hmm great info...expensive but man that would be sweet... we have a whole living room full of songbooks, take foreve to scan in tho I guess... can it be set up for 2 or more people to look at the same sheet of music at the same time like each one having there own computer monitor or something.. and one person controlls the main unit with a footswitch etc.. like if your had 4-5 people playing the same part they could all read the same music at the same time... or would they each have to gulp spend the $1100 to indiviual ones... I guess my question is can they be chained together ???

My Dell laptop cost me $599 after a $100 rebate. It has a network card, so I imagine that if the computers were networked together with a wireless router, there would be a way that one person could control the scrolling, but I'm not a computer wiz and I'm not sure. That's a question for the computer gurus on the forum.

As for the scanning time, it only took about 20 to 30 seconds to scan a page at fairly high resolution. I guess if you were going to scan every song in every book it would take quite a bit of time. However, I have more than a dozen fake books, and there are lots of songs in each book that I do not play at all.

One thing I forgot in the previous post. All the songs can be placed in a single folder and Windows automatically arrages them alphabetically. So search time is fast as well. Merely press the first letter of the song and then scroll to the title and press enter.

Cheers,

Gary

hmm i like your idea to travellin I guess I must have somehow skipped it in my first read...

thats something to think about to (grr I dont have a laptop) maybe Ill have to return the $300 dvd player I just bought and get a laptop which can play movies and do music too hehe

I just scanned In The Still Of The Night into MS Word and for anyone that wants to see what it looks like in that program, you can find it at Click Here save it to a file, then load it using MS Word or Notepad.

Gary

Hi,
probably not suitable for what you want, but I've just started playing round with One Man Band & Busker software.

One Man Band loads jpeg file, ( scanned sheet music) Busker you type score, chords etc in. They scroll as you play using psr styles.
http://www.1manband.nl/whatsnew.htm http://www.1manband.nl/busker/index.htm


best wishes
Rikki

There is a software called Pivot Pro
http://personalcomputing.portrait.com/us/products/pp_overview.html

that does what its name implies, namely pivots the screen....

If it works as advertised, there exists an alternative to what Scott bought, which between us I believe is "the real thing" versus "tricks", because it does many more things.

Alternatively search the internet for "tablet" PC's that look like screens with the Pc within...

Microsoft how to buy: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/howtobuy/default.mspx

Example of such product: http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/laptoptabletpcreviews/gr/fujitsu5011dc.htm

If "tricks" like this software work, you may do the same job for less money.
I hope this helps someone,
Theodore


P.S. I surely won't recognize an Asus4 even if it falls on my head, but at least I know
one or two things about technology.



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Well, I thought you would use it for your own home music. And therefore theres really no need for such a software. But now I see that this program you'll need is a kind of karaoke software...

I really thought that you would see the whole partiture but now I see that you're only using sheets like that we'd used as we were little children...*lol*

Sorry, I couldn't resist...
And a 2nd sorry because I thought I could help you but I couldn't...

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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)

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In my laptop I have a main page with all my music, both lyric pages and music notation pages.
I also and lists of songs I know without music notation, and a list of songs were no lyrics are needed.

Here is where I start to build what I need.
If it is a sing-a-long, I have a folder with just sing-a-long songs. If a want three or four songs in a set, (Normally lyrics) they are all put in word on one page. Scroll down the same page for a group of songs that I feel go well together. The same ofr my music notation program. At the top of the page there are page numbers. Load a page, click on a number and you have your songs -- no loading between songs in a set.

I have about 12 folders in my lap top for different occasions. All the songs are copied from the master list.

I do not feel you can be as effective with books, be it at home or on the job. It's not as heavy as the books -- verything can be edited easily.

JOhn C.

We have the same thread going on two forums. http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum25/HTML/003181.html
Bernie

Duh!

ok then, we here have more replies.
We win
ROFL