Partifier: extract score parts

There is always a reason why you don’t see reviews on YouTube on an app. In this case, it a great idea, but thats as far as it goes. When you’re done extracting the parts your chart looks like you cut the parts with a scissor and glued them to sheet of paper. Also, you have to be aware of how many measures you copy or else you end up with portrait layout. There is a lot of room for improvement. I would not recommend this app, maybe in a few years. Don’t be fooled by the video, its not as easy as it seems.

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.

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