Calypso Score: Sheet Music

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.

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!

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!