Symphony Pro

This is the first time I’ve felt compelled to write a review for an app, but after dropping $25, it seems worth the time. Bought the main app along with the $10 add-on for handwriting recognition and it just simply doesn’t work. <br/>Maybe it’s user error, but I literally cannot select the correct bar and staff I want to write in with the display going wonky and zooming in and out. Once I finally get the correct staff selected, when I go to write (you know the thing you have to pay an extra $10 for), it lets me write one note and then fails to allow me to write any other notes for a chord and fails to recognize a sharp symbol. I tried five times just now to write a simple D and F# in the bass clef and every single time without fail, it got the D, interpreted the # as a staccato marking and didn’t even let me write the F. <br/>All I’m trying to do is write down some basic ideas and the user experience SEVERELY limits the usability for such a simple action. Not gonna lie, feeling pretty ripped off right now. Hopefully someone else can avoid the mistake I made.

Feels clunky and not intuitive. Too many sub menus and difficult to navigate. Feels like a chore to create using the stylus and lacks the efficiency of keyboard inputs/commands so writing is a painstakingly slow process that’s not enjoyable. The program requires a steep learning curve from other software. A regrettable purchase overall.

I have not yet had time to put the latest version of this app through all of its paces, but I wanted to make sure to adjust my review in light of the fact that the app has been updated at least twice in the past two months. I’m happy to see the developers are still active, fixing bugs.

I had great difficulty getting to needed screens and finding help to run the software. There are much better options out there.

Handwriting recognition is MILES ahead of StaffPad for half the price… very happy with symphony pro

smh

I’ve been using this application for 6 years, and I really love this app. However, recently, the application started to delete the folders that I created in this app that help me organize all the scores. Those folders contained a lot of scores that I wrote myself; they’re about 50 of them. So about 1 week ago the app deleted all the folders, and it took me a tremendous amount of time to create the folders again and put all the scores inside those folders. Today, this problem happened again, and I am afraid to fix this because it’s gonna waste my time, and I know the app will delete them again. <br/><br/>Please fix it !! <br/>It never happened before for all those years. <br/><br/>Another thing, is there a way I can upload all the scores to an Internet cloud, so in case my iPad breaks or gets stolen. I would be able to recover all the scores. This is literally all my life in this application because I have been constantly writing scores for like 6 years so far and, as I already mentioned, there are about 50 scores that I wrote. Thank you for your answer!

Total bummer that handwritten mode is still not yet supported for tablature. It would be a game changer. Was really looking forward to this promising app but it is a massive oversight to not have this feature.