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Usable but glitchy and unintuitiveI did manage to hack out a (very) simple score with this app but it took literally hours! The “undo” function represented by the counter clockwise symbol sometimes fails to erase the highlighted note or chord. The “redo” function, which I assume is the clockwise symbol, never worked! I frequently resorted to cutting the measure contents and reinstalling the notes one by one. Also, it’s unclear how to edit a note in the body of the song without backing up from the end or cutting an entire measure. I wanted to write for guitar and the interactive fretboard is a nice feature but it still rings out like a piano even after a guitar is selected. Not a big problem. The notes work but it would be nice if it sounded like the instrument I selected. Perhaps I missed something. That said, printing the resulting page was a snap! I also appreciate the ability to save to iCloud as well as to the device. If I need to do a more complex piece of music, I don’t know how long it would take! If this has the ability to use the built in mic to transpose the notes it hears, I could not get that feature operational. This really has the potential to be an extremely useful tool for someone like myself who has some basic music education but is a bit sketchy on writing music. Unfortunately the quirky “undo” feature as well as the less than intuitive interface could use some work!.SolarbornVersion: 2.5.4

A good app for DRAFTing assignments, tabs, etc for a guitar teacherThis app works very well for most of my purposes composing and arranging pieces for my guitar students. I can create alternate tunings, fair quality midi files (not pro sounding), and the click and point system works well with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil. However, it needs a few tweaks to be a pro level app for the composer/musician. Only 2 voices are available, and the system easily gets confused with complex rhythm figures like rumba arpeggios that have syncopated sixteenth notes in one voice against longer 8th note grouping in the lower. This means I constantly have to correct measures and erase notes that don’t fit in a measure. Staff spacing gets wonky and spread out when adding “pima” and left hand finger numbers. The inability to put in a 3rd middle voice is the really frustrating thing. If I’m writing a Sor style piece where I need a middle voice to rest between a treble and bass voice I can’t do it, or if I want to join a treble half note with an up stem to an 8th note grouping with a downstems to show that a high note floats over a flowing arpeggio: it’s impossible to do. I don’t seems to be able to fuse a voice so it can be a unison which is often a function in right hand arpeggios so that unnecessary rests are not required to fill in the 1st beat before the 3-16ths after the beat. This has me eyeing Orchestra Pro etc . . ..CoyoteCuervoVersion: 2.5.6

Great Platform, but a few suggestionsOut of all composition programs I’ve tried, Notion is the best. The instrument recordings from the London Symphony Orchestra are very accurate and come in a wide variety for many different fields of composition. Always will be five stars…However; just like any platform it can always be improved upon. I write music on Notion, then export it as a MP3 file, so sound quality really matters. The horn instrument is not crispy as most orchestral horns. The choirs sounds could be better, but also I would like it if there was an effect where the choir could shout or chant; such as the Skyrim soundtrack. I know this would be an incredible amount of work, but would also be realistic if the lyrics could actually match what the choir sings or chants. Other instruments that would be nice are muted trumpets, solo voices, and an accordion. In the past, I had also requested Japanese instruments. It would also be nice if the copy/paste was improved. Again, this will always be five stars, but it could be better. - This part is an edit as of 7-2-24. I forgot to report an issue that with the latest version, my latest and most intricate and notion file disappeared. Now I have lost my best work and cannot retrieve it. Sincerely, Sarthurk.SarthurkVersion: 3.3.2

Awesome to get going... so farI’ve been using this app to compose piano music for 3 months. One of the reasons I got an iPad Pro was to find an app like this, where I can easily input notes directly into the score on the screen. It works so well! The handwriting is fun to use, too. I’m discovering a couple of things that I find to be a pretty big deal for a pianist. The only pedal markings available are the cursive “Ped” and the “asterisk” method, rather than horizontal lines and carrots, which is much more accurate to use. I’m also finding it difficult to place finger numbers beneath the notes, as you would for bass clef notes. The program doesn’t leave enough room for them, which is awkward to mess with. I’ve found work-arounds for other issues (for example, the whole rest in 6/8 translates as too many beats)... I’m hoping they will update the space beneath the bass clef and especially the pedal marks. I may not stick with this program at some point, but it seems so easy to use otherwise!.Anniedeemarie3Version: 2.5.1

I want this to work so much betterI have used the app for several years, or rather I remember that I have purchased it and then try to use it again every several months. To be honest it boasts some nice features, but every time I go to use it I am frustrated. For example, the other day I had added some text above a line of music. I realized that I would like to bold the font and change the size. The software would for the life of me not select the small A at the right of the text to allow me to format. I had just done the same function on some text several systems higher. I sat for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get the text moved so I could select the formatting button. No go, I finally deleted the text and started over. I have had the software intermittently refuse to show me use upon holding on an item and other functional hick-ups. What does it equate to? Frustration over very simple things. Want to hide that note? Well, for some reason it won’t give you the menu. Try restarting the app...oh it works! The handwriting tool is awesome, the sounds are great, like I said, I really want to like this app but it is a constant source of frustration for me..KsplatVersion: 2.0.183

App has made huge improvements, highly recommendI’ve been using this app on my iPad for years. It wasn’t the most intuitive, but it worked. A large upgrade happened a year ago and it became a little confusing, but it continued to iron out things that weren’t as intuitive (which I highly appreciate) and it’s become so much easier. I especially appreciate the quick access to all the notes along to side so I don’t have to press multiple buttons to quickly change notes. I’m a music teacher on a small school and my band has “challenging” instrumentation. I’ve been using this app all school year to write arrangements for them, and just wrote my first Choir piece on this app. My only issue is that I wish there was a button or a way to easily cancel out articulation. If I select a staccato or an accent or something I’m stuck with it (I’ve been selecting the slur option to cancel it out because that works for me). If there already is something like this, I haven’t found it yet..MeekaKitVersion: 3.2.3

Great for what I need it for.I’m not a budding composer, but I use this program in various ways. I find that for the most part this has been a very simple program to use. When you do have problems, for me, it has always been that there was not an obvious clue to guide me on how to solve it. Example: in setting the time signature it comes up 4/4. To my way of thinking tapping the numbers would have brought a drop down menu to make your selection from. It didn’t. By accident I hit one of the numbers in a sliding motion and discovered the numbers rotated and that is how you make the selection. I actually think that is a good method of selection, but had been frustrated because there was no clue that was what you need to do. I gave it four stars because there is always room for improvement. I like the other major competition too, but found this to be way easier and faster to use. Lot less out of pocket as well..Tri-cities UserVersion: 2.0.183

It’s fine. Needs an update.I mostly use this on the go for emergencies, or when I need to put something into musicxml for me to actually work on in Sibelius later. It’s fine for what it is but the program practically seems abandoned, with the same bugs plaguing it for years. Why does the chord symbol entry box always not update and display the wrong roots? Most importantly, chord symbols can disturb the alignment and spacing of notes, overriding all other note spacing. You can’t really make a good looking lead sheet if your melody is eighth note based...a chord symbol on the downbeat causes there to be an off amount of space between the first and second eighth note if your chord is longer than a single letter, which looks sloppy and unprofessional. Text placement of all kinds is wonky and buggy, also. That being said, there’s nothing better right now. If this program was better or better supported I would happily paid twice as much — and I’m not expecting Sibelius or Finale quality, here — but there is so much potential here and it’s nowhere as good as the free MuseScore..Zach j lVersion: 2.0.183

Great and powerful app with a potential.It’s indeed a great app but I want to use not only hand writings but also keyboard. It would be easier to work both on the qwerty keyboard system with Ipad. Input notes, values, move with cursors would be amazing. Notion provides professional notation system from basic notes to expressions and articulations. However working with apple pencil is very sensitive which is not always in good ways. It would be nice if I can able to control the sensitivity of the apple pencil. For example, Choose some options with the check boxes and let the apple pencil recognize the information clearly. The options would be note values (usually one doesn’t use 32nd note), articulations, symbols(+), bars(double or final) etc. Because I don’t usually use double bar on the middle of the piece. And if we can select the options what the pencil decides to recognize, then it would be very clear..Composer_SonVersion: 2.0.183

I want to love this app, I almost do...I just purchased the handwriting tool and it is beyond buggy when trying to write any “tuplet” rhythms. You also cannot have a measure of pure sextuplets, even if there are 24 notes in a 4/4 bar (6x4=24) it pairs one of the sextuplets with the group prior ( making 7 and 5) and gives a red error indicator... I have tried to copy and paste one beat of clean sextuplets four times and it auto pairs one note to make 7 and 5 on the last beat no matter what. Quintuplets are not an issue, but when you want six it becomes a problem. I am trying to write a technique book with varied rhythms and literally cannot write a sextuplet measure after trying for an hour now. I am a bit mad, and I’m trying to understand why it is happening, but I can’t understand it as there are only 24 sixteenth notes, all with a 6 over the groupings, but Notion auto pairs 1 sixteenth to make 7 and 5 on the last two beats of the measure, and I can’t fix it. Please look into this issue and resolve it!!!.DarrylllllVersion: 2.5.4

Having weird issuesI’ve tried to use this app a few times recently. It’s not too hard to learn to put in notes, but the dynamics and slurs are not very easy to use. Sometimes the hairpin just randomly go longer or shorter for a bar that only has a whole note, and when I try to manually adjust it, suddenly a huge vertical space appears between staves, and I had to just undo my adjustment to get rid of that space (and the adjustment wasn’t successful anyway). And for slurs, when I tried to connect the notes in the lower layer of the staff, the slur always appears above the staff including one note from the upper layer. I even tried to Clear out the notes from the upper layer first, draw the slur, then add the notes back. But it’s still all the same. This is not a big sample size, but I’m not as satisfied as I expected. If there are ways to solve this (‘or if it’s because I didn’t do something correctly), please inform and I’d be happy to update the review..Shuazi1988Version: 2.6

Provide better information for transposing lead sheetsMy first experience with this application was tremendously frustrating and involve spending several hours in trial and error, even after watching all of the “training” videos and consulting both a PDF user manual and online manuals. My task is very simple: Transpose an entire lead sheet. I use a desktop notation software, and that transposing process is both very obvious and simple. How to transpose a lead sheet in Notion Mobile is not covered in any video posted by Notion. There are a few paragraphs in the manuals about how to transpose a few notes, but absolutely nothing, transposing the entire lead sheet. After finding a friend who uses this software, I received detailed help on exactly where to touch on the screen, and how sensitive the controls and touch activities are to bring up the editing menu. Then only after “selecting all” was I able to transpose pitches and the key signature. I would like to see the editing menu be available as one of the side tools, and not dependent on touching the score. If that were the case, one could go directly to the editing menu, then select all, and then transpose. Currently, the process is backwards where you have to be on the score to touch something to get the editing menu..SGeeuuVersion: 3.0.4

Works Well, With some Major IssuesAs someone who has used both the desktop and this mobile version of Notion, the program and a lot of what it has to offer is there, and works well enough, but there are some serious flaws in this mobile version that need to be taken care of. Even after the fixes with the handwriting engine, it still will crash after even a moderately long work session. I am even seeing crashes after mere minutes of doing work, which is not a huge deal. That is, except for the fact that it does not cloud save super often, leading to times where I have written a passage or phrase out, and it would crash, leading to me reopening it only to find that the passage was gone. Another issue is that I still cannot write slurs using handwriting over long phrases, I can only write slurs over a few notes. Overall, it works well for basic notations and short notations, but the hassles that are still present prevent it from being truly great software..Graeme.shappellVersion: 2.5

It’s good, not perfect.Major Conservatory-trained composer who taught Finale for 20+ years is a convert to Notion. I like the simplicity of it, but wish that the documentation was a bit better and that updates were given a bit more frequently. I do use the handwriting features, but find certain gestures to be enigmatic to the recognition engine. One big suggestion I would give the developers would be to have a handwriting option that lets you notate an entire measure at a time and then click a button or move to the next measure before it’s interpreted. I tend to write all my noteheads first, then the stems, then the beams, then the dots, and the engine starts recognizing what I’m writing too soon. Also - a free-form handwritten staff would be VERY useful for jotting down notes and ideas without it being rendered into anything. Otherwise, it’s a great little tool to have with me wherever I go..AS_78_NYVersion: 2.0.183

Probably awesome.At $15, better than the free version of Finale, and a fraction of the $600 Finale. But I would pay $50 for a even simpler Notion. I’m not writing scores, just lead sheets for a cover band. I despise the “chords over lyrics” MS Word format. I like measures to show some type of timing of a song. But with Notion, it’s difficult to add lyrics without a written melody, or at least beat symbols. You can add a single six-syllable word over one beat, but small words that would fill up one, or 1 1/2 beat, for example, “have to go to the” would take up over one measure. In short, I would adore a way to just add free style lyrics, irregardless of any beats in a measure, with the chord(s) above the measure. The ability to change the key simply is awesome. Maybe I will find a way to add lyrics quickly, but at the moment I’ve gone back to using Word so at least the other band mates have some kind of sheet..ChrisnpiggiesVersion: 2.0.183

Nice app but could be betterThis is only the second music score app I’ve used but I really like it. Adding notes and lyrics is much easier with this app. One thing it doesn’t have that my previous app did was the ability to listen to a voice before selecting it. That would be a nice feature to have, especially if the voice you are interested in is not free. This app could use a few more voices, like a jazz organ, Irish tin whistle, steel pan drum, just to name a few. I really like the option of exporting files in MP3 format. Most other apps only offer MIDI. I have recently started having a timing issue with MP3s. When I play an MP3 created in Notion, the time remaining is way off. For example, a 3 minute song will show as 6 minutes. Another one shows as 13 minutes, no matter what player I use. I wonder if anyone else has encountered this?.Big Bird's nestVersion: 2.5.2

Glitchy UpdateAs a music teacher, I use Notion all the time. I liked it before the update. It worked great for making backing tracks, so I wouldn’t have to play piano during rehearsals and I could focus on my students. However, the update has been VERY glitchy. For example, today I worked on a piece. Everything was going smoothly, but suddenly it wouldn’t let me write any notes with my stylus anymore. I could still click on icons with it, put accidentals in, but not notes. I flipped my iPad to portrait rather than landscape and it worked again. So weird. Then, I finished my whole piece. It had been playing back through the whole process. Again, very suddenly it just quit playing back… it would play through measure 10 and quit, over and over. I need to hear my whole piece! I need the WHOLE accompaniment for my students. Why… just why???.22K8theGR8Version: 3.0.4

Amaizing but a little buggyThis app has been absolutely fantastic, and a joy to use. I can write my musical ideas wherever I am so I don’t forget them by the time I have access to a computer. When it’s not bugging out, I can easily write music, and with the handwriting add on, it has improved my music handwriting skills, and I can write so much faster. The bugs that I have run into are as follows: sometimes it randomly won’t let me change the time signature, or the tempo, but a simple restart fixes it very fast, and it auto saves your progress so restarting is a breeze. Also every now and then the handwriting feature won’t do what I’m trying to get it to do, but it’s not that hard to just manually put it in and resume handwriting. Overall it’s a fantastic app that I have been enjoying thoroughly..NarGinMeFlargiesVersion: 2.0.183

Pls helpThis might be only me, but my iPad restarted, and I was like, ‘Oh well. The app automatically saves.’ But, it didn’t. We checked everywhere. We tried everything. But, the song wasn’t saved. I had just finished the song, and I was really disappointed. I looked frantically for any save button to find after I rewrite the song, but the closest I could find was where it “saved”. If there is any save button, then maybe someone can tell me where it is? Ty. Also, I wish that the app wasn’t so laggy. When I put a note down, I do it to “fast” for the app, and it makes it all one note, so I have to play it really slow. I ty for taking your time to read this, and i highly recommended the app for young composers like me!.Flying wolf 5457375Version: 2.6.3

Hoping For FixesI want this app to be awesome. I love it so much. It’s simple, fast, and extremely functional. It does what I need. I’m a middle school band director and a trumpet instructor. I have premiered pieces with it and written SO MANY exercises with it. However there are a lot of bugs that make it frustrating. I would pay more money to have a constantly updating and improving app. I have maneuvered a lot of random bugs, like if you accidentally system break a measure twice in a row, it undos all of your recent updates the next time you open the document. However, it just started deleted all of my content in measure 7. It has done this on my past two projects and it has rendered the app useless. I thought it was my iPad but I have done all forms of restarting/quitting deleting/updating and none of my other apps are weird. I hope this gets fixed soon..Jay DeDonVersion: 2.6

GreatNever have I seen developers take every customer review and fix every single problem in the next update Absolutely worth the money. Best composition tool on IOS by far. The MIDI instruments sound absolutely amazing and even beat a lot of computer notation programs. One problem I have with the app is that notes are not always held full length. I'll put 4 whole notes tied together (180 bpm) and the note will end almost 4 beats too early. Other than that issue this app is brilliant and has met my need for a mobile notation application. I would love to see crescendos and forte-pianos in playback in a future update also. Would recommend this app to anyone looking for a casual notation app or even music majors that may not be able to take s computer on the road..Ethan AuringerVersion: 2.0.183

Great Idea, Super BuggyI have been composing on this app for years. But now, the new update made the writing function much improved and I have found myself using it more than the other input methods. Although, I have had issues with it being overloaded with too much writing at one time and then it crashing. This would be fine to work through because the functionality is so good, except it deletes everything I worked on which is about 30 minutes worth of work every time. I have gotten in the habit of taking a picture when it freezes because I knew it wouldn’t save. Why can’t we have a manual save function on this app? I have a 2nd gen iPad Pro which should be capable enough to run it unless it was made for the new gen processor. Fix it please! I don’t want to be pushed back to finale or to a new gen iPad….AnonymouscomposerVersion: 3.0.4

A lot of potential, but very difficult to learn to useI can see that this app has a lot of potential, but how do I use it? The “Help” guide is more of a quick-reference guide, describing the menus and all, but it is very difficult to find help when you need to do anything. For example, I want to change the number of measures per system/line of music. Or I want to change the key signature mid-piece. How do I do those things? I’m sure the answers are buried (or implied) somewhere, but I can’t find it. I’m sure things will go faster after I’ve done them several times, but the app is very difficult to learn. In the past, once I’ve gotten a score set up, the actual note entry wasn’t too bad, and I was able to use my Apple Pencil to do it—pretty slick. There are things that don’t work as one would expect. I wanted to turn off the metronome marking, so I found the setting, switched it off, and it wouldn’t go away. Only way I could get it to disappear was to type a space in the text field. I found other settings that acted unexpectedly, as well. I guess that since all I want to do right now is create a chord chart, I’ll do it in iReal Pro; it is a fake-book app, after all. Too bad. I wanted this to work. Not sure what the future holds for Notion iOS; it hasn’t seen an update in two years..Low.eadgVersion: 2.5

CrashingNothing is more frustrating than getting five or six measures of beautiful music out of your head and onto the screen and then to have the whole thing crash, losing what took you so long to get out of your head. Please please fix the crashes! Added later: just lost a couple hours of work. Isnt there an autosave that can be built in to prevent this? The only remedy has been for me to close out the document im working on every five minutes because it saves when closing. Then i reopen it and if it then crashes I only lose what I wrote since the last close. But continuously opening and closing the doc is not a solution. Please find a solution..BeyonderHillVersion: 3.2.4

Finally - a great way to prepare sheet music on the iPad!!I do not want to have to leave my mobile devices and go to the desktop just to prepare sheet music (or any other purpose that I should be able to achieve via my iPad) — so for that purpose, MusScore is not an option (as their mobile app, unlike their desktop app, is just a viewer). So I searched to find a good app to use instead for mobile score editing. And I found a GREAT app for that purpose — this one!!! Even the free version is great —- though you can pay to get some features of extra convenience. I have no idea why this app has fewer than four stars. I would expect that an app like this would have over four stars, and closer to five..KPPhoenixVersion: 3.2.3

Handwriting feature is greatI can’t be sure if the app is lacking functionality (like close but no cigar) or if the help files are woefully inadequate. I have a feeling the app may do more than I can discern from reading the help file. I’m very impressed by the handwriting recognition with my iPad Pro & Apple Pencil. I can write faster with app than I can on paper if I want it to be legible. It’s great that you can input 4 lines of lyrics. The process is relatively intuitive. However, selecting and/or changing the lyric font ranges from awkward to impossible. There is a fairly easy way to select all the lyrics but you cannot change their attributes. I’d really like to make them bold. If there was a way in score setup to change the note font and the lyric font individually the app would be far more useful and I’d rate it a 4. A complete, *searchable* help file would rate a 5..Old bariVersion: 2.0.183

Great but a bit tedious without writing toolGreat app, I’ve only used it for 2 sheet music projects and they have made my expedition for finding sheet music for these songs so much better. But there are a few things wrong. Without an Apple Pencil or other such tool, it’s hard to put the notes in the correct spot. Also I’m not sure if this is a client-side issue but the copy and paste function is strange. Sometimes it lets me copy and paste and other times it doesn’t. Overall great app, just some glitches and things that need to be worked out. I give it a 4 star rating not only because of it’s features and versatility but because it’s free!!.EditEd4TVVersion: 3.2.4

Amazing appI’ve been writing and recording songs for ages but only recently started to explore instrumental writing with notation software. I first got Notion 6 on PC with a promo offer (I use Studio One). Impulse buy. That led me to Notion on iOS which I like even better. It’s easy to use, especially when I enter music by playing electronic piano in real time with iPad/USB connector for MIDI. It somehow generates reasonable notation even when I don’t play that cleanly. I now also use MuseScore on PC with Notion on iPad and PC (file compatible). MusicXML transfers mostly work well going to/from MuseScore. It blows my mind that I can write and hear a string arrangement even on my iPhone, though it’s easier with the bigger iPad screen..FlyingSingerVersion: 2.0.183

ADD MORE RANGE TO BRASS PLEASE!!!!I absolutely love this app! I’ve made tons of brass scores for the band I’m in, in high school. Me and my friends can do Carolina crown tuning sequences because this app allows me to write out the sequences and the parts for their big hit of their drumcorp show!! But when I add high notes for trumpet like the double notes, you can’t hear it, the app doesn’t have that sound registered for trumpet and souped low pedal notes for tuba, it doesn’t even have under the staff Bb for tuba but it does for for euphonium!! What!!?!? Please add more overall range for Brass!! But especially trumpet high range, ADD THE SOUNDS!! I want to hear a trumpets double g!! I still love this app as a 5 star just please add this!! PLEASE!!.Qwerty knacksVersion: 2.0.183

Great App!!!I am really enjoying this app. I can whip up professional looking arrangements on the go and in a short amount of time. There is a slight learning curve but this app has been very reliable so far so I’m willing to put in the time. I would have given this app 5 stars however I would like to see two things added. More mallet keyboard instruments in the orchestral percussion section but most of all “THE ABILITY TO DISPLAY LETTER NAMES IN THE NOTE HEADS”. I am an elementary school teacher and this is an invaluable feature that is offered by a couple of other music notation writing softwares (Sibelius and Finale). If at all possible, PLEEEEASE add this feature in a future update! I’d be eternally grateful and definitely give this app 5 stars!.Namron3Version: 2.5

Good, not yet best but recommendedThis app has a lot to recommend it. It has many good features and has a usability that combines to make it a very useful app. There are definitely limitations but most of these will not affect every user and I hope that these limitations will be worked out to iron out the frustrations. This sounds like it is full of problems but I do recommend it because it has allowed me to prepare lead sheets for recent songs that I had not been able to do since I struggled to use the laptop (Disability) and Sibelius. It has been good enough and easy enough to allow me to do that so that is worth the 4stars for me even though there are improvements still to be made..ZamahVersion: 2.0.183

Amazing easy to use composition!I have been looking forward to getting Notion on the iPad Pro 10.5 and this is so far such an easy to use app! Imlove how intuitive it is. I am impressed about how generally well the handwriting recognition is. Once I get Apple Pencil it will be better i am sure. But this hands down beats doing this on a desktop PC. It is sommuch more natural to use a stylus. I am still learning quirks with handwriting and though it is not 100% the note entry method works very well too! Recommendation: tie the measure number to the initial measure line. This way when the music scrolls as you listen, the measure numbers will move with their respective measures..WahwayVersion: 2.0.183

It works, but a few irritations1) For goodness sake, let me force a measure BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a basic feature that I can’t do. Seriously, so a phrase extension forces the 5 bar to the next line and then EVERYTHING ELSE looks all screwy? DUMB. 2). Why does text keep disappearing? Majorly frustrating. Not reconciled to just one form of text either. 3) better workflow with “chords”. I’m a pianist, lead sheets don’t look like back chorales, and you bury the chords function. 4) the text editor is buried under the measure edit? Why? Why not long press for a context editor? Honestly, this thing is so much better than when it came out, but I don’t want to use this with a keyboard. I use it when I don’t have my laptop, so make the pen, in particular, more intuitive. The selections took more intuitive, and fix the glitch of following (or not) the selection tool with the transport. 5) crashes. I tap home, dang thing crashes. +1 star for no subscription. Thank you so much. Just please, debug this. Holy cow..BtklopVersion: 3.2

User Guide: Meh; Importing MIDI to Sheet Music: Great!The instructions say things like, “Tap the Step icon”; but the UserGuide lacks a simple screen shot of the icons labeled so we know which icon is the Step icon, for example. This is what makes the app not intuitive, lack of basic reference info in the User Guide. The best thing Notion ever did for me, was convert MIDI into sheet music. That it did very well. If you’re importing piano music, make sure you use your Keyboard’s Split feature before recording your MIDI. Then Notion will use that Split point to put the left-hand in the Bass clef and the right-hand in the Treble clef..Johne154Version: 3.1.2

Better than some, but abandoned by developers?Maybe the best of a not-so-great collection of iOS apps for serious musicians. Has more formatting features for view and print, more and better instruments, and a deeper tool set, but is quirky and buggy with iOS 11.3 and 11.4 on iPad Gen 6 and Apple Pencil. Handwriting add-on is buggy and unpredictable. In particular, I can't mark ties across bar lines in handwriting zoom area mode with either Apple Pencil or finger. Slurs/ties within bar work OK, but none across bar line. Works fine with handwriting in regular page view. Have tried all the usual iOS stuff, rebooting, deleting/reinstalling app, etc., no help. There are other ways to create ties, but handwriting should work, and it just plain doesn't. Had the same issues with app on iPad Air 2. Since it hasn’t been updated in more than 11 months, I am guessing it’s not a high priority at Presonus, so after spending the dough for all add-ons, there's nothing else to do but wait and see if the app ever gets any attention again. It’s a shame, because it has great potential to be a professional tool..GreyMikeVersion: 2.0.183

ImpressiveLike another viewer said: the other programs are rather expensive! I was unhappy with Finale and didn’t want Sibelius (Avid ProTools was very tough). I decided to spend the $15 on Notion for iOS and am very pleased! One of the ONLY apps out there, and works on both Mac and Windows! I considered Logic for my old Mac but have changed my mind ... I’m no “serious” composer - yet Notion’s intuitive interface means music creation is not a big scary endeavor :)) The playback sounds are great, mostly, though a few sound MIDI-ish. Includes a nice plethora of instruments with the option to buy some of the playback sounds (otherwise it’s piano I think). Notion includes a decent number of bells and whistles without an overwhelming setup; you can quickly access rhythms, dynamics, tempo, time signature, and other fundamentals efficiently! While I’m creating arrangements, my piano students instantly see HOW music is notated :) Love composing music? Always on the go? Meet your new best friend, Notion!.Finn12musicVersion: 2.0.183

Original Version is betterI’ve been using this app since 2015 and It’s been great. My only issue is that sometime within 2022 there was a major update that completely changed the entire layout off the app. In the last two years I’ve done my best to adjust to the new controls but they are not ideal. I haven’t been able to compose a song since then because of how frustrating it is write one measure. This app was easily 5/5 stars up until the 2022 update so I’ll give it 3/5 since I have 7 years worth of songs written. I hope Presonus will change back to the original version some time soon..Cal JosephVersion: 3.3.2

Very capable softwareImproves significantly with every update. The scope of Notion continues to broaden. The only domain that leaves something to be desired is the ease of input. I know it's ambitious to say the least, but a handwriting interpreter would be a pinnacle of engraving software. Update: handwriting recognition works well, but there is an artifact in which a note is added to the first beat of the next bar, and the barline changes itself to a double-line. Also, a short score of 9 instruments crashes the app when I try to open it on a first-gen iPad Pro 12.9. I know it’s resource intensive, but I should have some overhead before its purported max to at least open it and export it for desktop editing....MusiquitousVersion: 2.0.183

It’s convenientNotion is very convenient if you’re not someone who carries a laptop everywhere. However, despite its convenience, it has many issues. One that I am sure many Notion users can relate to is the constant crashing. Notion currently only supports 14-16 instruments at the same time, meaning that playing back a larger score means that the app will crash. Another issue I have is that every time I try to export audio files of my projects to different apps, they always end up being a little more than a half-step off key. If Notion were to fix all of these issues, I feel like it would be an amazing software. For now, it needs improvement.Kpeep417Version: 2.0.183

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