StaffPad
StaffPad is an award-winning music notation app, designed for pen and touch, and built for composers. StaffPad lets you effortlessly write music in your own handwriting, edit with the convenience of touch, and hear your score played back with breathtakingly realistic sounds. StaffPad Reader is made for musicians. It's a free app that connects to StaffPad, and displays the individual parts of a StaffPad Score, in real time, across multiple devices. Any changes made to the score in StaffPad update instantly on every connected Reader. Annotations and playback work in perfect sync, all you need is a simple Wi-Fi connection. Together, they form an extremely elegant, intuitive and powerful platform for composition and live performance. StaffPad's unique algorithms convert your handwritten notation into a beautifully typeset score. It'll even help you by automatically correcting your stem directions, adding courtesy accidentals and highlighting when there's too many, or too few, beats.
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FORTE 12
With FORTE 12 music notation software, you can write sheet music using your computer in minutes, have it played back by over 100 preloaded instruments at the click of a button. Check out the video for more information and download your free trial of FORTE Premium today! Write and edit music notation in a clear, simple-to-use format (with the option of printing physical copies immediately). FORTE 12 is a unique and easy-to-use notation software program for composing, arranging, editing and transposing scores whatever your requirements or experience. Scan physical sheet music into FORTE 12 using a scanner, your phone or import picture files for further editing, transposing and saving as MusicXML or MIDI. Using new algorithms this software offers superior scanning with high accuracy and quick editing tools.
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ScoreCloud
ScoreCloud instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! Transcribe any polyphonic or monophonic instrument live recording into sheet music. Notating music has never been easier. Music notation software ideal for musicians, students, teachers, choirs and bands as well as composers and arrangers, free to download. Sheet music from playing, sync across all devices, intuitive editing. No print watermark, unlimited songs, more import & export. ScoreCloud 4 for PC & Mac is completely free to download so you can get started right away, with notation from audio and cloud sync. For the paid plans, we offer a free trial that gives full access to all advanced features when signing up for any plan! You can also connect a MIDI keyboard and play, or use the virtual piano to play on your computer keyboard. Click around and use the tools in the toolbar to edit the song, add voices, lyrics and chords.
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PreSonus Notion 6
Bring musical inspirations to life with the blazingly fast and intuitive Notion™ 6 music composition and performance environment. Compose when and how you want and even enter music with your own handwriting. Take projects to the next level with deep integration with Studio One®. Hear and perform music with gorgeous samples by the London Symphony Orchestra and others. Deliver polished scores faster than ever before, from complete film orchestrations to simple lead sheets and guitar tab. Whether you are an instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger, music educator, or student, you’ll find Notion 6 to be the easiest-to-use and best-sounding notation software on the market today. Notion 6: Redefining music notation.
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