App Profile: Partifier: extract score parts

OldGuyNotByChoice

Rating: 3/5

This could be a very useful app with a bit more polish. For one, the zoom feature needs to be customizable and saveable in the app preferences (of which there are none). As is, the (one-step, non-scalable) zoom extends the window far beyond the score, covering other apps that might be useful for the job at hand. Secondly, there needs to be a better way to navigate parts. It does not seem intuitive to me that a part I have parsed should disappear when I select another part to work on from the menu. I often added parts on top of previous (hidden) parts, when I only wanted to select that other part to see what I had done. Perhaps a "view all parts" toggle? Score scaling and stave separation for the extracted parts work fine. But a menu bar, or persistent dialog box would be nice. But...getting used to the program, I find it workable to parse out parts for our quartet from a full score. I hope my comments make sense. Thanks

Zenbobby

Rating: 4/5

There’s no denying that this app fills a gap that was left by the inimitable partifi.org, and I’m very appreciative that it exists! Yes, some of the interface is unintuitive, and the documentation is not as helpful as it might be, but overall it is functional and some elements of the process I actually prefer to the old partifi! Some notes: - there is (as of this writing) no undo – however, right-click (or ctrl-click) is your friend and brings up a menu to, for example remove a staff that you accidentally added. - I have found that the easiest method for adding and resizing staves is to click to add a staff, click and drag to position the top where you want it, and then adjust the height by dragging the dot on the lower left of the staff box - right-clicking a staff is also how you get to add bar numbers (“first bar of the staff”) - in the three dots menu on the top of the main score view, “copy,” “paste,” “paste to all remaining pages,” and “remove” refer to the staff selection, while “copy to all” refers to the bar numbers you’ve added to one part - “paste to all remaining pages” was a bit buggy for me when using it for more than one part at a time, but YMMV Again, I’m very grateful that this exists, and I hope that over time the developers keep refining it (and truly, and undo feature is sorely lacking, especially if you change your mind after deleting or resetting something!)

Global Business Traveler

Rating: 1/5

For some reason, this app does not work on my MacBook Pro. I was even on the phone with Apple tech support and we found that when you open the app, you cannot upload a PDF into it. The option to “Open” is grayed out and you can’t select it. Strangely, the app works on my iPhone. However, it is completely impractical to work on a conductor score on a tiny screen. Because it is so small I can’t use the app properly. Please upgrade to work on laptop and desktop Macs.