Sapiver LilyPond Snippet Studio

Live preview for children’s music snippets. Change a toggle and the source and preview update inside the card.

Built for your workflow: render in the centre, auto-fit to content, transparent background by default, and live updates while you tweak.

Open .ly file

Batch 30

Load up to 30 .ly files

No batch files loaded yet.

Workflow: open the first file, set the colours and sizing you want, tap Use current design, then Apply design to all. Their music stays different; only the design is standardised. The batch ZIP contains matching PNG, SVG and modified .ly files.

Live preview

Update preview as controls move Transparent background Centre score and crop to content

The PNG export also uses transparency when enabled.

Engraving

Default: 8.5×8.5 Kids Book

Global staff size

Maximum snippet width (mm)

Auto-fit snippet width to content

Actual width will shrink for short excerpts and never exceed the maximum.

Margins (mm)

Tight single-snippet width Keep LilyPond tagline

Teaching colours

Colour preset

Noteheads

Stems / beams

Key signature

Accidentals

Clefs

Time signature

Staff lines

Design template JSON

Upload colour / layout template

Save a reusable design scheme without including any music.

Bar Builder

For simple practice snippets using | barlines.

Selected bar

1 bar detected.

Add note / rest

Octave mark Highlight bar colour

Music source

Edit the actual music here. The studio no longer injects layout code into this box.

Generated .ly (live)

Export

On Android this should open the system share sheet so you can pick Google Drive. If sharing is unavailable, the Studio will tell you and you can still download.

Compiler log

Ready.

No render yet

Live LilyPond preview

Your score appears here. Change a toggle or render manually.