WatsonMIDI vs OverScores

WatsonMIDI™ is the professional MIDI recording and playback app for pipe organ and electronic organ musicians. Developed with over 20 years of organist input, WatsonMIDI™ captures, organizes, and shares your musical performances. RECORD & PLAYBACK Capture performances with a single tap. Records all MIDI data including notes, expression pedal movements, and registration changes. Play back through any MIDI-connected organ exactly as performed, or route to virtual organ software like GrandOrgue and Hauptwerk. ORGANIZED LIBRARY Build a recording library with custom folders for each venue, season, or occasion. Search instantly across hundreds of recordings. Import existing MIDI files from other systems. SERVICE PLAYLISTS Create playlists for worship services, concerts, recitals, and special events. Arrange recordings in any order and play through them seamlessly. Perfect for substitute organists. HYMN BUILDER (Symphony) Assemble a complete hymn from your recordings. Record an introduction, verses, and an ending once, set the verse plan, and WatsonMIDI plays the hymn straight through on your organ. Reuse the same pieces across services. PROFESSIONAL FEATURES Instant transposition - shift playback up or down without re-recording Tempo adjustment - speed up or slow down for practice Loop playback - repeat recordings continuously Play-along mode - play live while a recording plays back Listening mode - hear playback through your device speakers MIDI Monitor - view incoming MIDI data in real-time PROTECT YOUR WORK Share recordings with military-grade AES-256 encryption. Set play limits and expiration. Your intellectual property stays protected — only WatsonMIDI™ can play your shared content. MAESTRO - FOR ORGANISTS & TECHNICIANS For musicians who play multiple instruments and technicians who service them: Organ Profiling - capture any instrument's complete stop list, divisions, and MIDI channel mapping. Build a profile library of every organ you play or maintain. Translation Engine - a first for the organ world. Record at one church, play back at another with stops mapped automatically. Tag your existing library with a profile, then translate to any profiled organ — a recording from a Rodgers digital organ can play back on a 43-rank pipe organ. Professional Tuning - chromatic strobe tuner with four display modes, real-time pitch detection, wireless remote tuning via Bluetooth from inside the chamber, historical temperament support, cents offset, chromatic walk, interval checks, and reference tone generation. UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY Pipe Organs - Peterson ICS, Syndyne, Matters, and MIDI-equipped consoles Digital Organs - Rodgers, Allen, Johannus, Viscount, Lowrey Digital Pianos - Yamaha, Roland, Kawai, Nord Theater Organs - Wurlitzer, legacy instruments with MIDI Virtual Organs - GrandOrgue, Hauptwerk via IAC Driver or virtual MIDI Keyboards & Synthesizers - any MIDI-capable keyboard FLEXIBLE PRICING All one-time purchases, no subscriptions: Practice ($1.99) - 5 recordings, 1 playlist Audition ($49.99) - 50 recordings, 5 playlists, folders Recital ($199.99) - Unlimited recordings and playlists Symphony ($499.99) - Encrypted sharing, audio recording, and Hymn Builder Maestro ($999.99) - Organ Profiling, Translation Engine, Professional Tuning, Apple Watch and Console Power Control CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth MIDI or wired USB/Lightning. Auto-reconnect remembers your last device. Separate MIDI Routing for virtual instrument setups. Whether you're a church organist, concert artist, substitute musician, or organ technician, WatsonMIDI™ is the essential tool for modern MIDI organ work. From Watson Pipe Organ Company - Music for Generations.

OverScores is a sheet music reader focused on the features musicians use most, without the complexity of rarely-used options. It's designed to help you practice, learn, perform and memorize music. Practice and memorize OverScores lets you hide individual measures or staves while reading a piece, so you can gradually rely less on the page. You can hide sections of a piece, work through difficult passages, and test your recall as you practice. Audio playback includes A/B looping and speed control, making it easy to slow down a passage while learning it. You can also play audio from Apple Music, YouTube, and Spotify alongside your music. Clean up and organize scanned music OverScores can improve the appearance of poor-quality scans by straightening bowed or curved staves and removing smudges and gray backgrounds. Measures can be detected automatically, and title, composer, and tempo markings fields can be automatically populated from scans. Large PDF compendiums can also be split into individual pieces. Practice tools • Audio recording • Metronome with tap tempo, meter control, silent option and auto-shut off for count-ins • Practice time logging • Keyboard with high-quality piano samples, playable on-screen or via MIDI input • Bluetooth page-turner support • Three markup layers with comprehensive annotation tools • Jumps for instantly flipping to a repeat or coda • MusicXML chord extraction and transposition • Side-by-side page view in landscape Bring your existing library If you already use ForScore or Newzik, you can import your setlists, including their markups, preserving setlist order. Your music library and annotations can sync between iPad, iPhone, and Mac through iCloud, or be transferred using library export. One purchase works across your devices. Try everything free for 14 days OverScores includes a 14-day free trial with access to all features. There is no subscription, no automatic billing, nor email signup. After the trial, some premium features are locked, but OverScores continues to work. You keep full access to everything you imported and every markup you made during the trial.