Touch Notation vs Norvela Music

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.

A tuner and metronome built for violin and string instruments — and an ear trainer that plays a real violin, not a beep. Around them, the practice tools a working player uses: a note trainer, a reading trainer, recordings you can hear back as notes, set lists and a practice log. Free, no account, and no data collected. TUNER Compatible with: violin, viola, cello, double bass, mandolin, guitar, ukulele and banjo, with the cross-tunings old-time players use (AEAE, GDGD, DDAD, DADGAD, open G and more). A steady needle in cents, a reference A from 415 to 446, and a drone shaped like a bowed string so you can tune by ear as well as by eye. Pure-fifths tuning for the open strings when you want it. METRONOME Subdivisions, accents, and a tempo climb for building speed. The click keeps going with the phone locked, and the lock screen has the controls. READ Graded sight-reading exercises with a fingerboard that shows where each note lives. Wait mode holds until you play the right note; Play-through scores each bar and tells you what you missed. Transpose to any key. NOTE TRAINER AND EAR TRAINING Read a note on sight and play it — the app hears whether you got it. Intervals and scale degrees over a held tonic, sounded on a recorded violin, not a beep. RECORDINGS Record a rehearsal, a lesson or a take against the click. Ask the app to listen and it reads the recording back as key, tempo, chords and the top line — a suggestion to check against your hands, not a fact — and exports the notes as MIDI to GarageBand or anywhere else. Deleted takes wait in a bin for thirty days. CAPTURE Play a tune and get it written down: notation, tab for your instrument, and suggested chords. SET LISTS AND PRACTICE LOG A running order for the night with keys, singers, tempos and chord sheets, and a log that fills itself as you practice. PRIVACY Everything runs on the phone. The microphone is analyzed live and forgotten; a recording is written only when you press record, and it stays on your device until you delete it or share it yourself. No account, no analytics, no ads. The ear trainer's violin is recorded, public-domain audio inside the app, not a stream. Made by one person for the players in his own band. Built for iPhone and iPad, with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type throughout.