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Calypso Score: Sheet Music

4.67 • 12 Ratings

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Calypso Score is a feature-rich digital sheet music app for the iPad that lets musicians manage their scores in a way that was never possible with paper. With the app’s pre-built indexes for dozens of popular jazz and pop fakebooks, you’ll never struggle with finding the right chart at a rehearsal or jam session. Calypso Score also provides unique features for navigating through multi-page scores and powerful, easy-to-use tools for organizing and annotating your entire digital library. Compare these features with other apps to see how Calypso Score changes for the game for digital sheet music: ORGANIZE YOUR DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC FILES • Import sheet music PDFs directly from any app that supports file sharing, including common cloud services • Extract only the pages you need from a long file (e.g., just your part from a multi-part score) and assign critical metadata with an intuitive import wizard • Annotate your songs with text, music symbols, guitar tabs, highlights, and drawings, all optimized for Apple Pencil; no additional purchase required • Optimize the layout of your songs with a powerful built-in PDF editor; no additional purchase required • Create your own custom songbooks for organizing your repertoire; a song can appear in more than one songbook, so you no longer need clumsy workarounds like bookmarks and layers to maintain different annotations and settings for different playing situations • Easily share your library, including your fakebooks, songbooks, set lists, and individual songs; optionally include annotations, metadata and synchronized recordings with the PDF • Backup files and metadata to iPad folders or any cloud service FIND SONGS QUICKLY • Get started with pre-built indexes for over 90 commercially published jazz and pop fakebooks*. +100 Aebersolds* • Search and sort by page #, song title, composer, lyricist, genre, creation date, or user-assigned labels • Search all fakebooks at once or limit your search to a single book • Easily adjust indexes for missing or added pages • Organize selected songs into set lists for quick and easy access at a gig FREE YOUR HANDS AND EVEN YOUR FEET • Turn pages automatically without swipes or pedals • Minimize scrolling and scanning for repeats and jumps with optimized layouts for each turn of a page • Manually turn pages with a Bluetooth pedal PRACTICE MORE PRODUCTIVELY • Attach any number of recorded music tracks to your sheet music for play-along during practice; audio files are linked to the index entry for a song, so only one copy of the track is needed even if the song appears in multiple books • Synchronize playback of an attached audio file to follow automated page turns or start at a specific bar • Adjust the pitch and playback speed of audio files - even if synchronized to the score • Record your practice session; recordings are automatically synced to the score • Avoid inefficient app-switching with built-in tools including a metronome, keyboard, and tuner GET STARTED! Calypso Score offers a familiar look and feel that follows best practices for iPad user experience and integration with iPad services and other apps. Detailed video tutorials (in-app and on our website) and an extensive help system will further help you get started quickly with productive management of your digital sheet music library. *PLEASE NOTE Calypso Score only provides the indexes for commercially published fakebooks; it does not provide the books themselves. However, Calypso Score makes it super easy to import any PDF and match it to one of the pre-built indexes.
What’s New
Version 7 is here with powerful new features and improvements to all aspects of the app. Key enhancements include: • NEW! Half-Page Turning: Powerful automated page turning was already available with our Auto-Layout feature, but the new Half-Page Turning feature offers an alternative way to set up your scores for performance. The two methods are complementary: Auto-Layout is fully automated, whereas Half-Page Turning is designed to work with manual page turning using gestures or a Bluetooth pedal. Half-Page Turning is also enabled in Fakebooks in addition to Songbooks. Check out our three new video tutorials to learn more about this feature. Users who have previewed this feature think it’s a game changer in the world of music reading apps. • NEW! Tuner tool: Available in the Recital toolbar. Button can be hidden in Settings • NEW! Advanced audio engine: Improves stability and quality of attached recordings and the embedded keyboard. Add your own sound libraries to the keyboard using freely available SoundFonts (.sf2 files) • Pitch and tempo settings for audio files are now included in exports • Audio can be sent to Airplay directly from the Recordings Manager • Settings have been reorganized to improve ease of use • Apple Pencil integration has been updated to improve feel when drawing
Version 7.0.1
Version History

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Ratings and Reviews

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4.67
out of 5
12 Ratings
  • Fosod, 08.09.2022
    Beats lugging books around
    I’ve been using Calypso for over eight years. As an amateur musician who plays flute, soprano, alto, and tenor, Calypso has enabled me to easily choose different fake book pages from various books and form a singular customized volume. Each of the titled tunes is color coded to represent the instrument to be used for that song. Like all great software, there are features that I don’t take advantage of, but the quality of the design keeps me happy with the functions I rely upon. Clearly designed by musicians for musicians, not by some investment group with disinterested developers. Show more
  • Gordon Giedt, 31.01.2021
    Calypso is great!
    I use this program all the time. I have books for all the bands I play with, Fakebooks (some of my own creation), and exercise books. With a 12.0” iPad I can read two pages in horizontal orientation very clearly. Sometimes I use Calypso’s built-in page turn feature, and sometimes I use a Bluetooth page turner. The songbook and setlist features are perfect for how I organize my music, and they ability to search all the fakebooks for the songs I need is valuable. Wonderful program! Show more
  • Hod A Mighty, 15.05.2020
    Exactly what I needed to combine and index my fake books and other music sources.
    If you will spend some time reading the manual and are diligent about finding supported fake book pdf files you will be thoroughly rewarded. You can access your fake books as one book with a live master index which updates each time you add another book. If you have a pdf which is not pre-indexed you may create an index of your own for any pdf. So not only will Calypso Score let you add fake books you can also add your smaller song books and sheet music and add them to your master index. If this weren’t enough you can also organize any song from any png image or pdf source into multiple songbooks and set lists. You can even have it guide you through your score as you play with or without your own accompaniment or your favorite commercial version of each song. Or you can also choose to use your favorite Bluetooth or midi foot switch to turn your pages. Definitely the best music score app I own. It does the job of several others I have purchased and does them better. This is the app to get! Show more
  • DCORTAZA, 21.06.2019
    Very hard to use
    I bought the app to organize my charts in set lists for my gigs. I spent the good part of a day trying to figure out how to use it, but got nowhere. It’s infuriating that we can’t get our money back when buying these kinds of apps. Don’t waste your money. I am now using forScore, that is easier to use and gives me more options. Show more
  • JimChwaszczewski, 08.01.2016
    Excellent!!
    For the past year I've tried various music organizers and readers. This one's the WINNER! I have a lot of music in pdf form. I want indexes but without the tedious creating of bookmarks in the pdf. With CS I can easily import a CSV file index for any pdf I have. That's my #1 need. Ease of use is important. I can easily search one or all pdfs for all versions of a song. Nobody wants to watch a musician on-stage tapping on an iPad. That's my #2 need. You can create custom songbooks and setlists from any of your pdfs. You can synch music with audio. You can share indexes. There's a lot here and I'm eager to use it. Show more
  • Math roots, 03.11.2015
    Wrong impression
    The photos showing what the App looks like gives you the impression that you get all the fake books and songs when you download the App; Not true at all. It apparently is like iiGigbook and UnSong in that you have to find the downloadable Fakebooks yourself. In looking on youTube to see how to get the program up and running, there are 2 very poorly done videos. Misleading from the get-go. Now I’ve got an App i can’t use until I laid all the Fakebooks. From where? and exactly how do I get them into my pad. Someone would be very helpful;l if they made a video starting with Step 1, etc. You’d think that the App builder would do so. I see the potential, but it’s like knowing there’s gold in them thar hills — - how do you get to it? I’ll bet it’s a 5 when working, but until then , a 2. Show more
  • PottsPansSteel1, 15.08.2015
    Best sheet music app ever!
    I am a full time professional gigging musician. I used to use multiple binders filled with charts to go to gigs with. After trying every other sheet music app I could find, and not being happy, I almost gave up. I then found Calypso Score and I couldn't be happier! From syncing music with backing tracks for soloist to eliminate page turns, to sharing music with band members, this app does everything! Getting this app has helped me improve my performances and, in turn, allowed me to raise my prices. If you are a serious gigging musician, you owe it to yourself to get this app. Finally, the customer service is second to none. I can't even say the last time I received such great customer service, this is amazing top to bottom! Show more
  • Kita Wia, 02.06.2015
    Great App.
    Calypso-Score is absolutely fantastic and does everything it claims. I have read several of the bad reviews and assume it is a problem of the user not following directions. I was confused at first and the support I received always resolved my issue and questions were answered in less than 24 hours. The problems I encounterd were only the result of being anxious to use the program and now I use it for all my fake books and it works perfect. Now I don't understand why I had any problems. Any problems I had were by my own making. Thank you for a great app. Show more
  • loriwillbur, 22.02.2015
    Doesn't work
    It keeps restore audio file and never worked.. Mine is air 2 and this is junk!! Omg,,,

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    19.99 USD
  • Size
    164.64 MB
  • Provider
    iMobilTec
Languages
English, German
Copyright
© 2004-2024 Siegfried Koester. All rights reserved.