StaffPad
Music Notation and Composition
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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 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 €
StaffPad Essentials: Accordion
0,00 €

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4.08 out of 5

83 ratings in Germany

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Gut

Maxi von Heinz on

Erkennt manches nicht aber sonst gut

Das ist einfach nur schlecht im Vergleich zu NotateMe

Apwertz on

Leider stürzt mit dem Apple Pencil 2. Generation die Software reproduzierbar schon im Tutorial ab der 2. Lektion ab und im Editor beim Berühren der Notenzeile. Die Einstellungen des Pens funktionieren in jedem anderen Programm. Das ärgert mich sehr, denn das Programm NotateMe hat schlechtere Bewertungen, erkennt aber die handschriftlich eingegebenen Noten tausendmal besser! Schade…

Dafür das es nicht funktioniert ist es deutlich zu teuer

sonne44 on

Es hatte ein anderer Nutzer auch schon festgestellt, es funktioniert nich mit dem IPAD Pro 12.9 6te Generation. Es hängt sich nach paar Minuten direkt auf und startet mittlerweile auch gar nicht mehr 100 Euro für die Tonne !

Great app, with some imperfections

Rinoribo on

I’m using StaffPad mainly for transcribing music for small ensembles. Writing with the Apple Pencil 2 feels great and the app recognises almost everything precisely, even with my horrific handwriting. Only dynamics are really challenging to write. Sometimes I have to try 5-6 times in order to write a "PP" or "FF", because StaffPad would wrongly recognise a "sFz" or even tones, instead of what I’m writing. Other than that, I can write while travelling with the train and faster than on PC at home. The other functions are intuitive and the automatic layout and formatting work very well. Regarding the sounds: it needs lots of tweaking the automation in order for StaffPad to generate good audio, using the free samples. That’s a minus for me, as I use audio feedback mainly to detect wring notes and don’t care how beautiful it can sound. Dynamics are all over the place with instruments such as clarinet or flute. In this respect I liked basic synthesised sounds like the ones in the earlier Versions of Sibelius or MuseScore before the introduction of automation and more advanced MIDI parameters. BUT, if one has the patience for it, by tampering the right way you can really generate great previews of you music, so overall a good feature for compositors that still need to find people to play their pieces live and want to send good demos for competitions and stuff. Overall totally worth the 99€ if you’re looking for a reliable composition program on the go.

Viel zu teuer und nutzlos

Raul de Cervantes on

Eher eine Spielerei. Die Erkennung via Apple Pencil funktioniert sehr schlecht. Ist das Geld nicht wert!

hallo

rafael_m_k on

was ist das! alle meine kompositionen sind weg“ beim öffnen der app nur noch eiin schwarzer bildschirrm. bittte schenstmöglich beheben! das ist wirklich unglaublich!

Chords track feature

Nick Name 100001 on

They actively listen to recommendations. Earlier this year i was asking for chords above instrument staffs to be referenced from the dedidcated chords track. Without any auto chords involved. So that you can manually set changes for jazz and pop arrangements on the chords track but having them printed on every single instrument export. Regularly checked the release notes since then, but did not notice the feature in the list. Tried it again in app recently and it just works now as suggested. Thanks a lot!

Super aber ausbaufähig

nudjadjo on

Die App ist wirklich super ich vermisse jedoch ein paar Optionen zb eine Vorschau Option. denn nun muss ich immer exportieren um ein ganzes Blatt zu sehen und für Veränderungen wieder Zurücks ins Programm. Ich schreibe sehr viel für Klavier und stimme oder Violine. Es wäre toll wenn es eine Option gäbe die Noten Linien im schreibmodus untereinander zu anzuordnen . So als würde man auf einem Blatt schreiben und das man auch das Layout selbst beeinflussen kann.

schlecht

Willibald1956 on

Auch wenn meine letzte (negative) Rezension hier verschwunden ist (!) jetzt nochmal: Noteneingabe funktioniert viel zu oft schlecht, falsch oder garnicht. Teuer und inApp Kauf nötig um nur eine gewöhnliche Gitarrenstimme zu schreiben. Seitenansicht nicht verfügbar. Es gibt besseres.

Noteneingabe mit pen nicht möglich

HeiO63 on

Bitte unbedingt bug beheben. Habe die Möglichkeit der noteneingabe mit Stift nach 2 Stunden aufgegeben . Was im Tutorial zwar funktioniert haut später in der App nicht hin. Diese App ist deswegen für mich komplett unbrauchbar.

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App Info

Category
Music
Publisher
StaffPad Ltd
Languages
Portuguese, German, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Russian, Arabic
Recent version
1.6.4 (8 months ago )
Released on
Feb 4, 2020 (4 years ago )
Last updated
1 month ago