United StatesMusicJOT is a powerful, easy to use music notation app. Write with your own handwriting and watch MusicJOT render it into beautifully notated music ready for playback. Interact directly, quickly dragging notes around to change their pitch or duration. Included is a full-featured audio playback engine, featuring unlimited tracks and 128 built-in General MIDI instruments. General • Natural Handwriting Recognition • Support for Split Screen mode • Support for Dark Mode • Supports Apple Scribble • Support for chord symbols and fretboards • Export to MusicXML® • Export to MIDI • Export as an image attachment • Staffs limited only by memory • 128 General MIDI sounds • In-app sound library purchaes available • Cut, copy, paste, undo and redo • Paste Special with filters • Two voices per staff • Print to a wireless printer • Definable Regions • Custom beaming with beam breaking and joining • Alternate notes/rests/tools palettes for non-handwriting music entry • Searchable, context-sensitive reference manual • On-line tutorial while working in Split Screen • Auto rehearsal letters/numbers. Navigation • Unlimited view sizes • Scroll, page and presentation views • Live spacing • Go to measure # • Search for specific text • Change music spacing Notes • Drag up/down for pitch • Drag left/right for duration • Double flats to double sharps • Grace notes • Floating rests • Half step transpositions • Octave transpositions • Tuplets • Courtesy accidentals • Cross-staff notes Dynamics • Crescendo, decrescendo • ppp - fff, sfz, fp P Tempos • Tempo text P • Font, size, style • Beats per note duration Articulations & Ornaments • Staccato • Marcato • Accent • Dynamics • Tenuto • Harmonic • Tremolos • Guitar symbols • Left hand pizzicato • Fermata • Up and down bows • Roll chord • Turn P • Mordent • Trill, Trill flat, natural, sharp • Cesura • Breath • Pedal on/off • L.H., R.H. • Roman numerals (I - V) • Numbers (0 - 5) Shapes • Glissando • Bend hat • Dotted line • Solid line • Tie • Slur • Slur Flipping • 8va, 8vb • 15ma, 15mb • Accelerando/Ritardando Lyrics • Free, verse, chorus of unlimited number • Auto flow into score • Duplicate • Find in score • Span notes, group words, melismas • Layers Bars • Normal, double, solid, dotted, final • Repeats (playback enabled) • Show repeat map • Backwards, forwards, 1st and 2nd endings • DC, DS, Del Segno, Coda, Finé Text • Free form text • Placement - above/below staff • Border option for rehearsal letters • Font, size, style Clefs, keys, meters • Change selected only • Change selected to next change • Change selected to end • Mid-measure clef changes • Keys transpose up, down or none • Measure duration clipping • Automatic transpositions Audio • Change tempo, volume, pan, gain, mute and solo • Scrub forwards and backwards • Fretboards and chord symbols playback • Create loops with visual feedback • Playback with or without repeats active • Change any staffs instrument sounds • Add reverb • Set playback range • Dragging notes up or down to change pitch sounds note(s)
Much improved; very good now
The first release had some issues, but it is obvious a lot of work has gone into this new version. It is pretty straightforward, and music notion with the Apple Pencil works well. The website has some good, short teaching videos. I’ve only used this for a short while, but I’m very pleased with the product now.
United StatesMy Thoughts
I'm a beginner so I was nervous about getting enough value from the $49.99 price tag. Feature one is turning my handwritten notes into something recognizable that I can see. Check. Feature two is playing back what I write. Check. Feature three is being able to export what I wrote to other apps/devices in a variety of formats. Check. Support doesn't mind answering my mindless questions about music and the app. Check. I can see - and have read/heard from other users - that there are amazing features that I will be able to use as I grow so this has given me new enthusiasm to write music. Definitely worth the price. Lisallynne Kirk
United StatesA Game Changer for Composing Music
This app is the musical equivalent of the iPhone, in terms of its fundamental power to change the way things are done. Before there were personal computers, I wrote sheet music with a pen or pencil. It was slow going, and if I made a mistake, I would cross it out (messy) or even use “white out” to try to redo it. Software for composing on the computer has made it possible to produce beautiful sheet music, but I find the process to be slow and laborious. Using QWERTY keys, or even a mouse, to pick a note value, pick a time value, and insert the note on the staff, feels more like programming than composing. With MusicJot, I can write music in the ‘normal’ way, using handwriting, and have MusicJot translate my handwriting into professional quality scores. Amazing! I commute by train, and I can use the time to compose with MusicJot and my iPad, listening to what I write through headphones. Later, I can transfer what I wrote to Logic as a MIDI file, and build the composition even further on my desktop computer. The ability to create TABs will be a welcome addition to this program, because so many modern guitar players do not read sheet music. (An old joke – how do you stop a rock guitar player from playing? Put sheet music in front of him.) Of course, version 1.0 of the iPhone didn’t have 3G support or a front-facing camera. I’m very happy to use the app now, and will look forward to new features as they are rolled out. I have been composing and recording music for many years, and along the way a few technologies have been ‘game changers.’ With MIDI, I can “type” a song on a keyboard (musical keyboard or computer keyboard), produce the sound of an endless array of instruments, transpose, speed up, slow down, and “correct” mistakes. With Digital Audio Workstations (Logic, ProTools, etc.), I can record, edit and mix to my heart’s content, in my own home, without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment or on studio time. And now with MusicJot, I can use my handwriting, an iPad and a pen to create musical scores. This is fantastic – highly recommended. UPDATE. Version 2.0 is much more stable and responsive. The first release did used to crash on occasion, which was frustrating. Also the developer has added guitar chord diagrams, and the ability to split a note into two tied notes, which is helpful when inserting chord changes.
United StatesAmazing music notation software
My review is from the perspective of a novice scholar of music notation. I've played guitar for many decades, but virtually always by rote. I recently made up my mind to return to learning music theory through books designed for guitarists. It then occurred to me that it would be nice to have an app for my iPad that enabled and simplified writing musical notation to preserve ideas born during my practice sessions. I found MusicJOT, which greatly exceeded my expectations in that not only can the app turn my chicken scratch notes into professional looking musical notation, but it will play the lines back to me immediately. So even a beginner can benefit from this software. Of course MusicJOT is loaded with tools that are presently beyond my training in music theory to use, but I look forward to learning how to use them effectively as I progress. For those who are already fully fluent in musical notation, this software offers limitless opportunities to realize your ideas in a publishable format. In sum, I highly recommend this product for beginning music theory students, particularly for class assignments, and for advanced musicians alike. This app is by far more the most sophisticated and powerful program I own.
United StatesGreat new tool for composers
This app is a great new tool for composers. Anyone serious about having a tool easier to use than the big, expensive palette-driven desktop packages and one you can use on a train or plane should consider this app. This is not a toy, it is a full-featured composing tool for mobile users. The handwriting is magic and although it makes some mistakes, the developers appear extremely committed to continual updates. The interface is clean and easy to understand. The tutorials are clever and explanatory. I have contacted them with questions already and they have been very responsive. All the updates appear to be free. I don’t like getting lured into an app by a cheap price only to find that I have to spend more money just to get the thing doing something useful. Their approach seems more honest to me. I especially like the layers feature, which I’ve never seen before. When you’ve got lots of expressions and dynamics and slurs, it is easier to enter new stuff when you can hide all of that and just see the notes. I also think the palette (non-handwriting) aspect of the app is very well done. Dragging pitches up/down and durations left/right is super easy. They even have a little interval indicator when dragging pitches which is pretty cool. So you can drag a bunch of notes up and you can see how far (intervallic distance) you dragged before you even let go. Never seen that before. They’ve got the right approach to a monstrously difficult genre.
United StatesFar most useful music notation app on iOS
I have been a composer since I was 8 years old and am now 77. I was in a music composition dept for 40 years asa prod of composition. For me, working with a pencil, even on an iPad Pro is organic and natural. I use Dorico 3 now and am amazed at the progress they are making at being comfortable and and transparent; but, sometimes there is nothing quite like a pencil. I have tried several iOS notation programs and they just didn’t work or were clumsy musicJOT is the first program that I feel comfortable with and doesn’t get in the way. I give it a 5 showing faith in their future updates. There are few missing functions that I hope will find their way into the program. As it exists it is more useful for sketching on the iPad Pro then moving to dorico 3 through XML for detailed work than any other program.
United StatesIf I could rate it a zero, I would.
Extremely Frustrating app to use. Nothing works the way it should and it crashes constantly.
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