Hi Robert, It's true I am a lifelong Mac user (since the 1984 Macintosh!) but I'll admit that the idea that I could take a tablet that's as powerful as my current laptop, plunk it on the music stand of any piano, write music directly on-screen with a pen, and then easily bounce that output to Finale — running on the same device — is pretty appealing.
Currently, when I'm on the road, I have to haul around a backpack with my laptop, a 2-octave MIDI keyboard, a bunch of cables and chargers, etc. I usually have access to a room with a piano, but then I've also got to have a desk or table where I can set up my laptop and MIDI keyboard and phone (used as a numeric keypad)… plus a nearby power source because my laptop's battery doesn't hold a charge well anymore — it takes a little while to set everything up, and then pack it up again when I'm done. I'm always going back and forth between using the piano to try out ideas, then inputting notes into Finale using the MIDI keyboard (sometimes awkwardly if there's a lot of octave-shifting), the numeric keypad app on my phone is always losing connectivity, and so on… it's a slow and cumbersome way to write. If there was a way I could instead just sit down at any piano and reach into my bag and pull out a slim tablet computer with a stylus and just start writing… in a format that imports easily into Finale… that honestly sounds like a minor miracle to me. In all honestly, I will probably wait and see what Windows 10 is like before deciding. Obviously it would be a huge, disruptive switch, and I'd want to go into it with both eyes open. But replacing my aging MacBook Pro with a high-end Surface Pro tablet is not out of the question. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Apr 7, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > I got interested in StaffPad > <http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/staffpad-is-a-music-handwriting-app/> > after Darcy posted about it a few days ago. The more I read, the more > impressed I become. The very fact that an apparently committed Mac user > like Darcy is interested in a Windows-only platform makes it that much more > intriguing. > > I am curious if anyone on the list has any experience with it. > Specifically, how well does it handle meter changes or even passages > without meter? > > If I end up getting it, I'll almost certainly be using it as a front-end > for Finale through its Music XML export feature. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
