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Low Raters, I’ll deal with you later in the review… Starting with the cheerful and clever tutorial, this app surprised and delighted me. I’m not a trained composer but this app made me want to be one. I think the devs and creative minds behind this gem need to be recognized as a real rarity these days - quality for quality’s sake. Bravo! ———— ————- ————- To all the confused reviewers who want this to be better than Cubase and Sibelius combined # or the reviewer who’s big complaint was that this software couldnt possibly be used because there’s not a $6,000 full multisampled orchestra included - have some perspective and recognize the cost of this app in comparison. I imagine you are the kind of person who regularly gives Uber drivers 3 stars or rarely tips more than 15% at restaurants. You understand it’s not like a movie rating, right? It’s pass/fail. After a certain number of non-5-star ratings, the app starts to suffer. Just like Uber drivers. Sorry, rant over. Show more

I really love the idea of this app, but it needs better note drawing tools in piano roll midi note drawing and modification. It also needs to save the settings you make when writing original melodies. Currently, if you delete the melody, it resets the settings. It also really needs a count in when playing a melody live. In fact, I would really like to see an implementation for melody loops to go beyond a single bar. Show more

This app clearly is impressive. What it is capable of is beyond my understanding, but I love it!! Well done team, you’ve impressed a very stubborn organist!! The fugue I generated was class-act!! Absolutely stunning. Keeps me extremely fascinated! ? Show more

It’s good and all but the number of instruments for a symphony is limited

After years of trying to understand composition technique - I have a more than patient source of examples and assistance in creating my own compositions. I have copies of this app on both my iPad and iPhone. I have tried many algorithmic composition tools over the years, YouCompose beats them all! It’s much easier to understand orchestral concepts like hocketing, I can just compose an example of a rich score to illustrate the concept based on my own melodies. The same is true of creating things for smaller jazz ensembles. Thank you. Show more

Your Limited to copy and paste only one melody per track so there’s no mixing around different parts that you may like to use. Extremely Difficult to stretch your notes to the desired length within the segment. Unable to drag segments around wherever you want them. It’s nice for generating short ideas but I wouldn’t use this to compose an entire song as it is currently. Show more

Great learning tool for music theory and composing. It would be nice if it included the option to harmonize (automatically) with full chords (for chord instruments) and to include chords on the score sheet (jazz scores). Looking forward to future updates as this app has much potential for all aspiring and professional musicians and composers. Show more

I just discovered ver 3.6 and loaded it on my ipad pro 9.7 music dedicated iPad. I have been looking for a compositional tool like this for a long time. it is just amazing once I downloaded the manual and got into the program. I highly recommend this for all composers, beginners or advanced. The output possibilities are excellent to say the least. I also have it running on an iPad Air 1 also with ease. Show more

This is an impressive app but not all it could be. The transport control is minimal and really frustrating when you want to edit a section and have to scroll all day to find the edit points. This version also has some grit on the audio but no way to adjust the buffers so I don't know if it's the samples or my phone. I think the features are impressive as far as importing via midi etc. but the interface still needs some improving. Maybe it should be iPad-only for better results. Show more

@doublebassdog: That's an iTunes problem, I've had it happen with other apps. Contact Apple. If it were an app problem you should contact the dev directly anyway, not in a review. Haven't used this a whole lot yet, like what I see so far though. Show more

Used this app for a couple of weeks and loved it. Then... Tried to update it! It never updated. In fact, it stopped in the middle and has been hung up there ever since. I can't use it, I can't delete it, I can't reload it. It's just taking up space on my 3rd generation iPad in never-never land. Anyone else? If it worked I would give it 5 stars. Show more

I am very happy with the app and the redesigned upgrade certainly makes it much, much better. Simple interface, tons of instruments and it lends itself to some neat creative uses. Show more

Real fun app, sorta weird but so many good ideas from it.

This is just amazing. If you can hear it in your head, you can make it a reality. This is just so much fun to work with! I am completly blown away. Easy interface; great harmonizing. I feel like I can really release a creative part of me that was locked up. So cool. Show more

While I am not sure how I would use this in my teaching — I’m thinking perhaps of having students analyze the resulting works to reverse engineer how the pieces or harmonies were generated — I am very impressed with what You Compose does. In short, you can compose a melody in any of four parts, and the app will create a fairly interesting accompaniment for it in the other parts. If you would like, you can have the app generate whole “symphonies” — short movements loosely based upon traditional symphonic form, complete with computer generated themes and development. I suspect that no two symphonies generated are the same. You have the ability to copy and paste snippets or entire movements. The accompaniment generated goes well beyond the standard hymnody four part writing we learned in high school or college. Again - nicely done. One of the things I like a LOT about this app is that it is not like the multitude of apps out there that generate rock or techno or new age type music. The resulting music is the kind of music that you might hear in a chamber music recital. The sophistication for You Compose goes well beyond the aforementioned styles usually seen in the app store. After a few listenings to different arrangements and different harmonizations, the ear begins to pick up the style of this “composer,” as you might of any other composer. I have not played enough with the app or read the manual carefully enough to see what kinds of parameters I can apply to vary the style. It would be fun to tweak parameters like that if it is possible. As an aside, I’d love to compare the style of You Compose generated music and what the developer might compose on his own. Clearly the developer has a clear sense of how to work in this harmonic language, and I can’t help but think that his own composing greatly benefits from this fluency in this language. I have recommended that my wife play with this app, too. She regularly makes arrangements of pieces for her middle and high school bands, and I can imagine it helping her in a time crunch. I appreciate that the manual offers a bibliography of sources that inspired the music theory behind this app — I am familiar with all but the German Language ones. I would love to see a more detailed article about the music theory models chosen and the algorithms used in this app — perhaps in a peer reviewed journal like Computer Music Journal or Journal of Music Theory. For sure grab YouCompose if this type of thing interests you. You may find it a nice source of additional inspiration, an quick way to generate scores for chamber players, and, if nothing else, at least for the novelty of holding a decent automated composer in your hands. Show more

YouCompose gets better and better. One of the very best apps I've ever purchased. MIDI out, midi file transfer, IAA and a huge variety of instruments about a surprisingly-effective harmonization engine give the app lots of practical applications in iOS music-making. Dedicated developer. Recommended. Show more

The app is good although it does not have any option to get a played piece on an external instrument and convert it to notes.

When I first used this it was amazing - then after the latest iOS upgrade this will only show part of the app. Developer is behind on updates.

When I first saw this app, I knew it sounded cool, I just didn't know HOW cool it would be. This is a crazy powerful app and is capable of so much. A few things I would like fixed though -- first, I have an iPad mini, and, for some reason, I cannot see the bottom of the app. This means no Bass for me. Furthermore, the app needs a redesign, but that's not to high on my list. Other than that, great app! Show more