Magic Stave Midi Recorder User Reviews

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Pitch recognition.

This cool app hears the note you play and automatically shows you what it is!

A great way to indicate the notes

This is a great little tool for those who don't yet sight read music, or are looking to fine tune one's accuracy.

I play the theremin, and this will be a great tool for my theremin students.

I noticed someone mentioning inaccuracy of notes being displayed on repeated attempts at the same note being played.

A number of factors can cause inaccurate note values to be displayed. Room accoustics, overtones generated by the body of an instrument (violins, cellos, guitars, ect), and room noise, such as computer cooling fans, insects that make noise (crickets), refrigerators, or airconditioners humming, or even an old flourescent light humming can interfere. It helps to have an accoustically quiet room.

Perhaps a microphone adjustment might help filter out some of these issues in another version update.

Tobad the ipods, and iphones don't have line inputs.

All in all I like this product.

Thanks.
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Note History doesn't work

Tried the free version and liked it but it didn't record a note history, which the full version boasts. So bought the full version for that purpose and i greatly regret it. The note history, for one thing, can't be cleared. But then it only shows the last 7 notes anyway, and it has never once actually shown the correct sequence of notes that i played. It also won't show the same note if it is played twice in a row. It shows a correct note here or there plus a lot of incorrect notes that were never even played. It often seems to be laying notes down randomly, sometimes going to a lower note when it should be going to a higher one. The lack of accuracy is both profound and disgusting. It does do a decent job recognizing notes when the note history is turned off. My recommendation, if the note history is important to you, is to stay with the free app until the developer fixes this one, or perhaps find another. I can't comment on any of the other features.
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waste of time

interesting concept, terrible execution. useless for any real musical endeavor. avoid.

The program fail to find correct note frequently.

The program fail to find correct note frequently.

Jo T.

Fabulous app! I'm a singer and this really helps when singing unaccompanied songs to check your tuning!

Money well spent for any musician!!

5 stars - well done!

Gibberish

Played the simple tune into this app sent it over wifi to computer and all I hear is gibberish .. Can the makers of the app please explain ? Maybe a the tempo is the problem .. !!

Magic Stave Midi Recorder

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Very cool app

A very cool app that keeps getting better. I use it mainly for vocals, but I could see it being an excellent tuner for guitar as well. I'm sure it'd be even better on a 3G phone, but it works on my older phone, too. Author is very responsive to feedback and suggestions. Keep up the good work!

Perfect for Singers

A great little app for learning to sight-read. You sing a note into the phone. Magic Stave shows you the note it heard in your choice of grand, treble, or bass cleff. Keep practicing until you get it right! It also shows you the note on the piano keyboard or guitar (your choice.) You can also set the key signature. My only suggestion is a small improvement in setting the key signature. You set the key signature by choosing the key name (e.g. D Major). It would be nice to tell you the number of Sharps of Flats (e.g. D Major: ##) for those of us who don't know our keys as well as we should. The author is VERY responsive.

I haven't tried the recording function yet.
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