Broken
Response from developer
We have had no other similar complaints, please write to info@neumz.com to explain the malfunction and we will try to resolve the problem.
Beautiful
Thanks.
Response from developer
Hello, thanks! Prime was surpressed and it’s psalms folded into lauds and other offices in the novus ordo, but starting this fall we will be integrating also the vetus ordo including of course prime!
Beautiful But Missing Prima
This app is a beautiful app, but it misses the office of Prima, which is one of the greatest offices.
Thanks.
Response from developer
Hello, thanks! Prime was surpressed and it’s psalms folded into lauds and other offices in the novus ordo, but starting this fall we will be integrating also the vetus ordo including of course prime!
A blessing this Lent 2023
Response from developer
Thank you!
An amazing resource
…. Except that the autoscroll feature hides the neums that I’m supposed to be singing! I’m sure it’s complex to get things to line up on all the different screens, and I’m sure they’re working on a fix, but the app is frustrating to the point of being unusable for me on my iphone.
I hope the makers are able to allocate more resources for the development of this incredible offering.
Response from developer
Hello, just to let you know soon we will be publishing a fix for the sync issues!
Devine office prayer book
Amazing Treasure of the Faith
Since it’s still a work in progress there are some features that will get better with time. It will be fantastic when the search function works well. It would also be great if at some point in addition to searching you could look through an index alphabetical by function (hymn, introit, communion etc). There is the occasional issue with a psalm verse being a different melodically than the recording (example psalm tone written but melismatic line sung) and rarely a screen showing the next chant and stays there until the correct chant is sung.
No complaints at all though, so happy to have this amazing resource! It’s a must for all Catholics.
Thank you
Response from developer
Thank you!
Svelte but looking forward to continued development
I have a few quibbles that I hope get worked out in the course of time:
1-often the chant notation doesn’t sync up correctly. Often it only appears on screen after the text has been sung because it scrolls too slowly. If you’d like to sing along sometimes you’re plum out of luck.
2-the image of the chant scores appears to be a scrolling image file, rather than clean vector graphics (gabc code, for instance) which is annoying.
3-you can’t override auto scroll; since the speed isn’t correct this is frustrating. (And I wish there was an option to have the image flash rather than scroll; constant scrolling can be very taxing after a while. People with car sickness may struggle.)
I imagine many of these things will be worked out eventually. Regardless, it’s a great resource as is and it’s an excellent way to peer in on the monastic life and get a sense of their prayer. It’s also a great way to absorb the lived rhythm and cadences of chant by people who do it every day.
Response from developer
Thanks for the review and suggestions - we are working on improving synch in the short term with finer grained control for us to override when it gets off. In the long term we are working on a way of natively rendering the GABC as you suggest. At this point we can also consider flashing rather than scrolling, thank you for this suggestion. In the meantime there is the ability to take the score full screen which I hope alleviates the problem when it occurs. We have a long ways to go but a roadmap for getting there!
