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Etude for iPad is out
- zaveri 16y agoCongrats!
- kevinelliott 16y agoGood job!
- davisml 16y agoCongratulations Dan!
- samratjp 16y agoThe price is a steal. Sure, Xelements is cool, but this completely is reason alone to buy the iPad. Congrats and hope that some day soon orchestras could have this.
- archgrove 16y agoIt looks lovely, and I'll probably grab it (especially at that price). However, as an Etude for iPhone user, I have to say - you really need to get some more scores into the store. At the moment, months after launch, you still only have material from 21 composers. Everyone I've shown it to loves it, but it's a really hard sell with such a limited selection. I've no problem with paying for sheet music, and I'd probably pay more for the convenience of this format - it just needs to be there!
- dangrover 16y agoMore scores are coming. I finally did add some Chopin today! (those scores are iPad only for now though) We'll also be opening up our converter so users can put their own scores in the app, as well as trying to finish these content deals.
- dangrover 16y agoAlso, it's free if you bought the iPhone version.
- archgrove 16y agoThat, I didn't realise. Great value :). Almost too great - I'd have paid for an upgrade!
- jra101 16y agoVery cool, any chance you will be adding drums? :)
- quizbiz 16y agoBig congratulations! This alone is a reason to buy the iPad.
- username3 16y agoWhy can't we practice on the piano in Etude?
- dangrover 16y agoThe reason the keyboard in the current UI is there is so you can see most of the keys and play the piece on a real instrument. If I made it playable, people would just complain it's too small. A new "practice mode" is coming in an upcoming update that gives you a big enough keyboard and lets you practice one hand of the piece.
- username3 16y agoIs there anyway to tap to reposition the cursor and play? Loops? A/B?
- sshumaker 16y agoI would love this - it would be an essential feature for practicing difficult sections.
- delackner 16y agoIndeed the first thing that I tried was to pinch-spread across a section in hopes that that would turn the width I had specified into a looped playback region. Going to have some fun with this. Bravo!
- bryanh 16y agoSorry to nitpick, but the sound in the video is off! It's driving me crazy! This almost makes me want to get an iPad... almost.
- dangrover 16y agoYeah, ffmpeg screwed that up. The h264 and flash versions play correctly. I wish Firefox would just fall back to the flash version rather than going "Oh, it's not Ogg. I guess I'll just give up."
- sh1mmer 16y agoAlso happens to me in Chrome. I love the video but I would love it more as a lightbox closer to iPad size.
- sshumaker 16y agoI've been holding off because of the reviews complaining about lag. Do those apply to the iPad version as well?
- samstokes 16y agoI can see how this could be convincingly better than the analogue equivalent, and worth buying an iPad for (if I still had a piano): * Is page-turning easy? With paper you have to carefully dog-ear the sheet music so that you can grab the corner and turn the page without breaking flow. A simple one-finger swipe or tap would be less disruptive to playing. * On-demand sheet music purchase is a great idea, if the catalogue is comprehensive enough. It would be great to be able to go from hearing a great piece on the radio to having the score in front of you in minutes. I assume you need music to be converted so that you can support the synthesiser and simulated keyboard. To bootstrap, can you take existing sheet music unconverted (just scanned, say) and display it without those features? TBH I'm not sure I see the utility of watching the keypresses anyway (maybe because I haven't tried it). * As well as hearing a synthesised version of the piece, what about a link from the score to world-renowned recordings, to stream or purchase? I'd often struggle to learn some passages that seemed boring or repetitive, but to hear the same passage played with fluency and passion would be very motivating.
- w1ntermute 16y agoI've heard about Etude several times on HN, but only in reference to iP* - does anyone know if there are plans for an Android app?
- fookyong 16y agobeautiful app. bought, admired, and getting all nostalgic (I used to be a concert violinist but I stopped playing about 8 years ago)
- friendstock 16y agois there a video of this iPad app somewhere? I just tried searching on youtube but couldn't find anything.
- dangrover 16y agoThere's a video on the front page.
- dieterrams 16y agoBeautiful app. I've always wanted to learn how to play the piano, and this just lowered the barrier to entry by a mile. Thanks for making it.
- silencio 16y agoAwesome work on both the iPhone and iPad version :) I've been grumbling at everyone and their mother telling me about Etude because it's not an app for me, but it's certainly one I will and have recommended to friends that want to learn how to play a real piano. (And it's not for me only because I may suck, but I've been banging away at a piano for over ten years and can sight read most of the pieces in Etude in my sleep. Understandably I am not the audience for this app, a PDF reader with metronome is more suited to my needs... :) )
- paul9290 16y agoSo does the app hear what Im playing and turn the page automatically for me? Huge pain-point for piano players.
- kapuzineralex 16y agoDid anyone else notice how the blue-ish marker lags behind the actual position of the piece during playback? Having that in a demo is kind of ridiculous...