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Frankly, paper is better for everything. In 200 years, I suspect most digital files will be unreadable. Some are already! But paper scores and texts will certainly outlast them. Just ask Palestrina...
The little I played with the notes part of forScore seemed ok. I won't need the pedals that often, but page turns are the fly in the ointment at gigs with long scores.
stubbsonic wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
The other thing that's a downside is size (story of my life... lol). Even on a 12.9" iPad Pro, the notes are smaller. That's OK if you're already familiar with the piece and the score is more for reference, but it could be a serious issue sight reading at a gig (at least for a pianist and certainly for a conductor).
That is one of the things that has put me off of wanting to use a stupid iPad for chart reading. Also, the workflow for jotting in my little notes or symbols is just not acceptable. Paper is way better for that.
The tap feature in forScore is way quicker than it is in Acrobat, which does work ok. Maybe the page turner is overkill, I'm not sure yet, but I'll hang on to it. I know I'll need it in May for an 80 minute score (9-11 musicians). I'll look at the Kindle app. Thanks.
Oh, and I saved that PDF of the Messiah. I hope you don't mind.
mikehalloran wrote:Back to pdf files. I use them in the Kindle Reader app on my iPad. Don’t have a foot pedal but I understand they work with it. I tap the edge to turn pages.
Uploading files is easy through email (hold on the attachment and select Kinde) or drag and drop into app on Mac or PC (I forget the name).
Unlike ForScore, you can’t just annotate directly but I did that in Preview or Acrobat Pro for the opera I did a couple of years ago.
I prepared this pdf file of the 1912 Schirmer vocal score for Handel’s Messiah expressly for the iPad. I had to crop, frame and clean up the pages to make it work clearly. Acrobat Pro is faster than Preview. http://www.pclg.org/hp_wordpress/wp-con ... Tablet.pdf
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
Even on a 12.9" iPad Pro, the notes are smaller. That's OK if you're already familiar with the piece and the score is more for reference, but it could be a serious issue sight reading at a gig (at least for a pianist and certainly for a conductor).
When you edit the score, there is a zoom slider at the bottom of the dialog. I like forScore a lot, one of the main reasons I use an iPad. The most frustrating problem I have with it is the damn screen reflections, which come from lights that are always at the most inconvenient angles.
It's always something! I hadn't thought about lights. I wonder if a security screen is available for the ipad pro? That might help.
