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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gefällt mir am Besten von allen Stift-Notations-Apps
StaffPad setzt meine Handschrift - im Vergleich zu Notion und NotateMe am Besten um. Leider - und das ist mein Frust als drummer und percussionist - gibt es Fähigkeiten / Funktionalitäten, die mir fehlen.
° drumset: alle Notenhälse gehen noch oben (Bsp.: Ich notiere 4x4Sechzehntel Hi-HatNoten und will danach an ausgewählten Zählzeiten Bassdrum und snaredrum dazu notieren….ohne dass ich genaue Notenwerte und Pausen notieren muss…)
° percussion: ich möchte mehr Klänge / Spielweisen bei verschiedenen Instrumenten haben (z.B. Cajon, Conga, Djembé,….) und möchte diese auch gleich ins ein-zwei-dreilinige Notensystem schreiben können…
Recognition of handwriting is really bad on ipad
Ihave recently purchased staffpad. The idea of your software is cool. But the main thing, the recognition of musical handwriting is really deplorable. Try to improve that! Instrad of include more fancy. stuff like audio and elastic time etc. Try really to improve the recognition of handwriting, or if you dont manage, include a tool where you chose the note length and tip in the score to set the note where one wants it. Also you really should offer a demo version for customers to try before buy! It was eg impossible to write a sixteenth note a eight note and a sixtenth note under one stem!!!
Useless
Only works for very basic stuff. If you have something slightly complex , forget it. Example : a group of 4 16th notes , but one of them is a 16th rest. Impossible. And there are tons of examples. Do not waste your money.
Amazing even for an Amateur
I don‘t know a lot about writing scores. But this is by far the most convenient and intuitive app I used for score writing. Everything just makes sense. Thanks a lot to the developers!
Not happy anymore ;(
It’s not the quickest way to write. I was so excited to get this app but now I get more and more disappointed. I thought it could be better with time but not…
They never respond to my questions. Many times I had to find some solutions myself.
For Handwriting Musical Notes: Take this!
As far as I know, there are 3 Apps on the entire App Store that are still - at least - kinda updated and support handwriting recognition:
Notion, Symphony Pro 5 and Staffpad. The problem here is, that just „supporting“ handwriting recognition does not make it a great handwriting app. And it really shows!
While Symphony Pro 5 tries to make it a main feature, but ultimately fails in proper workflow and actual good recognition, Notion makes you pay for a feature hidden in different menus which you’d have to go through every single time you changed to another tool. In the end you‘ll just end up not using that feature at all, since it‘s just not practical and really isn‘t fleshed out in terms of recognizing stuff.
And no, I‘m not trying to say, that those two apps are bad note taking apps. You can very much compose stuff in them and they each are good in their own things.
If handwriting is not that important to you, you could just as well go get a completely different app. But if you really are keen on it: Staffpad is genuinely the only option at the moment! It really is a brilliant app! It was purely made for handwriting and it works amazingly. There are close to no flaws with this app and with the crazy sounds it comes with (and the ones it delivers as part of In-App-Purchases at a very fair prize) it really elevates the way I compose music. It really feels like an Orchestra is playing those exact notes I just wrote and it‘s breathtaking.
And yes, I know, looking at the price it looks high for an iPad App, but it IS worth every cent. Trust me I have bought and tried all three of these recently mentioned Apps and I‘m sad that I didn‘t go for Staffpad in the first place since I cannot refund the In-App-Purchases of the other two apps, so I lost around 25 bucks for nothing at all.
Nice App
Great App, unfortunately not yet fully developed.
The erasing of a notes or element does not work with the pen as shown in the video. The markings still remain after crossing out.
Rivoluzione nella scrittura musicale
Questa applicazione offre delle possibilità incredibili: una scrittura su rigo tradizionale, una riproduzione sonora di alta qualità, grazie alle Librerie orchestrali dei migliori produttori (orchestral tools, spitfire, cinesamples). Una meraviglia.
