Like Mikey, i too have used just about all the ones that have come along. I now have two on my Ipad - UnReal Books and Good Reader. I like Good Reader because of it's simplicity and ease of use. It also reads just about any kind of files. Both of the them cost well under $5.00.

Deane

those here that prefer unrealbooks
you've used onsong, latest version?

what do you like about unreal books that onsong lacks?
seems unreal ONLY opens pdf's
i think onstage opens more types?

i'm between these 2.

again, i want lyrics only, with chords, chords above, edite chords, transpose on fly, etc, NO SHEET music

thanks

At least with an iPad I look rich, that means im real busy to most clients. It gives them a perception that they hired the best. When the music starts it all takes care of itself anyway! Get the iPad, you wont regret it. Dont work hard, work smart.

No iPad, No lyrics, No charts necessary for me ....weened myself off those things many many years ago..
Been doing this too long on stage...just play & sing & let your eyes & your heart & soul touch your audience...
works every time..

Then WHY is having a lyrics reader on any keyboard of yours so important to you (this seems to be a theme in comments you have made when reviewing keyboards you are looking to buy)? I don't understand how on the one hand the arranger MUST have lyrics read function, but on the other you continually say you don't use lyrics or charts or anything...

Plus your rep would be quite limited...Even the BEST performers I know only have about 100+ songs they can do totally from memory and with no faking or fudging...

I am sure that ALL of us here, if we are ONLY doing the same 60 songs day in day out would never need charts...but I bet I could throw ANY number of songs at you and you would not be able to do them...

This is the beauty of this chart reader system, my rep is about 780 songs!! Of course I do NOT do them all the time, as in each of my 3-4 hour gigs I only get through about 65-75, but it means that no two gigs are the same when it comes to a songlist!!! Not only makes it far more interesting for the punters, but far more interesting for me..

But then again when all you have to remember is a handful of songs for your little NH 1 hour "giglets" I suppose you would not need much, especially when you don't actually do much in the way of live keys work, and you are using mostly backing tracks and providing only vocals...different strokes I guess!!

Again I am a singer using many means to back myself up depending on the gig, live KB style play, SMF, or what ever.....playing, backing tracks that I custom record, Mp3, & karaoke tracks, etc, etc,....it's all good, ..I only use a lyric reader in a KB in very rare case for an obscure request when I don't have my laptop for 1hr NH shows.. but 75% of my dancing gigs are 3 or 4hrs..I wouldn't want to hear 4hrs of arranger KB music for today's dance audiences. BUT, If people need to use charts, lyrics as a crutch to get the job done so be it,... enjoy how you play, I do.

Cool, just as you use your backing tracks as YOUR crutch...yep totally understandable...

I hope this pi$$ing match ends here ...

What a totally useless and silly post this is.....man you REALLY should learn what a pissing contest is!!!

Comments (no pissing here) were to merely highlight the fact that someone bags out other forum members for using something that he himself uses!! The fact that he uses what could also be described as "crutches" as he put it, seems to be missing in the comments made......I never used that term at all, only in reference to the posts made...

If your sensibilities are affected go somewhere else!!!

Call it a crutch..but I need lyric read on my keyboards..Yes, I prefer and use SMF's with the lyrics..I change them up with tools available on my boards, including markers...

I could not possibly learn lyrics to the base 3,000 SMF's I use...Sure the basic 300 or so of my preferred SMF's..I know portions of the words, but I want to perform with the correct lyrics and not fudge in the words

I will even record ...arranger songs I play as midi files, so I can enter lyrics...

NO Lyric read is always a deal breaker for me on any keyboard..