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Tablets for live work

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I use an iPad Pro. Been using it for a couple years with the Song Book app and connected to my Dropbox account. Works flawlessly. .pro files can be transposed and Song Book allows me to change font and size virtually on the fly. Right now I have well over 800 songs charted. I have an older iPad 2 with me as a back up, and other than the speed difference and battery life, it does the job quite well too.
 
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juancaminos said:
I have a hundred songs and cheat sheets plus several set lists in MS Word. So I'd like an app that can transfer those from PC to Tablet. Your right I just looked into on song and song book on my tablets and a whole host of others came up. So it looks like I have some homework to do.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1" that I use for music/lyrics. The app I use is called MobileSheets Pro. It's pricey, but it's incredibly powerful. It doesn't support .doc extensions, but it's easy enough to convert .doc into a pdf through Word.
 
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no comment on tablets for lyric/chart/setlist use*, but for mixing my own in-ear monitors with all the various digital boards out there i've figured out that ipad is king, that's the format which maybe every single digital mixer made today has an app for.

i keep an ipad mini with my personal in-ear monitor rack and it fits the bill every single time.


OK one comment; i do an occasional "rock-y-oke" gig where guests get up and sing with my band, and i've figured out that the fastest and easiest way to provide them with lyrics for all the songs we know is rather than any kind of special lyric organizer app we just go online to a lyrics website like AZlyrics and download them song by song onto my big ipad pro which i put on a stand.
 
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Another thumbs-up for Band Helper. I've been using it, and its predecessor Set List Maker, for many years. It manages band members, gigs, set lists, lyrics, chords, documents, midi settings and much more for small $$'s. One subscription is good for an entire band of up to 5 members - additional members can be added for a small extra. I love it when the band leader decides in the middle of a set to call a song out of sequence on the set list. Since we set our pads as slaves, he just touches the song on his set list, and it pops up on all our pads.

I sometimes use charts that are prepared by my band mates, but often I want my own chart or some sheet music. With Band Helper that's no problem - when I select a song on the set list, my preferred chart or sheet comes up. Or if I decide on the spot to use the leader's chart I can select that. And I like my screen arranged differently that my band mates - not problem. Any change I make does not affect my mates' displays. My keyboard player loves it - when the leader selects a song on the set list the midi settings get automatically dumped to the keyboard. I'm starting to play around with signals that can be sent to the PA to control vocal effects on a song-by-song basis as soon as the song is selected on the set list.

As I am typing this I got an email from one of my band leaders. There is a change in the set list for tomorrow's gig. I fired up Band Helper - the change is already there automatically.

I have to go rehearse now. I'll use Band Helper because the audio files for each of the numbers is tied to the set list, so I can run the show and play along.

It runs on IOS or Android.

Yah I'm a fan. No other affiliation with Arlo Media.
 
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Turnaround said:
Another thumbs-up for Band Helper. I've been using it, and its predecessor Set List Maker, for many years. It manages band members, gigs, set lists, lyrics, chords, documents, midi settings and much more for small $$'s. One subscription is good for an entire band of up to 5 members - additional members can be added for a small extra. I love it when the band leader decides in the middle of a set to call a song out of sequence on the set list. Since we set our pads as slaves, he just touches the song on his set list, and it pops up on all our pads.

I sometimes use charts that are prepared by my band mates, but often I want my own chart or some sheet music. With Band Helper that's no problem - when I select a song on the set list, my preferred chart or sheet comes up. Or if I decide on the spot to use the leader's chart I can select that. And I like my screen arranged differently that my band mates - not problem. Any change I make does not affect my mates' displays. My keyboard player loves it - when the leader selects a song on the set list the midi settings get automatically dumped to the keyboard. I'm starting to play around with signals that can be sent to the PA to control vocal effects on a song-by-song basis as soon as the song is selected on the set list.

As I am typing this I got an email from one of my band leaders. There is a change in the set list for tomorrow's gig. I fired up Band Helper - the change is already there automatically.

I have to go rehearse now. I'll use Band Helper because the audio files for each of the numbers is tied to the set list, so I can run the show and play along.

It runs on IOS or Android.

Yah I'm a fan. No other affiliation with Arlo Media.
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Our guitarist and singer use Bandhelper, and I just copy the set lists on to my iPod into Onsong. For some reason, I can't make notes in Bandhelper, so it's useless to me. I'm sure it has something to do with the setup. Neither of those guys really know how the app works, so it doesn't surprise me. Frustrating. The Drummer uses another app as well, as he can't figure out how to put tempos into Bandhelper. I'm not sure if that's even a function of the app.
 
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mapleglo said:
Our guitarist and singer use Bandhelper, and I just copy the set lists on to my iPod into Onsong. For some reason, I can't make notes in Bandhelper, so it's useless to me. I'm sure it has something to do with the setup. Neither of those guys really know how the app works, so it doesn't surprise me. Frustrating. The Drummer uses another app as well, as he can't figure out how to put tempos into Bandhelper. I'm not sure if that's even a function of the app.
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It so easy to input tempos into BandHelper - you can tap it in or enter the number of beats per minute.
Interestingly, I used to use OnSong before I discovered Band Helper. I found Band Helper to be so much more feature rich. I can't imagine using 3 different apps in one band - what a waste.
 
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Turnaround said:
It so easy to input tempos into BandHelper - you can tap it in or enter the number of beats per minute.
Interestingly, I used to use OnSong before I discovered Band Helper. I found Band Helper to be so much more feature rich. I can't imagine using 3 different apps in one band - what a waste.
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Yeah, it's crazy. I think its all about how BandHelper is set up. I'll have to look at it more deeply.
 
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