Music Box Composer
Designed to aid composing and editing your own music prior to punching the paper strips for Music Boxes, MBC allows you to compose, edit, preview, play, save and share your creations via Twitter, Facebook, Email or local file transfer.
- Built for Tablets and Phones
- Supports 15, 20 and 30 note music boxes.
- Share your compositions with others via Facebook, Twitter and Email.
- Multiple undo
- Disable Notes for temporary changes
- Ripple edits
- Save and Load (access the save location via iTunes File Sharing/Android local storage)
- Sounds sampled from physical Music Boxes
- Save strip to JPG/PDF file.
- MIDI export and import
The physical Music Boxes with the punchable paper strips are great fun
- what I found was missing was an easy way to preview either transpositions or original creations. This aims to fill that gap but it's also a fun music creation tool in it's own right. Compatible with the types of music box you can purchase from Grand Illusions or Kikkerland (the Sankyo 33 not box is not currently supported
- but it is in the works).
There is a growing library of strips that can be loaded into the app:http://www.jellybiscuits.com/?page_id=763
For an example of a shared composition:http://www.jellybiscuits.com/mbc/mbp.php?lL5nDF79
Demo of composing, printing, punching an playing:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxkoHcPbS0
Rated as a Killer App by Apps4iDevice.
Category : Music & Audio
Reviews (24)
Frustrating. I was able to compose music, and that went very smoothly. However, I can't export the music in any form. I literally can't use it outside of the app, which makes the money I spent pointless.
i feel as though it goes out of time, or speeds up whenever i record a song. is there anything in the settings to prevent that? and instead of having speed can we have a tempo setter.
Spiffingly Good. Exactly what i wanted, the pdf printing is spot on and everything.
Great, but can't seem to load midi files. Am I doing it wrong?
Excellent. Love it.
I wonder where is the exit button located at, as I can't find it. It would be appreciated if App Designer created an exit button for this 7 dollars app as there was no trial version in Android. The icons in the app are quite dark in color, needs to be brighter. Grey icons against grey background is not a good choice.
Perfect app. Five stars, couldn't ask for more! Midi import is a little hit and miss but given that there are only so many notes to work with we cannot complain. The developer team is absolutely awesome and phenomenally fast to identify problems and update the app. These are people who care about the quality of their work and have to be applauded!
Very well made, can be difficult initially to get the import/export working with larger midi files (forums are great, many thanks for the help). Glad I purchased it! Managed to get some insane compositions going (AoT intro etc)
The overall feel to it is great and the tools are pretty much all there. Wanted to give 5 but i think it needs 1 more octave right at the top. The last key available is just a few short of the usual high notes that im hoping to use. Can you guys have an option for octave adjustment if adding an entire octave wouldn't be practical?
Is there anyway there could be an option to minimize the lower screen while editing and adding notes? That way the notes and lines are easier to access for smaller screen users. Im on a HTC one and the auto magnifier is quite difficult to use. I really love this application but it needs to be more accommodating for the poor visioned, chubby finger crowd!
There's no way to convert the files to mp3 or anything else, therefore we can do nothing with them.
Worth every dollar. Makes it significantly easier to craft music and not waste paper testing how it all sounds. Thanks for this amazing app!
I can't find the folder where the WAV files are stored, it would be cool to be able to access it from the app
I can't join the support forum because I don't understand your complicated security question. How do I create a new file? Why is there no new file button? Also I over wrote a file since I don't know how to create a new one and it just stopped where the original was finished?? Besides the random bugs that make me have to reopen the app, it's good.
It's super awesome and by far the best app of its kind! It makes things pretty easy and it's not hard to get a knack for it
When you learn the controls, it works fine. Save often.
How do I import MIDI files into the songs? It didn't show in the tutorial or anything, and I would really like to know since I spent 5 dollars on this app...
I love this app even I don't know how to use it. However I keep it for later when I have skills of composition. Would like to take a course to study it... Hope you guys can show me which site is good for music composition training... thank you guys! ^^
I love it! Saves me a lot of time with my 20 and 30 note music boxes. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This is one of the most impressive app on the market and trust me I've tried out most of the music creation apps out there. I love music boxes. The help and tutorial system is very intuitive which make it very simple to understand. Good work!!
The only way to close this app is to reboot my phone. I would like a refund.
I cannot praise this app more highly. For composing little jingles and ringtones, its a dream. Overall a little gem
This app is wonderful for planning songs on the Kikkerland music box maker. It is set up the exact same way as the physical sheets so you don't have to worry about correcting as many mistakes!
Sometimes the music doesn't play in time, but "limps" in a weird swingy way. Otherwise I love the app and all the possibilities! Also saving tunes is a bit more confusing than it should be. Hoping for an update. Would happily pay for this beautiful app!