Melodics for iPad 4+

I was excited to see this app for iPad since I’ve been making music in BeatMaker 3. Unfortunately the tutorials make you use the same format as if you had a separate drum pad. So even though they tell you which pads to use, you’re forced into using a weird vertical layout during drumming unless you hook up another instrument. For a large iPad they should let you use a small on screen drum pad. My other complaint is the price. If this was $5-$10 bucks a month (not a yearly subscription) I wouldn’t mind but this combo means I won’t come back.

Melodics is a remarkable app. I do not write many reviews, and I do have a few minor criticisms. I’m giving it 5 stars because it is the most fun I’ve had on any kind of iPad app regardless of genre.

****** It is exactly what it claims to be, a skill enhancer. With a little instruction on the side, melodics will help you improve rapidly.

(I’ve spent much more time on the drums but recently I’ve been working on the piano as well)

My issues: Melodics does not work well when you use a Bluetooth connection and I’m not talking about the instrument. I connect the instruments directly to the iPad, and I connect the iPad to a speaker so I can try to hear the back tracks over the drums, and it just doesn’t work. For some reason the Bluetooth and midi interrupt each other. That really needs to be improved, I need to turn the drum volume very low to be able to hear the backtrack and drum over it.

In each lesson it has an option to listen to section before you play it. It doesn’t play, the samples do not work. They did at one time they haven’t for a while.

Now you get the desktop app also which is the better version.

Still it’s so much fun, I’m improving while teaching my daughters. It needs some patching , but I spend hours on melodics!

Current premium members like myself, were not notified of the changes coming to the app that would be permanent to our membership plans after we had already made payment for the upcoming year.

I’ve been using the app for a couple years now, and it’s been overall fun and all that was available at the time was to learn with the “old key experience.”

I had issues not being able to play certain songs with my premium membership. I reached out to the Melodics “team” multiple times and was told the “team” is working on it.

Two months later and I still cannot play the songs I paid for with my premium membership and then I’m made aware via email in January 2025 that the only way to play keys after February 2025 is to use the “new key experience”

It appears Melodics had no intention on fixing the songs I had issues with that comes with my premium membership.

I am currently waiting on a response from Melodics to explain to me how I am a valued customer because currently from what I have listed off it doesn't appear that way.