Calypso Score: Sheet Music 4+

Songbooks, Real Books & Audio

iMobilTec

    • 4.2 • 20 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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
• Create optimized sheet music PDFs from your paper notes with the integrated scanner
• 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 or gig books 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


THE transposable NEW BOB BOOK

The New Bob Book is a freely available fake book created by guitarist Bob Roetker. It allows you to transpose any of its 666 songs into any key - melody and chords, in excellent readable quality! You can download it for free.



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
• 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.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s New

Version 7.3

Our music scientists have proposed a new hypothesis: they suspect the tritone substitution could be a quantum mechanical tunnel in the circle of fifths (Of course only if the circle of fifths is not flat but round). 

While we're reviewing this, we've made the following improvements to Calypso Score:

- the song creation assistant has a new button to bisect pages horizontally or vertically. Very useful for double-paged scans.
- new settings option: Each songbook has its own sorting for the song lists
- all annotations of a specific type or any type can be deleted at once
- fixed: vanishing annotations in the New Bob Book
- of course, we also fixed other bugs

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
20 Ratings

20 Ratings

Hod A Mighty ,

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!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your kind words. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Fosod ,

Beats lugging books around

I’ve been using Calypso for over ten years, I think. 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.

Love the new scanning functionality! Thanks, Ziggy.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your kind words.

Gordon Giedt ,

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!

Developer Response ,

Thank you Gordon for your positive assessment. Such reviews drive us.

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Data Not Collected

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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