My general inclination is to recommend Notion, as the app continues to improve, there are still big plans for the app, and quality sound playback is important to me. Noteflight does offer free subscriptions for a limited amount of use, and personal subscriptions for more intensive use. Noteflight offers educational packages (see Music First), Notion for iPad is available under educational pricing, and the Windows/Mac version is available as an affordable lab pack. I come from a Finale background, so Noteflight (just as with MuseScore and Sibelius) treats deleting notes in a way that I'm not accustomed to (you can't delete a note mid-measure, you have to go and change the value to what is correct), whereas Notion acts a bit more like Finale in this regard. For the record, MuseScore has a lot of customization available to the user as well. Finale and Sibelius are also comparable, but are the pro-level apps that offer nearly unlimited customization of scores (and of course, are in a completely different price category). I would compare Notion for the iPad to Notion 4 for Windows/Mac (the goal of the company is to have both products with all of the same core features, and then to upgrade the products together), or MuseScore (the free composition app for Windows, Mac, or Linux). Finale Notepad, of course, does not run on the iPad, so this would be an ideal place for MakeMusic to enter the iPad or HTML 5 notation market. It has enough power for most core K-12 (probably 6-12) educational composition needs. I would compare Noteflight to Finale Notepad, MakeMusic's free music composition product. When using an external MIDI instrument, Notion can record in real-time (this does not work with the onscreen keyboard).īoth products can import and export files as MusicXML files, so they can be brought into any modern music notation program. Notion has professional sounds from the London Symphony Orchestra, and using the iPad USB Camera Connection Kit, can be attached to a piano. Notion is an app that runs on the iPad and advanced notation features (more arriving on a regular basis). Noteflight also allows for sharing and teacher feedback. In a nutshell, Noteflight is a cloud-based HTML program that can be used for basic composition and playback, and on a computer, can be connected to a MIDI piano for keyboard entry. Both work on the iPad Noteflight can work on any Windows or Mac computer (I'm not sure about Android right now), while Notion is a $99 (a bargain) on Windows/Mac. My colleague Brandt Schneider ( Things to Come Blog) asked me about the differences between Noteflight and Notion (for iPad).
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