Production-aware library
Group materials by production, role, and act. Distribute updates to everyone in a production at once. Track which performer is on which version.
Stardust Sheets
A production-aware score and script library. PDFs stay the visual source of truth; semantic overlays make them navigable, annotatable, and shareable across a production.
The idea
PDFs are how music and scripts actually move through a production. Trying to replace them with a new notation format is a multi-decade research project. Stardust Sheets takes a different path: keep PDFs as the visual ground truth, and layer semantic metadata on top — measures, rehearsal marks, codas, vamp markers, cue points.
The result: a library that knows what page 4 measure 57 is, even though it’s reading a PDF underneath. Pedals can jump to a coda. Annotations stick to the music, not the page. Productions can ship shared metadata layers while every performer keeps personal markup separate.
What it would do
Semantic navigation
Jump to a measure, rehearsal mark, coda, or vamp range from a footswitch or MIDI trigger. Same anchor lives across PDF reflows and version updates.
Layered annotations
Personal markup, production markup, MD markup — separate layers, mergeable, exportable. Annotations follow you across devices.
Cross-platform
iPad-first as a reader, but Windows + macOS as full-fat editors. Not locked to one ecosystem the way forScore is.
Who it’s for
- Pit musicians who need a binder that survives a Broadway run
- Music directors managing the keys book across casts and tours
- Actors with handwritten blocking and lyric annotations
- Arrangers and orchestrators sharing in-progress materials
Status
Planned post-Pit v1. Sheets is a substantial second product — not something to split focus on while Pit is still pre-1.0. The design philosophy and ecosystem framing are documented; serious work begins after Pit ships.