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Double Bass Tablets for sheet music
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I'm far from 100% Apple. But I don't see any decent competition to the iPad for stage use.
I considered kindle, but backlighting and quick navigation are fundamental requirements that the kindle can't truly provide.
I considered kindle, but backlighting and quick navigation are fundamental requirements that the kindle can't truly provide.
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Yep, been using the PageFlip Cicada in theater pits for a couple of years now, with my iPad 2.
There are other options at this point, but I've been using ForScore for the past couple of years with theatre scores (I scan the book into a PDF and then import it). I like the option of using a "white" marker on the program and erasing measures that are cut. Nicest thing is has for me, is a feature called VERSIONS. I can save a version of a score as "Barn Theatre 2013" and make all of my notations. Then, if I play that same show at a later date, I can create another version called "Civic Theatre 2014" and automatically start with a clean score, where I can notate it all over again.
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Having done a number of musicals with this setup it hasn't failed me yet. But like with anything you have to test it out before you embark on using it live.
@Phil Smith: Is there a way to get back to the page before in case you turned the page by accident?
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You can always tap the top portion of the screen to return to the previous page. The app that runs on the iPod/iPhone requires a reasonable amount of force to trigger a page turn and won't trigger another until after a set period of time so that a double tap doesn't result in two pages turning. I've used this on reading gigs where the tempo is brisk and the pages numerous to great effect.
Just noticed you can do this as well in the Fakebook (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skrivarna.fakebook.android). Using your fingers is a little messy (at least with the "sharpie" tool, the broad "yellow marker" is fine). Must try to get some kind of stylus to test with. This is just great!
There is a nice app for fake books, songbooks and set lists (no transposable list of song changes) for the iPad:
Calypso Jam (free, full fake book function, limited song book function) and Calypso Score (full version, about US$7).
The free version can import large songbooks made with the full version. Good PDF documentation, very active developer.
Current version has very few quirks, but still runs on first iPad, the next one is in the Apple review queue and need iOS7.
At least worth to try out. But have a look at the documentation to understand how to work with it.
Calypso Jam (free, full fake book function, limited song book function) and Calypso Score (full version, about US$7).
The free version can import large songbooks made with the full version. Good PDF documentation, very active developer.
Current version has very few quirks, but still runs on first iPad, the next one is in the Apple review queue and need iOS7.
At least worth to try out. But have a look at the documentation to understand how to work with it.
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Sounds super!. I had a show once where the music just didn't stop. I had to spend hours with a copier and glue stick to make it work. In the end I had as many as eight pages all reduced down and showing at once.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 and tried an ipad. You can't beat the Samsung stylus for note taking, period, full stop.
A friend of mine uses the same tablet when he is on-site and doesn't want to carry 5kg of engineering drawings with him
I would very seriously consider the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2"
A friend of mine uses the same tablet when he is on-site and doesn't want to carry 5kg of engineering drawings with him
I would very seriously consider the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2"
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No, I'm just a happy user.
I looked around for sheet music readers and found several programs, but the only manual I found was for Forscore.
I considered your iGigBook, but couldn't find a manual for it, so I decided to give the free Calypso Jam a try first and even found the manual for it.
I was really happy with Calypso Jam, even with the few bugs, so I paid for the full Version, Calypso Score.
For every bug I found an explanation or workaround in the forum and if Apple wouldn't insist on iOS7, the bugs would have been removed much earlier (that's what I have read). The iOS7 version without the bugs is submitted to but not yet checked by Apple.
I also found iGigBook a bit expensive to buy without trying it out before and without a manual to read about how to work with it. And since I already have iReal b, I don't need that part of iGigBook and can use iReal b on my iPhone too.
Calypso is not totally intuitive, you need to know double tapping for hiding/showing the menu, but it has some really interesting stuff in the songbook part like automatic page turning and synchronized playing of MP3-music. Really great for transcriptions. Both needs a bit of user work, but it could be done rather quickly.
There are less fake book indexes than for iGigBook, a few of them seem to be faulty (or my files are), but the new version allows for user specified indexes which I like to have for my own books and collections or for correcting faulty indexes (or specifying new indexes for alternate file versions).
A lot of reasons to try Calypso and maybe buy it later.
Well, that's the reason I went with Calypso instead of iGigBook, which I have considered before I found Calypso and tried it out.
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It is true that iGigBook doesn't have a traditional manual i.e. something you can download before purchasing the app. The app does include as it's first item in the book list view a manual that describes the key features of the app in detail. There's also a forum that the App store and the iGigBook website links to with an extensive How To section that covers every aspect of the app along with a couple of tutorials and links to videos. Additionally, I field many questions there within 24 hours and you don't even have to be registered to ask questions. Thanks for the feedback and good luck with Calypso Score.
