ScoreSets — Sheet music, ready for the stage

What makes ScoreSets different?

1. MIDI & OSC, right on the score

Store commands in a song's metadata and send them when it opens, or place labeled MIDI and OSC buttons exactly where you need them. Test a command directly from the metadata settings before the show.

2. A simpler connection to MainStage

ScoreSets Bridge is a companion menu-bar app for Mac. It advertises itself on your local network and gives MainStage a virtual MIDI source. Activate the Bridge on your iPad once, select that source in MainStage, and let automatic discovery find the familiar Bridge again when it is available—without manually rebuilding a Network MIDI session each time.

The Bridge must be running, the devices must be reachable on the same trusted network, and local-network access must be allowed.

3. Your library across your iPads

Use private iCloud synchronization to keep scores, annotation layers, metadata, collections and setlists together across the iPads on your account. No separate ScoreSets account and no manual sync routine.

A faster path from preparation to performance

4. From Dropbox straight into your setlist

Start the import inside the setlist you are building. Choose files from Dropbox in the iPad Files picker and they join that setlist and your repertoire in one flow. If you are working within a collection, they belong there too. Choose whether new items go at the top or bottom.

5. API control for AI agents

Let compatible AI agents or scripts prepare setlists, update metadata and operate supported reader and performance actions through the same action system as the app. The local API is reached through an explicitly enabled ScoreSets Bridge on your Mac.

You choose and configure the agent. ScoreSets does not include an AI subscription or silently send your library to an AI service.

6. A backing track, with transport on the page

Attach one backing track to a song and put play/pause, return-to-start and the time display where they are useful. Show the same transport position on every page, with elapsed or remaining time.

7. Bring your forScore library with you

Import a supported forScore backup or exported library folder on your iPad. Choose which setlists to bring across, with their scores and supported metadata. Original annotation images remain visible as separate, hideable layers—not retyped text or a recreated approximation. Supported in-score page links and MIDI buttons remain usable, preserving their navigation targets and MIDI messages. MIDI output requires a compatible enabled output.

The import only reads the source: your existing forScore library is not changed. Keep your original backup and verify the result before your next performance.

The essentials, done thoughtfully.

Organize your repertoire into collections for each band, choir or project. Build, reorder and duplicate setlists; search by title or artist; and keep key, tempo, time signature and colored tags with each song.

Write with Apple Pencil or your finger, choose colors and stroke widths, and keep your notes on separate, hideable layers. The original PDF stays unchanged.

Tap or swipe to turn pages. Place navigation buttons at repeats, and move between songs at the boundaries of a setlist. The reader remembers where you were and its toolbar can stay out of the way.

Tools that stay where you put them.

Place navigation, labeled MIDI, OSC, backing-track transport and visual metronome controls on the score. Select a button in edit mode to move it, change its properties or remove it. Transport and metronome controls can appear in the same place throughout a document.

The visual metronome follows the song's BPM or a tempo you enter. A compact, scrollable piano keyboard with an acoustic piano sound helps you check a note or practice a phrase—and disappears when you are done.

For a darker stage, invert the score colors or opt in to incoming OSC dim-level control. Hardware page-turning compatibility is still being validated and is not a launch compatibility promise.

Bring the music you already have.

Import PDFs through the iPad Files picker, including iCloud Drive and enabled providers such as Dropbox. Downloaded scores remain available without an internet connection.

Moving from forScore? Select a supported backup or exported library folder and choose what to bring across. Original annotation images can be displayed as separate layers. ScoreSets does not modify your forScore library.

Import compatibility depends on the backup format. Keep your original backup and check the imported music before relying on it at a performance.

Keep your iPads in step.

Use your own iCloud account to synchronize scores, annotations, metadata, collections and setlists between your iPads. No separate ScoreSets account is required.

Synchronization needs iCloud, available storage and an internet connection. Before a show, open your setlist on the backup iPad and check that its files and latest annotations have arrived. Offline changes cannot reach another device until it reconnects.