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schrodinger1612

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Evening fellas; so I've recently been getting into music notation, part writing etc. on my android phone but am now looking for a cheapish 'entry level' touch-screen (preferably with a pencil/pointer) tablet for running either finale or staffpad. I figured I'd save the more high end options for when/if I start doing this professionally -.for now I'd just like something a little less fiddly than a phone. I do use paper but obviously it'd be nice to have everything played back. I'd appreciate some recommendations amongst the many options out there.
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New ipad 9th generation (currently on sale at Best Buy for $250), that gets you 64gb storage and Apple one year warranty. Buy a third party Apple ipad compatible pencil at Amazon for about $25 and you should be good to go. You will get about ten hours on a charge with instant on. Stay away from Surfaces, they blow through battery in just a couple of hours and don’t sleep well without chewing up battery (ipads can sleep for weeks).
 
Thanks guys - I should have mentioned a budget,.which is under a hundred,.but I may consider the iPad option if I can buy on credit...
 
I was wondering, can an iPad can be used to send midi to a DAW running on a windows workstation? I.e if I compose something in staffpad on the iPad and want to control separate instruments in cubase..

Or alternatively, can I save a file on staffpad within the Apple app and have it open in the windows version? No way to convert between the two?
 
schrodinger1612 said:
I was wondering, can an iPad can be used to send midi to a DAW running on a windows workstation? I.e if I compose something in staffpad on the iPad and want to control separate instruments in cubase..

Or alternatively, can I save a file on staffpad within the Apple app and have it open in the windows version? No way to convert between the two?
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A midi file is a midi file. It’s not OS specific.
 
schrodinger1612 said:
I was wondering, can an iPad can be used to send midi to a DAW running on a windows workstation? I.e if I compose something in staffpad on the iPad and want to control separate instruments in cubase..

Or alternatively, can I save a file on staffpad within the Apple app and have it open in the windows version? No way to convert between the two?
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Staffpad score files are transportable across both iPadOS and Windows.

However, you have to pay for any purchased instruments twice, needing to buy the same instrument library in both the iPad App Store and in the Windows App Store.

You can avoid this if you only use the native Staffpad supplied instruments which don’t require purchasing.
 
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