Sound Set: Vocal/Others
Allows the selection of 16 different vocal and other sounds to be used as a part voice.
More$0.49
Sound Set: Piano
Allows the selection of 16 different piano sounds to be used as a part voice.
More$0.49
Sound Set: Brass/Woodwind
Allows the selection of 16 different brass/woodwind sounds to be used as a part voice.
More$0.49
Sound Set: Guitar/Bass 1
Allows the selection of 16 different guitar/bass sounds to be used as a part voice.
More$0.49
Sound Set: Bell/Mallet
Allows the selection of 16 different bell/mallet sounds to be used as a part voice.
More$2.99
Sound Set: Full
Allows the selection of 160 different sounds (divided into 10 categories) to be used as a part voice.
Note that purchasing the full sound set is more economical that purchasing all individual sound sets.
More$2.99
Handwritten Font
Allows the score to be viewed and printed using in a handwritten style.
More$2.99
Core MIDI Output
Allows score playback via MIDI.
A ‘Lightning to USB Camera Adapter’, ‘Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit’, or other Core MIDI compatible MIDI interface is required in order to connect an iPad/iPhone/iPod touch to a MIDI device.
More$4.99
Chord Name & Automatic Accompaniment
Allows chord names to be entered onto the score.
In addition, the Automatic Accompaniment feature (with over 100 styles) will follow the entered chords.
MorePrice History of Touch Notation
Description of Touch Notation
Touch Notation is a powerful musical score creation app that allows anyone to enjoy writing music using touch gestures.
In Japan, Touch Notation was selected as one of the ‘App Store Best of 2014’ apps, and held the No.1 spot in the iPad Paid App index for music apps for over two weeks.
Up until now, musical score creation software has relied upon dragging individual notes from a palette onto staves. By contrast, Touch Notation allows musicians to draw directly onto the score using a finger or touch pen, and have their work immediately appear as beautifully written notation, then played back using the app’s 30 built-in instrument voices.
- A wide-range of functions accessible from a cleanly designed, intuitive user interface.
- Ability to enter musical expressions for adjusting tempo and dynamics.
- Layout functions such as page breaks.
- Convenient transpose feature for raising/lowering the pitch of the entire score.
- Output scores using Air Print, or save to Dropbox in PDF, SMF, MusicXML, and ScoreMaker formats.
Touch Notation allows the following musical symbols to be entered by hand:
- Note, Rest (including dotted and double-dotted), Long Rest, Beam, Tuplet (Triplet)
- Grace Note
- Accidental, Tie, Slur
- Accent, Staccato, Tenuto, Fermata
- Trill, sfz, Arpeggio, Pedal, Senza
- Metronome symbol
- Crescendo, Decrescendo
- Dynamics symbols (ppp~fff)
- Octave symbol
- Repeat brackets
- Repeat marks (D.C./Fine/D.S./Segno/Coda/to Coda)
- Clefs (Treble Clef/Bass Clef/C Clef/Percussion Clef)
- Key signature
- Time signature
- Bar lines (repeat marks)
- Abbreviation
Lyrics and other musical expressions (‘Dolce’, ‘Tranquillo’, etc.) can be added using text input, while comments and memos can also be written freehand directly onto the score.
* Drum notation is supported, but other types such as rhythm notation and tab notation are not supported.
* Older devices may experience stuttering when playing complicated scores with many simultaneous notes.
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Touch Notation: FAQ
Touch Notation is available on iPad devices.
The creator of Touch Notation is Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd..
Your iOS device must have at least iOS 11.0 installed to use the app.
3.0: The Touch Notation app receives average reviews and ratings.
Music Is The App Genre Of The Touch Notation App.
1.2.004 is the current version of Touch Notation.
The latest Touch Notation update came out on July 5, 2024.
Touch Notation was first released on February 5, 2023.
Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.: Contains no objectionable material.
The Touch Notation app can be used in English, Japanese.
Unfortunately, Touch Notation is not on Apple Arcade.
Absolutely! In-app purchases are available within Touch Notation.
No, you cannot utilize Touch Notation with Apple Vision Pro.
