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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StaffPad Essential Guitars
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User Rating
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Add pitch correction for recording audio file, insertion of New bars, High level mixing facility.
1) Please provide pitch correction for audio voice in recording time that should be interms of staff notes adjustment on staves. So that it is very easy to correct the pitch of recording voice. It is very important feature if you will provide.
2) Hello staffpad, Please provide new bar insertion in the middle of music composition. When did music composition at particular bar I want to add or insert new bar. If you provide this feature then no need of swap out and swap in between two tracks or staves. Thank you.
3) can I use this software for feature films for music composition .
please give me clarification about this software.
4) provide music mixing facility in High level quality
Pros and Cons
Very good software, except the fact that the flaws like
1. chords in pdf appear all together on one odd bar like a mess. That’s intolerable.
2. The choir patches (of StaffPad) that is downloadable within the software is messy in tempos above andante. The quavers and semiquavers are not heard distinctively and too much of reverb and release is too long. Tough for me to compose Choral arrangements for such tempos. Been writing mails since long, please fix it!!
Pressure eraser issue
I never needed an iPad, except specifically for StaffPad. I got to say, I’m really disappointed. A lot of free apps make it easier to write notes.
The tutorial says “slightly push the eraser to activate eraser mode”. Nope, it doesn’t work that way, at least for me. I have to push the pencil really hard to make it work. Even writing the notes doesn’t work that easy for me. Makes me wonder if I bought the right stuff…
Bad update
The sounds were much better before the upgrade…the dynamics is really bad…. Please fix asap
Add video track
Hi , StaffPad developer. Please add video track for importing video …I want to compose background score for the vedio. It is very easy to write or compose notation for films. Please provide this feature in next StaffPad update and iam eagerly waiting for this feature. Thanks to StaffPad developer.
Brilliant
I bought an iPad just for this program. My handwriting gets recognised easily. Had issues with the eraser, but double tapping on pencil 2 solved it.
I wish to see more good upgrades for this software.
Definitely recommended 👍
Not great
It’s just not great. The software just gets in the way all the time. It isn’t well optimised and it doesn’t live up to what it says it is.
I’ve used note taking apps that take your handwriting and convert it into digital text I was able to use that without thinking about the software. Can’t do that with this.
The eraser function requires me to press so hard on the screen with the pencil I’m scared I might damage it. Lots of small things like that are just constantly getting in the way.
They’ve talked a big game but sadly it falls flat when you use it. Right now it’s not worth it.
