Composer
Create or edit songs with a fully fledged music composer. Also with MIDI.
Changelogv3.5.0
3.5.0
7/2/2024
Loop, Visual sheets settings, Turkish translation
- Added looping of section for practice/playing/approaching mode
- The notes of the section to repeat can now be also be written as a number
- Added ability to hide notes in practice mode, to help you test your memory of the song
- You can now select how many chunks to show in the visual sheet
- Added Turkish translation
3.4.1
6/1/2024
Indonesian, Portuguese translations
- Added Indonesian and Portuguese translation
- Bug fixes to MIDI connection
- Bug fixes on old iOS devices
3.4.0
5/24/2024
Translations
- Added chinese translation, we are looking for translators!
- Added button to install app to home screen
- Added custom keyboard layout as a note name type
- Added "your keyboard layout" note name type, which uses your device's keyboard layout
- Bug fixes and improvements
3.3.0
4/8/2024
Audio/Video transcription, reverb
- Added tool in the composer to convert audio/video to a sheet
- Reverb now can be set for each instrument
- Added quick settings in the zen keyboard
- Added customisable presets in MIDI settings
- Improved MIDI connection
- Zen keyboard now emits MIDI notes events when pressed
- Changed Sky Music Nightly icon
- Added app's blog
- Other bug fixes and improvements
3.2.0
7/26/2023
Shortcuts, Do Re Mi, performance, Layers
- All shortcuts and keyboard layout are now customizable
- Added Do Re Mi layout with note shifting
- Rewrote app in next.js, improving performance and navigation
- Improved theming in the composer
- Added opacity to the composer and custom layers colors
- Added new visual sheet format with more info
- Added song search
- Increased composer layers limit to 52
- Improved composer sliding controls
- (Sky) Added new instruments: TR-909, BassSynth, SineSynth and ChimesSynth
- Changed the file formats so they can be double clicked to open
- Added export as zip file
- Added two new default themes
- Added lookahead settings to the composer to improve audio accuracy
- Other bug fixes and improvements
3.1.0
2/16/2022
Aurora, transparency and layouts
- Added aurora (Sky)
- Added switch/playstation layouts (Sky)
- Added backup warnings
- Added tranparency to themes
- Other bug fixes and improvements
3.0.1
1/11/2022
Performance and bug fixes
- Fixed an IOS bug preventing audio from playing
- Improved performance for users that have many songs
- Added tempo changer quick selection in the composer tools
- Other bug fixes and improvements
3.0
9/18/2022
VSRG mode, Zen keyboard, Calls and more!
- Added VSRG mode to compose and play vsrg songs
- Added Zen keyboard, where you can simply focus on playing by hand
- Added Visual sheet to the player
- Added app scaling
- Added alphabetical folder ordering
- Added backup page
- (Genshin) added vintage lyre
- (Sky) Added SFX of the calls and dance emote
- Changed metronome sounds
- Improved player performance
- Multi type export, you can now export/import songs, folders, themes etc
- Fixed bug that would remove a song from the folder when saved
- Fixed bug that would not play audio
- Fixed issues when opening/saving songs in the composer
- Fixed bug in pasting notes in the composer
- Exporting a song would not work in sky music and sky studio
- Other bug fixes and improvements
2.8
7/7/2022
More Composer layers and UI rework
- Increased instrument limit in the composer to 30
- Redesigned the tools in the composer
- Added UNDO to the composer tools
- Added paste/insert to certain layer
- Added tool to move notes up/down
- Added metronome in player
- Added multiple instruments in player
- Added more tooltips, also for mobile
- Bug fixes and improvements
2.7
6/15/2022
Song rename, MIDI export, folders
- Added option to rename songs
- Song names are not unique anymore
- Added folders and new song menu UI
- Added MIDI export of a song (DO NOT USE INSTEAD OF NORMAL FORMAT)
- Improved song playback in the player
- Fixed some bugs
2.6
5/30/2022
Light guitar & Tooltips
- Added tooltips
- Added help buttons
- Added Light guitar (Sky, notes can't be held)
- Bug fixes for main page loading songs
- Added drag and drop in the composer
- Composer on pc now resizes with the page
- Fixed some bugs
2.5
3/27/2022
Composer improvements
- Improved the rendering of the composer to be sherper and easier to see on mobile
- Improved performance in the composer
- Added 4th layer in the composer
- Added theming of more parts of the composer
- App rewrite in TypeScript
- Bug fixes
2.4
2/15/2022
Multi Slider and Themes
- Added app themes, fully customise the look of the app
- Added start and end slider for selecting which part of the song to play/practice
- Bug fixes
2.3
2/3/2022
MIDI Keyboard and Performance
- Added MIDI Keyboard support on all pages with custom layouts and shortcuts
- Big performance improvements of main page
- Added note names to sheet visualizer and empty cells
- Added ABC format
- Added Panflute (Sky)
- UI improvements and bug fixes
2.2
1/17/2022
Sheet visualizer
- Added sheet visualizer
- Changed timeline behaviour when dragging the scroll bar
- Improved performance by 2 times in some places
- UI improvements and bug fixes
2.1.1
12/16/2021
Zither and icons
- Changed note icon and animation (Genshin)
- Added Help page
- Changed zither audio (Genshin)
- UI improvements
2.1
12/11/2021
Home menu and pages
- Restructured code
- Added opacity to some elements
- Changed margins and padding of some elements
- Added home page
- Added Partners page
- Added shortcuts for main page
- Fixed loading bug in composer and main page
- Added Donate page
2.0
11/28/2021
Approaching circles
- Added Approaching cirlces mode, a new way to learn a song, or a way to challange yourself. You can find it in the main page, next to the practice button
- Rewrite of the main page to increase overall performance
- Added changelog page
- Added audio recording feature in main page and composer
- Added tabs autoplay (composer) on pc as a setting
- Added note animations when pressing the note
- Added possibility to change background image from URL
- Updated info page
- In the composer you can now press shift + note name to add a note
- In the composer you can press up/down keys to change layer
- While in the composer on PC, you can now add new notes by simply pressing the PC keyboard while in "playing" mode
1.7
10/20/2021
Zither
- (For genshin) Added Zither
- Added back "do re mi" format
1.6
10/17/2021
Performance tweaks
- Performance of composer improved by 2x
- Added note names for genshin (made it a setting)
- Fixed instrument volume bug
- Fixed keyboard layout issues
- Fixed other small bugs
1.5
10/14/2021
MIDI import
- Added to both Sky and Genshin music nightly the MIDI import feature
- Music track selection (select or deselect which tracks to include)
- Instrument track selection (select what instrument to give to each track)
- Track info (get info on how successful your parsing was, accidentals and notes out of range)
- Change note offset (in case that the song is outside of the octaves available)
1.4
8/28/2021
Song library
- Added song library integration, directly import songs from the app (700+ songs)
- Bug fixes
1.3
8/25/2021
New audio files
- Changed audio files
- Added ocarina
- Removed support button in TWA
- Bug fixes
1.2
8/18/2021
Bug fixes and PWA
- (For sky) Fixed bug where sheets couldn't be imported in sky studio
- Changed app install to more modern approach with description and images
1.1
8/7/2021
Sheets compatibility
- (For sky) Added backwards compatibility for sheets, now sheets made in sky music nightly can be imported into sky music and sky studio (with some losses)
- Bug fixes
- General improvement in performance
1.0
5/22/2021
Release
- 3 Instruments composition
- Better performance than previous version
- Better practice tool
- Better interface
- Breakpoints for the composer
- New features for both composer and main page
- Feature rich customisability to make learning and composition easier