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Version 5 brought professional sound quality, PDF vector support, Handwriting Recognition, and made SP available on iPhone as a univeral app.

Version 6 brings an even more intuitive & customizable interface, customizable score layout, new & improved gestures, free-hand annotations, as well as important bug fixes and usability improvements, that together make SP more reliable than ever before. Now available on macOS, starting with the latest (Apple M1) generation of macOS devices. Click here for a basic summary of Version 6.

Handwriting with Apple Pencil

Swift & seamless with Apple Pencil to write or edit, and now supports touch and capacitive stylus. As the only paid feature in Symphony Pro, the upgrade is a one-time purchase with free updates in the future.

Instantly convert pen strokes into all fundamental note objects, including stems, rests, beams, ties, and augmentation dots
Lasso selection of notes and other musical elements
Common articulations and phrase marks
Tuplets and meter changes
Edit using any of the existing touch-based interactions & gestures with the feature enabled

Playback & MIDI

Professionally sound-designed replacements to 36 of the orchestral, wind, and drum set instruments, as well as the piano
Bluetooth MIDI devices can now be connected with the app by navigating to Playback Options > MIDI / Recording Options > MIDI Connections > Bluetooth Setup
When starting playback mid-score, preceding score dynamics & tempo changes (i.e. crescendi, metronome marks) are now pre-simulated, meaning the performance is always consistent no matter where you begin playback

Tap any location on score to reposition playback cursor in real-time
MIDI Import Options: dialog to customize how to interpret a MIDI file into notation. (Appears at start of import process)
- Note values imported correctly
- All instrument channels imported correctly
Improved expression playback, including tremolo, trill, glissando, crescendo, and more

Score Expressions

Customize Rehearsal Mark text: just double-tap the label in the score, then choose Edit Section Text
As a fun extra, you can now double-tap many of the existing expressions in SP, then choose the 'Playback' menu item to customize the dynamic or other playback qualities such as tempo.
Glyph typography updates, with Bravura as SP's standard font model

Score layout & Notation

View & edit the with infinite vertical scrolling. To enable, go under Score Menu > Score View Mode
Use the Select Special dialog to filter desired dynamics/articulations or chord symbols/text elements within a Region Selection (illustrated)
Edit the typeface/font of chord symbols and lyrics by selecting either element, then choosing the ‘Font’ or ‘Typeface’ menu item
Customize vertical and horizontal page margins by going to Score > Display Settings > Page Sizes > Margins
Staff Side Panel can now be found in any of the three Score View Modes

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Read about earlier features offered free out-of-the-box.

In Version 5, Handwriting is the only In-App Purchase to enable the complete app, and we're offering the Version 4 Complete Features Bundle as a free IAP.

New in Version 4

New in Version 3

Symphony Pro: now available on iPhone and macOS with Apple Silicon

Symphony Pro is a universal app. Owners of Symphony Pro can download SP on iPhone free of charge by visiting Symphony Pro on the App Store from iPhone. Supports all of the editing, playback, and viewing capabilities of Symphony Pro on iPad and iPad Pro.

For a simpler scoring and playback app for iPhone only, visit symphonypro.net/iphone or the App Store page for more details.

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Handwriting with Apple Pencil

Playback & MIDI

Score Expressions

Score layout & Notation

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Read about earlier features offered free out-of-the-box.

Symphony Pro: now available on iPhone and macOS with Apple Silicon

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