STAGEPAS Editor vs ShowMIDI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
STAGEPAS Editor
Control your sound system remotely during rehearsals or performances. Adjust volume and EQ settings, and save configurations for different songs to streamline setup and ensure consistent audio quality.
- Remote volume control
- Remote EQ adjustment
- Save custom settings
- Streamlined setup
- Consistent performance audio
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STAGEPAS Editor is STAGEPAS 1K’s dedicated remote control application that allows users to adjust volume and EQ at a distance via this application during rehearsal or performance. You can also save the adjusted settings for certain songs or applications in order to shorten your setup process in the future and maintain consistency from one performance to the next.
ShowMIDI
This application provides a real-time, glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer. It visualizes various MIDI messages and allows you to pause the flow for a data snapshot. It can be used as a standalone tool or an AUv3 plugin within your DAW.
- Real-time MIDI visualization
- Auto-hides irrelevant messages
- Pause and snapshot data
- Standalone application
- AUv3 plugin support
- Supports MPE configuration
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ShowMIDI is an open-source multi-platform GUI application to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity. Instead of wading through logs of MIDI messages to correlate relevant ones and identify what is happening, ShowMIDI visualizes the current activity and auto-hides what you don't care about anymore. It provides you with a real-time glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer. ShowMIDI is designed to be always on, using the spacebar or play/pause button you can pause the flow and focus on a data snapshot with the latest state of any MIDI entity. ShowMIDI can be ran as a standalone application that automatically detects all your MIDI devices, or as an AUv3 plugin in your DAW or host to visualize MIDI data in your sessions. ShowMIDI visualizes: * MIDI ports * channels * program change * note on/off * channel pressure * polyphonic pressure * continuous control change * pitchbend * RPN and NRPN * MPE configuration and channel modes ShowMIDI supports: * themes * standalone operation * AUv3 operation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShowMIDI at 88% against STAGEPAS Editor's 7%. ShowMIDI also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ShowMIDI holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of STAGEPAS Editor's written reviews are positive against 88% of ShowMIDI's.
STAGEPAS Editor ships an update every 7 months, ShowMIDI every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | STAGEPAS Editor | ShowMIDI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (11 ratings) | 4.8 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.7% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yamaha Corporation | Uwyn, LLC |
Customer experience
STAGEPAS Editor
ShowMIDI
In-app purchases
STAGEPAS Editor
No in-app purchases
ShowMIDI
No in-app purchases
