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Just bought
I love this app. Just getting use to the response to my hand writing interpretation but really amazing. Note I first saw App on Facebook and bought it right away. An impulse buy but I am so pleased with it!reathpd
Very Cool!
I'm a composition major and I downloaded this app pretty recently and I'm quite impressed with it. Once it learns your writing style then its a lot easier to work with (and also a stylus makes it way better). It's not a perfect notation software or anything but it's perfect for sketches and quickly turning those sketches into neat scores (the Midi also i not bad at all).
One feature that I haven't been able to do is copy and paste multiple measures to a different part or wherever. I would love to see that.
Overall a great app. Thank you!Show lessAh! :)
The Potential is There But Misses the Mark
Great idea and a very much needed app. The bugginess is a serious detractor. Every time I close the app and go back later to work on a score I find that notes have shifted, rests inserted and other strange anomalies have occurred. Have to do a lot of rework.
Also need a way to save versions so that when the aforementioned bugs occur the user can restore from a previously saved version.
Also need the the ability to quickly transpose the entire score, especially when making lead sheets.
I am really looking forward to this app being fixed and enhanced.Show lessMinko69
Why I wanted an iPad
I always thought that if there was a music writing app like this, then I would like to have an iPad. This app works great, and I'm very impressed with this version. There are a few things that I expect to improve perhaps with later versions. Btw if anyone knows how to write 1st and 2nd endings in their compositions, please let me know. Overall, still 5 stars...amazing app!Show lessWing string
Exciting but not ready for practical use yet.
I enjoyed messing about with this exciting new technology but it's definitely not worth the money being charged for it. My main issue is that it has a lot of trouble recognising sharps, flats and naturals which as a composition tool makes it useless to begin with. You will probably need to remove your screen protector to use a stylus and even then it didn't work well for me and has wasted a screen protector! If you have fat fingers, forget trying to write accurately. It needs a button for deleting characters. The vertical flick is not practical if you have trouble selecting what you want to erase and often you end up drawing a dot or something else in the process.
I think that this technology is wonderful and will eventually get to a point where it is very accurate and easy to use. However, this is some way off I suspect. I wouldn't rush to buy this application yet as it's not a practical way to compose music and is extremely time consuming at this point. I am looking forward to watching the next versions of this app arrive and improve, although I won't bother upgrading for a year or so yet until I know that it's ready for practical use.Show lessJazz and Bebop
I am very impressed!
Wow. This is so much fun. This is the app I wanted an iPad for. Works very well when I am careful to be concise and clear. So much easier than drag and drop or typing required of other notation apps. Playback is fine...export to PDF a miracle. I hope an option for a coda is coming to make it complete. Keep up the fantastic work.Show lessBobbie1957
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I love this app. It was worth every penny. Now that it syncs with Dropbox as either a midi file or a PDF, I can either print off what I have written, or open it in Sibelius. I can go back and forth between Sibelius and notateme. The program recognizes my writing style and is very accurate and quick. The of the only thingsI miss is notation of first/second endings and DC/DS symbols. I am pretty confident that these things are coming, since the developers are updating all the time. I would also like the ability to save my own ensemble templates. For instance, I often write/arrange for choirs with voicing so different than SATB. If I could save my voicing, it would save a little time. Thanks for a great App!!Show lessHHS-k6024
Not bad
I've been waiting for an app like this for a while, and this one is almost what I want, a few annoying things like sometimes recognizing flats as minims and sharps as naturals, unable to place a repeat bar in the first bar, little things. It's not a professional tool yet, but useful just the same. I've given this app 4 stars to hopefully encourage people to use it, and therefore encourage development, these are the sort of apps the iPad was made for, and while not perfect, it's not bad.Show lessJazzazza71
What I've been waiting for!
A quick and easy way to get Ideas out. I have just about all the other notation apps and this will probably make them obsolete. This app was made by someone like me that does not want to have to spend soo much time trying to learn all the functions of notation program. It's easy just write it in! Brilliant guys keep it up!Show lessDBoF'SHo
So many flaws
This could be good but is heavily flawed. Where do I start? It's very slow and difficult to use even on iPad, there is a learning mechanism but it often repeats it's own mistakes so you can never get it right without major deletion or copy and pasting from elsewhere, the undo redo and copy functions can cause the recognition process to start again causing errors to come back, there are problems with having more than one chord in a bar due to spacing and overwriting problems, no ability to copy more than a bar at a time or ability to select number of bars per line etc etc. Best to wait until they have trialled this properly and fixed the issues.
How can anyone give this 4 or 5 stars? I would seriously question whether these reviews are genuineShow lessMH54321
