digital sheetmusic viewer ?

[sailor]

I bought myself a PA 800 recently and I am just an hobbyist.

I plan to move onto my sailboat and to go cruising in about 18 month. Instead of keeping my sheetmusic stored on the boat I would like to use some electronic format instead. I looked at the FreeHand music pad and liked the idea but not the price( for a single purpose device) and the lack of support from the manufacturer.

Instead I am considering getting a new HP touchsmart tx2 tablet running Windows 7. Any recommendations, tips and tricks in regard to appropiate software, setup and use as a sheetmusic display?

Thanks.

[Sam CA]

I bought myself a PA 800 recently and I am just an hobbyist.

I plan to move onto my sailboat and to go cruising in about 18 month. Instead of keeping my sheetmusic stored on the boat I would like to use some electronic format instead. I looked at the FreeHand music pad and liked the idea but not the price( for a single purpose device) and the lack of support from the manufacturer.

Instead I am considering getting a new HP touchsmart tx2 tablet running Windows 7. Any recommendations, tips and tricks in regard to appropiate software, setup and use as a sheetmusic display?

Thanks.

Look up this thread for some related info.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... ht=#304407

At the time I started this thread, Sharp was working on an application to do just what you want.

[kanthos]

I use a reasonably simple setup in my live rig.

I use PDF EXchange Viewer to display PDFs of the music (just leadsheets - vocals and chord symbols in my case). The program lets me annotate the music, so I can add my own performance notes. It also uses tabbed browsing, so I can use Ctrl+Tab to switch documents. Alternately, I could combine everything into one big document and just use Page Up and Page Down to navigate between them (as it is, I use all three keys).

Obviously, hitting Ctrl+Tab isn't ideal in a performance situation, so I add a second program: Bome's MIDI Translator, which, among other things, can convert MIDI data to computer keyboard keystrokes. With this program running, and the PDF viewer as the active application, I can map three different CCs to Page Up, Page Down, and Ctrl+Tab, to navigate around the PDF viewer. Rearrange the tabs so they're in your performance order, and you're set.

Obviously, you'll need a MIDI connection to your laptop for this to work, but what you do with the CCs depends with what controls you have available. I use a Korg nanoKey for live performance, keeping it in CC mode so I have easy, consistent access to a bunch of controls. I don't have to remember, for example, that SW1 on my Korg TR is mapped to turn the Leslie on and off in my B3 software for the current preset, but it does something different on the next preset; rather, I just hit the same key on the nanoKey all the time, and if the B3 is active in the current preset on my laptop, it toggles the Leslie. So, in my case, I use three consecutive white keys on the nanoKey to navigate the PDF program. It'd be easy enough to do this with just a MIDI footpedal.