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Everything you need to write about Cadenza.

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Updated 14 August 2026 · support@downtownpianolab.com

The facts

NameCadenza
What it isA desktop application that names chords and scales from a MIDI keyboard in real time, and turns a recorded take into engraved, exportable notation
Made byVytautas Straižys — Vilnius, Lithuania
PriceBasic is free. One-time modules: Full €39, Record €39, Grips €35; everything together €69. No subscription.
Trial3 days with everything unlocked, no card; then the app steps down to the free Basic tier
PlatformsmacOS and Windows
LanguagesEnglish and Lithuanian
Websitecadenzalab.com

Boilerplate

One line. Cadenza reads a MIDI keyboard, names every chord as it is played, and turns a recorded take into sheet music you can export.

One paragraph. Cadenza is a desktop application for pianists, built in Vilnius. It reads any class-compliant MIDI keyboard and names chords and scales as they are played, across twelve windows that can be detached and captured individually — which is why streamers and teachers use it. Its recorder then does the harder half: you play with a metronome, and it returns quantised notation with bars, note values, ties, two hands and the right key signature, exportable as MusicXML, MIDI or PNG. Real-time chord naming exists elsewhere and so does notation software; doing both in one application is the part nobody else does. Basic is free forever; the paid modules are one-time purchases with a three-day everything-on trial and no subscription.

What it does not do, stated because the product page states it too: triplets are placed but not yet bracketed, a stave carries one voice, a take carries one key signature, and the tempo is fixed at the start of a recording.

Using these images

You may reproduce anything on this page in any article, review or video about Cadenza, without asking and without a fee. Please do not alter the screenshots other than to crop or scale them — the notation in them is correct, and that is rather the point.

Thumbnails below are WebP; every link downloads the original PNG at 2×. Also here: export-take.musicxml, a genuine export you can open in MuseScore, Sibelius or Dorico.

The application

Chord naming

The Recorder

Grips

Black on white, for the stream