This is a must buy for iPad owners. The sounds are very nice, a little better than the non-garritan sounds finale comes with (smartmusic synth stuff).
Yeah, makemusic needs to get into the game. Do they have anything useful for ios out? They could easily do a smartmusic app for iOs...or at least like sibelius has done, a viewer app..... Sent from my iSomething -- Eric Dannewitz Musician/Polymath/Evil Genius http://www.ericdannewitz.com On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:02 AM, "David H. Bailey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just wanted to let the iPad users on this list know that Notion > Software has just released a brand new music notation product for the > iPad, Notion, which is a very robust product. It's got many of the > capabilities of their larger product for computers which has been on the > market for many years now, and it comes with fantastic instrumental > sounds included. I sure hope that Finale and Sibelius are paying > attention and are working on such software as well -- Notion can import > and export MusicXML files so it will be possible (although I haven't > tested it yet) to work on a file in Sibelius or Finale on the computer, > export as MusicXML and load that onto the iPad and continue working on > it while travelling and then export as MusicXML from Notion on the iPad > back to the computer for more work. > > They've got an introductory price of just $.99 -- after December 20th > the price will jump to $14.99. The product is much more like computer > notation products (Finale, Sibelius, Notion) than Symphony Pro (the > other very robust iPad music notation software product). To get a > complete set of sounds you need to spend an additional $29.99 but in my > opinion (as a working musician who is also a composer and arranger) it > is definitely worth the price. And for a total of only $30.98 I have > ended up with a fantastic app. > > It is a large download, though, runnning just around 1.9GB for the app > itself and then an additional 1.5GB to hold the additional sounds I > bought. It is possible to purchase just some additional sounds as > in-app purchases, but I figured I would bite the bullet and just buy the > whole thing right off the bat. > > Here's the link to the Notion software page about the new product: > http://www.notionmusic.com/products/notionipad.html > > You can get to the appstore page from that screen simply by clicking on > the "Available on the AppStore" link about half-way down the right hand > side of the screen (you'll most likely have to scroll to see it). > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
