ScoreCloud Studio 4+

I just started using this program to compose with, bought a month of PRO, and it seems to work great when in composing mode, using my keyboard to input, but when I want to import a midi file that I have already, it refuses to play and keeps telling me the audio is not running. I restart it, get the green light, click play.. and nothing. Clicking play again tells me that audio is not running. I’m using a Yamaha bluetooth MD-BT01 device on my keyboard to connect to my Mac, and it connects just fine. Seems worthless once I have a composed piece in sheet music view, and it won’t play at all. Perhaps it just doesn’t have any support for 64-bit Midi over a bluetooth connection.

During MIDI capture, the app seems too difficult to control. The version provided on the app store becomes stuck during transcription leaving force-quit as the only way to stop it from flashing the last transcribed stuck note. Instrument selections should have been persistent, but they were not.

Paying up front for an app is better than the surprise that a monthly subscription is the only way to unlock the features that make it usable.

Settings for MIDI IN, MIDI OUT, MIDI Thru, and audio out should all be obvious and readily accessible at all times.

I have had none of the user problems reported in the reviews. I have entered over 600 songs in my library with only an occassional compromise, usually because I hadn't read the help topics yet (scroll thru tips - readily available on the right side of the manuscript screen).

I read music (know where the notes are on the staff), but I'm not a trained or formally educated musician. I just put the notes in from my computer keyboard, or point and click - it's not difficult.