Flat updates: October edition

Hello everyone,

As usual, we want to keep you in the loop on our latest product updates:

Web Music Editor:

iOS mobile app:

Android mobile app:

The Community:

Web Music Editor

New instruments

We have added some very special instruments:

  • Oud
  • Dizi
  • Shakuhachi

Quarter tones

The quarter tones are now available!

πŸ’‘Tutorial

🎢 These are the notes whose pitch is in the middle of a semi-tone.

Learn more about what they are and how to use them within Flat here.

iOS mobile app

Neapolitan chords

Now it is possible to input roman numerals with inversion and Neapolitan chords.

πŸ› iOS Bugs fixed

  • When opening a public score from the library, it doesn't open the page with the tag/description editing.

Android mobile app

New articulation

We've added the following articulations:

New tools

We've added the following articulations:

Collaboration invite via email

Now you can invite collaborators to your score via email address.

πŸ› Android Bugs fixed

  • Some devices experience a crash on startup when updating the app.
  • Unpitched sounds weren't corresponding.
  • The virtual piano was not centered on a valid pitch.

The Community

Enhanced default privacy settings for consumer Flat accounts

We released 2 product updates for our community features:

  • Private accounts by default

With millions of consumers using Flat, there are many public profiles on our Flat platform. We wanted to make sure that only the people who want to participate in our public community have a public profile. That's why we decided to make the public community profile creation an opt-in option.

πŸ’‘ If you have a public profile and want to make your account private, you can switch all your scores private and delete all the public interactions in a few clicks, directly in your Community Profile settings:

  • Code of conduct

To keep our community healthy and a good atmosphere, we have added a community Code of Conduct. Just before interacting publicly with our community, you will have this new set of rules displayed:

Community Code of Conduct

September's challenge winner

πŸŽ‰ We want to congratulate Bezakos!!!!

He is the winner of June's challenge with his song How It All Came To Be.

We created a playlist with the top 10 πŸ‘‰πŸ½ here.

🫢 Don't forget to subscribe to our channel!

October Challenge

Ready for this month's challenge? We will launch it on Friday 7th October.

A hint: the theme is Halloween πŸ‘»

Composer of the month

October's composer is ✨Mr Bari✨


We learned a lot during our interview, and we're sure you will.
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Any feedback?

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Have a wonderful day!