Most musicians have memories of devices designed to help them improve their practices and performances, from the classic metronome on top of a piano to the digital tuner kept in an instrument case. As technology has evolved, you can now replace many of those devices with your PC or phone.

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These apps will help you get in tune and playing at the right pace, and also help you create music using your Windows 10 devices.

It doesn't matter how good you are at playing a note if you're instrument isn't tuned correctly. Airyware Tuner lets you tune using a nine-octave range and over nine-hundred tunings to make sure you're on pitch. To make sure that you're only adjusting your instrument based on how it sounds, the app reduces background noise. You can also use Airyware Tuner as a tone generator to help you lock your vocals to the correct pitch.

Airyware Tuner is available for $4.99 on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and HoloLens.

HQ Metronome

HQ Metronome provides a number of features and ways to keep your music up to speed. You can tap in a beat or enter it manually and can adjust the time signature to help you locate the start of each new measure. You can program each beat to a different type of notes such as quarter, eigth, triplets, or sixteenth notes.

You can also turn on options to visualize the beat including a flash on every beat or the beat that you're currently on being colored inside the measure. These are great options for allowing you to look at your music but still receive cues of the beat of the song.

HQ Metronome costs $4.99 and you can get it on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and HoloLens.

Stagelight

Stagelight allows you to create music using your PC to replicate a vast number of instruments. You can also use it as a MIDI recorder. The app lets you configure a custom touch board with different types of instruments such as drums or a digital keyboard. The app has a learning curve but once you figure it out, you can use Stagelight to create catchy beats or entire songs.

I reviewed Stagelight last year and found the app both fun to use an instructional. I felt a bit like I was in Pitch Perfect creating music.

Stagelight is available on Windows 10. The app itself is free but there are a number of premium options that unlock different features. We break down the pricing further in our full review of Stagelight but the Windows Unlock V3 costs $19.99.

MuseScore 2

MuseScore 2 is a digital composition tool. It allows you to write multiple parts of a musical arrangement and you can include an unlimited number of parts as well as lyrics. It supports importing and exporting sheet music including downloading music from MuseScore's large library of sheetmusic that's availalbe online. MuseScore 2 also supports plugins to enhance your experience.

I reviewed the open-source piece of software last year and was very impressed. It's available for free on Windows 10.

StaffPad

Staffpad is an incredibly powerful piece of software that allows you to write music by hand using an Active Pen. It then converts your writing into printable sheet music. It also supports the Surface Dial and keyboard shortcuts to speed up your composition and make it more exact.

StaffPad is available for $69.99 on Windows 10. There is also a separate StaffPad Surface Hub Edition that's available for $99.99.

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The Microsoft Store has some great tools from musicians ranging from the most basic tools to advanced composition apps used by professional. Let us know which apps you use from the Microsoft Store to enhance your music creation in the comments below.

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Play most commonly refers to:

• Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment by animals, including humans
• Play (theatre), structured literary form of theatre

Play may refer also to:

• 4Music

Computers and technology[edit]

• Google Play, a digital content service offered by Google
• Play Framework, in computer science, an open source web application framework in Java
• Play Mobile, a Polish internet provider and mobile operator
• Xperia Play, released in 2011, an Android phone capable of running PlayStation games
• Rakuten.co.uk (formerly Play.com), an online retail company
• Backlash (engineering), also known as play between components in a mechanical system, the amount of lost motion due to clearance or slackness between mating components when movement is reversed
• Petroleum play, group of oil fields or prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of geological circumstances

Film[edit]

• Play (2005 film), a Chilean film directed by Alicia Scherson
• Play, a 2009 short film directed by David Kaplan
• Play (2011 film), a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund
• Rush (2012 film), an Indian film earlier titled Play and also known as Raftaar 24 x 7
• The Play (film), a 2013 Bengali film

Literature and publications[edit]

• Play (play), written by Samuel Beckett
• Play (New York Times), a sports magazine from The New York Times
• Play (UK magazine), a UK PlayStation magazine
• Play (US magazine), a United States video game magazine
• Play (PRC magazine), China's oldest PC gaming magazine

Music[edit]

Classical music[edit]

• Play (composition), a 2013 symphony by Andrew Norman
• Play! A Video Game Symphony, a symphony tour featuring video game music

Artists and bands[edit]

• Christopher 'Play' Martin, one half of hip-hop duo Kid 'n Play
• Play (Swedish group), Swedish pop girl group
• Play (Mexican band) (or Grupo Play), Mexican band

Albums[edit]

• Play (Akdong Musician album), 2014
• Play (Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin album), 1992
• Play (Great Big Sea album), 1997
• Play (Joanna MacGregor album), 2002
• Play (Jolin Tsai album), 2014
• Play (Magazine album), 1980
• Play (Mike Stern album), 1999
• Play (Moby album), 1999
• Play (Namie Amuro album), 2007
• Play (Play album), an album by the Swedish group
• Play (Squeeze album), 1991
• Play (Super Junior album), 2017
• Play (EP), an EP by Ride
• Play, a 1963 album by The Surfaris
• Play, a 2004 album by Pedro Suárez-Vértiz
• Plays, an album by Andy Dixon
• Smegma Plays Merzbow Plays Smegma, also known as Plays, a collaboration album between Smegma and Merzbow

Songs[edit]

• 'Play' (David Banner song), 2005
• 'Play' (Jax Jones and Years & Years song), 2018
• 'Play' (Jennifer Lopez song), 2001
• 'Play' (Jessie J song), 2018
• 'Play' (Jüri Pootsmann song), 2016
• 'Play' (K-391, Alan Walker and Martin Tungevaag song), 2019
• 'Play' (Robyn song), 1999
• 'Play', a song by Band-Maid from World Domination
• 'Play', a song by Jolin Tsai from Play
• 'Play', a song by Sekai No Owari from Tree
• 'Play', a song by SS501
• 'Play', a song by Dave Grohl
• 'Play', a song by Todrick Hall featuring Jade Novah from Forbidden
• The Play, suite from Elvis Costello composition Il Sogno

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Awards[edit]

Games and sports[edit]

• Gameplay, the specific way in which players interact with a game
• Play from scrimmage, an organized action as part of the game, in American and Canadian football
• The Play (American football), an American football last-second kickoff return for a touchdown in the 1982 Cal–Stanford 'Big Game'

Television[edit]

• Play (TV series), a Canadian news magazine series
• Television play, television genre
• The Play, 2011 episode of the TV series The Middle
• The Play, 1993 episode of the TV series Matlock
• The Play, 1968 episode of the TV series Mission: Impossible
• The Play, 1986 episode of the TV series Mr. Belvedere
• The Play, 2005 episode of the TV series Zoey 101

Video games[edit]

• Play, The Videogames World, first European exhibition on videogames
• Wii Play, a 2006 video game released for the Wii video game console

Other uses[edit]

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• PLAY (airline), a proposed Icelandic low-cost airline
• Play (Jonker), a 2002 abstract sculpture by Lars Jonker
• Play (BDSM), any of a wide variety of 'kinky' activities
• Play!, an upcoming attraction at Walt Disney World's Epcot
• Play 99.6 (radio), a radio station in Jordan
• Word play, literary and narrative technique

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