StaffPad is a

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application for creating

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s using

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and

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input for

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. Originally released for

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on 31 March 2015, StaffPad was subsequently released on

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on 5 February 2020. Designed for

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

s, orchestrators, arrangers,

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s, and teachers, StaffPad is used to create compositions, edit notation, and play back a score using samples. It features adaptive toolsets, a pressure-toggled Erase tool, and text recognition for musical notation. It is now part of

Muse Group Muse Group (MuseCY Holdings Ltd.) is a Cyprus, Cypriot software company, software and education company specialised in making tools and resources for music composition, music production and music education. Established in 1998 as Ultimate Guitar ...

StaffPad Reader

StaffPad Reader is a companion application for

and

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, designed for

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viewing of StaffPad score files. The Reader application communicates with StaffPad over a

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network and displays an automatically formatted

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for any musical staff contained in the full score. Multiple Reader applications can connect to the same instance of StaffPad, forming a one-to-many relationship between StaffPad and

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using the Reader. The user is able to make changes to the full score with StaffPad, with the results updated automatically on all connected Readers.

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External links

* {{Official website, https://www.staffpad.net Universal Windows Platform apps IOS software Muse Group Scorewriters

StaffPad Reader

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