Touch Notation

Have been using this app for on the go composing. Very useful once you get comfortable with the input methods. However this needs an update for the new iPad Pros (2018) so the app will display edge to edge. Also with the iPad Pros now supporting midi keyboards, note input via an external midi keyboard would be game changing.

Very frustrating at times, but over all this app is very well worth the price for all the features it offers. Devs: please keep working on this! It has huge potential if the kinks can be sorted out. PROS: Easy to use Intuitive controls Convenient shortcuts Great playback function Works well with Apple Pencil Very flexible with what and how you write CONS: Gesture recognition is hit-or-miss Unable to format text Unable to erase handwriting In-app videos no longer work after a recent iOS update For those having trouble copying and pasting: you can copy entire measures by double tapping and dragging to select all the measures you want to copy. Then double tap and drag to highlight an equal number of empty measures where you want to paste your notes. The notation will copy exactly without having to move stuff around.

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EXPORT FAILS - by any method. What kind of notating software allows one to use an SATB template but not enter lyrics? I’ve paid for the whole package, and no lyrics? Massive shortcoming. Other shortcomings: 1. Cannot search the help utility by keyword. Many sub-level menu items hidden under parent items but not listed in tree form in the table of contents. 2. Cannot export Midi ‘parts’. 3. Cannot export mp3 renderings of Midi. 4. Cannot specify beginning measure number. 5. Copy and paste an expression - THEN BE ABLE TO EDIT THE EXPRESSION, else have to create new every time and unify format, say, if one is creating measure numbers because program lacks item 4 above. 6. Do NOT link song listing to Title property. If I wish to maintain several revisions, I should not have to edit the Title in order to tell the difference between versions.

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The handwriting features don’t work as well as the videos show. It takes multiple tries to get any note to show correctly. The scores are hard to edit, and the gestures to edit things don’t even work. You can’t get a refund on this, so I don’t recommend buying it!!! It does not work well. I was hoping to have an easy tool to compose music, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

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Tried to input Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and encountered tons of problems. The most irritating were that the app kept crashing upon inputting on page 3, and the inability to have sfz stay on the score after input; it kept disappearing and only one (of about 4) remains on the completed score. Seeing how infrequent this app is updated, looking for another similar app.