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Musescore flip stem5/29/2023 ![]() My name is Guillermo and I am a composer from Mexico City. I know it's impossible to please everybody, but I support all of the work you do and am really excited to see how far this project can go! Thanks again for listening and creating great software. There are a slew of other sequencers out there for people who want to work on how things sound. However please remember that Symphony Pro is the one and only NOTATION program for iPad. I also second other notation based features such as control over measure arrangement, better copy tool, exploding and imploding parts. If I could transcribe a pop chart, with chords, lyrics, bass line, guitar parts, horn parts and then export that chart as a PDF directly to a program such as Unrealbook or Forscore, I could leave my laptop and midi controller in my luggage and just work off my iPad. ![]() I'm currently lucky to be working with a band that has an iPad for every member! All of the band's charts are stored in the iPads as PDFs, ready to go. This would leave some extra space for a few more useful articulations and graphic shapes to be readily available. If your app had a "quick entry" mode you could save some interface display by having the note values graphically turn into rest values when no keys are being pressed. I find myself using Symphony Pro's handy undo button very often. Speaking of, does Finale have a patent on the way they implement speedy entry? I'm very used to pressing the keys then the note value so I can hear that I'm entering the right notes before I commit them to the staff. Personally I like the way they present chords although on iPad, rows of buttons would probably be a faster input method than the selector wheels they currently use. For the pop/rock band charts, chords and lyrics are more important than written melodies and the implementation of these features in your software is a must! Have you considered working with the developers of the popular iRealb app for help in this area? It would be similar to the partnership between Finale and Band-In-A-Box. I'm sure there are many out there doing the kinds of work I'm doing. Personally a large portion of my work as a composer and transcriber is creating charts pop/rock band charts, jazz tune leadsheets, and the occasional big band arrangement. Unfortunately symphonies, while awesome, don't amount to a very large percentage of the commercial music industry. The use of an onscreen keyboard is brilliant and really caught my attention. It would be pretty much disastrous if you couldn't rely on already-entered stem directions staying where you put them as you edit that third voice.First of all I want you to know that symphony pro is the best notation software for the ipad thus far. In piano or guitar music, that third voice is as likely to be an inner moving line, for example, and it might only be used for only certain means, and only a part of the measure at that. But that's the only, or even the most common, use of three voices. ![]() I guess you are thinking of scenario where there are three voices throughout the pieceand you wish to enter them in top-down order - an SSATB arrangement on two staves, say. But I doubt most people would appreciate having their carefully-entered downstem notes in voice 2 suddenly flipping on them just because they decided to add a third voice. ![]() They are only writing two voices, why should they need voice 3?Īnd also, yes, it would be possible to have entering voice 3 change the meaning of voice 2, so that voice 2 starts out down as expected but then suddenly goes flips up upon entering voice 3. Yes, it would be possible for a program to force people to always use voices 1 & 3 instead of 1 & 2, but most people would find that extremely confusing. ![]() Hence my observation - the vast majority of music uses no more than two voices, and when there are two voices, it is virtually always up & down, so the first two voices used absolutely positively need to be up and down. If you have three voices on a single staff, something it's two up, one down, sometimes one up and two down, but I've literally never seen two up and none down. ![]()
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