StaffPad - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

MADE FOR COMPOSERS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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In-Apps

Muse Harp

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Muse Keys

$0.00

Muse Brass

$0.00

Muse Choir

$0.00

Muse Strings

$0.00

Muse Woodwinds

$0.00

Muse Percussion

$0.00

Retro Keyboards

$0.00

Toy Glockenspiel

$0.00

StaffPad Essential Guitars

$0.00

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User Rating

4.22 out of 5

58 ratings in Canada

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Reviews

Good but few flaws

StaffPad have few bugs and I had to restart the software many times especially when I want to insert a new bar. Also, the playback quality is not good with some wind instruments and make a weird noise But overall it’s a good tool

Tremendously Unintuitive

The concept is fabulous, and it looks lovely. The playback sounds is also much better than many other apps out there. However, it’s so unintuitive that I won’t use it, I’d rather use pen and paper and it actively makes me not want to transcribe. It just doesn’t work for me and I wish I hadn’t bought it - way too expensive for something I don’t use.

Best !

After one week, I realize this app is the best to write sheet fast. Thanks StaffPad !

Works as advertised

I had trouble writing music in Notion so I got StaffPad. Infinitely easier to predictable results writing music in StaffPad. There is a learning cure but I was up and running in about 2 hrs. Really like the sound fonts and that you can import and export your music to other programs.

Poor recognition

3 stars for the idea, 0 for the software development. The playbacks are also awful compared to how expensive they are sold.

Constantly crashes

It has the potential for greatness but it constantly crashes when I try to lock in my notes. I’m not writing some complicated masterpiece either. This is only the second bar of my first score in the app but I can’t get past it no matter what I try. It hard crashes the app every time. This is on a 2018 iPad Pro (which was getting very hot while using this app by the way).

Cross staff notation

Will you guys ever add cross-staff notation?

Great potential!!

This app is truly amazing for a musician on the go. I would love to see more options like being able to switch to a ‘’page view’’ and to choose the exact number of measures per system (instead of selecting a number that automatically applies on all systems). When creating a PDF, I also think that it would be great to have the ability of leaving some measures completely empty (without silences) for musicians to write their own notes, if needed. I have zero problem with the hand writing recognition! Obviously, this app isn’t as complete as softwares like Finale but it has great potential and I am eager to see future updates 😃

Best Software for Composers!!!!!!!

This is the best software hands down for composers who studied music counterpoint orchestration etc.. The orchestral tools libraries are so expressive they sound real. I have stopped using Cubase for orchestral compositions. The difference is day and night. I'm using staffpad with the new M1 ipad Pro 12.9 inch and the 11 inch iPad pro from 2020. It works equally good. A great achievement in music. Congrats to the developers.

A bit frustrating but great support

It took quite some time for me to get the hang of this app and to be honest I was quite frustrated at first. I have to say that the support team were quick to get back to me and I have since come to really appreciate the app for what it’s trying to do.

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