Orpheus – Music Notation2.0.9 - App Store

Orpheus is a music notation app that allows you to write and compose music. Orpheus is for everyone! From amateur to professional.
Write music with a beautiful modern interface, with colored buttons. Add attributes like clefs, keys, time signature etc. and multiple instruments.
Playback your score!

Orpheus takes advantage of advanced and modern technology to deliver an unmatched experience.
Orpheus delivers the best music notation experience out of any app on any platform.

Discover ‘Adaptive User Interface’: Adaptive User Interface is a groundbreaking feature that automatically adapt the user interface based on the instrument you are currently working on.
Select the Guitar and you will be shown techniques and articulations for the Guitar.
Select the Harp and you will be shown harp pedaling and arpeggios!

This allows Orpheus to have an easy-to-understand interface at all time.
Writing a symphony has never been easier!

Cut, copy and paste your music from one instrument to another.
Orpheus automatically renders the layout of your score, so that your score always look great.
Change title and composer, and change the tempo for playback.
Change the canvas view between pages and full horizontal view.
Add transposing instruments like Clarinet in Bb.
Write from small ensemble to full symphonic orchestra!
Add ties, accidentals, harmonics and fingerings and other elements to your score!

Print, share and import/export Orpheus files, PDF, MusicXML, MIDI.

Be sure to check out our social media at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @OrpheusSoftware

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The term "AvenciaMusica" might appear in the app. "AvenciaMusica" is synonymous with Xavier Favier.

Version History - Bug fixes: Accidentals issues, System break crash, Measure delete tempo change playback issue 2.0.9 Jun 15 - iCloud file save crash 2.0.8 11/08/2025 - Tuplet bug fixes
- Shortcut accidentals change
- Same time signature allowed 2.0.7 11/08/2025 - Jazz swing bug fix
- Disable page move option
- Mozart score accidentals fixed
- Harp MIDI glissando 2.0.6 10/28/2025 - Jazz swing playback
- Petaluma font
- New demo score (Scott Joplin) 2.0.4 09/25/2025 - Beam bug fix
- Playback bug fix 2.0.3 09/14/2025 - Graphic glitch fix 2.0.2 04/28/2025 - Performance improvements 2.0.1 04/20/2025 - Performance improvements
- Bug fixes, new branding 2.0.0 04/16/2025 - Bug fixes 1.6.4 10/10/2024 - Improved Copy/Paste
- Improved Crescendo/Slurs/Octava
- Bug fixes 1.6.3 10/06/2024 - MIDI Export crash fix 1.6.2 09/30/2024 - iOS 18 Bug fixes 1.6.1 09/24/2024 - Performance improvements
- Paul Dukas score added
- Mozart scores updated with correct 2nd voices for woodwinds
- Letter/A4 Page Size Localization
- Bug fixes 1.6.0 09/22/2024 - Bug fixes 1.5.6 07/03/2024 - Bug fixes 1.5.5 07/02/2024 - Bug fixes 1.5.4 07/02/2024 - First/Secondary Repeats 1.5.3 06/30/2024 - Guitar Chord Diagram widget 1.5.2 06/29/2024 - Lyrics support with infinite number of lines.
- Added first staff instrument name with auto horizontal adjustment.
- Improved Chord Text.
- Updated banners for key sign./pickup bars/line breaks.
- New Properties Popup: Note spacing and lyric X-axis offset bypass.
- Updated Instrument Properties window with new options for: Instrument Selection, Volume, Stereo Panning, MIDI Instrument browser with 150+ patches, MIDI Bank and Patch selection.
- XML MIDI Bank/Patch import.
- Added shortcuts for staccato/tenuto/accent.

- Fixed keyboard shortcut bug that would not work after editing Title/Composer.
- Replaced Soundfont and updated GUI buttons.
- Improved staff spacing. 1.5.1 06/11/2024 - MIDI Keyboard support via USB/Bluetooth 1.5.0 04/23/2024 - Improved vertical spacing: new options for vertical staff spacing.
- Improved margins.
- Option to hide banners (key sign., pickup bars and system breaks).
- Pickup bar number 0.
- Updated demo scores. 1.4.1 04/03/2024 - Added support for Pickup bars.
- MusicXML import settings for Pickup bars and layout settings.
- Da Capo and line/page breaks symbols right-alignment. 1.4.0 02/25/2024 - Introducing support for multi-part export: edit and export parts for each player. Specific individual part system and page breaks, slur adjustments and layout settings. Solo playback, multi-export, touchable and draggable zones for multimeasure rests.
- Added pizzicato sounds for the strings.
- Added support for multiple staves MusicXML import (“staff” tag) for piano/harp etc.
- Bug fixes for: slurs, playback with multiples voices, keys, iOS 17 graphic adjustments.
- Updated In-App Purchase view. 1.3.0 02/05/2024 - Improved engraving for: notes displacement, slurs, dotted notes, articulations, ledgers lines, beams, tremolo, key signature, double-stave name, notes spacing.
- Page margins settings added in Layout
- 'Bypass' system for font size, page sizes and margins.
- Creating a new score automatically opens the instrument window. 1.2.0 11/25/2023