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Sonoptic - The Metronome's Encore - Practice Sheet Music Collection app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 224 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Bin Software Co.
6.99 USD
Current version: 1.4.1, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 27 May 2014
App size: 56.32 Mb

Become a better player by seeing deeply into the music you make.

“This app makes serious musical training more challenging and more beautiful … I improved after just one session with this app.” – Voice Council Magazine

“(An) Exercise Machine … helping users to practise more efficiently.” – Featured Product, The Strad Magazine

See our video at http://sonopticapp.com for a full overview.

BREAK THROUGH BARRIERS
Without feedback, it can be hard to discover where to focus and improve. No practice tool provides more immediate information about how you play than Sonoptic.

• Watch your pitch, tone, and rhythmic precision improve
• Sharpen your sight-reading skills and master unfamiliar keys
• Use Sonoptic as a quick reference to the basics of scale & chord theory
• No special equipment—Sonoptic works with the microphone in your iPad, and makes deep melodic analysis available to virtually any band instrument

EXPRESS YOURSELF
“Play” is the right word. Sonoptic’s immediate feedback draws you deeper into your practice. Even the simplest passage becomes an opportunity to explore and improve.

• Discover the very personal way that seeing what you’ve played motivates you
• Express yourself visually and discover how it changes your approach to practice
• Get new insight into your dynamics and phrasing

TEACHING?
Your students don’t always hear what you hear. Sonoptic lets you see and replay the details of a challenging area in a way that’s more memorable than a recording alone. It can also help you illustrate the impact of changes in posture, breathing, and hand position.

• Bring attention to subtle challenges like rhythmic precision, phrasing, dynamics, over-blowing, tuning, etc.
• Tailor degree-of-difficulty to each students level
• Use Sonoptics catalog for assignments, or as a launch-point for lesson ideas
• A great tool to help you prepare students for auditions

Features
• Immediate real-time visualization: Pitch accuracy, Rhythmic accuracy, and Phrasing & dynamics
• Playback and scrolling review of your recorded takes
• Nearly 400 melodic exercises and etudes in a variety of genres, including: Scale and Chord Drills, Pentatonic Patterns, Jazz and Blues Patterns, Phrases and Etudes from the Masters, and more
• Every exercise is adjustable: Key, Tempo, and Rhythmic basis
• Enhanced cycling (chromatic, repeated, circle-of-fifths, randomized challenges)
• Built-in metronome
• Innovative hands-free scrolling

Supported Instruments

• Strings (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp)
• Guitar and Bass Guitar (melodic lines)
• Vocal (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass)
• Piano, Celesta, Harpsichord, Harmonium, Organ (melodic lines)
• Woodwinds (Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinets, Bassoons, Saxophones)
• Brass (French Horn, Trumpets, Flugelhorn, Trombones, Tuba, Baritone, Euphonium)
• Percussion (Xylophone, Marimba, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone)