Horrible
This is easily the worst app I have over used in my life. The input is infuriating. I want my 12 dollars back. Whole notes are often confused for half notes and is is extremely difficult to fix.
Number recognition
For some reason, writing the number ‘5’ isn’t recognised by the software. It’s good for simple transcriptions and jotting down ideas but not the best for a full on composition.
Too Fiddly
I had this app for a few years. I thought it was pretty handy for jotting down short musical ideas. However it is a very fussy programme and frequently requires multiple attempts to get the notes or other annotation down. Sometimes I had to just give up trying to change time signatures, adding tests or accidentals. Which can be extremely irritating. So irritating in fact that I sadly had to delete the app altogether, life being too short.
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Garbage
Poor interface. Notes disappear. This is a total ripoff.
Hard to recognize
Hardly recognize my hand writing notes, and it cannot import PDF score into it, so un convenience
Incredible, the only one of its kind wit handwriting recognition to music notation AFAIK
This app is a sleeper, so useful, especially for leadsheets. the only one that I know of that you can write charts with your finger or a stylus and it will show up as perfect notation. NO DRAG AND DROP NOTES, which is tedious. Copying and pasting notes, bars, even whole sections of the song is so easy. It just takes a minute to get used to aligning your paste to the right note. So many things about this app are intuitive. Being able to resize bars and add an extra bar line is very helpful.
I do have a few suggestions. The main one is to add a white ink pen color (like in ForScore) so that you can use that as an eraser for any pen markings that you might want to edit. The other suggestion is to be able to set a default font and size for text notes, which they call “musical expression”. Sizable D.S. And coda markings…..Rehearsal marks (A, B, C). Also, a single diagonal (1/4 note) slash for rhythm charts.
I do have a few suggestions. The main one is to add a white ink pen color (like in ForScore) so that you can use that as an eraser for any pen markings that you might want to edit. The other suggestion is to be able to set a default font and size for text notes, which they call “musical expression”. Sizable D.S. And coda markings…..Rehearsal marks (A, B, C). Also, a single diagonal (1/4 note) slash for rhythm charts.
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Just What I Needed
Great for writing out your parts. App doesn’t collect your data, the price is reasonable and the learning curve isn’t that hard, especially if you’ve used other notation programs in the past.
I still have to get the hang of key signatures and 1st/2nd endings, but I have high hopes, having recently left MS for an Apple iPad product.
I still have to get the hang of key signatures and 1st/2nd endings, but I have high hopes, having recently left MS for an Apple iPad product.
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XML Import
No Support for XML-Import.
Request to developers
I would not normally try to contact developers through the review forum, but this app is without any customer service - when you send off the feedback form on the Kawai site, a message pops up to say that you will not receive a reply (having limited you to 140 characters - boy, do I get the impression that contact with the outside world is unwelcome!). So here's my enquiry. After repeated attempts, I have found that it is impossible to write a natural accidental on a note. The stroke is in in two parts. The first part opens a lyric window. The second half writes an eighth rest. You never get the natural.
Many of the gestures are hit and mss. The stroke for a whole note, basically an open circle, delivers a half note or a quarter note more times than the correct one. So I was resigned to trying again and again for the natural - but not to being completely unsuccessful. I would guess that lyric writing is a later modification, and that no-one at Kawai has spotted the conflict.
Many of the gestures are hit and mss. The stroke for a whole note, basically an open circle, delivers a half note or a quarter note more times than the correct one. So I was resigned to trying again and again for the natural - but not to being completely unsuccessful. I would guess that lyric writing is a later modification, and that no-one at Kawai has spotted the conflict.
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Great app! But needs updates...
I think this app had potential to be great. Simple tools and easy to use. The only problem is the developer hasn’t updated this. Wish I could’ve seen how successful this app would have been in the long run.
