Tonograph

Features

The editor

Keyboard-first, with undo on everything, and notation coverage wide enough that .gp files arrive with their articulations intact.

Your hands stay on the keys

Move the cursor, set a fret, change the note value, add an articulation — all from the keyboard. Mouse editing is there when you want it, and every operation goes through one undo history.

The editing palette below a bar of the score, with the edit cursor on a note.

Notation that survives the round trip

Bends and whammy, harmonics, grace notes, trills, slides, tapping, rasgueado, barre, ornaments, playing directions, fingering, lyrics and chord diagrams. Tonograph reads gp3, gp4, gp5, gpx, gp and keeps them on the way back out.

A system of notation and tablature showing a grace note, a whole-step bend and a pinch harmonic.

The bar tells you when it is short

A meter beside the note palette shows the current bar against its time signature — 4.75 / 4.0 — and bars you left incomplete are marked on the score itself. You find out while you are writing, not at print time.

The bar-fill meter reading over capacity, marking a bar that holds more than its time signature allows.

Fretboard, keyboard, drum pads

The panel under the score follows the track you are on: a fretboard for strings, a piano for pitched tracks, pads for percussion. It lights up as the score plays, and you can enter notes with it.

  1. String track

    The virtual fretboard panel showing the notes of the current beat on the strings.

  2. Keyboard track

    The same panel on a keyboard track — a piano, with the six notes of the current chord held down.

  3. Drum track

    The same panel on a drum track — pads grouped by kick, snare, hi-hat, toms and cymbals, with the kick and crash of the current beat lit.

Start with the free version

Open your .gp files, play them through the Resonance Engine, and decide afterwards.

Get the free version