I have the Real Books in pdf and would like to know what tablet would be best for reading them on the gig. Any thoughts based on experience?
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Double Bass Best tablet for reading music?
- Thread starter matthewbrown
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You might want to check out http://www.irealb.com. Doesn't have melody or lyrics. Works w/iPad. iPads have nice screens
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here, but then I have only started looking at tablets -- I have a netbook now. I know some musicians who use real books with just the changes on a 7" tablet, but the digitized version of the Real Books works fine on my netbook, and I suspect that it would work as well on tablets, and these have the melodies written out. (Of course, an app that would identify where the rest of the rhythm section was during the drum solo would be a welcome addition -- I suspect the pianist may have headed for the bathroom...)
If you can provide PDFs, ForScore for iPad is very good. Annotations, setlists, and more. Works with AirTurn footswitch; pages turn very quickly. Regularly kept up to date, too.
matthewbrown said:
I have an iPad and it works really well for pdf reading (as well as other formats) of music. For some good reviews on many options for tablets and applications, check out this website:
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Cheers!
thanks. It strikes me that these apps aren't all that pricey, which is a good thing, considering the price a tablet will likely cost me!
I got an HP Touchpad on firesale for $100. It works pretty good for reading but the OS was a little slow. After rooting it and installing Android there was some improvement and Android's version of acrobat allows you to write on top of the document which is really useful if you are using alternate changes/corrections. It's not as sexy as the Ipad but the screen is pretty big. If you can find one cheap it's worth while.
You Should check out the igibook app for Ipad. An excellent tool. I have all the real books on it, and you can create and store your own set lists as well as your own book indexes.
Yeah, I have heard that it's good. How many GB would you think I'd need, if I don't plan to record with the Ipad?
I'm currently in the market for a tablet too. At first, I was gravitating towards 10.1" tablets since 10.1 > 9.7 but if you look at them, you'll notice that 10.1s are narrower than 9.7s in portrait mode, the most useful orientation for reading full page PDFs. I'm now looking at 9.7" (4:3) tablets.
If you don't plan to store videos or do recordings on it, and depending on how much music you want to store on it. the 32 gig is a good bet.
Mr gecko, I've heard the same thing about the 4:3 -- from the site kindly referenced by sr505. And reedo, if the 32gig is a good bet, I'll take. Now to save my pennies up for this item! thanks again.
One other thing to keep in mind- The only real update on the new ipad is the camera, photo booth and face time app. If you don't want any of that an older (and cheaper) model will work fine for you.
