“Technologically, StaffPad is a really nifty tool, but the best thing for me is how it has unclogged a bottleneck in the creative process,” Paul Shapiro, a professional media editor working in film, publishing and music, told Cult of Mac. However, the $89 app is already carving out an army of fans. StaffPad may still be relatively new as a music tool. Photo: David William Hearn Inspired by Apple’s design principles The team chose Windows because, at the time, it offered digital pen support that Apple didn’t. The first version of StaffPad launched on Windows 8 in March 2015. Even so, it took five years to complete the task. They “worked like crazy” to get StaffPad built, Hearn said. He pulled together a team split between Europe and the United States. as a company, and I started looking for more hands to help us out.” “It came at somewhat of a cost - both financially and personally - but I couldn’t see any other way to do it. “I was in overdrive working on as many music projects as I could in order to fund the project,” Hearn said.

Photo: David William Hearn/Matthew Tesch The team worked like crazy to get StaffPad made David William Hearn, left, and Matthew Tesch are the co-creators of StaffPad. Now they just had to turn it into a polished app. He built a prototype in Java and sent it to Hearn in the United Kingdom. Tesch, who is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, agreed to help.

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