
However, if your scoring needs are complex and require things like drum notation, auto lyric spacing, complex signs and symbols, etc. If you’re looking for a handy way to jot some ideas, make notes for students or create student worksheets with professional-looking printed notation, NotateMe could be a perfect solution. Doesn’t yet understand dynamics and is lacking in articulations and some of the more complex features of music notation.Requires a stylus to be accurate (The Adonit Jot Pro is the stylus that I prefer to use).getting used to writing so that the software understands you can be awkward at first, but it does get better and the software ‘learns’ how to read your writing as you go) The only downsides I’ve found so far are that it: I primarily like Notion and Symphony Pro (with Notion now in front) for the ability to record in MIDI from a keyboard and convert it directly to notation. All have their advantages and disadvantages. The ones I’ve tended to use have been Symphony Pro, Notion (see my article: Notation for iPad just got easier with Notion) and now NotateMe. There have been a few apps around that can create notation on the iPad. Now it’s being released free with new iPhones and iPads! Notation software for iPad This complete multi-track recording bundle was almost inconceivable for most recording musicians 10 years ago. With the advent of the iPad, things that used to be out of the reach of the average student and teacher is now just a click away. I’m just old enough to remember when notation and recording software cost thousands of dollars, required huge processing power and memory and large desktop computers.


If you’ve ever been frustrated by the difficulty of using traditional notation software such as Finale or Sibelius, you are sure to like NotateMe.
