Touch Notation

Musical score handwriting app

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Description

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.
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In-Apps

Sound Set: Full
£2.99
Core MIDI Output
£2.99
Handwritten Font
£2.99
Sound Set: Ethnic
£0.49
Sound Set: Synth/Pad
£0.49
Sound Set: Bell/Mallet
£0.49
Sound Set: Vocal/Others
£0.49
Sound Set: Guitar/Bass 2
£0.49
Sound Set: Brass/Woodwind
£0.49
Chord Name & Automatic Accompaniment
£4.99

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Touch Notation FAQ

  • Is Touch Notation free?

    No, Touch Notation is not free (it costs 9.99), and it also contains in-app purchases.

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    Touch Notation costs 9.99 to download (and they also have additional in-app purchases).

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User Rating

3.17 out of 5

6 ratings in United Kingdom

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Touch Notation Reviews

Too Fiddly

Paul WL on

United Kingdom

I had this app for a few years. I thought it was pretty handy for jotting down short musical ideas. However it is a very fussy programme and frequently requires multiple attempts to get the notes or other annotation down. Sometimes I had to just give up trying to change time signatures, adding tests or accidentals. Which can be extremely irritating. So irritating in fact that I sadly had to delete the app altogether, life being too short.

Request to developers

Mike Fedeski on

United Kingdom

I would not normally try to contact developers through the review forum, but this app is without any customer service - when you send off the feedback form on the Kawai site, a message pops up to say that you will not receive a reply (having limited you to 140 characters - boy, do I get the impression that contact with the outside world is unwelcome!). So here's my enquiry. After repeated attempts, I have found that it is impossible to write a natural accidental on a note. The stroke is in in two parts. The first part opens a lyric window. The second half writes an eighth rest. You never get the natural. Many of the gestures are hit and mss. The stroke for a whole note, basically an open circle, delivers a half note or a quarter note more times than the correct one. So I was resigned to trying again and again for the natural - but not to being completely unsuccessful. I would guess that lyric writing is a later modification, and that no-one at Kawai has spotted the conflict.

Not impressed

jaydrums on

United Kingdom

The most unintuitive app in the universe. Very inflexible too. Absolute shocker

Recent update

Cavaddu on

United Kingdom

Unfortunately the app crashes sometimes with the new update, I’m with an iPad Pro. Also any chance to add extra features like for example to be able to write ghost notes? The app is great tho!

Almost Perfect!

Declan14 on

United Kingdom

Touch Notation is, without a doubt, the best handwriting music notation app I've tried! I understand that the app may not have been designed to replace expensive software like Finale or Sibelius, but it actually could do it, if some bugs and minor limitations were addressed. So far, I've found only a few limitations that, if they were solved, would make me ditch my Finale software all together: 1) no lyrics tool - I compose a lot for choir, so like the chord tool and accompaniment tool, I'd be willing to pay extra for the ability to input lyrics! It seems strange to me that this function is missing, given that the app already comes with various vocal templates (including SATB). What's the point in having these templates if you can't put lyrics underneath each voice part? 2) If I've already created a document and I want to change the time signature to 5-4, it doesn't recognise the top number 5! This is very strange given that I can create a new document in 5-4 time and the fact that I can create every other irregular time signature (like 11-16, 7-4, 13-8 etc.,)! This is probably just a bug. 3) Cross staff beaming - I need this, especially when writing music for piano! Besides these, and probably some other small faults that I've yet to find, it's a fantastic tool!

機能追加してください!

ああまのはてにるさたらた on

Japan

高校生の時くらいから使ってるので、10年は経ってます!でもその時と比べても、さほど内容は変わってないような…追加して欲しい機能は、 ・練習番号の割り振り ・複縦線、反復線を小節の頭にも描けるようにして欲しい ・段とページを跨ぐスラーとタイを可能にして欲しい です!結構不便で、楽譜書くのにスラーとタイを跨がないようにだとか、反復記号が頭にこないようにとか、それを優先して作ってるので、出来上がりの譜面が汚くて…お願いします🙇

授業でも使える

うそっぱち先生 on

Japan

音楽の授業で重宝しています。 模範として音源を流したり、リコーダーの伴奏として演奏を流すことにより、その間一人一人の指遣いを見て回れるようになった。 特にCD音源だと出来ない、テンポを自由に変えられるのが便利。 スコアーメーカーデータを読み込めるようにして欲しい。 無料のおんぷノートは読み込めるのに。 テンポ調整の丸いつまみの操作が難しい。

唯一無二のアプリ

クトクト on

Japan

いつもありがたく使わせていただいております! 紙に譜面を書くように曲が作れるので、私の音楽活動に無くてはならないものとなっています。これからも末永く使って行きたいです!

素晴らしいアプリです

なんで?? on

Japan

楽譜は初心者ですが練習に採譜して直ぐにやり方をつかめました。ipad proとタッチペンの相性がすごく良いです。 安心のカワイさんですが買切りのお安い価格でコスパは高いです。 記号の書込みが何度も失敗するのはご愛嬌です。拡大すれば成功率は上がります。 何よりも気に入ったのは、タッチペンで音楽初心者でも楽譜を書いてる感が得られるところです。 リリースされて久しいですが、たまのアップデートもあり、息の長いアプリとして使えます。操作中にヘルプ画面の動画をすぐに確認できるところも初心者に有難いです。 戸惑った点は、タッチをミスして他の小節に誤入力したまま気付かず自動保存され、次回開いたら?になったところです。 これは慎重に操作すれば回避できると思います。 このアプリを使い始めて、止まっていた音楽への情熱が甦りました。好きな曲を採譜しアレンジできるところまでやってみたいと思います。カワイさん素晴らしいアプリを有難うございます。ちなみに私はピアノコード100発100中の愛用者でもあります。

アップデート、、、

りこぴんり on

Japan

もう開発が手を離してしまったのでしょうか 仕分けに便利なのでフォルダ機能だけでも追加して欲しいです…

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Touch Notation Competitors

Name
Symphony Pro - Music Notation
Compose by handwriting or tap
Notion
Compose anywhere
iWriteMusic SE
Make music notation easy & fun
Canon Viewer - Sheet music
Get/Use digital scores
Chord Memos
Memos for Chord progressions
Chordana Composer
Chord Sheet Writer
Write and edit chord charts.
Chord chart editor
Chord and rhythm chart editor
iWriteMusic Pro SE
Make music notation easy & fun
iWriteMusic Pro
Make music notation easy & fun

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