Appmuse

Don't waste your money. I couldn't get things to work. When I first got it, there were many options. I shut it down, intending to explore it later. Suddenly, everything was missing. I emailed support but got nothing back. It's crap as far as I can tell. Maybe if they'd get back to me, I'd change my mind. Show more

Good app overall, though when trying to speed up tempo, there are glitches.

This app is truly a great score writer. The updates have fixed most of the glitches. I hope to see more freedom with drum writing and maybe a Drumline type score (Snare line, tenor, bass midi, ect.) Great app over all, can't wait to see more updates in the future. For the price and convenience this app stands up to finale and the other score writers for the computer. Plus this is an on the go app. There is however a glitch to where if you have a flam/ grace note on the first beat of a measure it won't play it. Small issue. Nothing to make me think any less of the app. Keep up the great work. Show more

It may look good, like sheet music, but lacks functionality. In edit mode, the keyboard doesn't work--either nothing shows up or it types something different. Did not even try midi input. Show more

This app is for serious and unassuming song writers and composers. 1. Price of the app is extremely affordably low. 2. This a 3-in-1 app, which is synchronizes one's work to the following: a. Mac computers, b. iPads, and c. iPhones. With other music apps, these needs separate purchase. 3. Precision is accurate. While other apps focuses on beauty of the app, reflow focus on production of your music. 4. Different places or machines to create, edit, play and store ones music. 5. Great customer responds for suggestions, creation and updates. Show more

I bought this app to add new features to my drumming instagram account called @quickdrumlessons I found this app very hard to use in the beginning but after a couple of hours of using it looks like it's becoming easier. I still can't figure out how to type Lefts and Rights sometimes. It seems like after you write the whole groove you can't add L/R you have to do it as you write it I think, I'll keep playing with the app and update this comment after a few weeks ;) Show more

The choice of symbology for drums is kind of antiquated. No formatting options as far as I can tell (so you're at the whim of the app as far as how many measures per line). No note barring options...it's a little weird that it doesn't bar eighth notes together into groups of four like other notation software. No way to control this as far as I can tell. Entering notes is easy once you figure it out, though...but cut and paste is not supported so it's a little tedious. App's help window is empty. Three toms, snare (and rim shot which sounds exactly the same as regular snare), kick, open/close hi hat, ride, crash. You're out of luck if you want to specify bell vs bow for the ride, cross-sticking, or if you have more than one crash. No ghost notes or double strokes. Playback is weird...even when it goes past the song, it keeps playing with a weird hissing. And for some reason, my drum track is called "guitar" and I can't figure out how to change it. Overall, I'm disappointed and wish I could get my money back. This is beta software at best. Giving it two stars because the other instruments might be better, but look elsewhere for drum notation. Show more

The app is not user friendly. Clicked on the help tab and found no documentation. Not a smooth transaction from one group of note to another. Needs work!

Very happy with this app so far. At first I was frustrated by a few things I was not able to do but I either figured out how to do it or found the answer in the documentation that I found online. I'm not an expert so I may not be exposing issues that a real musician would, but for the price (and my experience level), this seems like a pretty nifty app. I hope Gargant continues to enhance it. Show more

I had some really high hopes for this app, however it's very difficult to use and understand. There is also a number of major bugs that causes data entry to just break. In adding additional instruments I ended up loosing visibility to the drum track and found no way to recover it. The drum track was still audible so it was there. The interface for data entry then changed to a bunch of reference numbers. You can change a note from 1/4 to 1/8 and it will keep that setting for the current measure but as soon as you advance to the next measure it resets. Very annoying. The app also crashed during data entry once. There is a lot of potential with this app, but in its current state with the current bugs it is not usable. Show more

Where did the h.p. go for hammer on and pull offs? I bought this to write tabs. Did I make a mistake with IOS?

I've tried a few of the tab editors for iOS, and I like this one the most. It's a full-featured tab editor that works on a phone! Reflow for the Mac isn't the most powerful app editor around, but it syncs well with the iOS counterparts and gets the job done. This app works as a great scratch pad for my ideas. There are still some bugs that need to be squashed, but I expect them to be fixed in due time. Show more

If the dev add helpful hints, fix the ugly animation, and add auto arrangement feature like Band in a Box for PC,...this app will be a rock star and i'll give 5 stars! Show more

On the Mac, it supports Retina, but no 4" iPhone 5 support yet The iCloud integration is great For basic music notation this app and its Mac sibling are fine

It seems like developers of notation software, including Finale and Sibelius, just don't "get" software design. I have been hoping a developer with a innovative sense of style would come out of the woodwork and show the big players how it's done. The iPad is a potentially excellent notation tool for composers. Reflow could be great, but right now it is rough and feels unfinished. Some things are not intuitive, some functions are missing or relatively elaborate to implement (such as starting a measure with a rest), and simple (though non-critical) bugs exist. What I'd like to see is a greater elegance in the UI and precise control over the engraving. Show more

Never used a music program more counterintuitive and less useful. It's like they didn't even know this was for ipad. The screen touch functionality is almost nil and there is no tutorial on how to actually access things like whole notes. Save your money on a program that works. Show more

On my notebook computer, I use Finale. When I bought my iPad, I was attracted to the idea of being able to flesh out musical ideas anywhere. It's hard to expect Finale completeness in an iPad app, but Reflow hits the right notes, so to speak. The range of notation markings is more than I expected. Repeat marks, trills, accents. There are some limitations, like only two available clefs (bass and treble, of course), and a lack of fine-tunable beaming options, but that's par for the mobile course. There are a few key places where there could be improvement. It's tricky to put a note exactly where you want it. You first place a cursor on the staff with your finger, then push a button to place a note. If you're off by much, you can move the note up or down by half-steps. Another reviewer complained about how accidentals were handled, with some nonsense about flats not "ever" belonging in a piece with a sharp key signature. You don't need to look at too many scores to realize that's a ridiculous thing to say, and Reflow handles accidentals just fine. But there are some things they could do to make note entry a little easier. For example: (1) The ability to pinch-zoom would help make that initial placement a little more precise. (2) It would be fantastic if Reflow supported a Bluetooth keyboard, perhaps mapping notes to letters and durations to numbers. Additionally, the file system is a little clunky. Clunky in that I'm not exactly sure how it works. My stuff makes it out to iCloud okay, though, so it's probably just me not grokking this new-fangled storage system. The export options are nice. As far as I can tell, Reflow doesn't support AirPrint, which is a shame, but it's not hard to get your work out of the iPad. This team did a great job, really. I was going to buy Notion, which was about the same price, but I didn't feel like parting with an entire gigabyte. I'm very pleased with my choice. Show more

I'm going to try to put this as clearly as possible because I really appreciate the development of this wonderful app. There is an obvious problem with how the app treats key signatures. Anybody who understands how to read notation knows what I'm talking about. The reason why there are sharps and flats at the beginning of a stave is not only to indicate what key the music is played in, but to also indicate to the player that specific notes will have a specific property, being either sharp or flat, throughout the "whole" entire piece unless indicated otherwise. That means composers don't need to write a sharp symbol next to every "F" in the key of "A" when composing a song. The only time a player needs to put a symbol next to "F" in the key of "A" is when they are indicating that it should be played as a natural "F" and not a sharp. Reflow fails to acknowledge this inconvenient fact. And that brings me to my next point. There is a indirect rule in composing music in which it is incorrect to use sharps in a flat key signature and vice versa. In other words, there should never be found a sharp symbol in a flat key signature, ever! Sharps stay with sharps and flats stay with flats. They should never be found in the opposite key signature. It just makes things easier and more clearer when sight reading and composing music. So what's the problem that Reflow seems to have with the above rules? Reflow does a great job of allowing composers an opportunity to compose music anywhere and conveniently except that it has a few procedures that are unnecessary and incorrect. From my understanding of how the program works a composer presses the "quarter note" symbol to input a neutral note on to the stave. If the composer wants to input a sharp or a flat then he/she presses the "sharp" or "flat" symbol. However, when composing in a specific key that has either sharps or flats the step of pressing the "sharp" or "flat" symbol to input a sharp or a flat is redundant. If, for example, I was composing in the key of "A" and I wanted to input an "F" I, because of how Reflow has been programmed, would have to press the "sharp" symbol to do so. This step of pressing the "sharp" symbol to input a "F#" into a key that has an "F#" by default in the key signature is redundant and a waste of time. This step is unnecessary because the key signature recognizes that any "F" in the key of "A" is a sharp by default unless otherwise indicated by a "natural" symbol. Also, when I was composing in the key of "A" I attempted, again because of how Reflow is programmed, to input a "G#" by inconveniently pressing the "sharp" symbol to do so. What happened? Well, it input an "A" flat instead. Which is understandable because "A" flat is in fact a "G" sharp. But the problem is that flats should never be used in a sharp key signature, ever. There like separate dimensions that never mingle with each other. And this again makes things unnecessary and inconvenient. These two are the only problems I have with this program but they are of the worst type of problems that a composer can face when composing music. Like another reviewer said it would just be easier to compose on staff paper. Please heed my advice. After all I am an experienced musician and a Music Major at CSU. I assume that many people are supposably going to only compose using tabulature but there are still those of us with a little more understanding of music that also utilize Reflow to compose our songs. Good luck! Show more

It would be easier (and quicker) to write it by hand.

Don't buy this app for goodness sake because it is nearly imposible to use. It has no instruction on how to use this and there is no sound produced when playing the sample that came with the app. Don't waste your hard earned money on this crap! Show more