Music Box Composer
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $5.99 | Grant Adam | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Designed to aid composing your own music prior to punching the paper strips for Music Boxes, MBC allows you to compose, preview, play, save and share your creations via Email or iTunes file transfer.
A small but growing library of Music Box Strips can be viewed here, via webplayer or loading into MBC on device:
http://www.jellybiscuits.com/?page_id=763
Demo of composing, printing, punching an playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxkoHcPbS0
- Supports 15, 20, 30 and 33 note music boxes.
- Share your compositions with others via Email.
- Multiple undo
- Disable Notes for temporary changes
- Ripple edits
- Save and Load (access the save location via iTunes File Sharing)
- Sounds sampled from physical Music Boxes
- Save strip to PDF/JPG file.
The physical Music Boxes with the paper punch strips and are great fun - what was missing was an easy way to preview either transpositions or original creations. This aims to fill that gap but it's also a fun music creation tool in it's own right.
Rated as a Killer App by Apps4iDevice.
Note that there is a desktop version of MBC available from the Mac App Store, as well as desktop versions for other OS's from the Jellybiscuits site.
Reviews
Can’t open .midi files (iPhone)
AzureAkita
It crashes everytime I try to load a custom midi file. Will this get fixed?
Can’t save it
Misa unni
I can’t email it to anyone let alone myself because the mail app is buggy and I have no way to download it to my phone. Give me a way to save it on my phone or a different option for email.
So glad this exists!
immaturetony
Was searching for generic "composition" apps for the purposes of making a music box for a birthday gift. So excited an app specifically made for this is here! UI is a bit confusing, but has tons of useful features.
Extremely Helpful
WileyCoyote5
It did not take too long to learn the controls, and being able to use this app helps waste less Music Box paper, because it lets you test it out before you put it on the sheet. This app is a must if you are planning to make Music with a Music Box, and it is really helpful
Perfect （≧∇≦）
Der KG
Wonderful just wonderful it was exactly what I'm looking for and now not only can I make my own music box music I can also make my own music box paper with the tune for a real music box!
Perfect
radiojam2
Wonderful app! If you are composing for music box and you're a perfectionist like me, this app is absolutely essential. A real joy to work with. The best part is you do not need to know how to read music, but it definitely helps to have an ear for it. Recommend spending some time in help mode reading all of the pop ups. Once you are familiar with the buttons/functions (all of which you will use at some point) the flow is very natural. Bravo!
No sound!
Chunkymunky6969
Was excited to play with this but there is no sound. Can't really make music without sound. I have iPhone 5s. I want my 6 dollars back!
No Sound on iPhone 5s
RogerHouston
Paid, downloaded, and watched the little tapes wiz by but nooooo sound. Reboot, reinstall, nothing.
