Symphony Pro app review: compose complex orchestrations, lead sheets, chord charts, and guitar tabs on our iPad 2021

Introduction

Whether you’re a mini Mozart, wannabe Wagner, or junior Jimmy Page, you’ll find everything you need in this powerful iPad app for musicians to compose some of the most intricate and authentic-sounding orchestrations ever heard before on a mobile device.

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This really is a very powerful music composing app for iPhone designed for composers and musicians. I’m especially pleased to see that guitar tab is also supported in addition to standard notation because it makes the more lazy guitarists such as myself very happy indeed!

Let's see all that this good app for music has to offer as we examine it further in our Symphony pro app review.

Enjoy Absolute Freedom of Expression

Symphony Pro provides a whopping 114 built-in instruments, up to 15 of which can be used across 45 staffs within a single composition. This is more than enough to create some complex orchestrations with very little difficulty.

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As I mentioned in the introduction, you can also compose your pieces using guitar tablature, meaning that you can easily write less contemporary music while still being able to comprehend the notation being used.

That is, of course, unless you’re not lazy (like me), and have actually taken the time to learn standard notation!

Import and Export Your Compositions With Ease

You can record directly into the app by using any of the instruments or a Core MIDI instrument, or alternatively you can import tracks in MusicXML, MIDI, MXL, and Symphony file formats. This is also useful for importing sections of music that you’ve written in other Symphony projects.

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The potential is here to create some very expressive music with a great deal of freedom and features such as glissando notes, key and signature changes, clef changes, double barlines, and much more.

You can also add chord symbols, lyrics, and notes at any point on your scores before exporting them as a PDF document, so this is awesome for music teachers or orchestra conductors who want an easy way of getting the perfect sound out of their students and musicians.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Features a whopping 114 different instruments
• Arrange up to 15 instruments, 45 staffs, and four voices/layers in a single composition
• Easily add a time or key signature change, clef change, repeat, alternate ending, and more with simple gesture-based controls
• Create your own custom project template or use a built-in template
• Record a part with low latency with a built-in instrument or a connected Core MIDI instrument
• Add chord symbols, lyrics, and notes to your scores
• Loop specific sections of compositions to get the exact sound you’re looking for
• Frequently auto-saves so that you never lose your work
• Provides a built-in manual to get you up to speed in no time at all
• Export your compositions in PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, AAC, and Symphony file formats
• AirPlay is fully supported

Cons                                 

• There is nothing negative to say about this app

Final Words

If you’re looking for a comprehensive and easy-to-use utility for composing and recording music then you really do need to check out Symphony Pro because it provides an incredible level of functionality with just about everything you could possibly hope to find in an iPhone and iPad app of this kind.