Symphony Pro - Music Notation

Compose by handwriting or tap

Published by: Xenon Labs
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Symphony Pro 6 is a complete and intuitive app for writing music notation on iPad. It allows you to compose music for just about any size ensemble, from piano, symphonies, band, lead sheets, chord charts, guitar tabs, and more.
Starting Version 5, Symphony Pro now offers handwriting recognition as the only in-app purchase: Perfect with Apple Pencil, and works great with touch or capacitive stylus
GETTING STARTED
SP provides all of the key options to begin your work. Import a score via MusicXML, MXL, MIDI, or SP file from your computer, or from apps like Dropbox, Mail, iCloud Drive, or Safari. You can base your project on a template, or start a blank score and add additional parts later.
EDITING
To add notes, choose Pencil mode, and tap anywhere on a bar to begin editing right away. You can quickly specify note properties before or after placing notes. By switching to Select mode with one touch, you can also transpose, erase, cut, and paste multiple notes/tracks.
With an on-screen instrument, a QWERTY keyboard, or Core MIDI compatible keyboard, you can quickly enter notes & chords in step entry mode. Record a part in real-time with on-screen instruments to transcribe into notation.
Versions 4 & 5 take greater advantage of the iPad touchscreen. With shortcuts and contextual menus to edit note & bar properties, many of the commonly used editing commands are right at your fingertips.
SP supports a wide range of notational elements for your composition. Including dynamics & articulations, time & key signature changes, clef changes, pedals, and repeat conventions. Edit chord symbols, lyrics, and annotations using the iPad’s standard keyboard.
EXPORT & SHARE
When you’re finished, print out your score with AirPrint, or export it as a PDF, MusicXML, AAC, MIDI, or Symphony file. Share files via email or directly to another computer or iPad via Dropbox/iCloud Drive.
KEY FEATURES
• Introducing Handwriting Recognition for Apple Pencil & touch
• Starting Version 5, Handwriting is the only In-App Purchase to enable the complete app
• Now download SP on your iPhone
• 24+ professionally recorded and sound-designed acoustic instruments, free out of the box
Earlier features offered free, to existing & new owners
• 114 built-in instruments for playback, and auditioning the notes you entered
• Create in standard music notation or tablature
• Edit with an on-screen piano, QWERTY keyboard, or a MIDI input device
• Dozens of shortcuts & gestures to edit & navigate
• Reduce your score size, range, or combination of parts for viewing & editing*
• Print directly to AirPrint
• Up to 48 instruments, 100 staves, 4 voices/layers per score
• Record a part in real-time with clicks at the beat with optional emphasis
• Backup & sync your scores with iCloud*
• Import MusicXML, MIDI, MXL, or Symphony files
• Export as a PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, AAC, or Symphony file
• Large selection of articulations & dynamics
• Multi-measure rests, including automatic rests
• Grace notes
• Customizable noteheads & note colors
• Chord symbol, lyric, and annotation tools
• Edit the properties of multiple notes and rests simultaneously by multi-note select
• Copy/Paste function supports partial & multi-bar/staff select
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Customizable stem directions & note beaming
• Transposing & concert pitch score option
• Change tempo or clef anywhere in score or bar
• Stream audio or share your screen wirelessly with AirPlay
• Advanced document management
• Create your own custom project template or use a built-in one
• Customizable part groupings for SATB and instrument families
• Customizable chord symbol, lyric, and annotation font
• Loop playback feature
• Auto-save support
* Previously paid, but now free upgrade in Version 5
For More information, please visit:
• http://www.symphonypro.net
• http://forums.symphonypro.net
• Facebook page at www.facebook.com/symphonyapp
• Learn about the iPhone-only app: bit.ly/symphonyiphone
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Handwriting Recognition Tool
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User Rating

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Symphony Pro Reviews

Unusable

Dryad-271 on

United States

I had such high hopes for this but it is absolutely unusable and the documentation is absolutely no help. Deprsssing, regret paying for it. Crescendo beats it by a mile.

It is great for hand writing, but it cost extra

Tgjazz on

United States

I use this app when I quickly have to write down some musical thoughts I don't have time to open finale. Combine with the Apple Pencil it's really nice. Later, I can import it into finale as an XML. it's really just a musical notebook for me. Definitely had to play around with it for a while in order to use it effectively. I think it's worth 10 bucks.

Ties don’t work now?

miggymiles on

United States

I love this app, believe me. The resources you get for free are tremendous. But sometimes some of those resources don’t work. First and foremost is the ties. I don’t know why but ties are not working. Not for piano, not for winds, not for nothing. Being a aspiring jazz musician, ties are very important in composition, so that needs to be fixed.

Overall good, but…..

Jimmy_Kershaw on

United States

This is a great app, but it has two major problems. Because of these two problem, I almost want to give it three stars, but I’m going to give it four because it DOES have potential to be outstanding. A lot of thought went into this app, so it has potential. The first problem is that it’s glitchy. Things disappear, get moved around, etc. This is extraordinarily infuriating when you spend hours working on a project only to come back the next day and a bunch of parts of the project are moved or resized or something equally obnoxious. The second problem is that entering text is an absolute NIGHTMARE. If you only enter LIGHT text here and there, it will probably work for you just fine. But, if you’re using this particular app to write educational material (like for lessons or classroom), it’s just awful. I did manage to write an entire guitar method book with it, but it wasn’t a pleasant experience to deal with the text aspect of it. Text gets resized, moved around and the worst part - when you export the project, sometimes the text is a jumbled mess. If they fix these two issues (especially the text issue), I’ll give this five stars.

Honestly, It’s my favorite app on my iPad

Mister_Mom12 on

United States

Honestly, It’s my favorite app on my iPad

Paper Replacement

Jimmy Jam G on

United States

I’m an old cello guy who has all his music in SP. The program allows playback customization to meet my declining skills. Adding accompaniment parts allows me to use Bluetooth to play accompaniment via an external device while using a pedal to start, stop, and repeat the score or parts of it. These features are a real help in practicing. I’d say, however, the program has some "quirky" faults: 1) It will not back-up my scores to the iCloud. Apple support showed me how to manually copy/paste scores to the Cloud. I finally had to creat a spread sheet to track changes and a date when it was manually backed up. 2) The Apple pencil does provide better a selection technique than a fat finger, but the pencil isn’t always recognized by the program especially if the pedal is active. 3) The User Manual needs an update. I’ve spend lots of time trying to figure out a complex program. Sometimes the explanations are vague or don’t address the searched issue. I am very appreciative of the Lab’s continued work on improving a remarkable software program. Thank you.

Unusable. Look elsewhere if you’re going to pay $25

Analoguemarty on

United States

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. 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. 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.

Been using it for years…

Femail5000 on

United States

…for transcribing, arranging and scoring, and have had no real problems [intermediate skill level]. Works well with iPad split screen if not too many other apps are open. Would be great if I had an Apple Pencil, I’m sure.

Finally updated Jan/Feb ‘24

pseudonym58 on

United States

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.

UPDATE-FEB 2024-Back on track

LRothbart on

United States

This updated review is written several years after my review from when I’d begun using the app regularly. I’m happy to say that recently the developers’ online presence has resumed after a period being out of contact with users. I’d come to SP as a longtime professional pen & ink music copyist. I was a beta tester for this app from v4-v6, & had high hopes for its progress. I was in close contact with the design team & head programmer, sending them detailed reports they found very useful. It was gratifying to see my suggestions or bug fixes implemented, sometimes within days, & know I was influencing development based on my practical experience. Suddenly, some time after v6 was released, with no warning, my beta license, which had been renewing automatically, expired. Multiple emails to the head & design team went unanswered. I finally had to purchase the current retail version just so I wouldn’t lose years of work & could convert them to an exportable format. After over a year I sadly began shopping for another iOS notation app, dreading taking on a new learning curve from the beginning. THE GOOD NEWS: I see the developers have now resumed user communication & renewed their commitment, after understandably being overburdened keeping up with iOS updates. Apple does little to consider how their updates affect independent developers. Although we users saw nothing on our end, I’m sure it was a hectic time for the SP team. Small developers perform a complex balancing act between user support & maintaining basic compatibility; accommodating a small OS change can mean months of work, causing communication delays. On the other hand, your comments are read directly by the people writing the code, not some clerical sub-subcontractor who may only vaguely (if that) understand what the app does. Responses are individual, not scripted. I’m impressed with the SP team’s dedication to their work & look forward to seeing future developments. ____________________ THIS IS MY ORIGINAL REVIEW OF v4, SEVERAL YEARS AGO: I should qualify this by stating that this is the only notation app I've ever used, so my only bases for comparison are my 20 years experience as a professional music copyist doing string & horn charts for recording sessions, & lead sheets; as well as what I've read about other apps. The features seem to compare favorably to other tablet apps, & after a bit of a learning curve transferring my pen & ink techniques to the app's features, I've been able to functio

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