Ultimate Piper

About Ultimate Piper

Ultimate Piper 4.0.1 — see the bars you miss most PROGRESS Progress is a third way to look at a tune, beside Play and Follow Along: a heat map of your runs, pale green for the bars you play solidly, yellow to red for the ones you miss most, each note coloured by how it usually goes. Tap the chart for your accuracy over time and Most Missed Bars, then tap a bar to loop it with Follow Along. After each run you see how it stands against your best. RECORD YOUR RUNS The first time you start Follow Along you're asked whether to record your runs. Say yes and they're kept for Progress and listening back. Recording starts with your first note and stops after 30 seconds without one; change it with Record Every Session in Settings. HEARING MORE OF WHAT YOU PLAY Runs on the pipes are scored like runs on the practice chanter, gracenotes included. Gracenotes are judged against your chanter's tuning on the day, with Low A looked for near where you calibrated it, so a chanter that drifts a little no longer has most of its gracenotes marked missed. Every sample from the microphone is analysed: Low A and Low G strikes between repeated notes, High G flicks between High As, the flick that closes a doubling and three Low As parted only by their gracenotes are all heard. After a run the app listens back to the whole recording, so a tune you played well is still marked if the live tracker lost its place. MIDI CHANTER Follow Along on a MIDI chanter stays with you through a repeated phrase instead of jumping ahead to its next appearance, and the open-fingered high A stops sounding two seconds after you take your hands off. PRACTICE Mark the tunes you're working on as Focus and they're added to every session, the longest-unplayed first. Weekly Focus becomes Tune of the Week. A calendar and streak top Practice Insights. Follow Along runs count as practice. Log a band practice after it happens and keep notes on each tune. The Practice Loop opens smaller, remembers your zoom, pauses beside Stop and has its own Metronome button. Tap a note to move the Follow Along cursor there. A month practised every day gets fireworks. SPEED UP AND SLOW DOWN In the editor, Add Tempo Change in the Tools menu marks a run of bars accel. or rit., with a dashed line to the new tempo, and playback follows it. PIPESCORE A tune exported for PipeScore opens there again, with embellishments PipeScore lacks written out as the gracenotes they play. ICLOUD Change a tune on two devices and both changes are kept; if both change the same thing, you choose. Offline, pull to refresh ends at once and your changes are sent when the network returns. A tune not yet on this device opens in half the time. Runs on a shared tune reach iCloud, and a shared folder arriving in parts goes back for the rest. ALSO Braced melody and harmony pages scan in as one tune with its harmonies. The embellishment wheel opens centred on its note. Type a letter to move a selected note or gracenote to that pitch. A tie can cross a line break. The user guide, ultimatepiper.com/guide, is in Settings ▸ About. Fit Score to Page Width also shrinks a score slightly too wide. FIXED A daily practice reminder keeps its time when the clocks change. Progress colours reach the barline where a time signature changes. Double-tapping a note never adds a gracenote that clashes with it. The metronome's taps are felt again with an Apple Watch nearby. A folder shared from an iPhone or iPad shows as shared at once. Clear Cache no longer empties the library, a network blip no longer takes an edited tune out of its shared folder, and a slow iCloud no longer leaves the library stuck loading. Harmonies stay in time with the melody right through a march. A Progress replay stops when you leave the tune. Closing a Practice Loop in Follow Along goes back to listening. Progress opens on your Follow Along instrument. Practice History names runs on shared tunes. Empty Trash and Delete Instrument ask first.

App privacy

The developer, Mixolydian Limited, reported these privacy practices to Apple.