Dorico - Compose Music App Reviews

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Audio unit. This is a great app and I own cubase 11, Cubasis. Dorico is not recognizing my audio unit but my Cubasis is. Is there a setting I’m not activating or is it an app issues. Is anyone else experiencing this.

Very impressive full-featured Notation app on iPad!. Like another reviewer said, this is a very good port of the desktop app. I’m a recent convert from 3 other notation softwares I’ve purchased over the years and I’m really happy that Steinberg offers a full-featured iPad version of Dorico. I mean, what good is a half-baked version of your desktop notation software? Got most of your score done on your Mac and it’s time to run out? Carry your iPad and complete your score somewhere else… maybe your favorite coffee shop or restaurant? Dorico for iPad is an invaluable tool for composers, arrangers, transcribers, etc. No, I do NOT work for Steinberg, I’m just really WOW’ed by this product. Dorico and forScore are now my Goto, Must-have, musician tools. TIP! Dorico’s keyboard shortcuts are great time savers. I highly recommend having a QWERTY keyboard hooked up to your iPad and having an Apple Pencil or mouse to select individual notes, rests, bars, clefs, etc.

Great software. Hate the subscription model.. I use Dorico 3.5 on my Mac. I also use Nuendo and Cubasis. Having this on my iPad is a nice convenience but I hate subscriptions. Renting software and being held hostage to monthly charges does not sit well me. You get 5 stars for great software and 1 star for wanting me to rent it! No way!

Great App. Some Problems.. Dorico is a great app if you want to write down some sheet music or if you want to make a simple tune, but it has glitches where sometimes on the digital keyboard on the bottom one of the key will glitch to where it stays down and you can’t press it again. Also sometimes when you close out one of your pieces it will delete it automatically. I most say though it doesn’t really do that anymore so maybe they fixed it. Overall a really good app except for those two apps.

Excellence through and through. Made by the amazing Steinberg team. This app is almost identical to the Dorico Pro version available on the desktop. A true music engraving piece of software has made it to the iPad. I have used Dorico from day 1, and the work the development team does is unparalleled in the engraving software market.

Dorico for iPad. This is such a fantastic port for the iOS! It is fast and once registered unlocks most all functionality of the desktop version! Really nice job. I am hoping for Apple Pencil support soon as that would be really nice. The user base and support are also amazing!

Best notation app on iPad. Easily the most complete and versatile notation app for iPadOS. I’m very happy that they removed the limit on number of instruments per score. Please add two finger drag support for external trackpads. It’s frustrating having to reach up and touch the screen everytime I’d like to scroll within the app and settings menus. Also please add more features to Engrave mode, notation options would be nice, as well as Master Pages support. I shouldn’t have to use my laptop just to add a subtitle and composer field, or change chord symbol abbrivations from E- to Em. Please add support for folders to better organize files, and also the ability to easily duplicate files.

Continuously crashes on IPad Pro all of a sudden. App was pretty great, but all of a sudden isn’t even opening at all on IOS 15.5. Extremely frustrating. What’s going on??

Powerful, exactly what I needed. As I age, my eyes are getting weak. I needed to re-score some music, and pencil on manuscript paper wasn’t cutting it. I went searching, and found this software. I was able to input my score, bass clef and treble, with fingerings and lyrics, everything I needed. I could set playback, to see if I’d entered it correctly. I would need to pay, to add chord letter-markings, but I can input the chords themselves with the free version. (I may upgrade to the paid version at some point, but right now, the free version is powerful enough to meet my needs.)

How do I use. I don't really know how to add a note...

Let me buy the dang app!. App works well, looks useful and well thought out. I will not use much however as I hate, let me rephrase that, HATE, subscription based apps. The new Sibelius app links to my desktop version for free. And subscription still only allows 12 players. Please let me just buy the dang app!

I’m impressed. I am very impressed with Dorico for iPad! It is basically the same as Dorico on my Mac or PC. Everything is right where it would be on Mac. It is extremely powerful and really well done. Thank you for releasing this! My only concern is the subscription model. I get why you choose that for Dorico for iPad, but please don’t let that make its way into Dorico and Cubase for Mac and PC.

Great when it doesn’t crash, which is not often. I’ve been using Dorico on iPad since right after it was released, and it makes beautiful scores. The interface is customized for iPad and not hard to figure out. However, it crashes (either freezes with the app still open or hard-crashes to the desktop) in about a quarter of the scores I write. Over the years, the rate of crashing has remained the same. When I reopen the app after a crash, the score is completely missing — Dorico never thought to save my work. For years I have just put up with this, losing many hours of work to these crashes. I’ve posted on the forum and tried to attach the apps crash reports to no avail. These crashes have happened when I’m showing the app to my piano students, trying to get them interested in using it. They (rightly) have no patience for this kind of thing. Depending on my mood and tolerance for frustration, I still use it when I’m away from my PC and only have my iPad with me. I thought I should leave this review as a warning for anyone thinking of buying Dorico for iPad. There is a free version, so you might try it out and see if you want to throw your iPad through the window as often as I do when you lose all your work.

It’s the real thing!. Unlike a lot of iPad versions of desktop pro apps, Dorico on the iPad is the real thing. Dorico for desktops is a mature, professional environment for musicians, composers, arrangers, and educators. Some have complained about the subscription model, but at only $40/year, it’s a bargain. I would like to see them have a “bundle” where the desktop users get the iPad version for free, but I’ve heard that may be coming.

So much potential. This definitely has the most functionality out of any free score creator app I’ve seen. It’s just buggy and rather unintuitive. I really would love to use this app, if it didn’t take 5 times longer than necessary to do what I want it to do.

Desktop app is perfectly designed for iPad…. I really like their desktop app and I am always working on learning more and more of what one can do with it. The iPad app makes music creation a lot more relaxed for me. I can hang out anywhere really and work on a song idea, and then take it back to the desktop version where I have a bigger screen and work on it more. I seriously can’t wait to see how both the iPad and desktop app grow together.

Really convenient tool for my needs.. Only drawback is the bias towards western music. I’d like to be able to easily express Arabic maqam and Iqa, but maybe that requires some advanced customization.

Another Great Reason to Stay on iPad. This most recent update of Dorico makes working on an iPad Pro with an external trackpad and keyboard so nice! They fixed the motion bugs and weird flashy bits from older versions and added great features from Dorico Pro to further flesh out this release. I switched from Finale on Windows to Dorico on iPad because of the promise of professional notation on a do-it-all device, and this app has not disappointed. I bought the one-time purchase for Dorico for iPad and I think it’s absolutely worth every pence. Thank you Daniel Spreadbury and the rest of the team at Steinberg who are working on this app, you’ve done an excellent job! I’d love to see some more options for tuplets in tempo equations, like duple eighth = quarter.

Siiickkkk. I use Dorico on windows. I was a literal INCH away from buying Staffpad, but the shady reviews and huge up front asking price put me off greatly. I will be subscribing to this instead. The idea that my iPad notation app is effectively the exact same as my main computer notation software, is just nothing short of incredible. This app has been optimized fantastically, and I have zero doubt that only better things are to come. I’m sure I’ll run across some issues here and there but even then, it is an incredibly usable tool as it stands. not having to relearn new software, and having that interface familiarity on my tablet is epic. I hope dorico monopolizes the notation software industry one day, as it stands they are already way ahead of the competition in so many ways. Keep it up!

Excellent with the desktop version and also in its own right. This is an amazing achievement for notating music on iPad, made even better by the recent expansion to unlimited instruments. Very happy to have Dorico on my side!

The most powerful creator app I’ve used. Because it’s the most closest to the desktop version. Photoshop, Lightroom, Numbers and many other apps for doing work are either stripped down, or have greatly different interfaces that frankly are too hard to work with for any serious business. The Steinberg team did an amazing thing here in that the app is just like the desktop version, minus features which were pulled for the first release (mainly Engrave mode). I’m completely impressed with how much they managed to do on an iPad, it’s finally (with Dorico) fulfilling it’s promise that you can do work on the device. In my experience, other than word processing, the iPad is only good for content consumption. Since there’s a subscription model, I wouldn’t be surprised if it more or less gets parity with Dorico pro, minus the sample library handling of course being we’re on iOS. But meanwhile it’s allowing me to ditch the paper and pencil finally for initial sketching out. So pull out a MIDI keyboard and computer keyboard paired with your iPad and you’ll forget you’re not using Dorico on the desktop.

So much better than the competition!. This app is amazing, effective, and MILES AHEAD of the competition.

It’s too bad; subscription only. If you use the app daily and a lot, the subscription model work for you. I don’t want to pay the annual fees year after year for occasional use. Removed the app from my 12.9 5th gen.

Great app, but freezes and crashes often. The functionality of Dorico for iOS has been a game changer. I love the tools available in this software and have made this my notation software of choice. However, I have been experiencing frequent freezing and crashes since using the app. I haven’t yet nailed down what is causing this issue. When using the app normally, it will suddenly lag really badly. Next, the menu options will darken as if being pressed, but nothing will happen. This requires a restart every time, often reverting any progress since the last save. I have been extremely impressed by this software, but the freezing issue has caused a great deal of frustration in my work.

i’ll never tie another fly again without it!. this application has put my bass tracker back in the water, my wife out to pasture and my rod firmly in my hand. thank you, Jimmy Dean.

By far the best notation software. Having used Dorico on a desktop since version one, I was delighted to see an iPad version, and was amazed to see that it is virtually identical to the desktop version. It is so convenient to have all of my scores on my very portable iPad. The team at Dorico have done a terrific job with this app, and it will only continue to get better.

Great app, a few bugs. I am very happy with this app. Amazing notation software for the iPad that I have always been looking for. However, the app does crash sometimes, and while not deleting any files, is still pretty annoying. I’ve also been having this problem of when sometimes I add a 2nd part to a measure, it glitches out and adds other 2nd parts to every other measure in the file. I’m not quite sure if I am the one doing anything wrong, but it’s been very annoying.

A step forward. After decades of the other two major engraving programs we now have a program built to prioritize the compositional process with an uncompromising eye on engraving consistency. Bravo Dorico!

App unstable, along with your work. Nothing but crashes since getting this app. Sometimes the app will freeze and I can only look at my work before having to close/relaunch the app, losing all my progress. Now the app crashes immediately after attempting to launch, so all my projects are inaccessible. A good composing app, but not a safe one to use for any work you care about.

Satisfactory, but subscription puts out my flame. The Dorico interface is certainly my favorite, and I work most efficiently using this app, but I will be forgoing the subscription. ### New users beware: After spending the time required to become quick with Dorico, you will not enjoy other engraving applications. Do not get hooked on this software until they release a proper buy-it-for-life option. In the long run, this vote withholding our dollar will save us in the long run. ### To the porting team: A magnificent job. I cannot wait to properly sing your praises when I can pay for the full-version with a single-purchase. ### Rambling I have already read the response to the other reviews, so I would like to clarify the frustrations that many experienced users are likely feeling. If you would like to have a free version for trial, that is possible without the implementation of a subscription. If mobile-only customers want to opt for subscriptions, let them, but I have already paid around one thousand dollars for single-device licenses to desktop applications. This long wait has resolved about as bitter-sweetly as I could have imagined.

Loving Dorico. I’ve been using Dorico for about four years now and it just keeps getting better. I’ve written scores for over two dozen songs and I’ve been able to generate audio demos for musicians to listen to and decide whether or not they want to work on the project. Then as part of the project I’ve been able to use templates that format the scores professionally for copyrighting and archiving. In addition to the software the support staff, training staff and community support have all made my life easier by helping me better understand how and why things work and how to build a better workflow for composing and scoring music. I’ve used multiple apps for writing music but now only use Dorico because I believe my time is better spent learning and contributing to a great product with unlimited potential.

Brilliant. As a long-time Dorico power user, I admit I was skeptical when I heard about this. But I’m really, really pleased at how it turned out. Note entry, editing, play mode.... It’s... Dorico, just on iPad. It doesn’t feel like a compromise at all. Bravo to the team.

Still hoping.... I got Dorico to be able to finally notate several compositions. I haven't been able even to notate the first few bars of the first one! So many quantization errors in the rhythm, a built-in keyboard that cannot keep up and responds intermittently to taps, and it even created a measure in 4/4 time that had 3-18 beats in I it and couldn’t for the life of me add the missing eighth note! Support was like “it shouldn't do that”. Despite the fact that it doesn't actually work yet, the polish and their desire to make the perfect notation app gives me hope they’ll eventually figure it out and when they do I'll be right there waiting!

An amazing port of desktop Dorico to the iPad. When Dorico 1.0 first came out for the desktop, its first year showed amazing growth which continued in subsequent years. Considering where Dorico for the iPad has begun, it is clear amazing things are in store. The free app reflects the Dorico SE capabilities, and for c. $4 a month or $40 a year, the app expands to resemble Dorico Elements, but in both cases the iPad version shows hints of capabilities like the on-screen keyboard, fretboard, and drum pads still to appear on the desktop versions. I can only imagine where this app will go in the coming year(s). I am not a fan of subscription payment models, but Dorico could hardly offer a one-time app purchase for anything like the $4/month or $40/year subscription rate to account for the Apple Store’s lack of an upgrade path. If one wants to rely on the app while away from one’s desktop, the cost hardly seems prohibitive. Given digital music’s sometime disagreement whether middle C is C3 if C4, I’d like to see a different color key for middle C on the on-screen keyboard so I could easily spot it when sliding the keyboard around to reach various notes, and tool-tips on the various buttons would help those new to the app; but this is an app worth owning and one worth supporting for the kind of further development the Dorico Team has shown with their desktop program.

Not enough iPad-specific tutorials/instructions. It seems most of the clientele are those already using the desktop version. There isn’t much for a brand new, iPad only user, to learn from. At this juncture, it’s taking more time to create a workflow, and it makes writing tedious.

Excellent program. It’s a dream to have Dorico on and for the iPad, and feels very comfortable. There are no GUI compromises, and you don’t have to really compromise using different key commands. Great job Steinberg.

Amazing iPad implementation. If you use Dorico on a laptop or desktop computer, you will be amazed at how well Steinberg has brought the desktop experience to the iPad. And if you haven’t used Dorico before, the iPad app is a fully featured, powerful composing tool - score, parts, beautiful layout, the works. You can write for 2-4 players for free, and the subscription model (the Apple store makes it impossible to pay for updates, so subscription is the only possibility for Steinberg) lets you write for 12 players (this number may increase in the future). Totally worth it in my opinion, and of course you can unsubscribe at any time.

Will not open. Hi, i just installed this app, and it wouldnt open, so i uninstalled it and tried it again, nothing is working.

Incredible App; Preferable to ANY OTHER iPad Notation Software; Possesses ONE MAJOR FLAW.. As the title indicates, the app is incredible. Of course, I could further expound upon the impressive notation features of this software, but I believe some other reviews would more adequately reflect that. As such, instead of doing that, I’ll briefly discuss the reason why my rating is so low, and the major flaw of the software: The Saving System. Unfortunately, while the auto-save system works relatively well on average, there are times where the application will crash and it will delete the entire file, without the ability to recover the file or to revert to a previous save. The first time this happened, I could excuse the software due to the incredible suite of notation features; the fourth time, however, it crashed and deleted a composition that I had just finished, and had spent 10+ hours on. With no way to recover the file, and absolutely no way I’d remember the entirety of my composition, it was considerably frustrating, and the pinnacle of software futility. My experience has improved as I’ve found ways to accommodate by duplicating files, however, files will still crash regardless. It’s unfortunate that a software as well designed as this suffers with such a abject issue, ruining the otherwise pleasant experience.

Full-power Composing on iPad. I use Dorico Pro on both desktop (Mac and PC) and the iPad, and I’ve found that the iPad version has nearly all of the same functionality. I have found it very easy to use touch and pen input, and the subtle interface differences still make sense to me. On top of it all, I discovered that my MIDI keyboard plugs in by USB (via the special Apple adapter that adds a full USB-A port), and works just as well as the desktop version. This allows all my different modes of interaction with the software to be available to me, along with touchscreen input. I think I will still be finishing scores on the version, but the iPad version is no slouch. I could probably complete full projects on here.

Like it so far!. Longtime Finale user just getting into Dorico. On first look it seems simple and intuitive. Looking forward to exploring more. I don’t mind the subscription - it’s reasonably priced and not so different from many other apps. The desktop version is no subscription and that’s great.

Does everything you hoped it would. As someone with a typing keyboard and a midi one, I feel right at home with Dorico for iPad. Seems that all the key commands are the same. I would however like a higher instrument capacity, as well as better sounds. In the mean time, it’s off to a great start!

Great for getting ideas down on the go. There’s no denying that iPad screens tend to be a bit small for all this UI, but this is the real dorico engine, so it can render everything flawlessly, and things you put in here translate perfectly back to your main computer. I’m excited to see how much more of “big” dorico the developers will manage to cram into this portable form factor. Word to the wise: I think a physical qwerty keyboard is a must: it’s very helpful to use all the usual key commands.

The app is very good but,. This app is incredible honestly, but is super unstable and crashes a lot on my 2018 iPad Pro. All I did were things like selecting bars to add rehearsal letters in, and whenever a notification comes up, it breaks the entire bar interface leading to another crash. The fact that this app auto saves on such an infrequent basis leads me to lose way too much time on it. This app is far superior to Sibelius, but the stability is so garbage that I don’t even know if I can recommend it for just transcribing parts.

Still half-baked. Like most of my experiences with the desktop version of Dorico, this software is buggy, unstable, and lacks just enough features that you feel strung along until the next “update” (aka paid upgrade). That said, this is a mostly fully functional notation app that gets the job done — I recently created relatively complex lead sheets on an airplane, which was pretty cool. Just like the desktop version, be prepared for random crashes, parts of the UI glitching out (I just opened the Chord Symbol editor and got a gray translucent overlay but nothing else, until I minimized and reopened the app). It autosaves constantly (I think?) so the couple times it crashed completely were not an issue. A manual save feature would be nice even if it’s just a placebo. The touch interface is very glitchy and jittery…especially in engrave mode. Be prepared to wonder “where did that element go?” and it is halfway across the page because Dorico can barely tell the difference between pinch, scroll, and drag. One thing about Steinberg: they have weird ideas about how different elements should be organized. Be prepared to be confused about where things are or why they grouped certain things together. Sync with desktop app is pretty awesome. Is it great? no. Do I love it? Not yet. Is it worth the price? Meh. Is it the best option we have for iPad music notation? Probably!

Boooo Subscriptions. I was so excited to see that you came out with an iPad app… but I’m never ever going to pay you a subscription price for this after paying so much for the desktop version. Very disappointing.

Best app for songwriting. I have continually been impressed with the app and it’s easy-to-use functions. It has everything I would ever need as a composer/songwriter/arranger and I am very pleased with it. It makes songwriting fun and simple, and I would highly recommend this app to anyone.

Absolutely awesome. Even though there are some bugs in the iPad version in regards to the Apple Pencil, the program is magnificent. And I know I’ve only scratched the surface. I’m using it on both iPad and desktop.

Too many bugs. I’m beginning to get very unhappy with this app. I spent hours going through the many learning curves, notated several files and now half them crash the app when I go to open them. So now what do I do?

Dorico is Great and Cross Compatible. This app has increased the efficiency of my workflow significantly, being able to work on the go or in convenient locations has really helped me get lots done fast and professionally. If Steinberg were to ever add handwriting recognition like staffpad, they would definitely steal tons and tons of users from from various other competitors I think, they already put Sibelius in there place.

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Great free version. The free features are quite generous, especially compared to other apps, and is more than capable for my hobbyist piano transcription and arrangement use. However using files from cloud locations other than iCloud seems to result in an error every time, and only iCloud works for me Dragging and moving the score around is also a little laggy and glitchy, and sometimes skips around erratically in my experience so far

Works Well - looking forward to new feature. I have an iPad Pro M1 which is better than my brand new HP ProBook laptop. Dorico works very well and so it will be fantastic when features found on the Windows version are available on the iPad. Especially score layout and Apple Pencil support. The ability to use 3rd Party samples is wonderful and the engraving features are good.

Alright. This app works fine for a composer like myself but is sometimes hard to use.

Somewhat Satisfied. I love Dorico however there are some things that are more annoy than joy. For instance, having to purchase this on ipad again when I already own a copy on PC. The biggest annoy with the ipad version is that chord symbols won’t play back! The whole reason I got this on ipad too was so I could sit at the piano, plug in a melody line for guide tones on dorico and then sing them back to the chord playback. Not impressed. It can be improved for sure and is totally better than any other music writing software generally speaking.

Love the 1.1 Update, but where are my Audio Units?. I paid for the subscription to Dorico specifically because I would have access to my iPad Audio Unit apps as well as the included sound collection. But I've just downloaded the 1.1 update, and I can no longer access my Audio Units. Not happy, Jan.

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Musescore does better. Unless you have some over standard work to edit, you will have to use so many workarounds that MuseScore will get the job done in a third of the time. Dorico’s support team will be impressively fast to reply to any question about how to do something. You’ll be told that what you are doing is a stupid idea and that a function to put that in a music score shouldn’t be implemented… even when it’s a standard notation for Mendelssohn and Schubert or even when it’s advised in Elaine Gould’s reference. They know better, but I’ll get back to Musescore.

An outstanding accomplishment!. Dorico for iPad is an impressive achievement. It is the first app for iOS that has allowed me to do serious work and complete projects from start to finish. Although it is designed to function without any external peripherals, I personally prefer to use an Apple keyboard to type in my shortcuts; but it works surprisingly efficiently without it. With an active subscription, it could be called Dorico Elements+ for iPad. Although it has a simplified engrave mode and a limit of 12 players with a subscription, the full richness of Doroco’s features (gorgeous automatic engraving, playback controls, flows, and so much more) is available to users through a splendid UI, thoughtfully ported from the desktop application. I have completed two fairly significant test scores with it, and I am presently using it when I have some free time during a short mountain trip because I still don’t know how to take a real vacation! On top of it, the subscription cost (unavoidable in the iOS world to support real development) is very reasonable. I really must congratulate the Dorico team for such a tremendous accomplishment. I was sceptical at first, but I am now a true believer: it’s an iPad miracle!

Dorico for iPad is amazing!. Dorico is a game-changer for writing music notation on the iPad. I have tried virtually all earlier notation apps but none are as good as Dorico and the iPad app closely mirrors desktop Dorico so that learning either makes using the other very much easier. I would give more stars if I could…

Good but there are some problems. This is in most ways, the best music-composing app I've tried, but there is an annoying problem, so I write some music, but when I listen to it, the dynamics I wrote are not played, the volume of notes is the same no matter what dynamic I put, please fix this. And also, when I try to create an account, when I enter the code that was emailed to me, it said invalid code even though I entered the exact code that I was emailed.

Freezes! Don’t buy. Great idea. Serves wonderfully musicians needs. However the app crashes from time to time.. And not in predictable pattern. Requires to exit to file page to force a manual save to keep your work. Never happened in Cubasis 3. Ps running on iPad Pro 12.9 5th generation with 1 Tb

Powerful program, lots of crashes on iPad. I’ve been using this application on an M1 iPad for the last 8 months. While it has a huge number of useful features, I find it seizes a lot, so much so that I have to close the program and reopen it. I have tried reloading the software from the App Store, but that did not eliminate the problem. And to add to my frustration, that process deleted the score I was working on, which annoyed me no end as I didn’t have a backup file. I restarted the scoring, but the program crashed and eliminated what little I had created. So I started again, and the same thing just happened. I was in the process of setting up a number of full scores with different instrument groups. Fortunately, I was not long into the process of composing, so I didn’t lose much music this time. I shall continue to use the program, but I am NOT happy with this bug.

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Flat fee, no subscriptions please. Please Steinberg. I’ve used Cubase Pro for 30 years. I have Cubasis, Dorico Pro, Halion 6 and spent a lot of money on your products. All of your other products have a flat price model. Even Cubasis for iPad which is a deeper app has a flat price for full feature use. This subscription model has been abused by developers for products that do not merit a continued payment for a product. Dorico Pro for Mac is not a subscription model, why is this? Just charge a reasonable flat fee for all features and proportional to Cubasis and you will have better revenue and user feedback. Meanwhile, I will not be using this app at all if I cannot get into the details of how my parts and scores will look without being on the hook for an annual fee. *Update per developer’s response: I read your response and am sorry to say that I remain unconvinced by your pricing model. First of all, a notation app that would be used to prepare professional-looking sheet music or parts requires detailed control of notation elements and layout. A free version is useless without these features (and please don’t go to the “pro” argument - there is very little money to be made in music prep - which I’ve done - except for a handful of folks in the industry). If you really think a basic feature-set for an iPad app is worth $99, and you don’t have any luck with subscription sales, feel free to try that price point. I won’t pay it but maybe you’ll get a few sales. Lastly, nobody I know will “hop on and off” with an app like this. Good luck with your strategy. It doesn’t seem to be getting much of a reception so far.

Crashed twice in the first five min. Keeps freezing , havent even written music in I have newest model ipad air

Somewhere down the middle.. I’m with everyone else here. The application is one of the best music apps, but the “free” version doesn’t start to touch what I’m sure this appplication can and will be. I was a user of Sibelius religiously until they chose to go with a subscription model. I’ve seen all the other canned responses provided to the others so I get it. You want to recoup costs. That’s fine and I don’t think that the $39.99/yr is way out of bounds, but the thought of renting a software just really has never been and will never be appealing to me. Even if it was $1.99/mth. Everything said. If people enjoy it and want to pay for it I hope it works for you, but if you move to subscription on your main program, I will stop using that also. I hope you reconsider but I guess you’ve made up your minds as what’s best for business.

DISEÑO no disponible. El día 14 compré una suscripción de un mes y justo ahora la app no me permite acceder a la pestaña DISEÑO. En lugar de eso pone un aviso de más suscripciones. Quiero una respuesta satisfactoria. Supongo que no me suscribí a una Prueba Gratis.

Long time Notion iOS, StaffPad, Symphony Pro and Music Scanner user thoughts. I gave up my MacBook and switched to an iPad Pro in a professional environment back in 2015. The experience has been mostly impressive. I spent a couple of years hanging out with the University of Houston Symphony Orchestra and it’s conductor, Maestro Franz Krager. Basically I was studying conducting with the Maestro, but I also stayed for orchestra rehearsal, and during that time I experimented with scoring for full orchestra on an iPad Pro with Notion iOS. I had some other responsibilities but that goes beyond the scope of this review. First, welcome Dorico. The iPad user experience can be excellent once the user takes the time to master the workflow. It’s not that hard, but like everything else associated with music, if you want to be good at it, practice. I’m very happy that serious competition has arrived. I’ve been using Dorico for macOS since the initial release. If you’ve listened to the Scoring Notes Podcast with Daniel Spreadbury, you know about the history and reasoning of the design of the iPad OS app and the reasoning behind the subscription service for Dorico iPad OS. If not, I highly recommend going to scoringnotes.com and searching for “The history and future of Dorico for iPad.” I’ll come back and add to this review with my in-depth thoughts later, but to summarize, I really like Dorico for iPad. Their approach to bringing it to the iPad OS platform was done very smartly, IMO. Basically they took the desktop codebase and worked really hard to adopt it to iPad OS. They had to clean up a few things and it seems like they did a great job. I’m still discovering these things myself. More on that later. I have mixed feelings about the subscription service. I believe a better model is the one that gives the user the choice of choosing between a subscription and a license purchase, regardless of price. StaffPad for iOS is $89 with 3rd party sample libraries $99 each. I happily paid for it. Users need to get accustomed to pro apps on the iPad platform that cost $100 - $250, especially if they expect these developers to offer a purchase license. Stay tuned for a full length review. Regards, Steve Steele

Good. Good