Wow
This is a great app.! Lots of fun for an old school musician. Jordan is a musical marvel and tech guru!
You will enjoy!
You will enjoy!
quickly score a few measures
1. At the top left, click on the score icon ... next to the brush-with-a-star icon ... this turns on the note writing feature.
2. Go to preferences ... the usual icon ... and turn on "expert" mode.
3. On the right side of the screen, the hand is selected ... this moves the page around ... click on the pen tool: the note icons below it will light up.
4. Now you can select a note type and touch the screen to place one on the score.
5. Make a few bars of melody and click the HW arranger. Don't worry about precise notation, the arranger will clean it up.
Play it. Press the star button to the right of HW and "clear arrangement". Refine and repeat.
Violins and cellos are a bit silly in these times ... a guitar, synth and bass combo would be welcome - and some of the expert buttons crash the app. Otherwise, it's an interesting little gadget.
2. Go to preferences ... the usual icon ... and turn on "expert" mode.
3. On the right side of the screen, the hand is selected ... this moves the page around ... click on the pen tool: the note icons below it will light up.
4. Now you can select a note type and touch the screen to place one on the score.
5. Make a few bars of melody and click the HW arranger. Don't worry about precise notation, the arranger will clean it up.
Play it. Press the star button to the right of HW and "clear arrangement". Refine and repeat.
Violins and cellos are a bit silly in these times ... a guitar, synth and bass combo would be welcome - and some of the expert buttons crash the app. Otherwise, it's an interesting little gadget.
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Could be great.
I really wanted this to be great, but I've found it really buggy. I think it just needs some work and it could be a great app. Tried recording with the keyboard but doesn't always play back exactly what you played - it misses notes ect. I tried importing some midi melodies and it really struggled with this, changing them so they are unrecognisable, once it only left me with two notes at the end of eight bars.
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My new favourite app
This app is simply amazing. I'm a recording artist and this app allows me to find melodies in a semi random way. Lots of ways to tweak it to get it just right. The vast majority of my future melodies will likely come from this app. That said, some of the instrument samples could be improved but it still deserves 5 stars
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This Is Awsome!
One thing, there should be staff lines on the paint surface so that people with some music theory can see the note their putting brush down on..... But....🌟🌟🌟🌟
Very very very nice.
This app looks good and sounds good.I love it, and a big thank you to the developers, for ironing out the major bugs, this is a total joy to use and a great inspirational tool that I can recommend to anyone.
wow!
Such a great tool…I really like the ease to create ideas and to work with them later in a DAW. Ben Christa
Nice Wiz'
As an untrained person with extremely limited music reading skills; but, a lover of music and putting around with synthesizers and iPad instruments, I would say that I really like what this app is capable of even though it is a struggle to "feel" the relationship between the notes painted on the screen and the notes actually resulting from them. Here's what I feel is missing from the app:
(1) positive feedback that as you draw, you also hear the notes being selected as you draw them.
(2) four bars is simply way too limiting ... I can sneeze longer.
(3) I repeatedly tried; but, on my iPad Gen 4 which is up to date with iOS updates, does not scroll to the right as you draw so you are forced to "zoom out" to see all four bars in order to get continuity across the screen.
I take this as only round 1.1 in the app's life cycle though and look forward to its evolution. Did mine crash at any point? Not yet.
(1) positive feedback that as you draw, you also hear the notes being selected as you draw them.
(2) four bars is simply way too limiting ... I can sneeze longer.
(3) I repeatedly tried; but, on my iPad Gen 4 which is up to date with iOS updates, does not scroll to the right as you draw so you are forced to "zoom out" to see all four bars in order to get continuity across the screen.
I take this as only round 1.1 in the app's life cycle though and look forward to its evolution. Did mine crash at any point? Not yet.
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Outstanding!
As a music major that understands theory, the options to add notes and change chords is a great feature. The paint option is also quite creative.
For people saying that it doesn't make them an instant masterpiece, you should've known better. The way I use this app is to get ideas and edit them in Finale. It's like a rough draft and revised draft before you get to the final draft. It simply works as a foundation for any small composition I decide to make for my college music friends.
Anyway, the updated version works better with notes and non-chord tones outside of the key. It'd be cool to have more time signatures and an option to only make a harmony for certain parts of the song at a time, rather than having to arrange the entire song again.
Thank you Jordan Rudess and the awesome people of Wisdom Music for such an amazing app!
For people saying that it doesn't make them an instant masterpiece, you should've known better. The way I use this app is to get ideas and edit them in Finale. It's like a rough draft and revised draft before you get to the final draft. It simply works as a foundation for any small composition I decide to make for my college music friends.
Anyway, the updated version works better with notes and non-chord tones outside of the key. It'd be cool to have more time signatures and an option to only make a harmony for certain parts of the song at a time, rather than having to arrange the entire song again.
Thank you Jordan Rudess and the awesome people of Wisdom Music for such an amazing app!
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Pretty nifty, but has problems.
This app is pretty cool, it has the smoothest design of any of Wizdom Music's apps.
I imagine it could be very confusing for people with limited musical experience, and the paint a melody feature doesn't always produce the nicest of tunes.
But why are there so many in app purchases? The app is costly as it is, limiting the better sounds for the app is pretty insulting and really annoyed me when I first launched the app. When you compare the vast library of synths in previous apps with harmonywiz you will be greatly disappointed.
Still, it's a neat app, and fun to play around in. But for gods sake, cut it with the in app purchases!
I imagine it could be very confusing for people with limited musical experience, and the paint a melody feature doesn't always produce the nicest of tunes.
But why are there so many in app purchases? The app is costly as it is, limiting the better sounds for the app is pretty insulting and really annoyed me when I first launched the app. When you compare the vast library of synths in previous apps with harmonywiz you will be greatly disappointed.
Still, it's a neat app, and fun to play around in. But for gods sake, cut it with the in app purchases!
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