Etude
Productivity
sheet music reader
SHOW HN2010
94points
35comments
#13of 370 in 2010
Top 4%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Design: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and polished interface
From 3 comments
Ahh. Well yours looks nice. The Store in particular is more attractive than Apple's.
glhaynes on HNI noticed that too. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do it or not; as a piano player myself, it might seem more intuitive to me to have a visual indicator at each beat in…
mcav on HNBeautiful app and very well put together presentation. As soon as you hit the page the video starts and demonstrates its functionality. Even the best writers fail to fully convey…
J3L2404 on HN
Eagerly anticipated, would buy on release
From 2 comments
I've been anxiously awaiting the release of this app. I'm buying day one.
alanthonyc on HNI'm very excited to try this! Sheet music reader seems like such an obvious application for the iPad. Now I just have to think about how much I trust my shaky stand with my $600…
necubi on HN
Objections
Cannot annotate scores with fingerings or marks
From 1 comment
Bravo! Seeing this app makes me want to get an iPad just to play around with it. Well, almost: As a fairly serious amateur pianist, I definitely appreciate that this could let me…
nanotone on HN
Position indicator moves irregularly
From 3 comments
Looks great! The only thing that bugged me was the position indicator, as it didn't have a very predictable motion. Sometimes it goes very fast, other times it just stops. I…
dutchflyboy on HNI noticed that too. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do it or not; as a piano player myself, it might seem more intuitive to me to have a visual indicator at each beat in…
mcav on HNI'd suggest a combination of both mcav and cpr's suggestions. Highlight the notes themselves instead of the area around them. Drop the jumpy marker and replace it with a smoothly…
manvsmachine on HN
Synth playback pedaling is poor
From 1 comment
Bravo! Seeing this app makes me want to get an iPad just to play around with it. Well, almost: As a fairly serious amateur pianist, I definitely appreciate that this could let me…
nanotone on HN
Requests
Annotation support
From 1 comment
Yeah, annotation is coming in 1.2. Keep having to cut features to get the thing out. Looking into improving the synth as well.
dangrover on HN
Smoother constant-speed position marker
From 2 comments
Maybe have a constant-speed thin vertical cursor along with (behind) the jerky highlight? That would help to smooth things out and get out of the "valley."
cpr on HNI'd suggest a combination of both mcav and cpr's suggestions. Highlight the notes themselves instead of the area around them. Drop the jumpy marker and replace it with a smoothly…
manvsmachine on HN
Automatic page turning via microphone
From 1 comment
Have you considered automatic page turning by analyzing the microphone input? You would probably have to do 3 different position finding methods to gain enough stability. Like…
Entlin on HN
Foot pedal page turner support
From 1 comment
What would be nice if there was some kind of foot activated gadget that would talk with the ipad. When pressed it would flip to the next sheet. This would eliminate the breaks…
pbz on HN
Creating own sheet music
From 1 comment
Cool, but I can't make my own sheet music with it?
jawngee on HN
Questions
Can it connect to electric pianos?
From 1 comment
Beautiful! Can I hook it up to any electric pianos?
redangstrom on HN
Is it a universal app or separate iPad purchase?
From 1 comment
That looks absolutely fantastic. forScore doesn't really seem to get the job right, so I'm stoked about Etude. Is it a universal app, or will I have to buy an iPad version…
kmfrk on HN
Plans to expand music library?
From 2 comments
Completely unrelated but just found this and you might want to know, if you go to a style like http://etudeapp.com/music/style/9/ballad and then click Home in the breadcrumbs,…
ique on HNThat looks absolutely fantastic. forScore doesn't really seem to get the job right, so I'm stoked about Etude. Is it a universal app, or will I have to buy an iPad version…
kmfrk on HN
Alternatives named
forScore
From 1 comment
That looks absolutely fantastic. forScore doesn't really seem to get the job right, so I'm stoked about Etude. Is it a universal app, or will I have to buy an iPad version…
kmfrk on HN
TabToolkit
From 1 comment
Naw, that's TabToolkit :(
dangrover on HN
AirTurn foot pedal
From 1 comment
Like this? http://airturn.com/
nandemo on HN