Of course, you can zoom in as needed with standard iPad gestures.
The app has two views…in portrait, it simply displays the music as completed, as if it were a PDF in a music reader. Instead, I would like to highlight the features of the apps, and point out some of the bugs and missing features. First, the app has its own embedded manual, and second, I’m sure that the app will be revised over time, making a play-by-play review outdated and irrelevant. Unlike previous reviews, this review will not be a play-by-play of the app, for two reasons. As it stands, it is still a remarkably mature program that offers a great deal of functionality and a fantastic UI at an affordable price (Remember that Finale sells versions between $49 and $239 with academic pricing Finale Notepad is $9.99).
Symphony Pro is version 1.0 software, and as such, there are a few bugs and some missing features. If you want the summary without reading the entire blog post, Symphony Pro joins my list of “must buy” apps for the musician.
On January 7th, Xenon Labs released “ Symphony Pro” for the iPad ($12.99), the first true music notation software for the iPad.
ScoreCloud – Audio, manual or MIDI input analysis to musical notation, and editor.Overture, plus lite version Score Writer.Musink Lite, a WYSIWYM scorewriter and publication tool for Windows.Music Construction Set (obsolete was also for Apple II, Atari 400, and Commodore 64).MusicEase, notates standard music, shaped notes and tablature transposes and imports abc music.MagicScore, plus Music Notation for MS Word and lite version MagicScore School and free versions MagicScore onLine and MagicScore Note.Guitar Pro (primarily for guitars and bands, but also notates other instruments including drums).Finale plus the following lite versions: Allegro, PrintMusic, NotePad, Songwriter.Cubase V4-9.5 (second run on version numbers).Cubase Score V1-5 (first run on version numbers).Philip's Music Writer, a text-based scorewriter originally written for Acorn RISC OS (released as a commercial program in the 1990s), later ported to POSIX and licensed under the GNU GPL.MusiXTeX, a set of macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX.MuseScore, a WYSIWYG scorewriter for Linux, Windows, and OS X.