BrightStaves™ Viewer

With BrightStaves™ Viewer, you can easily set up your page display exactly how you want it. Whether you prefer to view half a page, a full page, or even two pages side-by-side, you have the flexibility to adjust your view to suit your needs. Plus, you can custom zoom the page to reduce the margins and increase the size of the musical symbols, making it easier to read your music. What's more, your zoom settings are saved for each piece, so you don't have to reset it every time.

Turning pages is just as easy - all you have to do is tap on the edge of the screen or swipe, and if you prefer, you can also use AirTurn Bluetooth pedals for page turning. No more fumbling with awkward page turns or losing your place in your music.

Navigating through your music is a breeze. You can quickly jump to any page with page numbers and thumbnails, and access custom-made sections in multi-part works and rehearsal marks with just two taps. With our solution, you can easily find the exact spot in your music that you need to be.

Custom-made transitions are also marked with translucent triangles, making it easy to follow along. Simply tap on the triangle and you'll be taken directly to the right place in the score. If there are multiple transitions, each one can be numbered in order of occurrence, so you can easily follow along. It's as easy as one, two, three.

And for those times when you need to adjust your screen brightness quickly, you can simply swipe two fingers down the screen to lower the brightness, or up to raise it. This feature is especially handy for performances in rapidly changing lighting conditions, such as on stage, in a theater, or during a church service.

Our Expression Marks library of symbols allows you to mark your piece with dynamic, tempo, articulation, and other special performance instructions. Use the Drawing tool to highlight important parts of the score with three types of lines and four different colors and add a personal touch to your performance.

With our Custom Marks feature, you can add file description meta data that includes the title, authors, copyright, instructions, and year of release. And if you want to display the title and composer in a different language, no problem! You can easily set an alternative language to make your scores accessible to a wider audience.

To make learning long and multi-part works easier, you can create your own sections and rehearsal marks markup. This feature allows you to navigate through your score just like you would with paper sheet music, saving you time and effort in the rehearsal process.

With our Repeats tool, you can create your own custom markup for smooth transitions in your music. Whether it's a reprise or another type of transition, this feature makes it easy to save time and effort during rehearsals.

Explore Custom Marks in Our Video Tutorials on the Support Page

Arrange desired pieces in the preferred order for a rehearsal or performance and store as a list. Using a list makes transitioning between pieces effortless - turning the last page of one piece automatically opens the first page of the next.

You can include both full PDF files as well as individual pages in your list, which is incredibly convenient. Simply select the starting and ending page of the desired fragment, allowing you to create a complete list from a single PDF file. This feature is particularly useful when working with music collections like songbooks, fake books or sheet music anthologies.

The list includes all pre-made settings of each individual piece, such as Custom Marks, Expression Marks and Drawing and PitchAid. Sharing the lists provides other participants with a complete rehearsal or concert plan, including all markings, just like in your own sheet music.

If you don't use lists, Custom Marks, as well as Expression Marks and Drawings for each composition, can be separately exported and transferred to other musicians. This will enable all musicians in the group to have the same marked version of the piece.

We care about the rights of authors and publishers, so only markup is transferred. The PDF files themselves are never copied!

BrightStaves™ Viewer also provides you with three important rehearsal tools.

PitchAid acts as a digital pitch pipe and allows you to preset the pitch for each page of a composition. At any moment just touch the center of your screen with three fingers to hear a preset PitchAid tone. This will allow you to instantly check the pitch or determine a new key.

You can also use the pitch selection menu as a keyboard to check the pitch of individual sounds.

The metronome can be used in either traditional click sound mode or a silent visual mode.

There's also stopwatch for measuring time intervals (such as length of composition) and a timer to help manage rehearsal time effectively.