GuideTone

GuideTone 2.1: write notes on your own songs. Open a song's Chart and tap Edit. The Transcription Editor opens over your recording, on the song's own bars, so a melody, a solo or a riff you write lines up with what you hear. Tap Write, pick a note value and play the piano. The first note in a bar of slashes turns the rest of that bar into rests, ready for the next. The song's chords, its key and time signature from any bar, marks and phrases are all on the same page. Tap a note to hear it on the piano, and play the song underneath to check what you wrote against what was played. Everything on the Chart now saves as you go, on the staff and on Karaoke alike: there's no Save or Discard anymore. Tap Done to leave, and Undo steps back through your changes in the order you made them. When it's ready, ⋯ then Export… on the Chart sends the song's chart with your notes onto paper as a PDF, or to another app as a MusicXML file that opens in MuseScore. Also in this release: - A Bluetooth or AirPlay speaker plays a little late, so the chords and the words could change before you heard them. Now GuideTone tells you when one connects, and Settings → Speakers sets how much later they follow — remembered for each speaker. - Read the Chart at one of five staff sizes, from the Chart's settings or with ⌘+ and ⌘− on a Mac. Each song keeps its own. - The song's key has moved from the Chart's settings to Edit, under Key & tempo, beside the time signature: set either for the whole song or from any bar. A song without a beat grid keeps its key in the Chart's settings. - The note-value keys now count along the row of buttons, 1 the whole note to 6 the 32nd; pick MuseScore under Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts for the old digits. - A new guided tour in Help, Write notes on your song, walks the page.