Touch Notation for PC

★ ★ ★ Touch Notation Overview

What is Touch Notation? Touch Notation is a music score creation app that allows users to draw directly onto the score using touch gestures. It has a clean and intuitive user interface and offers a wide range of functions such as adjusting tempo and dynamics, layout functions, and a transpose feature. The app supports various musical symbols and allows users to add lyrics and other musical expressions using text input.

Software Features and Description

1. By contrast, Touch Notation allows musicians to draw directly onto the score using a finger or touch pen, and have their work immediately appear as beautifully written notation, then played back using the app’s 30 built-in instrument voices.

2. Touch Notation is a powerful musical score creation app that allows anyone to enjoy writing music using touch gestures.

3. Lyrics and other musical expressions (‘Dolce’, ‘Tranquillo’, etc.) can be added using text input, while comments and memos can also be written freehand directly onto the score.

4. In Japan, Touch Notation was selected as one of the ‘App Store Best of 2014’ apps, and held the No.1 spot in the iPad Paid App index for music apps for over two weeks.

5. Up until now, musical score creation software has relied upon dragging individual notes from a palette onto staves.

6. * Drum notation is supported, but other types such as rhythm notation and tab notation are not supported.

7. - Output scores using Air Print, or save to Dropbox in PDF, SMF, MusicXML, and ScoreMaker formats.

8. - Ability to enter musical expressions for adjusting tempo and dynamics.

9. - Convenient transpose feature for raising/lowering the pitch of the entire score.

10. * Older devices may experience stuttering when playing complicated scores with many simultaneous notes.

11. - A wide-range of functions accessible from a cleanly designed, intuitive user interface.

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Download and install Touch Notation on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Touch Notation	Get App ↲	21 2.95	Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Touch Notation app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Touch Notation on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Touch Notation"
The search will reveal the Touch Notation app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Touch Notation is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Touch Notation.
Now enjoy Touch Notation on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.	2.95	1.2.004

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Touch Notation Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Touch Notation,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Touch Notation" » then Click "Install".
- Touch Notation will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Touch Notation on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get $11.99 on Mac	Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.	21	2.95

Download on Android: Download Android

Touch Notation functions

- Draw directly onto the score using touch gestures

- 30 built-in instrument voices for playback

- Adjust tempo and dynamics

- Layout functions such as page breaks

- Transpose feature for raising/lowering the pitch of the entire score

- Output scores using Air Print or save to Dropbox in PDF, SMF, MusicXML, and ScoreMaker formats

- Supports various musical symbols such as note, rest, beam, tuplet, grace note, accidental, tie, slur, accent, staccato, tenuto, fermata, trill, sfz, arpeggio, pedal, senza, metronome symbol, crescendo, decrescendo, dynamics symbols, octave symbol, repeat brackets, repeat marks, clefs, key signature, time signature, and bar lines

- Allows users to add lyrics and other musical expressions using text input

- Allows users to write comments and memos freehand directly onto the score

- Supports drum notation, but not rhythm notation or tab notation

- May experience stuttering on older devices when playing complicated scores with many simultaneous notes.

✔ Pros:

- Easy to use

- Intuitive controls

- Convenient shortcuts

- Great playback function

- Works well with Apple Pencil

- Very flexible with what and how you write

☹ Cons:

- Gesture recognition is hit-or-miss

- Unable to format text

- Unable to erase handwriting

- In-app videos no longer work after a recent iOS update

- Cannot enter lyrics in an SATB template

- Cannot search the help utility by keyword

- Handwriting features don't work as well as shown in videos

- Scores are hard to edit

- Gestures to edit things don't work

Top Pcmac Reviews

Great app- one important suggestion

By nightowlgk (Pcmac user)

I use this right now for bass parts, lead sheets, or a melody. Transposes very well. Once you learn the hand writing recognition it is very intuitive. I even use my fingers with great results. Chord input is great, text input could be smarter: allow editing of text after the fact and text formatting options......... Great copy and paste for whole bars or sections speeds up work incredibly. Just lasso the section and click copy. Put you finger down, slide it around and paste it where you want it. Very accurate. I have one important suggestion. They should add a white ink color to the pen input so that you can the erase or clean up other “ hand written” entries that you might have put in before. I use this trick in ForScore all the time.
A powerful tool if you take the time to learn how to use it

By gvhstw (Pcmac user)

Very frustrating at times, but over all this app is very well worth the price for all the features it offers. Devs: please keep working on this! It has huge potential if the kinks can be sorted out. PROS: Easy to use Intuitive controls Convenient shortcuts Great playback function Works well with Apple Pencil Very flexible with what and how you write CONS: Gesture recognition is hit-or-miss Unable to format text Unable to erase handwriting In-app videos no longer work after a recent iOS update For those having trouble copying and pasting: you can copy entire measures by double tapping and dragging to select all the measures you want to copy. Then double tap and drag to highlight an equal number of empty measures where you want to paste your notes. The notation will copy exactly without having to move stuff around.
Potential to be phenomenal, but... Can no longer export

By Thistledowne (Pcmac user)

EXPORT FAILS - by any method. What kind of notating software allows one to use an SATB template but not enter lyrics? I’ve paid for the whole package, and no lyrics? Massive shortcoming. Other shortcomings: 1. Cannot search the help utility by keyword. Many sub-level menu items hidden under parent items but not listed in tree form in the table of contents. 2. Cannot export Midi ‘parts’. 3. Cannot export mp3 renderings of Midi. 4. Cannot specify beginning measure number. 5. Copy and paste an expression - THEN BE ABLE TO EDIT THE EXPRESSION, else have to create new every time and unify format, say, if one is creating measure numbers because program lacks item 4 above. 6. Do NOT link song listing to Title property. If I wish to maintain several revisions, I should not have to edit the Title in order to tell the difference between versions.
Does NOT work as advertised

By Lauren.Baylor42 (Pcmac user)

The handwriting features don’t work as well as the videos show. It takes multiple tries to get any note to show correctly. The scores are hard to edit, and the gestures to edit things don’t even work. You can’t get a refund on this, so I don’t recommend buying it!!! It does not work well. I was hoping to have an easy tool to compose music, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth.