muratkayi
Senior Member
Hi,
If there is no interest in this, just let this thread die. I just thought it might be interesting to have an exchange among users on which actual features/improvements we would like to see.
I know that for most of us bug fixes and playback improvements are top priority, but this thread is about something else. It's about what quality of life improvements we would love to see. And who knows, maybe some of this finds its way to the Staffpad folks some time.
At any rate, it is hard not to think of a bunch of little things (and a few not so little things), to make life easier, now that Staffpad has basically become a 360° all in one scoring and composition solution with a focus on media composition within a few short years (compared to the relative silence after ca. 2016). Many large and small features people have been waiting for have been added. It is in its best moments nothing short of magic. In its worst moments (see bugfixes) I want my tablet to be flayed in the marketplace, but that's a different story...
So, if you feel like it, add your stuff, maybe we could have a little poll some time later.
Things I would love to see:
- articulation mapping browser
Left side, all the articulations possible to notate in a score, middle column how they are triggered in Staffpad, right side which sample libraries available offer that articulation. Stuff I own is bold, entries with libraries I don't own yet take me to the store when I click them. Mappings can be changed
- view snapshots
In large scores I would like to be able to save a view to a list of snapshots which I can name. The view contains zoom and placement. That way I could quickly get to "Strings/Intro"
- selecting/marking bars across sections non-consecutively
You know how you can mark up bars to listen to them soloed? And how you can use that to listen to a section soloed? Well, sometimes I would love to monitor the flutes and strings together and soloing staffs is tedious. Maybe ctrl+shift (CMD+shift) or some other form to mark up bars across sections leaving staffs in between out would be great. Or is there a way to do that already?
- mixer view
The staff details accessible from clicking the staff name on the left hand side are fine, but for mixing and editing I would love to be able to have a proper mixer which gives me access to all the insert FX and levels and pan at one glance
- grand staffs with traversing melodies
I don't know if there is an English technical term for this. In piano literature you find melodies which descend from the upper staff right into the lower for better clarity and afaik it is not possible right now. Or is it?
- divisi samples reacting to divisi notation
One can dream, right?
- note group pasting as inversion or reverse
I don't know the English technical terms, but I guess you know what I mean.
- remap the expression lane to cc1 when exporting midi
I think it's cc11 now, but most of my orchestral libraries read the modwheel for velocity
- freely route the audio input
AFAIK, Staffpad takes the mic array, but I am wondering if I can get the loopback functionality of my RME audio interface to have Staffpad read audio input from, e.g. Kontakt, as it's recording source. That way, I wouldn't have to export pilot tracks from Staffpad into a DAW, just to play fav synth along to a composition. I haven't gotten around to testing this, but if it does not work, it's on my wish list
If there is no interest in this, just let this thread die. I just thought it might be interesting to have an exchange among users on which actual features/improvements we would like to see.
I know that for most of us bug fixes and playback improvements are top priority, but this thread is about something else. It's about what quality of life improvements we would love to see. And who knows, maybe some of this finds its way to the Staffpad folks some time.
At any rate, it is hard not to think of a bunch of little things (and a few not so little things), to make life easier, now that Staffpad has basically become a 360° all in one scoring and composition solution with a focus on media composition within a few short years (compared to the relative silence after ca. 2016). Many large and small features people have been waiting for have been added. It is in its best moments nothing short of magic. In its worst moments (see bugfixes) I want my tablet to be flayed in the marketplace, but that's a different story...
So, if you feel like it, add your stuff, maybe we could have a little poll some time later.
Things I would love to see:
- articulation mapping browser
Left side, all the articulations possible to notate in a score, middle column how they are triggered in Staffpad, right side which sample libraries available offer that articulation. Stuff I own is bold, entries with libraries I don't own yet take me to the store when I click them. Mappings can be changed
- view snapshots
In large scores I would like to be able to save a view to a list of snapshots which I can name. The view contains zoom and placement. That way I could quickly get to "Strings/Intro"
- selecting/marking bars across sections non-consecutively
You know how you can mark up bars to listen to them soloed? And how you can use that to listen to a section soloed? Well, sometimes I would love to monitor the flutes and strings together and soloing staffs is tedious. Maybe ctrl+shift (CMD+shift) or some other form to mark up bars across sections leaving staffs in between out would be great. Or is there a way to do that already?
- mixer view
The staff details accessible from clicking the staff name on the left hand side are fine, but for mixing and editing I would love to be able to have a proper mixer which gives me access to all the insert FX and levels and pan at one glance
- grand staffs with traversing melodies
I don't know if there is an English technical term for this. In piano literature you find melodies which descend from the upper staff right into the lower for better clarity and afaik it is not possible right now. Or is it?
- divisi samples reacting to divisi notation
One can dream, right?
- note group pasting as inversion or reverse
I don't know the English technical terms, but I guess you know what I mean.
- remap the expression lane to cc1 when exporting midi
I think it's cc11 now, but most of my orchestral libraries read the modwheel for velocity
- freely route the audio input
AFAIK, Staffpad takes the mic array, but I am wondering if I can get the loopback functionality of my RME audio interface to have Staffpad read audio input from, e.g. Kontakt, as it's recording source. That way, I wouldn't have to export pilot tracks from Staffpad into a DAW, just to play fav synth along to a composition. I haven't gotten around to testing this, but if it does not work, it's on my wish list
