Tablet for musical charts?

[pneil]

Hey guys,

I finally decided this weekend that I'd like to switch over to a tablet for all the charts I use. It would be nice to jettison the boxes of various charts I have and consolidate it into some more organized form.

Who's doing this? What tablets and software are you using. Why? Issues/problems/horror stories?

Thanks,

[pipedwho]

I use a lot of sheet music and have an iPad with ForScore and a Bluetooth foot pedal (a PageFlip Cicada). Works really well, but ForScore doesn't manage massive libraries that well so I just put things on I know I'll need plus a few dozen regular songs that stay there.

There are many apps that specialise in just simple charts that work well too.

Great for music that is 10 pages long and no need for huge music stands with lighting for dark venues.

[pneil]

I use a lot of sheet music and have an iPad with ForScore and a Bluetooth foot pedal (a PageFlip Cicada). Works really well, but ForScore doesn't manage massive libraries that well so I just put things on I know I'll need plus a few dozen regular songs that stay there.

There are many apps that specialise in just simple charts that work well too.

Great for music that is 10 pages long and no need for huge music stands with lighting for dark venues.

After talking to a few friends and getting responses on a couple other forums, I'm going with the iPad and Onsong. So far onsong seems pretty powerful. It gives the ability to pull charts from multiple sources (including planning center) and formats. Many chart formats allow auto transposition (no more having 5 copies of a chart for different vocalists). It allows you to sort charts into "books" for different themes, bands, or venues. You can build set lists, use page turning devices, etc. Looks pretty handy so far. We'll see!

[pipedwho]

Onsong looks great for charts and lyrics, but it didn't work well for me as I mainly use sheet music. I do occasionally play from chord/lyric charts and it looks pretty handy for quick transpositions and easy live edits. It seems to have some powerful features for live remote displaying for an audience/congregation.

ForScore is just a good sheet music viewer for live performance, doesn't have all those other features that Onsong does that are great for chord/lyric sheets. I've been playing more with ForScore this week and they've improved their library support for huge collections of music.

[pneil]

Onsong looks great for charts and lyrics, but it didn't work well for me as I mainly use sheet music. I do occasionally play from chord/lyric charts and it looks pretty handy for quick transpositions and easy live edits. It seems to have some powerful features for live remote displaying for an audience/congregation.

ForScore is just a good sheet music viewer for live performance, doesn't have all those other features that Onsong does that are great for chord/lyric sheets. I've been playing more with ForScore this week and they've improved their library support for huge collections of music.

I don't do much with actual sheet music. I play a fair amount of worship stuff in addition to my other gigs so the ability to connect to Planning Center and download a whole service is really nice. So far Onsong works for my needs. It was especially handy this weekend when a singer, who sent a chart in A, suddenly decided that the song really needed to be in E flat. A quick tweak and I was good to go. Love it.