United StatesMADE FOR COMPOSERS ------------------------- StaffPad is designed for composers who want to write music effortlessly, using music notation and audio. Write your music using Apple Pencil, and the app will transform your writing into beautifully typeset notation that can be edited, played back, printed and shared. Record or import audio directly onto your score and edit it intuitively with Apple Pencil. Magically convert your real piano playing or existing recordings into notation using advanced on-device machine learning. Add video, smart symbols and use world leading sample libraries and mix your score with a suite of studio effects. From basic idea to a full film score; StaffPad is the easiest, most powerful and most intuitive way to compose music on iPad. WRITE NATURALLY ------------------- Write your score with the fluidity of natural handwriting. Use touch and Apple Pencil to quickly edit your notation. Transpose, repeat and structure your score with intuitive gestures and tools. Customise the tempo with a unique tempo staff (or import a tempo map from a MIDI file), add chords either manually or automatically with the chord staff. You can even copy music written in StaffPad into other apps, simply using the normal copy and paste functions. HEAR YOUR MASTERPIECE ---------------------------- With a groundbreaking playback engine and over 55 included instruments, StaffPad is ready to perform your written piece instantly. Add industry-standard sample libraries, adapted and customised for StaffPad, from some of the world's leading sample developers. This is a leap forward for composers working at the highest levels. SHARE WITH SCORESYNC --------------------------- Once you're ready to perform or record your work, tap the ScoreSync button in StaffPad and your score is instantly shared across a Wi-Fi network to any device running the free StaffPad Reader app (available in the App Store). The Readers present each individual musical part beautifully formatted, update in realtime with any changes you make to your score, handle automatic page turns, and play back in perfect time with a synchronised metronome, for capturing the perfect recording every time. IMPORT AND EXPORT --------------------------- StaffPad imports and exports MusicXML and MIDI files for easily working with other music apps. You can also export your playback as WAV, AAC or MP3. You can import audio files into your score, with support for most major audio formats. WORK WITH AUDIO AND VIDEO -------------------------------- For the first time, you can seamlessly mix audio with your notated score. Record directly onto the score canvas using your device's in-built microphones, or import loops, Tempo map freeform/rubato performances using the tempo staff. Add shine to your production with a suite of studio quality DSP effects, and polish with precise automation. PIANO AND MIDI CAPTURE --------------------------- Record your real piano and convert it into notation. Don't have a real piano? Don't worry - you can connect a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard and record your performance in realtime, converting to notation as you play. PRINT / PDF ------------ As well as digital parts via ScoreSync, StaffPad will automatically format and print parts or export PDFs for you. Customise the paper size, bar number styles, number of bars per line, scaling, margins, multi-bar consolidation and more. StaffPad automatically formats the score for consistent presentation.
Frustrating view
I wish the staff wouldn’t be one continuous line but would shift down like a true page of music. I am writing for one instrument but cannot see the whole page because it is this super long line that scrolls left and right not up and down like my page of music. I can’t see my beginning to end on one page. Ugh!
United StatesWhat happened?
Trabajé durante alrededor de cuatro años muy contento con StaffPad. La escritura es fantástica: rápida y precisa. Los sonidos incluidos eran maravillosos, pero de repente, tras alguna actualización ha ocurrido algo con ellos, y todas las obras con las que había estado trabajando horas y horas ahora suenan totalmente distintas.
United StatesSo much potential but...
The musical notation handwriting recognition is rather awful. Just try making a quarter note into an eighth or sixteenth and see what happens: the program assumes you're trying to create an entirely different note. My handwriting isn't great but easily half of the time, or more, that I write a note, the program either can't recognize it at all. The only reason that I'm not asking for a refund right away is that I don't know any other program that let's me use the apple pencil to handwrite notes. I just wish that writing by hand in StaffPad was almost as simple as writing on paper. Right now, it's a far cry from. I spend more time fighting the program than my music.
United StatesREALLY great app!
I just got this app a few months ago, and at first I thought it wasn’t worth 90 bucks. But after learning how to get used to the writing, it became second nature, and it was very fun. Sometimes it would have a hard time recognizing dynamic markings and articulations. But I could work with it. The most recent update had audio and midi recording for piano. I couldn’t believe it. I have a TransAcoustic Yamaha piano, so I tried the midi function, and I was blown away. I could record almost a whole song in music NOTATION in a couple minutes. I mean, imagine what Chopin could do with that. I also tried the piano recognition, which just records plain audio and not midi notes, that function didn’t work so well for me. But if your thinking of buying this app. I think its WORTH it. It might take some practice if you’re coming from musescore like me, but is overall an excellent app.
United StatesSo disappointed. Basically useless to me
I was excited to learn this app was part of the MuseScore family. I was surprised at the steep price, but took the chance, because I really wanted a music notation app I could use on my iPad that had handwriting recognition. For piano notation, I’ve had nothing but frustration. I cannot get it to cooperate with proper piano notation, even utilizing more than one voice. It won’t let me decide where the stems will go so things make sense and for readability. As for brass quintet, it only has one choice for a preset template, which is 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and bass trombone (instead of tuba) and in the score they’ve put the horn on TOP. If you want to choose individual brass instruments, there’s a choice for Trumpet in C, but not a choice for Trumpet in Bb. The choice for “Horn” is singular, but “Trombones” is only available as a plural. Unless you want “Trombone in Bb’, and I don’t know why you would. Why on earth isn’t the default Brass Quintet template what most people see all the time? Trumpet I (in Bb), Trumpet 2 (in Bb), Horn in F, Trombone, & Tuba. In that order, top to bottom. I tried using what I could find, and then tried to see if I could edit it later once the score was set up. I couldn’t change anything. Maybe I just can’t figure it out, but I have been stumped at every turn even with things that should be simple. For an app that had such a high price point, from a well-known group, I really was hoping for something that made more sense and was capable of handling the notation I needed to do.
United StatesDoes not work with other stylus pens.I need my money back
No where did I see that I need to use a genuine Apple Pencil. I have a inexpensive stylus pen that works with all my other apps. Very disappointing.I was so ready to give his a try. There isn’t even a trial period to know that you can only use a genuine Apple Pencil. Buyer be ware.
United StatesIntegration with MuseScore (Mouse & Keyboard, MSCZ Format Support)
I love using StaffPad, it’s the most powerful composing tool for use on the go, especially with the new Muse Sounds library. There are plenty of times where I wish I could use a keyboard and mouse system like I do with other platforms like MuseScore (especially native mscz format). I know the whole purpose of StaffPad being made for writing by hand, but using a mouse and keyboard (with keyboard shortcuts) is often faster for larger scale scores and less cumbersome than going back to fix writing mistakes by hand. This is just an opinion though, StaffPad is a fantastic platform and I’m happy to use it! You guys are doing an awesome job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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This update contains fixes and enhancements - Fixes a problem with display of tuplets when using Piano Capture - Fixes an issue with the Muse Solo Cello - Fixes an issue that could affect playback if a tempo point was created at the very end of the score - Eliminates clicks/artifacts that could sometimes be present in score audio export. - Fixes an issue with symbol placement above the stave in certain situations. - Improved the way that instrument changes are represented in the "ghost staff" - i.e when scrolling past the initial instrument name - Fixed an issue that can cause the score to continue playing even after the document has been closed - Fixed some silent notes that could occur when using the built-in Oboe sound
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