Just to clarify, I use EarMaster Pro almost exclusively for the rhythm exercises. I use my MIDI guitar in lessons on a daily basis with guitar students to practice rhythm reading/playing - but only EMP 5 is usable for me (and it is still by far the best software that I've found for rhythm exercises). Don't get me wrong - I very much like the new look of the interface and the resizability of the notation in EMP 6. I also like the idea of the addition of Melodic Sight Singing - if it was usable, I would be using this every day with students. But sadly - like the rhythm modules, it is not even close.
I've tried every possible configuration I can think of - working under the possibility that perhaps it is the fact that my laptop is too old - it is a 15 inch MacBook Pro from mid-2009 running a 3.06 GHz intel Core Duo with maxed out RAM (8GB). But something tells me it's not my computer (which is running great for every single one of my other apps) - this is partially because EMP 5 runs so great on my computer. Why in the world would EMP 6 be so unresponsive, glitchy, and unusable? It's just seems like such a waste to have such a great concept, with such a great looking interface, just to be basically unusable. The only thing that I am heartened by is that there seems to be many frequent updates to EMP 6.
In this regard, I am hoping this email is taken to heart and a big (I mean huge!!) effort is put toward getting EMP 6 working like EMP 5 - I'd like nothing better than to use and recommend the new version (oh, and I am indeed running the most recent build - downloaded tonight), but until the bugs are worked out, I will have to stick with EMP 5.
Please let me know if you would like video captures of just how unresponsive EMP 6 is for me. My main goal in this is trying to get the thing working - I'd be happy to hep in whatever way that I can. If there is something I can try or something that I've overlooked, please let me know.
Thanks.
