Play Along and Compose
Play Along, Compose, the Chopin library, playback, and tuning all run in the current iPhone, iPad, and Mac builds.
LiveNotate
You play. The page keeps up.
Play along with real sheet music on any piano. LiveNotate listens through the microphone, follows you note by note, and waits when you need it to. When an idea comes, play it and watch it become notation you can edit.
In development for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In private testing, with no public download yet.
From the keys to the page.
Captured from the current build on iPhone. The clips loop; tap one to pause it.
Pick a piece
Start with any of 221 works and movements by Chopin, encoded from his first editions and sorted by level and length. Or open your own MusicXML.
Play along
Play on your own piano. LiveNotate hears each note, waits for the right one, and colors what you've played. MIDI keyboards and the on-screen keys work too.
Write by playing
Record an idea at your own tempo and LiveNotate writes it down. Then fix any note by touch: values, pitches, chords, rests, and markings.
Hear it back
Any score plays back through a grand piano, with a playhead that keeps your place and turns the pages for you.
Play a few notes.
Tap the keys, or click one and keep going on your computer keyboard. The keys match LiveNotate on a Mac: A to K play the white keys up from middle C, W E T Y U the black keys between them, and Z to M the octave below. Every note lands on the staff the moment you play it. It's a pocket-sized version of the idea; LiveNotate does it with a real piano.
Inside the current build.
Screens from LiveNotate on iPad and iPhone. Select one to see it full size.
What's in the build.
Everything below works in the current iPhone, iPad, and Mac builds.
- Any piano
- Acoustic or digital, LiveNotate listens through the microphone. MIDI keyboards and the on-screen keys work too.
- It waits for you
- No click track to chase. Play the right notes and the score moves on.
- Falling notes
- Rather watch the keys than the page? Switch the same piece to falling notes.
- Practice the hard part
- Play one hand at a time, start at any measure, or step back and try a passage again.
- Chopin, built in
- 221 works and movements, encoded from his first editions: ballades, nocturnes, études, preludes, mazurkas, waltzes, and more.
- Written at your tempo
- Compose notates a take at the tempo you actually played, then adds it to your score.
- Real engraving
- Slurs, pedal marks, dynamics, ornaments, and repeats, set in the Bravura music font.
- Tuned to your piano
- A guided one-minute calibration keeps listening accurate on your own instrument.
Where it stands.
LiveNotate is in active development. It isn't released yet, and it will keep changing on the way.
Private TestFlight
LiveNotate is in private testing on iPhone and iPad. There's no public download yet.
Before release
Printing and PDF export, sharing, and plenty of time with real pianos in real rooms.
Chopin scores in the screenshots are encoded from the first editions by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC), licensed CC BY 4.0. Music symbols on this page use the Bravura font under the SIL Open Font License.
Hear when it's ready.
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LiveNotate runs on Fate, the same C++23 engine Bezhig built for FateMMO. Caleb Kious builds both, along with the rest of Bezhig's games and tools.
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