Music Box Composer

Jelly Biscuits

About this app

Create your own Music Box music, and easily share your compositions with others.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Very nice app. I would make a suggestions though. To give an illusion of seperation of the octaves, either by spacing or coloring. It is tedious work to know which note is on which line as you are adding the dots. A seperation by space or color would help the composer know on which octave he or she is. (the paper strips do this by adding space) thanks.

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!

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.

What's new

Fix for the Midi file picker not allowing picking of midi files.