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Write on the staff and the MIDI events are written with it, complete with keyswitches and controller curves. Sequence them, then balance them, without leaving the window. Nothing is exported between the three.

Platforms macOS and WindowsStage Internal alphaBeta Q3 2027

The Stavia arrangement window, with ninety-six tracks in folders under a marker track and a tempo track.
A handwritten musical score from 1743, ink on cream paper.

Orchestral music has been written on staves for four hundred years. Stavia keeps it there, and plays it without asking you to convert anything.

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Stavia Score

Ask for music and it arrives as notation

Stavia Score writes bars, revoices chords, arranges sketches and drafts complete pieces. The result comes back on staves, not as an audio file. Edit it like your own bars. Nothing is applied until you accept it, and every proposal carries the brief or the measurement that produced it.

A conductor page of seventeen staves, engraved as it will be printed.

Six things it will do

WriteContinue a passage in the style of the bars before it
RevoiceRedistribute the same harmony across different desks
ArrangeTurn a piano sketch into a fully scored cue
ExtendCarry a phrase on to a new bar or a new timecode
CorrectFind notes outside an instrument's range and fix them
DraftWrite a complete piece from a brief and a duration

The Articulation Library writes the keyswitches for you

Stavia ships expression maps for the sample libraries you already own. Write a slur and the legato patch is selected. Write a staccato dot and the short patch is selected, with the note length adjusted to match. Every map is editable. You can also build your own from scratch.

SlurLegato patch
Staccato dotShort, and a shorter tail
WedgeMarcato, velocity above 100
Tremolo strokesTremolo patch, CC 1 held
pizz.Program change, and arco brings the bow back
con sord.Muted patch, and the part says so

Keyswitches are sent sixteen ticks ahead of the note, so the library has time to respond before it has to play.

A violin and a music stand on a lit stage.

Use the sample libraries you already have

Stavia hosts VST3 and AU instruments in the same process as the score, so Kontakt, EastWest, Vienna and the rest load the way they always have. If an instrument responds to keyswitches, channels or program changes, Stavia can drive it. Most orchestral libraries are mapped already.

  • Kontakt
  • EastWest
  • Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Spitfire Audio
  • Orchestral Tools
  • Cinesamples
  • 8Dio
  • Heavyocity
  • Sonokinetic
  • Performance Samples
  • Best Service
  • Native Instruments

The window

Folder tracks, global tracks and an editor in the lower zone.A conductor page. The clarinets are written in B flat and the horns in F, so the key signature changes from staff to staff.Four string staves over a piano roll, with an articulation lane, velocity, CC 1 and CC 11 beneath.The house style list, two preview pages side by side, and a table of parts with their page turns.Twelve articulation rows, a test keyboard with its keyswitch zone marked, and the stream of events the map sends.A key editor with an articulation lane, velocity and two controller lanes.Nine string channels, five group channels and the output, with an overview of all ninety-six.Seven stems, each with its current level and the proposed curve, over sixteen bars.The instrument rack: eight loaded slots and a routing table for the tracks.The export queue, the naming pattern, the files waiting to be written and a preview of the range they cover.

Ninety-six tracks, with picture and tempo on the same ruler

Folders collapse a section to one row. The lower zone edits whatever is selected above it, in notation or in events.

Seventeen staves, engraved as they will be printed

Transposing instruments read correctly, and the hits sit in the margin at the bar where they land.

One set of notes, seen as a page or as events

The staves and the piano roll are two views of the same material. Neither is an export of the other.

A house rule, costed before it is applied

The same bars drawn both ways, and the price in pages and page turns across all eighteen parts.

Every expression map, in one editable table

Which marking fires which patch, on which key and which channel. Two markings that want the same key are flagged before playback.

Velocity, CC 1 and CC 11, written with the notes

The curves come with the phrase rather than after it, and the keyswitch is placed early enough for the library to be ready.

Ninety-six channels, seated like the orchestra

Pans, sends and inserts per desk, with the whole session readable in one overview strip.

Masking measured, bar by bar

Where the brass covers the strings, the amount is given in decibels and a curve is offered for the bars it affects.

What the session costs, before the session

Memory, voices, frozen tracks and missing plug-ins, on one page. None of it should be a surprise on the day.

Stems, master, MIDI, MusicXML and the score, in one queue

Naming follows a pattern you set. Loop points travel in a sidecar the game engine reads on import.

An empty cinema auditorium with the screen lit.Photograph by Rapha Wilde, Unsplash.

Cue Fit lands your hits on the frame

Load the picture and mark the hits. Stavia shows you which ones fall off the grid, and by how much. Where a hit is close, Cue Fit offers a tempo that lands it exactly and names the bars the change would affect. You decide whether the tempo moves or the music does.

The spotting screen, with a video monitor, a list of hits at their bar positions, and a tempo track carrying two corrections.
A lit mixing console in a dark control room.Photograph by Dylan McLeod, Unsplash.
Stavia Mix

Delivery Sets meet four targets from one session

Stavia Mix measures your cue against theatrical, streaming, trailer and game targets, and sets a processing chain for each one. Every module shows its reading. Game deliveries are checked around the loop point as well, where half a unit between the last bar and the first is audible on every repeat.

Theatrical-27 LUFS-1 dBTP
Streaming-14 LUFS-1 dBTP
Trailer-23 LUFS-2 dBTP
Game build-16 LUFSLoop safe
An orchestra playing in a dimly lit hall.

Stavia is built for cues that end up in front of an orchestra, a dub stage or a game engine, and it keeps the same session all the way there.

Photograph by Pencari Angin, Unsplash.

Listen

Written by the engine, played by an orchestral library, recorded in one pass. Nobody touched a fader.

Shadow and IronTwelve minutes in one arc12:24
HeadwindA driving cue in six eight3:02
Iron and SaltpetreA martial cue in six eight3:01
Blackwater RunAn action cue for large orchestra2:39
The NightlightA cue for orchestra3:44
AscendanceA symphonic main title3:35

Volume follows your system. Nothing here starts on its own.

Facts

Platforms
macOS and Windows
Plug-in formats
VST3 and AU
Score
MusicXML and MIDI, in and out
Audio
Stems and a stereo master
Picture
Video with burnt-in timecode
Core
C++, one audio path, one document

Where the work stands

  1. NowInternal alpha
  2. NextClosed groups
  3. Q3 2027Beta

Building a sequencer takes years, and the ones worth opening took decades.

Ask for the alpha

Tell the team what you score, to what deadline, and on what machine. The answer says where the work has reached. No form, no queue.

Write to the team

How to ask, and what happens next →