Triplets, and what a week of using it found
26 August 2026
Noteland can write triplets now — and duplets and quintuplets. A tuplet button sits on the input strip; tap it, choose a kind, and the next note you write opens a tuplet spanning the strip’s duration, the rest of its slots as rests ready to be filled. It works the way MuseScore does it: a quarter with a triplet is three eighths in the time of a quarter. A note you already wrote can be turned into one the same way, and a tuplet is removed by tapping its number. The guide’s chapter on notes has the details.
To make room for the button, the little gear that used to reveal the strip’s extra controls — 32nds, 64ths, more voices — has moved into Settings, as its own Input strip section. Your choices there are remembered now, which they were not before.
The rest of the week went to things that a week of actually using the app turned up:
- Lyrics and chord modes open with nothing selected; you pick the note by tapping it inside the mode, and can move straight from lyrics to chords on the same note.
- A score that starts with a pickup bar now shows its key, time and clef once, in the pickup — not again in the bar after it — and a new score can say how long the pickup is.
- A mouse places a note the moment you click, like the Pencil, rather than waiting out the finger’s short hold — for anyone trying the app in a browser on a computer.
- Updates reach an installed iPad app promptly again; a caching setting had been holding them back for up to four hours.
Still free, still on the iPad, still saving MusicXML that MuseScore, Sibelius and Dorico read. If you are using it and something looks wrong, hello@noteland.org is where it goes.