It's a cheat sheet no keyboardist should leave home without.
Portland, OR (PRWEB) January 26, 2011
Octavian 1.5.0, the new release of Bitnotic’s music theory app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, is now available on the iTunes App Store. Octavian makes musical scales and chords instantly accessible to musicians of all skill levels. At just US $2.99, Octavian is an essential musical reference tool for any musician, student, composer, songwriter, pianist, keyboard player, or hobbyist.
The new release improves every feature in the app and adds significant new ones, including:
- Over 500 new scales
- iPad support
- New Circle of Fifths interface
- Additional octaves of piano sounds
- Plays scales up and down
- Descending forms of scales
This long-awaited update also addresses issues users were having with piano playback on iOS 4.0 and increases the loudness of the sounds.
Keyboard Magazine (Jan. 2010) said of Octavian 1.1.0, “It’s a cheat sheet no keyboardist should leave home without.”
Octavian 1.0.0 was featured on the iTunes App Store’s What’s Hot list. Early user reviews called it “a blessing,” “a must download now app!” and “perfect for the studio.”
With Octavian, users can:
- Quickly find scales and chords and transpose them to any root note
- Listen to scales and chords with high-quality piano sounds
- View any mode of any scale
- View chords in root position and first, second, and third inversions
- Build chords on any scale degree
- Use Scale Explorer to view all scales that contain the notes of the current chord
- Use Chord Explorer to identify chords built on the degrees of a scale
- Interactively traverse the Circle of Fifths
A detailed YouTube video walk-through and complete PDF User Guide are available at Bitnotic’s Web site.
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