StaffPad

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@GovernorSilver said:
Can't even draw good looking stick figures.

There does seem to be a kind of martial arts aspect to this - zen with the pen, developing the perfect combo of touch and speed, etc.

Very funny!

Compounding the problem is the measure lines will sometimes turn blue or other color, which seems to indicate some sort of secondary mode of operation, but this not explained in the intro tutorial video. When the color is different, you can draw lines and ovals all you want but nothing happens.

The measures turn color when you overfill or under-fill them with notes/rests to indicate error. StaffPad also has 4 voices that display in different colors.

McD

@GovernorSilver said:
I tried drawing a whole note the same way as shown in the video.

I think nothing short of a perfectly drawn oval will register with the app, which sucks for me because I'm terrible at hand drawn art. Can't even draw good looking stick figures.

I recommend you create a rhythm line that has a whole note, 2 half notes, etc then you can develop the workflow to copy a bar and paste it for anything that is giving you fits. It may seem slower but doing 4-5 takes on a single whole note is actually slower. Cut and paste is
really powerful to save a lot of note entry but you have to prepare the template of rhythms
you'll need to use over and over.

Have you zoomed into a single bar and drawn the whole note. It's easy to draw a large circle between on on the lines that something very small.

Zoom and cut and paste are very helpful for anyone with drawing issues.

MisplacedDevelopment

Until I improved my accuracy I would just draw in quarter notes as I could nail them pretty much every time and then hold down on each note and drag left or right to change the note duration. The trick with quarter notes I found was to draw the note heads, then go back and draw the note stems but making sure that the stems did not connect with the heads, e.g.

The blue means you were in bar selection mode which lets you manipulate multiple bars of music and insert bars etc. You get into this mode by double tapping the bar with your finger. You can then single tap (not drag) bars below or to the side to define a box containing multiple bars:

RedSkyLullaby

Love the look of this app but don’t have that kind of cash to fully unlock everything. I would certainly do a YT demo if they sent me some codes

McD

@RedSkyLullaby said:
Love the look of this app but don’t have that kind of cash to fully unlock everything. I would certainly do a YT demo if they sent me some codes

That could be epic... marketing and training of this app is a weak spot but I suspect the
cash flow to cover the dev costs (like with any complex DAW-like app) is really, really hard.

It's a niche product that competes with Sibelius and the like at a fraction of the cost.

There are many YT'ers that are building a core set of videos around this product focused on
teaching composition. The audience here has done a total end-around for notation as a required step to create finished works.

Still... we could seduce a few to the "old ways" of making music by generating paper that gets passed out before the recording session. So, many job were destroyed by these new
ways of enabling the individual to produce without needing extra people.

Billie Eilish and Finneas are the new business plan. They just needed the record company
for marketing and tour scheduling. But the music was made entirely in the home.

Someone will disclose they scored a film entirely with StaffPad and IOS tool or maybe NOT because it's the cost that matters to the producer and not the technology.

I'd pitch in to help cover the $60 cost to see @RedSkyLullaby video and grow the StaffPad
community. My heart is in film music. PM me to enable the transaction. I hope more will pitch in. Of course, StaffPad might throw you a code but I suspect they don't waste time monitoring this forum. Too busy adding and maintaining the code. They are working on keyboard input for the app in addition to the pencil.

RedSkyLullaby

@McD said:

@RedSkyLullaby said:
Love the look of this app but don’t have that kind of cash to fully unlock everything. I would certainly do a YT demo if they sent me some codes

That could be epic... marketing and training of this app is a weak spot but I suspect the
cash flow to cover the dev costs (like with any complex DAW-like app) is really, really hard.

It's a niche product that competes with Sibelius and the like at a fraction of the cost.

There are many YT'ers that are building a core set of videos around this product focused on
teaching composition. The audience here has done a total end-around for notation as a required step to create finished works.

Still... we could seduce a few to the "old ways" of making music by generating paper that gets passed out before the recording session. So, many job were destroyed by these new
ways of enabling the individual to produce without needing extra people.

Billie Eilish and Finneas are the new business plan. They just needed the record company
for marketing and tour scheduling. But the music was made entirely in the home.

Someone will disclose they scored a film entirely with StaffPad and IOS tool or maybe NOT because it's the cost that matters to the producer and not the technology.

I'd pitch in to help cover the $60 cost to see @RedSkyLullaby video and grow the StaffPad
community. My heart is in film music. PM me to enable the transaction. I hope more will pitch in. Of course, StaffPad might throw you a code but I suspect they don't waste time monitoring this forum. Too busy adding and maintaining the code. They are working on keyboard input for the app in addition to the pencil.

Thanks I may contact them and see if they want to send me a code, i think they are missing potential market for it as a sound source as there is not much that comes close on ipad as the in app purchases in this

mjcouche

heshnote

Post from @McD:

StaffPad is on sale for $49.99 and all the 3rd party libraries are $10-20 when they are normally $30-100.

FULL DISCLOSURE: You must get the official Apple Pencil to write notes.