A Good Start to Music Production...Not Perfect – Medly Review

In essence, Medly is a good app. It’s a great place to start your path of music production, and it provides a lot of opportunities in trying different instruments, styles, rhythms, and so on. It has plenty of reasons to check it out, but as someone who has been using this app for almost two years, I think it’s fair to say that I have a grounded basis in my critiques of this app, which there certainly are. Aside from all the positives and venues to try new things in the music production community via this app, the negatives can really hinder your experience and make it less enjoyable. Firstly, there is a surplus of obnoxious glitches, many of which require you to restart the app every few minutes just to keep using it. Then of course, there’s the annoying subscription fee to try new instruments, which would be acceptable if this was not a beginner music production app. If it was more professional and generally much larger and of a higher standard of quality, I could understand this, but this app is not quite at that level yet, and is better off as a platform to introduce people to creating music. Moreover, most of the critiques I personally have involve a lack of opportunity. Some of my most common complaints arise from restrictions that honestly shouldn’t exist at this point in the production of this app. Making music feels constricted when you can only use 4/4 time signatures and only have a few registers to work with. I would find this app much more enjoyable if I had access to more opportunities in creating distinguished music: 3/4 and 5/4 time signatures, another register above or below for higher/lower pitched songs, the ability to speed up and slow down the tempo throughout the song - mostly basic music theory concepts that I feel should’ve been incorporated by now. In fact, if these issues and restrictions were addressed - if just a few, I believe I could easily look past some of the minor inconveniences from subscription fees and the glitches, as it would make the experience much greater for both experts and beginners. Ultimately, it’s a good app, but if I’m blatantly honest, it’s not much more than that. Until these new opportunities are incorporated or addressed, I can only see this app as “just good.”
Review by Colderbo - Ben on Medly.