It allows real-time selection of multiple video and audio tracks, along with an automatically synchronized score and graphical note-by-note visualization of each piece as it is played.
[1] The Orchestra introduced a number of innovative features that have since become trademarks of Touch Press apps.
The BeatMap is an innovative visualization of the performances that shows different sections of the orchestra pulse in time with the music.
The app also uses 3D rotational photography of the different instruments, a technique that Touch Press first brought to the iPad in 2010 with "The Elements.
[3] The Orchestra received very positive reviews upon release, with Shane Richmond describing the app in a 5 star review for The Daily Telegraph as, “informative and also hypnotic,” and later stating, “With "The Orchestra," Touch Press has made what might be its first app that could not exist in any other form.”[4] Slate called "The Orchestra," “a flat-out astounding new app,”[5] and The Guardian described it as, “a fantastically immersive experience that creates…something new in the field of classical music interactivity.”[6]