Tonality: Piano/Guitar Chords

Description

“Best music app tool I own, period!”
“Never downloaded an app so fast in my life”
“Excellent app for music theory. It is brilliantly supported by the developer who is continually updating it and adding more features. The app is indispensable for the reference and learning of music theory.”

The ultimate chord, scale, and music theory reference tool for musicians of all skill levels. Tonality allows you to view and hear a large database of piano/guitar chords and scales. You can run Tonality as an AUv3 MIDI receiver and view piano chords that match MIDI input you route to it, or as a MIDI source and send chords to other apps.

CHORDS:
– Chord dictionary with over 1,000 chords for piano and guitar
– Listen to a piano chord by tapping on it, or arpeggiate by swiping left or right
– Search for chords by root, quality, and/or extension
– Reverse search for chords containing certain notes (on piano or fretboard)
– Sort chords by key, number of pitches, etc.
– View different inversions and omittable notes
– View a table of related scales (especially useful for jazz musicians learning to improvise)
– Chord identification – record a chord through your device’s microphone and Tonality will transcribe and identify it. Options include overtone rejection and tuning forgiveness.

GUITAR CHORD CHARTS:
– View guitar chord charts for all chords (even custom ones)
– Swipe across the strings to play each voicing
– Supports multiple guitar tunings and instruments
– Generate voicings by criteria such as fret range and number of fingers used
– Left-handed option

SCALES:
– Scale dictionary with over 500 scales
– Search for scales by root and name
– Reverse search for scales containing certain notes on a piano
– Sort scales alphabetically, by key, by number of pitches
– View scale degrees and note names
– View ascending and descending versions
– View scales on a piano and in the staff

Three MIDI AUv3 PLUGINS
CHORD/SCALE IDENTIFICATION:
– Open “Tonality: Chord Identification” as an Audio Unit MIDI processor and view the names of the piano chords/scales you play in real time
– Record identified chords and export as text/MIDI
CHORD PADS:
– Add chords via catalog, scale chords, or fretboard
– Full control of the voicing: you can edit individual notes’ octaves and velocities
– Grid sizes from 2×2 to 12×12
– Strum bar for performing arpeggios or individual notes
– MIDI trigger mappable with MIDI learn capability
– CC mapping on XY axes
– Multiple velocity sensitivity modes
– Supports drag and drop to reorder
– Custom presets can be saved and shared across hosts
– Patchstorage integration for community sharing
GRAND STAFF
– View MIDI input in a grand staff. Also displays chord names in real time and lets you select the key signature to use

CIRCLE OF FIFTHS:
– Interactive circle of fifths: view key signatures and scales for major and minor keys
– Jump to relative or parallel keys
– View scale chords in the selected key (I, ii, iii, etc.)

EAR TRAINING:
– Learn to recognize notes, melodies, intervals, chords, and scales by ear!
– After each session, you can view what gave you trouble and create a level with just those things
– View detailed statistics about each training session and your training history

MUSICAL TERMS DICTIONARY:
– View musical terms and their definitions/illustrations
– Tempo, symbol, articulation, dynamics, and more

MUSICAL TYPING KEYBOARD
– Special keyboard for typing chord symbols (and previewing them in real time)
– Works wherever the iOS keyboard does

CUSTOMIZATION:
– Create your own chords, scales, fingerings, ear training levels, and dictionary terms
– Change color scheme
– Choose the playback instrument (piano, electric piano, guitar, or any .sf2 file)
– Choose whether to hide “weird” chords like B# major
– Show only basic chords/scales (great for beginning musicians)
– Choose note naming (English or Solfège)
– Set speed for scales and length for chords