Whether there is truly a need for tempos faster than 208 is debatable, as one can always just sub-divide the beat. The metronome can be adjusted in tempo from 40 beats per minute up to 208 beats per minute. It can be toggled on and off, set to audible mode where each beat is only heard (and not seen), visual mode where the border of the pages pulsates in time, or a combination mode where both happen simultaneously. The application's built-in metronome has several modes of operation. The length could prove especially problematic during multiple page turns, though, such as during a long repeated section, a da capo, or a del segno. The speed of the animation is static: it does not change regardless of the speed of the swipe. Still, in our experience, there wasn’t any stuttering or any frame drops in the animation itself. The animation itself has a slight delay, one that may prove too long for some musicians. ForScore has a page-turn animation similar to Apple’s iBooks or the popular Classics for iPhone, where it looks as if the page is actually turning in a book. The motion in our tests was reliable, with the application responding the vast majority of the time. You can turn pages with the swipe of a finger across the screen this motion can be done from left-to-right or right-to-left to turn to the next or previous page. Music can be displayed in portrait or landscape orientation, but is fixed in size you cannot zoom in or out on a piece of music. Pages do have a slight light-to-dark gradient that some may find distracting, but from a purely aesthetic viewpoint, it works. The smallest fingering notations are visible without a problem. Notation is a reasonable reading size and is quite clear. The application is best described in the words of one App Store reviewer as "a PDF viewer with a metronome."įortunately, the music displayed in ForScore for iPad looks beautiful. The premise of digitized sheet music on the iPad is a popular one as of late, but unfortunately, it will remain little more than a premise until MGS provides a more feature-rich app or another company steps up to the plate. ForScore from MGS Development is a perfect example of an application that was rushed to completion to meet a hardware launch.
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