Appmuse

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First, I spent 50 credits on a sample I did not want because of the unforgiving "select" process. Is this how all purchases will take place ? I'll have an expensive library full of pieces I didn't intend to buy. Second, you spend "credits" rather than cash. Exactly how credits relate to cash needs to be explained thoroughly before an account needs to be created.... Not after. Third, the tool itself is very limited when compared to ForScore or PiaScore. I print on 9x11 paper, which I can not do from Air Print. If I can not export to another app or create a PDF, printing is of little value. Maybe as a supplement to their excellent paper publications.... I wouldn't mind paying a fee extra credits (which are what again ??) for that option. Show more

I'm going to have to give this 2 stars -- As a classical pianist and fan of Henle scores, I was happy to finally get immediate access to scores that I like to use as well as use them digitally without having to scan them in myself. However, Henle has decided to build an entire app around the process. While it has some promising features, it's miles behind something like forScore which is possibly the best app I have ever used for something like this. To give you an idea of the oversights of the Henle app -- 1. No ability to export your music to another app 2. This wouldn't be as big of a deal if the annotation wasn't absolutely atrocious for the Apple Pencil 3. If you choose to perform non-Henle scores, you need to open an entirely separate app for those... These omissions really strike me as completely careless. I'm open to trying to again after some updates have been made. Show more

The features of this app are nothing new. Sorry, I won't be paying for what I can already download and use for free!

Bärenreiter and Eulenburg have also released digital editions here in the App Store, and I highly recommend both. But Henle has got them both beat in the inventive way they've reimagined their scores for a new format. These not only look great, the layout is highly customizable, annotating is much easier than with other other two publishers (I haven't yet tried an Apple Pencil), navigating repeats has been dealt with ingeniously, and the ability to switch between editors and fingerings is just incredible. One thing I wish for is the ability to make a playlist of sorts. If you buy, say, the complete Chopin etudes, they download as individual pieces. This is fine if you're sitting at the piano, but if you're listening to a recording, you'll want to be able to page sequentially through all the etudes without having to pause and go back to your library and pick each one in turn. Overall, this is fantastic. I hope for the quick addition of much more repertoire--I'll buy every new release! Show more

No vocal music available and no way to import my own music because it's a proprietary format.

This thing is freaking great. I'm a cellist and there already are a number of good pieces -- eg complete Haydn Op. 76 and Beethoven Op 18. Plus they promise their entire catalogue will be available as the months pass. The program does a lot more than, say, forScore -- it's because the music files are especially created so you can do things like move staves around and change actual printed fingering and bowing, which you can't do with a regular PDF file. A genuinely forward-looking move by Henle that in one step advances the music publishing business 300 years. I hope they do a huge business with it and win lots of rewards. It's that good. Show more

I also downloaded a violin piece (being a pianist) because I was trying to scroll and figure out my options. This kind of thing really does not leave a good first impression with a user. More user experience testing is called for here. Show more

Just glancing at the first screen, I see I have 50 credits, so I tap to look at the music, and voila, I have "spent" 50 credits on a Beethoven sonata for violin and piano. Well, no big deal, I think. Maybe Kate is studying this on violin, and I'll be ahead of the game by having looked thru the piano part. But, there's no piano part. Maybe I can try to adapt it for flute and get some use out of my sample. My experience has been abrupt. Should I come back? I wonder what the pricing is going to be. 50 credits sounds like something out of a space opera. Show more

The app itself is sleek and intuitive as far as design and function are concerned, but I was looking forward to a more extensive (read:existent) vocal music category. Nevertheless, I'm sure development is coming; I look forward to it! Show more