Drum Charter
Text-based drum chart editor
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What's New in Drum Charter
2.2
August 18, 2026
Version 2.2 - The Notation Update Your charts can now be read as real drum notation - on stage and on paper. STAFF NOTATION * Real Notes, Same Chart Switch any drum chart to notation on a five-line staff: noteheads per instrument, stems, beams, rests, ledger lines, drum clef and time signature. Nothing about your charts changes - it is the same text, read a second way. * The Details Are There Triplets with their bracket number, flams as grace notes, ghost notes in brackets, real repeat signs with a repeat count, and rehearsal marks above the system. * Per Song, or Per Moment Set [notation: staff] to keep a song in notation, or flip between Grid and Staff in the Concert Mode settings whenever you like. Both readings are meant as equals: the grid shows time by position, the staff is what most players already know. * One Control, Not Two The staff always fills the width, so "bars per line" also sets the note size - fewer bars, bigger notes. Your choice is remembered now, and on iPhone the staff offers larger steps than the grid. * A Bar That Cannot Be Notated Says Why If a rhythm has no standard note values, that one bar shows its raw text and the reason, and the rest of the page carries on. No song can lose its page over one bar. PDF * Print What You See The PDF export can render the same engraving, broken across A4 pages, always black on white. Header with title, tempo and time signature on the first page. UNDER THE HOOD The notation model behind the MusicXML export now feeds the screen as well, so what you export and what you read can no longer drift apart. Held notes reach the next structural boundary instead of stopping at every beat, which turns a kick on 1 and 3 into two half notes instead of quarter-rest-quarter-rest. Bravura, the reference music font of the SMuFL standard, is embedded (SIL Open Font License 1.1). All existing charts work unchanged. Settings preserved across updates. iPhone (iOS 15+), iPad (iPadOS 15+), Mac (macOS 12+). iCloud sync across all devices.
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