KotoTunings vs Touch Notation

KotoTunings is a simple yet powerful app for the 13-stringed Japanese Koto. It offers a collection of 26 traditional tunings, faithfully recorded to capture the Koto's beautiful sound. Whether you're tuning your instrument by ear, exploring scales, or just playing around with tunings, KotoTunings is designed to be easy to use. Key Features: 1. Authentic Sound: Our app delivers the true essence of the Koto with carefully recorded tunings that stay faithful to tradition. 2. User-Friendly Design: KotoTunings is designed for simplicity, allowing you to play and experiment effortlessly, whether you're a seasoned player or a beginner. 3. Versatile Playing: You can pluck strings with ivory picks or touch on the right hand side of the screen for pizzicato. 4. Interactive Pitch Display: See the pitch for each string on the left side of the screen. Tap to hear a triangle wave with the corresponding frequency. 5. String Representation: In the center, you'll find an easy-to-follow representation of the 13 strings. Each string produces a plucked sound at its pitch. 6. Learn Easily: On the right side, you'll see the string numbers in Japanese characters. Tap them to produce plucked sounds. KotoTunings is your gateway to the world of the Japanese Koto. Explore its melodies, study tunings, and enhance your musical skills with this app. Whether you're a seasoned player or just curious, KotoTunings brings the beauty of the Koto to your fingertips. Download KotoTunings now and discover the world of the Japanese Koto at your own pace.

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.