video for using iPad to remotely select Songbook entries

miden · Post by **miden** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:20 pm

Hi all,

Here is a new video I have just uploaded, showing how easy it is to remotely select anyone of the available 9,999 Songbook Entries on any Korg PA series keyboard that has the Songbook function.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu_cVjTh ... e=youtu.be

stephenm52 · Post by **stephenm52** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:24 am

Cool, thanks again!!

miden · Post by **miden** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:40 am

LOL, thanks Stephen...I forgot you attend both forums....

YVW, btw

Dennis

Sam CA · Post by **Sam CA** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:34 am

That's really cool. Thanks Dennis

miden · Post by **miden** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:56 am

Hi Sam, no worries...I have been using this method for quite some time now, maybe 2-3 years or more. Used to run the same sort of thing from a laptop....I have explained it to folks a few times, but nobody ever really fully understood just what a GREAT tool this...

Someone finally asked me to make a quick vid so that is how it evolved...

Dennis

kisse2katt · Post by **kisse2katt** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:17 am

Hi Dennis!

I am doing the same with a tablet PC and I have also the Pa2XPro to turn
pages if the sheet music consist of more than one page.

The page-turning is performed by midi-commands and they are trigged by
variation-changes and the variation-changes is trigged by fill-ins witch are trigged by velocity-playing, so I don't have to lift my fingers of the keys when I am playing.

Regards Tom T

newkorgguy · Post by **newkorgguy** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:20 pm

Nice,.. very nice.

What software is good to use for tablet PCs to do this?

Tnx

miden · Post by **miden** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:06 pm

What OS on the tablet?

newkorgguy · Post by **newkorgguy** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:08 pm

Have both Windows and Linux

kisse2katt · Post by **kisse2katt** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:53 pm

Hi

I am using Windows and I have done the programming myself.
I have a touchscreen HP tablet PC and the program I have made can display
lyrics-pages and scanned sheet music and also PDF-pages.
Most of my song I have scanned in 780x1100 pixels size.

I have about 500 songs in my 'Songbook' and it is the easyest way of using the Pa2XPro's Songbook wit all the settings for each song.

Regards Tom T

miden · Post by **miden** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:22 pm

newkorgguy wrote:Have both Windows and Linux

Nothing for Linux, and about the only thing that works on Windows, although no where near as easy to setup and use is Music Reader.

As kisse2katt has highlighted, it needs you to really experiment with scanning defaults on a chart by chart basis to get good results...Using Music Reader - it really is NOT "one size fits all"

It is about the best for windows though - even though it is slow, glitchy and a little bit unreliable when compared to the iPad and UB!!

In UB, it is simply upload a new pdf chart (downloaded from anywhere) , use two fingers to optimally size it to fit the ipad screen...job done!!!

OR you can do as i have done as well which is to scan my own charts - in which I only ever use the Windows 7 Fax and Scan app (it is ALL that is needed) set it to documents, resolution 300dps COntrast to 50 and scan...save it as a .tiff "print it" using the PDF printer program (PDF Creator) and bingo perfect PDF...then upload this to UB, open it use the two finger iPad drag method to resize...Perfect....

How easy is THAT!!!!

SKung · Post by **SKung** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:17 am

This one is very sophisticated:
http://songbook.bit-software.ch/

The most is in german language, but maybe someone made a translation into english

GXG · Post by **GXG** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:21 pm

miden wrote:Hi all,

Here is a new video I have just uploaded, showing how easy it is to remotely select anyone of the available 9,999 Songbook Entries on any Korg PA series keyboard that has the Songbook function.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu_cVjTh ... e=youtu.be

Hello ! I am very impressed by this video. I red the Manual after I so the clip and I understood that all the job is done by sending midi messages from IPad to Pa, CC#99 value 2, CC#98 value 64, CC#06 value (thousands, hundreds) and CC#38 value (tens, units). What I don't understand yet is how you program your IPad to send theese messages, and how you do the connection between the IPad and the Pa ? I never used an IPad, it is the only gadget that can do that, or it can be done succesfully with other kind of cheaper tablet-Pc ? Thanks for your video, waiting for answer !

miden · Post by **miden** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 1:10 am

GXG,

Unrealbook and the iPad is the easiest way to do it, as UB is a really cool app to use. As I have said it can be done on a PC/laptop using the Music Reader program, but it is too slow, buggy EXPENSIVE, and the screen res on laptops is NOTHING compared to the iPad screen res!!

All that you do is create the midi ( I use the PAsCO app I linked to above) makes it really easy... Just name the midi the same name as the chart and upload it into the UB directory using iTunes (or Dropbox if you are wireless)

That's it...UB does the rest...

kisse2katt · Post by **kisse2katt** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:05 pm

Hi Dennis!

I must say that the PC is as easy and fast and reliable as the IPad in my opinion, because I have made my program to work with large button to choose from instead of list as you have on your IPad and I can have as many buttons on the screen as I like, it is very easy with a touchscreen PC
to work with buttons.

Regards Tom T

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