This is very different with GoodNotes: I have all my repertoire on the iPad Pro, I can play directly from the manuscripts. Both cost a lot of time and the results were never an ideal solution. So before GoodNotes, for printing, I usually had to either edit the PDFs, page by page, to get them black and white (using photo editing software), or type note by note into a lute tablature app. And annotation is nearly impossible on paper because one can hardly see the marks made with a lead pencil. Print-outs are very cumbersome to use, as even with a very good printer it is still brown-on-a-bit-lighter-brown, so printed out it’s difficult to read. As I am specialized in playing early music, most of the pieces I play are not available published, they come from old manuscripts I get as PDFs from libraries. However, what changed everything is when I found that GoodNotes is great at reading and annotating PDFs.
Now GoodNotes is as quick and easy to use as paper, but even more flexible as you can copy and paste, and move notes with help of the lasso tool - it’s like paper on steroids… But for a trained musician like myself, who can hear the music anyway in his mind, the only thing that is really needed is paper - which is much quicker and more flexible than all those apps. The advantages for a trained musician By writing the music examples I found that GoodNotes is actually great for sketching down ideas for own compositions - of course, there are numerous music composing apps for the iPad, that play back your music and offer an on-screen keyboard.
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