Feedback wanted on notation app

[DoReMirAxel]

Hi there!

I just started working on a startup app company that makes a notation app.
Play or sing into your device and get instant sheet music.
The difference from logic etc. is that it's smart, you don't need to tell it what key or time signature it's in.

We're in the startup phase and would love some feedback from brass-players!
The computer version is a free download at scorecloud.com
The iPad-iPhone version is free in the app-store

This video explains how it works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izya_miL2vQ" target="_blank

Thank you in advance!
/Axel, DoReMir

[eupher61]

Unless you made a huge update to it in the past month since you last posted. .. nope. Free isn't always better, or even a good deal.

[DoReMirAxel]

Unless you made a huge update to it in the past month since you last posted. .. nope. Free isn't always better, or even a good deal.

Did you actually try it? Did you experience any promblems?

[DoReMirAxel]

You can simply bump your first post since nothing has changed in it or the product.

We're updating and making both the app and the program better all the time though!

[eupher61]

Yes, I've tried it. Junk. When this thread came up, I looked at it again. Nothing has changed.

[DoReMirAxel]

You can simply bump your first post since nothing has changed in it or the product.

We're updating and making both the app and the program better all the time though!

But your post is essentially the same as the last one. Just bump it. When you update it again will you post the exact, same advertisement again like this time?

If you post it again it will look like advertising for your product and will end up getting reported to the Moderator by someone. We have a pretty strict policy here regarding advertising, so if you keep posting what essentially ends up looking like an advert someone will end up getting ticked and reporting you. I am trying to help you here.

Advertising for a product required paid sponsorship on this site.

I have not made another thread on this forum, if there is a second thread it's a mistake.
I searched for another but could not find it...

[DoReMirAxel]

I would not call two finished versions available in the App Store the product of a company still in the "start-up phase" either. This is advertising. Even if it is free, it is not a solicitation for testers or feedback as it is made out to be.

Wayne?

The app is not perfect, we're not satisfied until it is.
Being in App Store is simpler than most people think, just like Spotify.

[DoReMirAxel]

Yes, I've tried it. Junk. When this thread came up, I looked at it again. Nothing has changed.

Which version did you use and what were the problems?

[Michael Bush]

I downloaded it and will mess around with it. This is a functionality I've long wished Finale had. I am hopeful.

Will your app export to a .mus file? I could look, of course, and will mess with it tonight, but right now there's work...

[Michael Bush]

Okay, I've been working a bit with the mobile app on my iPhone. On the whole I am impressed. Clearly it is useful and makes a much needed contribution. It seems like a really obvious thing to do and I can't understand why no one else has rolled anything else out there (that I know of).

So I played a simple etude into the mobile app. (For the record, it was Brad Edwards's "Simply Singing" #15a; a simple melodic line, but with some octave jumps. It seemed like a good first test piece.)

What the app came up with was written out differently than the way Edwards wrote it on the page, but it was metrically equivalent, apart from my mistakes. So that was extremely accurate. It was also very accurate in the sense that it caught my two missed and quickly-corrected notes, and wrote the whole mess out perfectly. The only thing I would say the app just missed was the last note of the piece. It seems not to have "heard" anything at all and put a rest where the note should have been. Listening to the "piano" playback, it was clear that the app played back pretty much what I played (except for the last note). The other thing that seems problematic to me is that the written part it came up with was written an octave above the pitch, like a string bass part.

Two things strike me as needing further attention: it would help if the user could tell the app certain information as an option. Give the user a choice at the outset to let the app figure the whole thing out for itself, as it is, or let the user set parameters at the outset, like key, time signature, and how the resulting notation should relate to concert pitch (which might be most intuitive for the user if it let us select what instrument we're playing and let the app sort out the transposition based on that).

Also, just as an iPhone app, I think it should flip over if the phone is turned upside down. With the phone sitting on the stand right side up, the microphone is against the lip of the stand. Turning the phone over opens up the mic to the world. Some apps, like the Peterson tuner, notice and flip the display over. This one would be better if it did likewise.

Looking forward to working with the full Mac app as well, but this is some feedback. (Also, if it isn't already in place, fix it up to where it will export to Finale so other parts can be added.)

[DoReMirAxel]

I downloaded it and will mess around with it. This is a functionality I've long wished Finale had. I am hopeful.

Will your app export to a .mus file? I could look, of course, and will mess with it tonight, but right now there's work...

You can open your files in ScoreCloud Studio (the desktop version) and export .XML and MIDI