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Having a wonderful time
Jul. 14th, 2012 08:20 amI am having a wonderful time with my family over, though I am having trouble getting enough sleep. Jake wants to stay up till all hours and game and I can't help waking up pretty early by local time (which is insanely early by Jake time since he lives 3 time zones over). The weather has been... well, it has been nice and cool, I have to say, and we don't generally mind hiking in the rain, and I'm certainly happy for the farmers, but there are limits. The day before yesterday it was so wet we didn't even want to go to the zoo. Perhaps we'll do that today.
I got an iPad at our collective birthdays/half-birthdays celebration and I have gotten forScore and am absolutely psyched about it. It makes putting together a set list ridiculously easy. The app page only talks about sheet music, but it works with any pdf (well not HUGE ones but so far my 30 page King's Lute songbooks are no problem) so lead sheets work fine. It can't display two pages side-by-side but turning a page is a matter of a simple tap on the screen. You can associate a recording in iTunes with a given page. You can set (haven't tried this yet) a starting pitch (like a pitch pipe, I guess) and a metronome for each piece. You can highlight (tried this) type notes (tried this) stamp various music symbols (did this by accident) and set links in a long piece to handle things like flipping a couple of pages to get to the bridge (haven't tried this yet.) It can take a picture of a score or something and treat it as a pdf and add it to your setlist or whatever (haven't tried this yet either.)
It can download files from my dropbox account. That's how I got the songbook pdfs on there. You can also use the browser to get pdfs on it (haven't tried that yet) or take them from e-mail (ditto).
No wonder people rave about this thing. Obviously forScore is not going to be useful for people who don't care about music pdfs, but surely there are similar apps for other kinds of content.
Oddly, though, the iPad doesn't have a calculator, or an alarm, or a voice memo app. Those strike me as oversights. I mean, it's not a problem for me because my iPod is always in my pocket and it has those things but still. Plenty of people are not going to have both.
Anyway, gotta run. I hope you folks are having as happy a week as I am.
I got an iPad at our collective birthdays/half-birthdays celebration and I have gotten forScore and am absolutely psyched about it. It makes putting together a set list ridiculously easy. The app page only talks about sheet music, but it works with any pdf (well not HUGE ones but so far my 30 page King's Lute songbooks are no problem) so lead sheets work fine. It can't display two pages side-by-side but turning a page is a matter of a simple tap on the screen. You can associate a recording in iTunes with a given page. You can set (haven't tried this yet) a starting pitch (like a pitch pipe, I guess) and a metronome for each piece. You can highlight (tried this) type notes (tried this) stamp various music symbols (did this by accident) and set links in a long piece to handle things like flipping a couple of pages to get to the bridge (haven't tried this yet.) It can take a picture of a score or something and treat it as a pdf and add it to your setlist or whatever (haven't tried this yet either.)
It can download files from my dropbox account. That's how I got the songbook pdfs on there. You can also use the browser to get pdfs on it (haven't tried that yet) or take them from e-mail (ditto).
No wonder people rave about this thing. Obviously forScore is not going to be useful for people who don't care about music pdfs, but surely there are similar apps for other kinds of content.
Oddly, though, the iPad doesn't have a calculator, or an alarm, or a voice memo app. Those strike me as oversights. I mean, it's not a problem for me because my iPod is always in my pocket and it has those things but still. Plenty of people are not going to have both.
Anyway, gotta run. I hope you folks are having as happy a week as I am.
