Stop second guessing my every entry!

This things seems cool, but Holy Hannah! From the first 5 minutes I was getting frustrated because it was impossible to add a dotted half note. The app insisted on adding two dotted quarter notes tied together instead. No matter what I did, it knew best, and the more I tried to get it to just add the dotted half, the more it would start tying things to previous measures and “correcting”measures I already had the way I wanted them.

Also, all these toolbars and not a single one that was obvious for tying two notes together. It seemed to have no problem doing that itself, but I could not find the option. Also, “play” did not work. Finally, this whole idea of auto adding rests after every note to make up the remainder of the measure could not be more annoying. Just let me write the music for crying out loud and stop trying to second guess my every intention. So far, the app has NEVER guessed correctly, which makes what the developers probably think is a nice helpful feature a MAJOR obstacle.

This app may shine in transcribing what you play/sing (I didn’t try it), but as a pure score entry system, I cannot imagine a more frustrating 30 minutes of my life. Scored 3 stars because I did not try all features and based on other reviews it appears to have its purpose.

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