Notation running on Tablets
I would like to know what is the latest situation on using Notation on a small format Tablet. I run a couple of small music groups and use Notation Composer to arrange all our music. I use my laptop during rehearsals and performances to read my music from, but I currently print out the music for other members of the groups. Several have asked whether they could use a Tablet to do similar. I envisage a time when many musicians will be reading from such devices. It would be great to be able to hold all one's music in Notation format on a small Tablet and use it live in concert. One enhancement I would like would be to have some way of turning the page rather than using one's hands, eg. a foot pedal? Any help would be appreciated ... John ...(PS This is my first post and I can't understand why I cant use the 'enter' key to throw a new paragraph!!
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Re: Notation running on Tablets
Hi, John:
I'm not sure about tablet use of Composer, as it's Windows only, BUT: You could use a pdf printer device, such as PrimoPDF or BullZip PDF Printer, to create .pdf files of your Composer files and distribute them to your tablet users. I assume the tablets can display pdf format files. Don't have one myself -- I'd just lose it. Good luck. David |
Re: Notation running on Tablets
Hi guys,
You can indeed run our products on a tablet that runs Windows and has enough memory and storage. As David has pointed out, for those who don't have a Windows OS on their tablet, you can use a PDF "printer" (such as CutePDF www.cutepdf.com or PDFCreator ) to "print" (which equals "save") a copy of the part for the user. All the tablets I know of either have or can get a free PDF reader (I have an Android tablet, and have used it occasionally like this.) As for a foot pedal, the only one I'm familiar with is FooTime (odd name, but it works) but it is attached via a USB cable. I use it with my lap top for turning pages. If there is a BlueTooth version of such, that would be the ticket for a tablet :) ttfn, Sherry |
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You should be able to use Enter to go to a new paragraph. I just did, in fact. :D David |
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Re: Notation running on Tablets
Back on subject of using Notation on tablets etc. ... Are you aware of the 'neoScores' launch this Friday? A Belgian product which aims to do what I am talking about. (Allowing personal annotation of parts etc.) I would hope that Notation Composer could still be used to generate the score, but we need something that can be readily used in performance. I have looked at the pdf option, indeed one of my group is still persevering with pdfs for performance. But she looses the ability to annotate her copy easily and to chose which parts she can see. (as second clarinet she likes to see first cl part sometimes, and then be able to get rid of when she wants). I do it with Notation on my laptop, but she has to use pdf on her tablet. The potential for a good 'performance' product is immense! I sing with a large choir and many of us would love to migrate to digital scores rather than the heavy unwieldy books we have to use now.
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Re: Notation running on Tablets
Hi John,
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You are correct (again as I understand it) that something like Neoscores has the "conductor's changes" propagate to all the members scores, but again it relies on a Wifi setup, which may or may not be an issue for some groups. I'm not sure how it works in the other direction, but it will be interesting to find out how they address that item. Quote:
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Thanks for the stimulus :) Sherry |
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