MIDI SolFa Mode User Reviews

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This is a good tool for Harmonic relationships!

🤔Disregard the negative comments regarding voice sample quality—😤nOObs!
🤓 I believe it uses built-in speech synthesis⚙🎶 rather than depending on memory based samples—while not ideal for recording it's good for getting the tuning voice🎼🎤🎧 👂🏼accurately on its own and can be disabled or used in conjunction when using SolFa's available CoreMIDI, BlueTooth LE to control better sounds outside the App.🎮🎹🎮🎻🎮🎷

🎖👍🏼💋💪🏼The benefit of relying on outboard sound generators/instruments makes this a lightweight🍃🌱 app allowing one to open more sound destinations 🛳🚅🛫🏁 locally🔬📱, on the network🐙💻 or from iOS to iOS device👯📱📲.

🤔🛃🛂My criticism would be the MIDI configuration. It's is a little convoluted because of availability of controls.🎛🎚🎛🎚🎚 It's is all there, just unhidden and super detailed with a lot of technical controls and minimalistic arcane labeling ♒️☦♑️ that would require browsing the built-in and downloadable documentation📖. While it may seem a bit fiddly👽💅🏼🙀🎛, it's not too hard to set up⏳. The interface works, but is a little compact on iPhone as one would normally expect. 🚼Maybe it can be made to be more interactive with incorporation of iOS gestures🙌🏼📲 for a better user engagement in the future. 🔜📅🎂
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Confusing and incorrect

I cannot make sense of this app. The voices are singing incorrect intervals for the sofla. Ti to do should always be a semitone. Perhaps I have changed a setting that I shouldn't have in trying to understand the app but it shouldn't be possible for ti to do to be a tone.

Good

This on the one hand is very simple app, but on the other it is complex. It is clever and unique.

There is no manual so it is necessary to go to their website to find out what is going on. And then you realise this is a very interesting idea. I studied Kodaly musicianship so it was easier for me to use in 'Mod Pos' for Solmization Syllables in the preferences (developers you NEED to explain this) -basically this is the moveable doh system.
So rotating the wheel (again absolutely no explanation except a pop up) by 1, 7, 12, 48 or 49 cleverly alters the mode in specific ways and therefore what you are playing, chord or melody, takes on new character.
But the audio side does not allow spinning of the wheel whilst simultaneously holding down notes which is a huge shame- please fix this.

All in all it would be a five star review were it not for the lack of any manual and the audio issue above. Oh and it can send midi out apparently but there is no guidance how to do this so I've no idea if it works.
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Awesome!

If you know what maximal evenness is, you'll enjoy this

Interesting, needs work.

It is an interesting presentation. It needs a fair amount of work.

The vocal sample needs to be constant over time, currently it's just pitch shifting a single vocal sample. This makes the low notes take a while and the high notes end abruptly.

I would like the circle to be more playable, polyphony. Also I would like to be able to rotate the wheel. There are number of other things Id like, but let's start there.
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