I plan to download and learn to use iRealPro over Spring Break. It's a great idea but I wish guys at ForScore would write this fakebook indexing capability into that app, make it more user friendly, and support it the way it should be supported. Here in lies the major problem with this app the only support for any bug, issue or problem comes solely from the guy who wrote it who is a complete jerk. Of course, I was basically told by the guy that wrote the app that I was an idiot. I'm not Jobs or Gates but I have a Master's Degree in Computer Science so I'm not a bumble either when it comes to working with computers and I couldn't make this work. I spent about 10 hours fighting to do this and was ultimately unsuccessful as have been many others. Trying to create your own indexes and upload custom books is a far more difficult process do to the formatting and other requirements. You need to have a little skill and some patience to get the pre-made indexes loaded and aligned with your books but after that they work okay. It works pretty well for the many concert key books in general so I'm sure it's great for piano players and guitarist. I spent a couple of hours aligning the C, Bb, & Eb books so the transposition works and finds the correct chart about 98% of the time- very helpful when you are carrying flute, tenor, and bari to gigs. My advice, Doc, FWIW, get yourself a cheap iPad and give it a try.Ĭlick to expand.I have iGigBook as well. Quite honestly, the amount of fun it provides, and the creativity it sparks, is frankly ridiculous! This little app cost less than a 100th of some of the software I've bought in the past. melodic) ideas by selecting (almost at random) tunes that look ripe for chord subs and rearranging them into something new. Ironically, I find myself most days in a practise room with an upright piano and an iPhone wirelessly linked to a wide sceen and a pair of monitors improvising along with iReal Pro! When I'm done playing along with it, I use it to spark compositional (i.e. I have access on a daily basis to a university music department with first rate practise rooms, studios (both digital and anologue), live rooms, and a mastering suite. I use Pro Tools, Ableton, Sonar, Waves and other plugin processors, Spectrasonics and NI soft instruments, etc. In many ways I'm quite old school I listen almost exclusively to vinyl recordings, but I also love modern music technology and the way it has democratised the process of recording your own music. But it will work best on an iPad I think. I think Google is bringing out a new Nexus tablet soon, and the Samsung tablets are pretty good. While you can use it on any Android device (i.e., Kindle), you will need to spend some money to get good performance, especially audio quality. I think the best choice for device for this software is either a Mac or an iPad. (This is also useful for editing the data if needed.) For practicing or composing though, it's fine. ![]() If I want to use iRealPro output in a recording, then I export the MIDI data and use my high quality Native Instruments samples. ![]() And the direct sound from iRealPro itself is not all that good they use workable but pretty vanilla samples. Sound quality on any mobile device is going to be fairly low - at least from a hi-fi standpoint. I've used it on my iPhone but it's way too fussy to use on that small screen. I use it on my Google Nexus tablet and my Mac. There are small differences between the Mac version and the mobile platform versions. IRealPro works on Android and iOS, as well as OSX.
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