Touch Notation Reviews

Excellent, waiting for updates

Alabin69

This is one of the greatest apps for notation/music writing. Excellent concept, pretty intuitive, mostly clear manual/help menu. My only wish that the app would develop further - I'd like to see a possibility of "human playback" (swing 8th notes), ability to transpose instruments without changing a pitch after writing them in concert key, support of slash and rhythmic notation. Keep it up!

Promising, but needs fixing

Wu Jo

On the right path, but need to fix chord notation bugs: "sus" and "2" not displaying.

There will be 5 stars if it supports the iPad pro...

Toosaka

See,this app is brilliant, it totally works, and works well, I really like the design of sliding buttons, I know it cost time, but guys I really can't wait to see how it will work with Apple pencil and iPad pro, anyway, buy it if you need some app to creat a piece of music on the go in the way you do on a paper, or if you'd like to modify ur sheets in a super convenient way. again, this thing is really designed to be used, good work!

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Shichigatsu

Great!

Pretty good....BUT...

Jtcart

While I think this is a cool app, it definitely has a lot of flaws! First off, it crashes quite a bit while I'm using it. Second, it doesn't always get the notation correct when I'm trying to write it down. For example, I tried to write some 32nd notes and when pressed the adjust button (second button to the right in the left hand corner) something weird happened to the beams. The third thing and probably the most important thing....it DOES NOT TRANSPOSE the other instruments!!!!

Composer/Musician

WF2

If you are musician this little program provides a handy way to sketch ideas and if pressed, to turn out a quick composition, part, or lead sheet. It takes a few minutes to get the basic concept but once you have the general idea it is relatively intuitive. The in app purchases are handy and not terribly expensive. But really the nicest thing about it is that the darn thing actually works once you have it down and that can't be said for some of the other apps out there right now.

Finale killer! Theory class game changer!

MarkVI58

I've always hated entering music in Finale. If I write out something for the music theory classes I teach, I often prefer to write it out by hand over Finale. In no time, I got to a point with this app, that I can teach music theory concepts while writing out examples real time on this app, while sending it to Apple TV, and then immediately play what we've notated for my students.

Good For Beginner

CatS&H

This is the first music notation app that I was able to get comfortable with very quickly. I am a beginner and can't speak to the attributes an advanced musician might require, but I thought everything seemed intuitive and the help menu thorough. One thing I couldn't find was a way to 'restructure' the score after I'd removed measures, made additions, deletions, etc. For instance, if I deleted 3 of 4 measures on a line, that line remained as is with just the 1 measure left. I don't know if I'm missing how to do it, or if it's not a capability at this point. I'd also like them to add guitar/banjo tab capabiltiy at some future point but right now I'm very pleased with how it works. I'm running it on an older iPad 2 16GB and it seems fine.

So cool, I want to start writing again

SiverMachine

I haven't been this excited about notation software since I started using Finale v1.0. Yes, it has it's quirks. Yes, it has it's flaws. I really don't care. It's still better (for me) than requiring me to do several different actions for each note, or rely on my not-so-good timing at a keyboard. I can just write it out with my hand and even better, edit it without destroying three erasers and the paper. Kawai's gestures are totally natural. They did a fantastic job designing a notation package that was willing to work with me instead of making me learn how to work with it. My only complaint: (beyond my fat fingers) they haven't hired me to help them make it even better, but I'm not sure that counts.

Disappointing

soundchaser7

The idea is great, and Kawai attempted to include many useful symbols. But using both touch directly and an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro, this app is completely unreliable. It enters the wrong symbol more often than the correct one, or enters no symbol at all despite repeated attempts. Erasing incorrect symbols also often takes multiple tries. Very frustrating.

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