A Great App for Musicians – MIDI Score Review

I love this app! I'm giving it 5 stars - even though it may not be absolutely perfect, or even have every feature I would like to have. I'll start with what I really like about the app: First, it plays midi's really well with the appropriately selected instrument. I love how well a job it does with the sheet music creation, and the chord finder. I like being able to adjust the notation key independent of the key the song is playing in, which I imagine will be very handy for those who want to play with a capo. The app does an excellent job of exporting your final creation in PDF. I did not export as a Midi, but I would imagine that it would do that just as well. I like being able to create with the treble, bass clef or both. I liked the ability to adjust the guitar octave for the right sound. And I love to be able to adjust playback speed for practicing a new song. Now for the cons: I would like to set defaults in either Ipad Settings, or in the App's setup; it was a little annoying to have to readjust everything to, in my case, guitar every time I downloaded a new Midi. Not a big deal, but it would be more convenient. The App did crash a couple times while I transposed keys a couple times, but came right back and reloaded the song I had been working with, when I restarted it. I also found the guitar fretboard to be way too busy. With the same not being played across 12 or so frets at the same time just isn't very helpful to me. I would like to just have the 1st position or 1st 4 frets of the fingerboard displayed and the notes and chords displayed there. Any accomplished guitarist will know where else he can play those notes. All in all, I love this program and have stopped looking for another one. I use it to download country and rock midi's and this program enables me to play the licks in the original recordings in a key that is suitable for me, without wasting a lot of time figuring it out on my own. I love it!
Review by jackofalltrades442 on MIDI Score.