Ultimate Piper

Ultimate Piper 3.0.1 — the first polish after 3.0 SHARED FOLDERS STAY PUT A shared folder no longer disappears on a wobble. If you are in someone's band folder, the app used to treat a momentary hiccup in iCloud's share status as the owner removing you: an Access Revoked alert, and the folder gone until the next sync brought it back. Now only an actual removal by the owner ends your access, and a folder has to be missing from two syncs in a row before the app hides it and says so. Your practice history and ratings for shared tunes were never touched either way. A PROPER PAGE FOR THE STORY About this tune has an editor of its own. Tap the story in the editor header on iPad, or in Tune Details on iPhone, and a full page opens at reading size, with room to write a paragraph and read it back. Done closes it; the story saves with the tune as before. STAVE NUMBERS YOU CAN READ Stave numbers were drawn at the score's own scale, which made them tiny on a phone. They now sit at a normal reading size and grow with your text size setting, with a little extra margin so they never touch the clef. Turn them on under Settings, Show Stave Numbers. THE HALF BIRL Sometimes birls are written as G, A, G, with no leading low A, and the editor now has a Half variant that represents this variant. BWW import keeps the file's choice too: brl becomes the half birl, abr the full one. NEW IN 3.0, IF YOU MISSED IT SIRI, SPOTLIGHT AND SHORTCUTS. "Tune my pipes in Ultimate Piper" opens the tuner. "Start the metronome at 84" starts it. "Play Scotland the Brave in Ultimate Piper" plays it with the score following. "Open", "Follow along with", "Scan sheet music", "Start a practice session", "Help me tune my drones" and "Stop the music" all work, cold or already open. Ask for "the strathspey from" a set. Your whole library is in Spotlight, and every command is a Shortcut. STEADY BLOWING, MEASURED. Blowing mode in the tuner draws the last twenty seconds of pitch for chanter, tenors and bass as lines against time, scored out of 100. The same strip sits behind the wind button while you follow along. Pipes only. A TUNE CAN TELL ITS STORY. About this tune folds under the genre line on the score, opens with a tap, and syncs, shares and exports with the tune. PIOBAIREACHD, FINISHED PROPERLY. The tempo holds at the ground's through every variation, and the tune ends on a held low A against the drones. Convert to Piobaireachd Embellishments in the editor turns light-music throws and doublings into the idiom's movements. ENGRAVING THAT MEASURES ITS INK. Bars are sized by the ink they hold, long gracenote runs tuck in behind the note before them, and triplets keep clear air in a squeezed stave. Grow Score to Page Width lets a narrow score use the room beside it. ALSO IN 3.0. Play starts without freezing the page. Highland dances play in their idiom. Recording your own chanter and drones, and analysing a recorded session, are simply on. The tuner reads silence as silence. Opening a file already in your library asks whether to open your copy or import another.