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I was holding out a desperate hope for a StaffPad sale between Christmas & New Year, but now that all the sale times have passed, I guess the chances of a sale any time soon are basically none, if it’s ever going to go one sale again. I’m thinking the MuseCore takeover may have stopped any further app sales, since that seems to be about when they stopped happening.
After spending all day reviewing @McD’s and others work in the StaffPad score thread, I’m both excited at the possibilities, and scared that it may be out of my league.I sold my first born to get GeoShred and all the IAP’s on sale. Now I have to decide whether to pay full price for StaffPad, using it to make a basic orchestral accompaniment with a few instruments, and then perform a GeoShred track over top of it.
But I’m not a musician, just a beginner who knows a little music theory and has done some very 101 level piano lessons, so I’m not sure if I’m trying to play in the big kids sandpit too early. From a beginner point of view, does anyone think that starting from scratch with StaffPad is any worse than starting from scratch with Cubasis for example? Having to know musical notation is not an issue. I’ve read the whole StaffPad manual and have no issues with anything written in it, but I lack the fundamentals of music composing. But that would be a problem with either path, right? Only difference is, I already have Cubasis, but I don’t have StaffPad.
Just get it. Learn the app and use the theory to get really good. Then treat yourself to the sounds slowly as you get better and gain confidence.
StaffPad was one of the scariest purchases for me, because of the price and because I was worried I wouldn't be able to use it properly. The only music theory I've had was what I picked up in band in high school and college, and 1 semester of formal theory before I switched majors.
One good thing that's better than when I bought it is that you now have all the free Musescore libraries, many of which are really good.
The handwriting is a bit quirky and takes a bit to sort out, but I've gotten pretty quick at getting ideas out after the initial learning curve.
I play by ear and I've not had any issues. I don't worry too much about the theory side.
... or start with Notion Mobile.
It's free, and the 'full unlock' including all orchestral instruments recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra is cheap.
The sound quality won't match Staffpad but its not bad either, especially with a 'hall reverb' or similar.
Most of the issues I've encountered have been helped along with Youtube videos on "why your orchestration sounds thin and how to fix it" rather than pining for better sample libraries.
Hopefully that’s the plan.
Yeah the libraries give it good value, but I dare say I’ll be a library junkie and want to buy more, if I start enjoying the initial libraries. But even so, the total cost is still likely less than my piano anyway.
Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the suggestion. It’s tempting. $23 for the unlock, $50 more for the libraries. So half the $150 cost of StaffPad for a basic like-for-like comparison. But, I don’t like the separate eraser for Notion, or even the whole “switch tools” palette operation that typical apps following a desktop paradigm use. The few reviews I’ve found don’t give you much of a feature for feature comparison, so it’s hard to tell exactly what the differences are. I haven’t found many posts touting Notion as the app of choice for this type of workflow though, although it is obviously the cheapest.
One of my goals though is for better instruments compared to standard synth sounds, and that seems to be a significant factor in StaffPad’s favour. The additional input methods (e.g. on-screen keyboard) in notion could be useful in some situations though.
Man, I just found our Dorico have AUV3 instruments. That’s a big plus, but no handwriting recognition, which is a big minus.
The newly released 5.1 version has Iconica Sketch instruments. Anyone got any examples of them? Are they any good?
Staffpad just added another free Muse library for download from the StaffPad store called “Muse Guitars Vol 1”.
Here are the details: