Tonic Music 12+

This app is the best way to practice. It keeps me motivated and consistent with my practicing. It has improved so much. The idea is brilliant and the execution of the idea has been an amazing experience! I’ve had such a great experience using this app. I think every music student should use it! Not only does it help with practicing but the community within the app is something that is so precious to me. Being able to chat with and listen to other users practice is an amazing experience. I was one of the early users and it changed a lot but it’s been a really great experience! I’m not really one to write reviews but I want the creators/developers to know what a great job they’ve been doing! I love Tonic!

I really love this app. It’s incredible to have the opportunity to interact with THE Ray Chen! I learn & it’s motivating. I love the challenges. Everyone is always encouraging & positive.

The only suggestion is making a rule for during open studios for people not to engage in their own personal side-bar conversations in chat. When Ray Chen has open studios, the same group of people use his open studio as their personal group chatroom & it really takes away from the experience. I have to sift through a bunch of unrelated personal messages to get to people’s comments & questions about Ray’s playing. It makes it harder to engage with Ray & makes it more difficult to get a chance for him to see a new person’s comment or question. & frankly I don’t want to read about people’s personal lives when having the chance to interact with Ray Chen. (I’m sure Ray doesn’t care to read about it either, mid-practice, when he’s sharing his time with us.) Maybe limit the amount of times someone can send a message in a period of time (or open a chat feature on the app where people can talk in private). Something!

Thank you! Again, I love the app.

I’ve been logging my practice pretty consistently since I started using this app recently. I like the concept but it needs some improvements. Here are my thoughts.

- The minimum practice time per session to start logging XP should be limited to once per day. If someone is practicing in chunks throughout the day instead of one practice straight through, it punishes the user by removing the XP from those minutes of practice each time they start a session. I know there is a little break button, but that doesn’t work if I want to take longer break and come back. Just reset the minimum daily.

- Unlocking a new room shouldn’t put you back to a bare room with just a floor. There should be some sort of middle ground if you have graduated from one room and are unlocking another so it doesn’t feel like you are starting from the beginning each time.

- I requested a work/piece be added to the app a few weeks ago and still have yet to see it. I’m not sure what the timeline is on getting works approved but it’s too long currently. If someone is working on an etude, they would have already moved on before it was even added to the app. An option to type in the work would fix this and many less people would have “just jamming” on their sessions.

It’s also unclear how to get some of the color modifiers for the rooms, but I may have just missed that.

I hope the developers read these and consider these improvements which would greatly help the app!