No spare hand to turn the page while you're playing? MusicTools turns it for you.
KEY FEATURES
■ PDFs, photos and scans
Import PDF sheet music, or make a score from photos of its pages or a camera scan, straightened by their corners and put in order. A PDF from another app opens straight in MusicTools. Folders, search and your recent songs keep the library in order.
■ Full-screen reading
A song's score fills the screen, the white margins trimmed so the notes come out larger. Tap the sides or swipe to turn the page, or use a Bluetooth page-turn pedal; tap the middle for the controls. On an iPad in landscape two pages sit side by side, every song opens where you left it, and the screen stays on while you read.
■ Setlists
Songs in the order you play them, a practice routine or a concert program: turn past the last page and the next song opens.
■ It reads the bars and repeats for you
When you import a score, MusicTools finds the bars on every page and reads repeat signs and 1st and 2nd endings, so the playing order is ready. It reads cleanly printed scores best; any line it can't read, you add in the Song Form editor.
■ Auto page turn: hands-free practice
After a count-in at the song's own meter and tempo, each page turns the moment its last bar ends, so your hands never leave the instrument. The bar you're playing is marked on the score, filling beat by beat, and the seek bar takes you back to any bar. Or choose Simple: the metronome plays over the score while you turn the pages.
■ Repeats, D.C. and tempo changes as written
In the Song Form editor, mark repeat signs, endings, D.C., D.S., Coda and Fine on their bars and the playing order follows. Mark tempo and meter changes, rit. and accel., fermatas and pickups too: the metronome and the page turns follow them all.
■ Write on your sheet music
Pen, highlighter, eraser and text, plus one-tap stamps for fingerings, dynamics, accidentals and more, with undo and redo. With an Apple Pencil, the pencil draws and your finger turns pages. Your original PDF stays untouched.
■ Arrange, share and print
Reorder, turn, remove or add pages, or split some off as a new song; your notes follow their pages. Share or print the PDF with your notes.
■ Play along
Attach an audio file or a recording to a song and play it while you read: slower without changing the pitch, or looped from A to B.
■ Record your practice
One tap records your practice. Recording carries on in other apps or with the screen off, and a take cut short by the app closing comes back. Folders, favorites, search and slower playback.
■ Hum to MIDI (experimental)
Hum a melody and get its notes as a MIDI file for your DAW or notation app. Works best with one voice, one note at a time.
■ A precise metronome, and a tuner
- Quarter, eighth, triplet and 16th clicks, swing and shuffle
- Odd meters grouped the way you count them (7/8 as 3+2+2)
- Enter the tempo as the score gives it (dotted quarter = 60), or tap it in
- Per-beat high, low or silent clicks; click, bell, wood and beep sounds
- A tuner beside it: the nearest note and how many cents off, with A anywhere from 415 to 466 Hz
■ Backup
Your scores, notes, Song Forms and setlists in one file, to keep safe or restore on a new device.
■ Fully offline, no data collected
No account, no internet connection required. Sheet reading and transcription run on your device; the microphone is used only to record and for the tuner, and the camera only to scan a score. Nothing leaves your device unless you share, print or back it up yourself, and there are no ads.
WHO IT'S FOR
- Wind and string players who don't have a free hand to turn pages
- Anyone moving a pile of paper scores onto a tablet
- Players with a practice routine or a concert program to keep in order
- Anyone drilling a piece at a strict tempo, or recording practice to listen back
Best experienced on iPad.
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