Amusing, but limited

Im not much of a musician, but Im enough of one to get tired of this app in a few minutes. I probably gave it an hour in total. At that point I felt like it didnt have much left to give. Its one bar, repeated over and over. Four instruments, four moods, a bit of messing with tempo. No, Im not expecting a massive mixer and zillion instruments and so on. But I found it simplistic. I tired of my own compositions quickly. I sorta laughed at the idea that Id want to save one, even the ones that I liked. Maybe Im just rubbish at composing good stuff with it. Heres an idea: preload it with a few demo songs.

I will give it this: the sounds are beautiful and the whole concept of moods is a good one. Theyve gone to a great deal of work to hide the complexity of constructing music and just let people fiddle with something that will always sound good. I am not surprised that lots of other folks like it. I found it was played out quickly, though.

I started this as a 2-star review, and then i picked up the app and messed with it a bit, to be sure I was remembering details correctly. The next thing I knew, I had made a song I liked. Still not good enough to save, but good enough to correct my rating from 2 to 3 stars. :)

PacoHope about Melodica