StaffPad The BEST Composing Application on Tablets?

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Table of Contents:
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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Design
1:34 - Transitioning From Sibelius
2:14 - Tablet vs Desktop
2:40 - Sample Packs
2:59 - Sound Comparison
4:34 - Applications and Use Cases
5:50 - Writing Music By Hand
6:11 - StaffPad Reader
7:31 - Lead Sheets
8:26 - The Cons
9:46 - Pricing
10:55 - Should You Buy StaffPad

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[giomendoza]

You just made make a personal budget to get both an Ipad and staff pad! The fact that those awesome libraries can be used, and how you can write music—as with paper and pen—plus the quality of the sounds and the capability of adding mp3 and creating the music over it is just fascinating! Thanks for sharing, It's what many musicians have been dreaming about!

[frenchmusictheorist]

Thank you for the video! I've just ordered a surface to compose with staffpad... I can't wait to try it!

[atimholt]

I just bought this on the Surface Pro—it’s $50 off at the moment. The app actually came out for the Surface Pro before the iPad, since it requires a pen. I chuckled a bit to myself when you mentioned the dichotomy between tablet and desktop, since I don't have to worry about that.

[NeedyForMusic]

It's amazing for transcribing on the fly. Especially in jam sessions etc. I almost never use pen and paper anymore.

[angelosanti]

I totally agree with you about Sibelius! I would add that the same lack of care for maintaining/updating their software applies to AVID the company as a whole. Everything I've used that is made by AVID has been way behind the curve and most of the time gave me little to no hope that it would be any different in the future. I have had to stop using hardware I bought because they, for years, did not try to catch up with their software/drivers which rendered the products nearly useless. I write this comment in hopes of deterring people from buying any of their products and having to go through the many headaches that go along with them. Paying customers deserve more, especially at the prices they ask for. That's my opinion. Maybe I'm alone in this but I think not.

[amw]

I am so excited to have found your channel! For the last few years I thought I was the only person using my iPad on stage and in multiple groups (including a jazz band and wwind for pit orchestras) and being a composer who is responsible for creating lead sheets for an integrated rock band with professionals and musicians with disabilities. I need to change keys and write out parts, sometimes on the fly, and in the format most appropriate for a particular person’s disability. The information you share is extremely helpful and I can’t wait to download Staffpad on my iPad Pro (you need one of these 😉) and get to work! I hope the files migrate with Finale as well as they do with Sibelius! Thank you for all the great info!! Keep it coming!

[mikaelsc]

4:26 “...it just sounds awful! “ Well said!

[cammillar]

Excellent observations, and still totally valid a few years later. I'm like you, long time Sibelius user, and I agree that StaffPad shouldn't try to 'replace' Sibelius a desktop notation program....it's a great additional composing tool for composers/arrangers who are ultimately working with live musicians. I agree with everything in your video now that I'm very familiar with StaffPad, and the handwriting recognition will continue to improve in recognizing certain little things that can slow you down. But, all in all, it's utterly amazing and is the standard-bearer for what it does on a tablet. Thanks for the channel!

[angeltarpov]

I would strongly recommend the composition Notion that the composer Essa Pekka Salonen created ! Also incredible !!!

[ignaciogianola]

Thank you for the information! Your videos are very helpfull. Is this program usefull for writing didactic music books? O is it only for composers? Thank you.

[maxalaintwo]

Bruh imagine just *asking* Staffpad a review for free in the good faith that you'll review it. I gotta do that for Orchestral Tools lmao

[visualride-davidcox]

Worth every penny...and my budget is extreeemly limited. I just spent the past year saving for an iPad just for this app. It's not perfect and not for everyone. For instance, it doesn't include guitar sounds, but you can buy a guitar sound pack for $20...though it's still not that great. As a piano player, I like the stock piano, but StaffPad screwed up the grace note function, so I have to manually set the timing of notes to accommodate for these notes. Most of the people using Staffpad on the forums are expert orchestral composers, which is a real inspiration in learning this kind of music, but if you are not into that kind of music, you are extremely limited on the number of people and YouTube videos for help. With all that said, I still love it. I've written out dozens of my piano scores into StaffPad and really enjoy adding extra elements such as Cello (I bought the excellent Tina Guo Cello set), or bongo drums (I bought the most awesome CinePerc set for this). Now I'm able to customize my sheet music with accompaniments such as I've always wanted and use it as nice playable music whenever I want it, and edit it when I want as well.

[BrunoHollemaertGoodall]

Very clear vidéo, thanks. Have a question. I m looking for exactly the same Kind of app with the possibility to add your own plugins in it. Any ideas? Thanks again ❤

[KitCatStudio]

I’m looking for an app to write drum parts for my students. Right now this is the only serious app I’ve found for iPad. How good is the drum notation system on Staffpad? Tnx for the vid!

[VerkholatSerafima]

Thanks for the detailed description.

I watched your video, got inspired and bought the staffpad app for my iPad.

But as soon as I started work, I immediately met two problems. And now I really hope that you can help me.

1. Please tell me how I can move the cello position above the piano in the score. Now I am writing an arrangement for saxophone, cello and piano. I faced such a problem when the saxophone was placed on the first line, the piano was placed on the second and third line, and only the cello is on the fourth line. But how to move the cello position to the position as in a chamber ensemble - above the piano?
2. How can I go to the layout of individual parts from the score and get a pdf of the parts?
help me!

[steve]

Can I ask how this compares to both notion and symphony pro. I own both and they are so complicated and don’t record midi correctly. I asked both developers for support and neither even bothered to respond. However, this app is way more expensive? Thanks in advance. By the way. Great Chanel.

[DavidLovrien]

The answer to your question at 4:26 is... NotePerformer. But you knew that.

[oliverwakila]

As a Musescore Studio user - I am still unsure if I should upgrade to the iPad from my surface pro… at least with the surface pro, I can use musescore anywhere, save it online and open it on my bigger PC. I have been wanting an iPad for a while, and this is the one thing keeping me from it - what would be your observation?

[gingerbenw]

Hey! Great review - I may have missed it, but are you using the iPad mini here? I’m keen to get one but not sure it’s big enough for staffpad?

[NestorVass]

Will they ever release it on android, though? Cause right now it's not a tablet app, it's an *iPad* app.