[Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Robert Patterson
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

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/7/2015 4:20 PM, timothy price wrote: On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: 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… Yes, Hayden, Mozart,

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread timothy price
On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: 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… Yes, Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven...et.c., were very proficient with quill,

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
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

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/7/2015 12:50 PM, Robert Patterson 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

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/7/2015 6:08 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:35 PM, David H. Bailey dhbaile...@comcast.net wrote: I don't see any reason for anybody to run out and buy a SurfacePro3 simply to run this software -- once you buy the SurfacePro3, install Finale or Sibelius and use that

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Robert Patterson
The appeal for me is the pen-based entry at the beginning. I can't imagine giving up my multi-monitor Mac setup when the time comes to finalize the edits and especially to do the page layout. (On a 12 screen? No way! I'm not going back to those days.) On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Darcy James

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:20 PM, timothy price timothy.pr...@valley.net wrote: Aren't the files produced with Staffpad compatible with Finale on a Mac. Am sure they are. Of course, but that would require a separate device. The whole appeal of this (for me at least) is that everything lives in

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Several people on the Finale forum have reported doing that with good results. They identified some XML export/import issues, but they didn't sound like deal-breakers, especially when viewing StaffPad as a tool for the early stages of a project. I think there might have been some XML issues

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:35 PM, David H. Bailey dhbaile...@comcast.net wrote: I don't see any reason for anybody to run out and buy a SurfacePro3 simply to run this software -- once you buy the SurfacePro3, install Finale or Sibelius and use that since they run just fine on the SurfacePro3. But

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread Robert Patterson
But beyond this, another reason I am attracted to the Surface Pro is the ability to use it as a music stand. The pen-based interface seems ideal (and the 12 screen just about ideal) for abandoning printed sheet music. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Robert Patterson rob...@robertgpatterson.com

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/7/2015 6:45 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: But beyond this, another reason I am attracted to the Surface Pro is the ability to use it as a music stand. The pen-based interface seems ideal (and the 12 screen just about ideal) for abandoning printed sheet music. I'm using it as a music

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/7/2015 6:45 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: But beyond this, another reason I am attracted to the Surface Pro is the ability to use it as a music stand. The pen-based interface seems ideal (and the 12 screen just about ideal) for abandoning printed sheet music. I'm using it as a music stand

Re: [Finale] StaffPad (for Windows Surface Pro 3)

2015-04-07 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/7/2015 12:50 PM, Robert Patterson 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