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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Muse Choir
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Muse Strings
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Muse Woodwinds
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Muse Percussion
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Retro Keyboards
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Toy Glockenspiel
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StaffPad Essential Guitars
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StaffPad Essentials: Accordion
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User Rating
4.18 out of 5
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Love the sounds! But would like more
Like the newly added features like being able to have a video track is really great, as well as now being able to import audio (though I think a more traditional way of moving the sound would probably be better in the future).
Would like some more diverse sound samples, the string orchestras and everything that is here is awesome but I'd rather have some more wind instruments like saxes (exotic, haha) than three+ violin libraries.
I'd also like if Staffpad would provide a tutorial on how you're supposed to input everything, the program got way more usable as soon as I understood that easiest way to write a quarter pause is to write an S. I remember Staffpad talking about how the program eventually learns how you write but I haven't really found that to be that true.
Frustrated
Promising app, which sadly more often than not leaves me frustrated. It crashes frequently on my 2018 iPad Pro (maybe works better with M1 iPads). And I get no flow in the handwriting. Luckily, they started adding support for keyboard and piano input, which will probably be a step forward. But still the app crashes on me all the time even just using the stock plugins. Overall, wasted money in my case and my impression is that the tech is too experimental and not enough developed for everyday customers. I find it hard to believe that there are any real composers who trust this app on a daily basis.
Amazing for score writing!
If you want to quickly write an arrangement that'll sound basically real without the fuzz of going trough Pro tools or Logic this is great! You can basically write the notes and the played result will sound really real with little to no automation. Would love for sax library, the staffpad stock one sounds good but not great. I heard there was a video playback as well in the works? This would make the app even better for scorewriting.
Again if you either want to create a quick and dirty arrangement for a band (the app is really targeted towards symphony orchestras) or maybe want to create a nice sounding score this is the best thing I've come across so far!
Recognizing handwriting is real bad
It’s the worst in recognizing my handwriting that I have seen. Totally worthless after hours of trying. Write in Sibelius or Finale instead. It will save you time even though those programs are harder to learn.
Completely useless
Doesn´t understand handwriting at all. I tried 12/8 time signature and it couldn´t understand a single note. I even copied the examples they have in the help file and it still didn´t read it. A waste of a lot of money. Don´t buy it until you've tried it for a while.
Brilliant!
It’s finally here! And it’s brilliant! I have a 2nd generation iPad Pro and I haven’t experienced many bugs. It works fine. I will use it a lot think.
I would prefer to have the option to work with a much simpler playback synth. When I work in Sibelius I use QuickTime as playback. I don’t like when the playback sounds are trying to sound “real” and all it does is sounding silly with tons of reverbs and bends. Please fix this!
Still, it’s a great app and I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Thank you!
