United StatesSymphony is the premiere notation app and notepad for professional musicians, composers, and students alike, allowing to you create anything from piano sheet music to large orchestrations directly on your iPhone. The Pencil tool allows you to tap anywhere on the canvas to quickly add notes and chords with the multi-staff & multi-voice editor. Powerful editing features like vertical drag to transpose and On-Screen piano lets you compose even more quickly. Switch to the other Select tool to highlight one or more notes to modify duration, transpose, erase, cut, or paste multiple tracks & bars anywhere you want. To hear your performance, choose from 100+ acoustic instruments available for live, low-latency, multi-track playback. Import an existing Symphony/SP project or a MIDI/XML file to bring your music collection to life, with an interactive score display & interface optimized for the small screen. To send your work to a different editor or to a sheet music viewer, Symphony can print your score with AirPrint, share it as a PDF attachment, or as a MIDI, MusicXML, or audio file to DropBox and iCloud Drive. More Features: • Write notes using direct touch, an on-screen instrument, a MIDI input device, or even a QWERTY keyboard • Notate beautifully formatted chord charts & lead sheets using the Chord Symbol and Lyric tools. • Import MusicXML, MIDI, MXL, or Symphony files • Export as a PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, AAC, or Symphony file • Print the score from your iPad with AirPrint • Edit grace notes and percussion/drum set notation • Intuitive score and document navigation • Up to 15 instruments, 45 staves, 4 voices/layers per score • Record MIDI to notation in real-time using a click track • Backup & sync scores with iCloud • Edit tablature and standard music notation • Large selection of articulations & dynamics in the Expressions menu • Copy/Paste function can select multiple measures & staves, and cut single or multiple voices/layers • Unlimited undo and redo • Customizable stem directions & note beaming • Transposing instruments & concert pitch options • Change tempo or clef at any point in the score • Stream audio or share your screen wirelessly with AirPlay • Advanced document management support • Customizable part groupings for SATB and instrument families • Customizable chord symbol, lyric, and annotation font • Loop playback between a region selection • Auto-save For more info, please visit: • Product overview: http://symphonypro.net/iphone • Ask support questions by visiting forums.symphonypro.net • Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/symphonyapp ************************************************** • Symphony iPhone is now a paid app before download: – Free Edition users who have never upgraded can now enable Symphony: Full Edition by rating or reviewing the app
Anti-intuitive
Like the hasty first draft of a Where's Waldo paintball collage. No instruction page or key to simply getting the desired notation symbol to appear where you're touching your finger on the staff. Arbitrary and convoluted. Don't even think about it. Which was the programmers' work ethic.
United StatesAn inspiration pad in my pocket
For years (decades) I have been sketching music ideas on little inspiration pads: staff paper with a few lines using pen or pencil. Of course, as easy as that was it meant that it all had to be redone later - transcribed into something and I needed to have a pad with me. More than once I had to create staves using the same a ruler on whatever paper was available. Now I can sketch tunes anywhere on my iPhone or iPad then export as a music XML file and import it into Finale on my notebook. Since the phone is always with me, so is my inspiration pad! Although I don’t absolutely need it, it is nice to be able to playback the melodies, especially when I’m working with lyrics. It’s an added touch. The app is very easy to learn, intuitive, and I picked it up in about an hour. Plenty of onscreen props and tips/hints to get started in a hurry. Its autosave feature is a blessing! I’m using the full version 5 because it’s really a sketchpad for me. It is super cool and has already proven to be very useful as I am in the middle of writing a bunch of songs for a musical. Thank you very much.
United StatesUseful
Good app. Useful on the go
United StatesReturn User
I’ve used Symphony in the past. Amazing they unlocked all the features even if you originally downloaded the free version. Looking forward to a reintroduction of this superior music software.
United StatesGreat App!!
I use this for mostly sketching on the run. Awesome app👍
United StatesGreat App
Great App for making your own backing tracks for vocal performances!
United StatesGreat App
Great App for making your own backing tracks for vocal performances!
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