Can anyone who is using these devices iPad or some kind of tablet please post some ACTUAL pictures of what yours would look like on display screen,.. for Lyrics & Mp3 songs on iPad, or Tablet, etc, .... I might be in the market but need to see and investigate all options before I would ever switch from my laptop to use on stage..navigation is a key issue also using one from a stand or holder possibly like this one..or?....eg:

http://www.herculesstands.com/multimedia/HA300.html

Thank you

anyone? or am I drawing at straws?..maybe this ipad thing isnt so popular in the real world regarding using it live on stage vs laptop,....I'm still not convinced yet..

Donny ... call Frankie V ... he uses one extensively ...

Donny, come check out mine - I have lots of options to see and try.

Ok maybe sometime in January to busy now.

My android works pretty much like a laptop. I only use either for displaying lyrics in MS or text format, for playing MP3s on break and for midi play JUST IN CASE my arranger crashes sometime.
Both have their advantages. Weight and display go to the Pad. Sorting and multitasking go to the laptop.
No wrong choices these days.
For what it's worth, I much prefer the Android to my wife's 2nd generation Ipad.

Donny,

2 years ago you were supposed to come visit us( tony-mads) here in RI, I can show it to you live if you come to visit. but then again Frankieve store is 100 miles closer to where you live. Yea I know ab about 3 years ago I was supposed to head to Brick, New Jersey.

What do you want to see lyrics, lead sheets or both?

Steve, Donny's only 2-1/2 hours up the road, and despite all the sailing trips and great meals he has been offered during the past couple years, I can't seem to lure him out of New Jersey. I would sail the boat up there, but the back bays are too shallow for my boat and those inlets are nasty when the tide's running out.

Gary

Donny, Here you go some photos

Gary tossing the hat in the ring next Friday from the full time 50 hour per week job, maybe I'll get down to visit Donny. Ha, Tony_mads lives 20 minutes away and haven't been able to get to his house.

iPad on stand on the right above Korg logo on Pa3x



Lead sheet



iPad and Lead Sheet Photo Taken from 2 feet away in low light conditions

Good lookin' rig, Steve. Too many wires on the floor, though. If you ever get down this far, you should take a close look at my custom built console. Plus, we could go sailing and drink some Green Coconut Margarettas, steam some crabs, and burn some fillet mignon on the boat's gas grill. It's a tough life down here during the warmer months.

Gary

Thanks Gary. I'll have plenty of time on my hands very soon, so just may head south. Also could take more time to neaten up my rig. Photo was take at an afternoon open house at an Assisted Living facitlity this afternoon. Don't forget if you ever decide to head north plenty of great sailing on Narragansett Bay.

Steve great pics... Thank you...I'd also like to see what the display looks like when you have a folder of MP3 songs open with the player too if possible or anyone.

Question if needed can the iPad holder clamp to the mic boom itself. & is that the cover hanging off to one side..

Donny, I don't use MP3s from the iPad so can't help you there. With the iPad holder I use, requries a mic stand, that particular holder will not clamp to a mic boom. There could be a workaround for it, but I had no need to do that. Yes, that is the cover hanging off to one side. The cover could be cut off , then you'd have to have another proctective cover for the iPad. That is not a Hercules holder I'm using. From what I've seen the Hercules is more flexible in it's use. For my purposes this does the job. But I have been considering the Hercules.

Tony mentioned Frankieve has a pretty good setup you may want to get in touch with him as well.

Hmmm ... it may be too late, but I may have to revise my list to Santa ...


Steve ... now that you will have a lot of time, maybe Donny can come up and we can meet at my place ... save him about 15 minutes going to Cranston ...

Thing is, how much do you TRUST these things? If you rely on a chart or lyrics, and would be hard pressed to gig without them, do you want to trust something that might crash, battery die, or get stolen (iPads and iPhones are some of the most stolen items nowadays)?

My needed charts and lyrics sit in a ring binder in plastic protector sheets, and have survived rain and drinks, and will probably still be 'working' long after the iPad is history!

My SMF's often have the lyrics synced, so I rarely use it, but I never go to a gig without it in case the SMF don't work!

As a side note, be careful of committing important data to electronics... We will probably know more about the Egyptians and the pyramids in a couple of hundred years than we will know about LAST 50 years or so. So many of our historical and government records are being stored electronically, on data systems that get obsolete REAL quick. There's a ton of stuff on tape, a ton of stuff on those old huge 12" optical disks, and very few players left working well.

But clay tablets and papyrus lasts FOREVER!

Tony, Maybe Santa will make an exception and yes the commute for Donny would be a lot shorter to your place.

Like the American Express Card, I never leave home for a gig without back up hard copy of lead sheets in a loose leaf binder in plastic sheet protectors. I first started using the original Music Pad Pro 6 years ago, it started first time, last time every time, iPad has been the same. There's always the threat of theft, can't prevent that. The only time the Music Pad Pro failed is when my brain had a melt down and I left it home.

I'm leaving a 16 year career in the IT world next week, I did pick up a thing or 2 about redundancy with data back up. I worry more about losing the thousands of photos I've taken as amateur photograher than I do lead sheets on an iPad. But my photos are backed up in 2 on line locations, and 2 separate external hard drives.

To be on the safe side of things...

You might better stop playing electronical instruments, because they may drop out of power... May i suggest you start playing lute..

I posted this on another thread a while ago...

I have four ring binders with the tunes that are difficult to play without music, or at least referring to it occasionally while playing, more of a crutch than anything. If I have the music in front of me, i could probably play through without looking...but if it ain't there...trouble. Using ring binders allows me to easily change out or add to the contents.

They weigh a total of 10 lbs., and I have them in a soft case with a handle...basically an old small keyboard gig bag.

The Test:

A friend of mine at a gig (accidentally) dropped his electronic music pad thingy on the concrete floor...it did not work afterwards.

I took one of my music binders, and (purposely) dropped it on the floor right next to where his fell...it worked afterwards.

Winner? Music binder.

My friend did not appreciate the contest at all. He said the floor under my music binder was likely made of softer concrete.

I let him look over my shoulder and read my book for the rest of the gig.

Sometimes the old ways are better.

Ian

Can anyone who is using these devices iPad or some kind of tablet please post some ACTUAL pictures of what yours would look like on display screen,.. for Lyrics & Mp3 songs on iPad, or Tablet, etc, .... I might be in the market but need to see and investigate all options before I would ever switch from my laptop to use on stage..navigation is a key issue ...

Binders & lead sheets dont interest me at this time ....

Thanx

you guys all live on the EAST COAST but you guy are invited to so cal any time we can have a BBQ and a Jam and its 80 degrees today so much for a white christmas I hear its over rated .


Ron

A few years ago we lost all electricity at the club, with a room full of people. I did two hours with acoustic guitar and vocals and only the few hundred songs in my head! The kitchen cooks with gas and they used candles at the tables. Turned out to be a special night for all of us!
For those that want to use binders. I have a dozen or so for sale in a box in the attic, along with a bunch of fake books. Probably stuff you can't get anywhere else.
Also will trade them for food. Or more mics. Or sex. Oh, never mind. I had a proposition just last week. I told her okay we'll get a motel room and if I can do anything I'll pay my half.

Donny,
This is what I think you'd like:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anytune-pro+-slow-downer-music/id478293637?mt=8

If you use the iPad in Landscape mode, the playlist stays up while the graphic window to the right shows the progress of the song playing. You can set it to NOT advance after a track is played, and it remembers tempo and pitch changes per song. It will display a lyric if you desire as well.

Highly recommended.

I have a couple dozen fake books for sale here too. I put all my lyrics on the laptop, then copied the files to the USB drive of the keyboard. I would be in serious trouble if both suddenly dropped dead, but in two decades of performing with a keyboard I've never had a complete failure, or even a keyboard hiccup for that matter. And, in 40 years of using PCs, never had a complete failure - NEVER! Guess I must be doing something right. Or, maybe I'm just damned lucky. But if it were luck, I would have hit that half-billion powerball ticket the other night and would be looking at a new sailing yacht today in Miami.

Gary

I'm one of these guys that is slow to embrace most new technology. It's not that I can't figure it out...I could program a DX-7 where many of my colleagues couldn't figure it out at all.

Yet, the funny thing was, I fought hard against getting one, because I liked the old analog so much better...still do.

I only got a computer shortly before I joined SZ, and only then when my Yamaha boss at the time sent me his old laptop. But, once on the Internet and after some serious screw ups and reloading the OS a few times, I eventually caught on, and now I couldn't be without my PC. I don't even have a television or cable; all my entertainment and correspondence is with the PC.

I have no desire to get an I-Pad, or I-phone...I don't own a cell phone of any kind. All my years with Yamaha I survived without one...I liked it because I could hide.

I don't have an answering machine, but I do have call display, so I know if someone important called...most reach me through email or Skype.

Someone at the bank (who often make promotional calls to clients) said to me, "Mr. MacNeill...you never answer your phone."...I replied, "Well it is MY phone!"

I like my life to be casual, and, for the most part of it, it is that way, but it does require learning to say, "No" at the right times. This was especially important after I retired.

Many people don't understand, but the important thing is, I do.

Life is meant to be sipped...not gulped.

There, my little bit of philosophy sharing for the day...ha ha!

Ian the Indolent

I play piano, guitar, trombone, accordion... I figure if the power goes out, I got it covered!

... as long as you have a Chord Sequencer on the piano or accordion ...

Dave thanx just show it to me in action when I come over next week for lunch ok.....and if anyone is interested I have two
X stands for sale a TOTL Ultimate support IQ3000 & a
Pro Line PL200 with squeeze trigger.

http://www.ultimatesupport.com/product/IQ-3000

and a single brace On Stage with auto lock.

http://www.prolinestands.com/products/in...tands&uID=4

great prices..anyone interested drop me a line........message me.

Really?

...c'mon, Diki, smile a little ... 'tis the Season to be Merry ...