YouCompose

YouCompose


Meet Aimée, she's awesome!


$6.99

8.22for iPhone, iPad and more
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Dec 31, 2023
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About YouCompose

Artificial intelligence and music go well together. 
YouCompose is proof of that.

Meet Aimée, your personal, artificially intelligent assistant composer, she's ready to help you compose great music.

Whether you are a beginner or a professional composer, she will boost your creativity with her vast knowledge of music theory and the clever use of genetic algorithms.

You give her your melodies and decide how she should handle them. Aimée then finishes your composition, doing all the hard work that normally takes hours, but now is done in seconds.

Aimée can also compose her own melodies or even sonatas, scherzos, fugues and more ... what about a complete symphony? 
You can use her compositions, or parts of them, in any way you want.

YouCompose is a great tool to create your own music for your movie, game or theater productions for example. It's also great for songwriters but above all: 
it’s just fun to play with this app and enjoy its sometimes surprising results.

YouCompose features:

Built-in instruments:
80 instrument definitions with their sounds are included. You'll find all regular orchestral instruments, keyboards, organs, guitars, basses, chorus, percussion and more.
With more than 85 predefined ensembles, you can quickly set up YouCompose for a wide variety of instrument groups such as trios, quartets, quintets, etc., small and large orchestras or a big band.

Creating and editing:
You create melodies using the built-in virtual keyboard or a MIDI keyboard, by entering single notes in a grid or score editor, by importing a melody from a MIDI file or by asking Aimée to make one for you. 
Aimée will then harmonize these melodies in a classical or jazz style taking into account the instruments you selected.
A composition can be edited in many ways. YouCompose allows you to copy, paste, move and delete movements, segments and individual notes.
You can ask Aimée to compose a complete 3 or 4 movement classical or jazz symphony for your ensemble all by herself, or let her add a new movement to an existing one. She can do that based on her own melodies or on melodies you provide.
You can control the way she harmonizes your melodies with special instrumentation tools, by defining ‘Composition instructions’, setting ‘Harmonization Points’ and other options, or you can also leave that completely to Aimée.
Special tools allow you to enter lyrics, apply melodic transformations or create dynamic effects.

Sharing and saving:
YouCompose is Audiobus, AudioCopy and Inter-App Audio compatible and supports background audio. In Audiobus you will find remote triggers for reverb and output level adjustment. With AudioCopy you can copy audio from movements, parts, segments or fragments to any other AudioCopy compatible app.
YouCompose is CoreMIDI compatible. This means that you can also use a MIDI keyboard, a MIDI sound module or synth apps running on your device together with YouCompose.
You can export audio files directly to other apps on your device. Supported audio file formats are: MIDI, aac, m4a, aiff, caf and wav. A m4a file contains iTunes data like ‘artist’, ‘song name’ and ‘lyrics’. You can export audio from movements, parts, segments or fragments.
You can view your composition’s full score and the individual parts (transposed when applicable), print them directly from YouCompose to an AirPrint compatible printer or export them to any PDF viewer like iBooks.
You can save compositions to your device and load them again later. Additionally, YouCompose allows you to send and receive them from other devices running YouCompose via iCloud, email or an AirDrop connection.
You can share your composition with others by sending an email containing a YouCompose file, m4a audio files, MIDI files and/or a PDF document with the full score and the individual (transposed) parts.
Several sample compositions containing well known melodies are also included in the package.
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What's New in the Latest Version 8.22

Last updated on Dec 31, 2023
Old Versions
- Bug fixes for iPod and iPad mini.
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Version History
8.22
Dec 31, 2023
- Bug fixes for iPod and iPad mini.
8.21
Dec 30, 2023
- Added 'In segment' recording.
- Added 'Tuplets'.
- Many internal improvements, performance should be better.
- Redesigned the virtual keyboard with 'Keyboard setup'. This allows to select a specific midi source for recording.
- Improved quantization after recording a melody playing the virtual or an attached MIDI keyboard.
- Added 'Smooth playback' and 'MIDI File export - Spacing repeating notes' to App settings.
- Changed behavior after selecting a different 'One position is' (1/4, 1/8 or 1/16, now called 'Quantization') in segment settings. Now the note values remain as they were.
- Renamed 'Melodies' composition instruction to 'Sources'.
- Updated user manual.
- Bug fixes.
7.21
Jan 5, 2023
Bug fixes and small improvements to the user interface.
Addresses issues with copying and pasting single and multiple fragments and/or segments.
7.20
Nov 9, 2022
The biggest update yet with many new features and improvements:

- You can now have from one to a maximum of fifty parts (tracks) in a movement.
- Have as many movements in a composition as you want.
- Introducing instrumentation tools with ‘Composition instructions’.
- Setting up a new composition has become a lot easier with over 85 predefined ensembles and automatic range control.
- Set advanced properties for melody generation.
- You can now set the desired number of bars for a new melody.
- Significantly faster and better harmonizations.
- Auto composition by Aimée has been completely redesigned and significantly improved. Aimée has been back to school and has gained a lot of new music-theoretical knowledge.
- Full score option to show applicable parts transposed.
- Set instrument ranges to ‘best sounding range' automatically.
- Smooth playback.
- A3 paper size option.
- Simplified or precise notation option.
- Added ’Special effects’ options: arpeggio, chord repetition, in harmonization composition instruction.
- Many improvements to de user interface.
- Added sample composition ‘App Preview 7’.
- Updated user manual.
- Bug fixes.
5.17
Mar 4, 2022
Deleted: Russian national anthem from sample compositions.
5.16
Oct 28, 2020
Adjustments for iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
5.15
Sep 22, 2020
Adaptations for iOS14 and bugfixes.
5.14
Jan 15, 2020
This is a major update that adds lots of new composition techniques that you can use to shape your compositions. You can set your own chords now using one of many new harmonization point types. Also for the first time you can choose between up to four different harmonization alternatives for each segment. Also a first: you can now select multiple fragments to edit its settings or copy and paste them anywhere else in a movement or even in an other composition. And apart from bug fixes and general UI improvements and increased speed there is much more as you will see in the list below:

- Segment settings can now be edited for multiple selected segments in one go.
- Copy and paste multiple selected fragments/segments in one go.
- Up to four harmonization alternatives for each segment.
- Add harmonization points to define your own chords progression.
- Set the chord names style (relative or absolute).
- More harmonization point types: unisono, repeat chord, repeat notes, anticipate chord, anticipate notes, add passing notes.
- The harmonization algorithms have been improved and processing speed is increased considerably.
- You can now edit harmonization points just like you do edit notes with copy-paste, transformations etc. You can now tap and drag a point or (if multi selected) several points over the ribbon to change position(s).
- The Note Editor now allows you to switch between segments.
- Imported MIDI melodies can be copied to the clipboard to be used directly into an existing movement.
- The MIDI import panel has a 'Play' button now that allows you to listen before you import a MIDI melody.
- Many settings are now remembered. So when you open a panel your previously set parameters will be retained.
- Beter general tap-and-hold functionality.
4.25
Sep 25, 2019
- Adaptations for iOS 13 and iPhone 11
- Integration with Files app
- Bug fixes

By integrating YouCompose with Apple's Files app you can place MIDI files directly into the file system of YouCompose. You can also use the Files app to reorganize your compositions or imported MIDI files.
4.24
Oct 17, 2018
- Added metronome in Recording Settings.
- New option for MIDI file export: One track, type 0.
- Bug fixes: During playback it is now possible without YC stopping playback to change tempo within a segment.
- Some adjustments for the latest iOS (document viewing a.o.)
- Adjustments for newer iPhones.
4.23
Feb 8, 2018
Bug fixes.
4.22
Jan 21, 2018
This major update significantly improves the user experience with a new interface and workflow. But that's not all!
Editing capabilities are expanded on many levels. All editing can be done now in 'grid' and in 'score' mode and you can switch between these modes seamlessly.
Managing your compositions, adding new ones and importing MIDI files has never been easier. Notation is clearer, performance better.
All this and many other small improvements make YouCompose a pleasure to work with.
YouCompose will detect when it is running on an iPhone X and adapt its interface.
3.9.7
Sep 26, 2017
- Adjustments for iOS 11.
- Addresses a bug that prevents importing one bar length segments in MIDI files.
3.9.6
Jun 22, 2017
- Addresses a bug where there was no touch response in the Note Grid Editor and Score View on 3D touch capable devices.
- Addresses a bug where fragments titles were not displayed properly sometimes.
3.9.5
Jun 13, 2017
- Improvements and bug fixes to the score.
- Higher and adjustable quality when exporting the score to PDF.
- Bug fix in importing melodies from MIDI files without time signature information.
- Important notice: This version will be the last one supported by iOS 8 or iOS 9. If you would like to receive updates to YouCompose in the future make sure you have iOS 10 or later installed on your device!
3.9
Apr 7, 2017
- Added time signature setting with separate numerator and denominator, allowing time signatures 2/2, 3/2, 4/2, 5/2, 6/2, 7/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 8/4, 9/4, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8 and 9/8.
- Added new form: Scherzo
- Improved auto composed melodies
- Notation improvements in scores
- MIDI file export skips empty parts.
- Different shade of green for empty generated fragments.
- Audio Export: resolved a bug: when exporting only one part it was not always assigned to the right instrument.
- In auto composed sonatas: resolved a bug that produced notes outside the parts range in development segments.

Once again an update all about music and composition. The new time signatures greatly enhances the musical palette of the composer. The ‘assistant composer’ benefits from this too in a new form 'Scherzo' that occasionally will be part of a classical 4 part symphony as well. She improved on her melodies too.
When you are in music production you will probably like that exported MIDI files no longer contain empty tracks and that a bug was eliminated that sometimes causes the wrong instrument to be assigned to a one track export.
3.8.6
Feb 7, 2017
- Addresses battery usage issues when YouCompose is running in the background.
- Bug fix in creating Fugato from existing material.
3.8
Dec 7, 2016
New in YouCompose 3.8:

- Added audio export options ‘Export as loop’ or ‘Export as song’ and adjustable output level.
- Tempo range expansion (20 - 240 bpm).
- Added melody solo or 2 or 3 part harmonization per segment.
- Improved auto composed melodies.
- Added two auto composed forms, ‘Fugue’ and ‘Fugato’.
- Added ‘Fugato’ to auto composed symphonies.
- Added five new automatic harmonization point placing options, ‘Anticipate’, ‘Contra’, ‘Repeat first bar’, ‘Repeat 2 bars’ and ‘Repeat 4 bars’.
- Added new option to ‘combine repeating notes’ in Segment setting: ’Smart’.
- Improved retrograde function.
- Improved ‘Undo’ and ‘Redo’ functionality.
- Improved and extended ‘Composition info’ with Part and Segment info.
- ‘Composition info’ also available in PDF.
- Added adjustable overall audio output level.
- Velocity adjustment in tracks (Parts) is replaced by adjustable output level per track (Part).
- Added app setting: Toolbar on Main Screen can show current segment info tempo (bpm), key and time signature.
- Playback info in Title bar extended with current tempo (bpm), key and time signature.
- Documents folder is now accessible in iTunes.
- Bug fixes (importing MIDI files, playback very long notes or rests).
- Updated AudioCopy framework to version 3.4

This update is all about music. Composers as well as producers will find many improvements and new options.
YouComposers who rely on auto composition will be happy to find improved melodies and two new forms ‘Fugue’ and ‘Fugato’.
YouComposers who prefer to work with their own material will be pleased to find some great new features. In addition to 4 part harmonization they now can choose to have a solo melody or 2 or 3 part harmonization per segment. To speed up the composition process five new automatic harmonization point placing options were added and a ‘Smart’ setting for the ‘combine repeating notes’ setting. The ‘Undo’ and ‘Redo’ functionality is completely renewed and much easier to use.
Producers will find tools that make it easy to export audio loops for use in other apps. A new audio export option ‘Export as loop’ and an adjustable output level makes live easier for them. Also, to make the composition of loops easier, new automatic harmonization point placing options were added that allow YouComposers to repeat a pattern of harmonization points of one, two or four bars. Renewed and extended ‘Composition info’ with Part and Segment info that can be exported as PDF will help production of audio in other apps when using YouCompose material.
3.7.5
Sep 21, 2016
This update addresses playback issues on devices running iOS 10.
3.7
Jun 24, 2016
- Added the option to record or create new segments and insert them between others instead of only being able to append them.
- Added two instruments 'Euphonium' and 'Baritone'.
- Added the option to ask your assistant composer to compose a complete movement or symphony out of existing material like your own melodies.
- Improvements to the 'Tutorial mode'.
3.6
Mar 30, 2016
- Audiobus
- AudioCopy
- Exporting audio files
- Audio engine improvements

YouCompose is now Audiobus compatible. YouCompose acts as an input app in Audiobus. In Audiobus and Audiobus Remote it offers the standard ‘Play/Stop’ and ‘Rewind’ buttons. Additionally in Audiobus Remote YouCompose offers 4 remote triggers that allow you to adjust the reverb and output levels.

AudioCopy is supported now. You can select a movement, part, segment or fragment to be copied to the AudioCopy clipboard. With AudioCopy you can easily upload a composition to SoundCloud.

Exporting audio files from a movement, part, segment or fragment to other apps is possible now. This includes MIDI files, aac, m4a, aiff, caf and wav files. The m4a file will contain iTunes data ‘album’, ‘album artist’, ‘artist’, ‘composer‘ (if defined), ‘user comment‘ with the date and time of the exported file, ‘song name’, ‘genre’, ‘track’ numbers, ‘lyrics‘ (when present) and a YouCompose icon as artwork.

The audio engine is improved to avoid clipping in some instruments and to provide background audio even when your screen is locked.
3.5
Feb 19, 2016
- Jazz
- User interface improvements
- Bugfixes
3.4.3
Nov 10, 2015
Adaptations for iPad Pro.
Bugfixes and stability improvements.
3.4.2
Sep 29, 2015
- We addressed some issues when running YouCompose on iOS 9.
3.4
Aug 31, 2015
This is a major update available only for iOS 8 (or later).

In general:
- Completely redesigned audio engine.
- Inter-App Audio compatibility and background audio.
- Over 75 instruments are included now with high quality sounds. You'll find all regular orchestral instruments, keyboards, organs, guitars, basses, chorus, percussion and more.
- With over 40 preset ensembles you can quickly setup YouCompose for ensembles like a saxophone quartet, string quartet or orchestra, woodwinds or brass sections and much more.
- Added adjustable reverb.
- Adjustable panning for each part (track)
- Your assistant composer went back to school to learn more about melodic lines and orchestration. Her symphonies, melodies and movements are a lot better now.
- New App icon
- Bugfixes

In Note Grid Editor:
- You can now edit notes, harmonize and apply functions during playback.
- Notes that are outside the selected instrument’s range are highlighted.

In the Virtual Keyboard:
- Nice large image of the selected instrument is shown. Tapping it opens the Part Settings that allow you to select an other instrument or change its settings.
- The keyboard is now ‘touch sensitive’ that is: the lower you hit a key the louder the note will sound.
- Keys that are outside the instrument’s range are shown in red.

In Score view:
- C-clef for viola.
- Part’s scores of transposing instruments are notated as such.

YouCompose FAQ

YouCompose is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
Russia,Belarus,Cote Divoire
YouCompose supports English
Click here to learn how to download YouCompose in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of YouCompose.
iPhone
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.

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