Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

Careful the app is not working after iOS update.

The app itself is very well done. the sound of the instrument is very good. Unfortunnatly there is some bad point that cost you a lot of money. The import (you should buy add on) with Ireal pro is not a easy as mention, a long process specially on IPad. If you want to import the song from your local file the icon of the app is not always present, so no import …. You have to buy many add on to get fonctionnalities presented in the video of presentation, which was for me not fair at all ! The value of this software as it is presented in the video is not accessible if you do not buy extension. Well i have a strange felling for having spend 15 app + 6 add on … i can’t say i recommend to buy.

If you have a good musical teacher, she or he will probably tell you that it is important to know what you are playing. This means that you not only know the chord but also the function of the chord you are playing, which ultimatly determines which scales the melody or improvisation is using. This improves your ability as a musician tremendously. It is not an easy task but if you have a visual presentation then you fully understand what is going on. Tonal harmony pro gives you this. It opened my eyes and enhanced my musical experience. You can analyse a classical symphony like a pop song or a jazz standard. Even inversions of the chords can be represented which are so important in classical music. As a jazz pianist you may say: I know what a secondary dominant is or a tritone substitution, or a deceptive cadence. But can you visualize it and put it into a perspective ? I got an 12 year old MAC only for this program and as it broke a week ago I did not hesitate a moment and bought the app for my iPad. If you have troubles using this app just be patient. You will find your way and eventually see how western music works.

The App is complicated to operate. The functions promoted on the MDECKS Music Website correspond more to the MacOS version than to the iPad version of the App. I assuemed it would be a more advanced version of what the iReal Pro App can do but I find it is not the case. For example you cannot load any songs into the app. The only interface is to iTunes which does not help much. It might be useful for studying music theory but not for a giging musician. I hope an update to version 7 might bring some useful funtions.

Not yet clear about the value of this app. User experience is not very good

Why is the voicing keyboard not showing the voicings during playback? Seems like such an easy thing to have work

An amazing tool that elegantly ties together a solution for every part of the composition process I have trouble with!

I usually don’t write reviews but Mdecks’ stuff is absolutely the best in the world for learning harmony and unpacking scales. Even if you are a self taught metalhead, like me. This app is just genius. Thank you!!

Love the concept but it crashes whenever I try to start playback. App has worked in the past (somewhat) on various devices but is pretty unreliable to the point that I find myself not using it. Please hire a UX designer and a coder for a little bit to fix your bugs and this would be such a great way to study harmony!

I got the free Play-Along version of this app and liked it a bit more than IReal. I then paid $9.99 to download the 1300 song jazz catalog. It is for the most part a very comprehensive catalog. I then read on the app that if I bought the Pro version, I would keep all of my songs and be able to use them in the Pro version. This does not seem to be true, or it is not entirely evident how to get them to show up on the IOS version. I found this to be highly disappointing and am now considering this a waste of money! I really wanted to like this better, but the fact that I can’t access the songs that I ALREADY bought from them seems like wack. I emailed the contact information for the company and never received a response either. When I go to files on my IPad, there is no file under these two apps with songs in them???? Where are they? I could change my opinion on this I find out that there is a solution. I also find the “information” dialogue box that pops up every time you touch practically anything on this app to be tiresome. Perhaps there is a way to make this blue box stop popping up? Also, for the most part, on the IPad, I just want to play some songs for practice and have them sound good. I appreciate that the app does some better stuff than IReal, but I don’t really see the benefit of the whole mapping visual display of the computer thinking etc. since it is really quite small and I am trying to play while the song is going along.