Voicebraid: Counterpoint Game

Version-specific help

Version 3.0 (build 6)

This guide covers version 3.0. The current website catalog lists version 3.0. Check the App Store for availability on your device; the features below require version 3.0 or later.

Version 3.0 (build 6) is now available on the App Store. Check the version on your device before following these new steps.

Desk: Study 1 opens first. Change any note of the upper voice with its stepper, then tap Evaluate phrase. Rule faults (amber) must all be fixed before a study counts as solved; style cautions (grey) cost points only. A study is solved when it has no faults and reaches its target score.

Hint names the next note to change and the reason; tap Use to apply it. Model answer fills in a solution that the evaluator has checked; a study solved after viewing it does not earn a clean medal. Every one of the sixty studies has a verified solution.

Studies shows your progress, best scores, medals and progress by mode, and keeps the phrase you were writing for each study. Tap a study to open it. Progress is stored on this device only; Reset all progress (in the Studies menu) clears it and cannot be undone.

Playback uses the system's built-in synthesizer tone at three tempos; check that the device is not muted if you hear nothing. The share button exports the current study as a MIDI file (cantus on channel 1, your voice on channel 2).

The rules follow standard first-species teaching: consonance on every note (the 4th counts as dissonant), notes kept within the mode except the raised leading tone before the final, no parallel or direct 5ths and octaves, unisons only at the ends, permitted leaps of a 3rd to a 5th, the ascending minor 6th and the octave, and a cadence from a major 6th to the octave. Textbooks differ on a few details; the Primer tab lists exactly what this app checks. Voicebraid is a puzzle, not accredited music instruction.

Guide updated 2026-11-12.