Discussion in android lounge started by villants7, jun 22, 2011. All of this works fast in a beautiful elegant interface. All of it at your fingertips, in real time, on any gig. Replace your bulky and heavy binders with a small and light device filled with your music pdf files. The fakebook app can show all the songs from ireal pro including the huge forum library but it also allows import of pdfs, lyrics sheets or images and combines them all in playlists.
How i use the surface pro and windows 10 for music october 20. Back in the very beginning we had to wait for musicians to develop us an app. Some parts are beautifully designed, but the main impression is decidedly nonandroid and a little odd on the modern styled 5. Check out the way to index real books to view, search and browse them faster. Say goodbye to multiple 3 ring binders, suitcases full of books, and time wasted trying to find that song that you need. But the beauty of this is how well the features have been selected and implemented. I created unrealbook because i was tired of lugging around a different binder for every band i play with. Large files like real books are difficult to navigate because you. The smallscreen experience is built around reflow, our innovative technology that transforms standard pdf pages into easily readable content on any device. The android version also lacks some of the more advanced features of its ios sibling, and it still seems a little unstable though i actually had crashes on both platforms. I use forscore for practice, rehearsal, and use in concert or worship. This product is the result of input from many users. How i use the surface pro and windows 10 for music.
In unrealbook while using a set list that has bookmarked songs in it from a larger file, you will currently have to tap the next song button bottom right hand corner it should have the title of your next song in the button. What you get is an incredibly useful and reliable pdf music reader, built for center stage. If the pdf is one page, you will see the pdf displayed, otherwise you will see a pdf icon with the name below it. This tutorial shows how to add pdf files to ipad sheet music and document apps like forscore, musicreader, unrealbook, deepdish gigbook, nextpage, onsong, and many others through itunes built in. Take pictures of a chart on a gig and create a pdf that you can use on stage. This video shows you how to link the real book 5th edition pdf to the classic real book index in igigbook. Its terrific, especially when teamed with dropbox for constantly changing folders of individual song. Page turns are very reliable in the gig easy and ireal b apps. I would love to see an unrealbook or forscore type application for android.
Open dropbox app on ipad, load pdf, open in igig, and it shows upon myscores. However, in igig book in the gig set viewer, sometimes i get one page turn, no page turn or 2 page turns with one foot press. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. In the unreal book and forscore you simply go to remote files, open. Say goodbye to multiple 3 ring binders, suitcases full of books, and time wasted trying to find the song that you need. All airturn foot controllers work with hundreds of apps for ios, mac, pc, and android. I create a wifi network on my macbook pro which my ipad automatically connects to and then establish a midi over network session between the 2 devices. At a jam the other night i met someone who introduced me to onsong. The unrealbook is not always mentioned when listing music readers for ios, but it was actually one of the first apps designed to use pdf music on stage. However, in indexes created, i attempt to use the igigbook pdf link name. To make this the dream app of the century unless its there and i cant find it a split pane feature would be spectacular like awereader. Unrealbook discussion in bad dog cafe started by codger, oct 27, 2012. How to import pdf files into unrealbook from emails.
The alphabetized and indexed list makes it easy to find the song you are looking for. Yes, unrealbook supports pdf table of contents, user created indexes, bookmarks, keywords. Besides storing and opening pdf files with sheet music it does. With its powerful organizing features you can sort your music to fit your individual needs. Arguably, forscore is just a simple pdf reader with some musicianfriendly features bolted on. Unrealbook can take a pic of a chart and convert it to a pdf but it cant index no app can index like igig. This is a video tutorial on how to create an index of large scores in the ipad app forscore. This is particularly useful for users of igigbook mobile which runs on the iphoneipod touch. This is especially useful for real and fake books that have hundreds of songs all associated with one giant file. Installing books in pdf format igigbook provides the index for many of the popular books is easy the second time, and the ability to create an index for books you have created is important. How to add pdf files to ipad apps through itunes youtube. You can even convert the pdf table of contents into indexes. Since then the developer has kept focus on the gigging musician and carefully added features, without burdening the app interface with too much useless functionality. Digital organization tips for music teachers, chapter 7 working with scores on the ipad, with guest chris russell season 2, episode 7.
The evolution continues as many musicians use it on stage every day. Download unrealbook and enjoy it on your iphone, ipad, and ipod touch. Deepdish gigbook turns your ipad into a truly accessible mobile musical library, keeping your scores, songbooks, charts, and lyric sheets at the tip of your fingers, ready at a moments notice. Using my ipad for reading my sheet music is one of the reasons i bought an ipad. It is unreal how many musicians still arent aware of apps like unrealbook and forscore. Also in this version is a fix for scores not being recognized in the my scores section when added via itunes with the app running or in a suspened state. If you can afford it, consider combining ireal pro with fakebook. It is the easiest program to install my pdf files and it helps me learn the music. I use the ios forscore, onsong, unrealbook and igigbook apps each for different purposes on an ipad pro and have no issues sending midi program changes and other ccs to mainstage.
Looks like igigbook will be available soon, heres a video of it in action running on a nexus 7. My most used music apps unrealbook and forscore both. There several apps for it, like forscore, unrealbook, igigbook. Along with mail and calendars and games, the apple ipad can display your own personal pdfs after you figure out how to copy pdfs to your ipad. If it is a multi page document, tap the icon and the pdf will be displayed. The android version also lacks some of the more advanced features of its ios sibling, and it still seems a little unstable though i actually. Adding an index for your real books in forscore robby burns. The igigbook apps ios heritage clearly shows in the look and feel on both platforms. This site grew out of the work with the popular music reader jungle comparison chart. The hard working developers behind the apps deserves more. Luckily, it only takes a few easy steps to move a pdf file from your pc or mac to your ipad. Its like looking at a slightly scaled down real book you provide the pdfs, unrealbook comes with no music itself. Musicreader pdf 4 musicreader pdf for ipad my lyric book nextpage for ipad nextsong noteflight.
While useful for a quick lookup, the format didnt allow for any analysis of pros and cons. Record your rehearsals or your band on stage, all while reading music in unrealbook. There are some other capabilities of forscore or unrealbook that could be adopted, but this is really just a more low maintenance area for something running a full os. How to import pdf files into unrealbook from emails 2 once the download has finished, you will see an icon or the pdf displaying in the email message. Mysongbook is an app for finding, viewing and managing your songs chords and. Besides storing and opening pdf files with sheet music it does annotation, sharing, scanning, syncing with audio files creating bookmarks, organizing and reordering music, setlists and more. As you have probably understood by now, i really like forscore.