[HN Gopher] Show HN: Sheet Music Management App
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Show HN: Sheet Music Management App
Author : adius
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-09-20 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| sjkoelle wrote:
| Ooooh this is very cool. So much amazing AI for music right now
| like https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/06/16/anticipatory-music-
| tran... - I wonder if it could be plugged in.
| DerWOK wrote:
| Interesting. But do I get it right: if on band rehersal or public
| gig, if offline, then no sheet music? Or is there local bufferung
| / offline mode?
| adius wrote:
| Yeah, no offline mode yet, but we're planing to open source the
| core SQLite to GraphQL engine underlying Airsequel. Then you
| could simply have the SQLite database and the GraphQL API
| server offline and connect the sheet music app to that!
| shannonclaude wrote:
| I mean why not just use ForScore on an IPad? It's the best
| solution available by far. I get this is probably a desktop app,
| so the comparison is not relevant.
| porphyra wrote:
| I'm always looking out for a lightweight nice touchscreen device
| with a sufficiently large screen for reading sheet music.
|
| The Gvido sheet music reader is discontinued (and was super
| expensive). Other eink displays are also super expensive, and
| non-eink tablets tend to be too small, maxing out at around 10".
| The Yoga Book 9i with dual 13" oled displays could be tempting
| but is again overkill to get a $2000 device just to read sheet
| music...
| slaymaker1907 wrote:
| The Surface Pro looks like it is sub-$1000 and comes with a
| 12.3" screen (I think they still use a non-16:9 aspect ratio
| which is why it isn't just 13"). I had one a few years ago and
| it was great for sheet music. Since it is Windows, you can
| easily manage PDFs. It had a pretty good built in PDF reader as
| well that also allowed markup so you could easily add in any
| extra notes. How reasonable it is to use for actual performance
| probably depends on what type of music you're playing (if it's
| piano, you really should print it out or get a special pedal
| for page turns).
| jacquesm wrote:
| I just use a cheap chromebook that can be flipped to be used as
| a tablet. Works like a charm and is very affordable.
| Yeroc wrote:
| I hear you. My compromise has been to use a cheap ChromeBook
| with touchscreen that flips around. I use the (somewhat clunky)
| Android MobileSheets app which supports syncing across various
| cloud storage so that part works quite nice.
|
| But probably doesn't quite fall into the "lightweight"
| category...
| squidsoup wrote:
| I don't think a reliable one with low latency exists, which is
| why almost all professional musicians end up using an iPad Pro.
| Insane overkill, but unfortunately the best solution.
| analog31 wrote:
| Both of my kids are classical music students. With extremely
| rare exceptions, everybody seems to use an iPad, latest and
| biggest model, with a page turning pedal. Virtually all
| classical material has been scanned or digitized. Not so in my
| world, jazz. My band's charts are still all on paper.
|
| Why the iPad? There may be an aspect of "nobody ever got fired
| for buying IBM." If your iPad fails or runs out of battery (it
| happens), other people will be sympathetic. If you bring
| something "weird" and it fails, it will be because you tried to
| cheap out on something weird, and it's your fault.
|
| You'll get less screen area than you might expect unless the
| screen has the same aspect ratio as typical 8.5x11. I own a 10"
| tablet that's sufficient for reading lead sheets (melody plus
| chord changes) but am seldom motivated to actually use it. I
| already know most of the standards that are likely to be called
| on a gig.
| ask_b123 wrote:
| Get the big iPad Pro. I got the iPad Air (10.86") for reading
| sheet music (piano and singing) and I love it, but after using
| it for a while I wish I had purchased the 12.9" Pro. Some
| people in my conservatory have it and it works great for them.
|
| I'll probably end up upgrading soon just so reading sheet music
| is more comfortable. And it is much cheaper than $2000 (It
| reaches almost $2k with the 1TB + Apple Pencil, but starts at
| like $1.1k). No dual displays though.
|
| I'm not sure if it qualifies as lightweight, but if you are
| referring to actual weight, it seems to weigh around half as
| the Yoga Book 9i and a bit more than double the Gvido sheet
| music reader...
|
| The Air weighs 1 lb and it feels fine when holding it up during
| a performance, the 13" Pro weighs 1.5 lb.
| antonyt wrote:
| If it doesn't need to be dual-display, there are some 13" e-ink
| options. Fujitsu Quaderno A4, Onyx Boox Tab X. No idea what the
| sheet music reading software ecosystem on these looks like
| though, you might be confined to PDF.
| adius wrote:
| I got the AOC Q24V4EA QHD Monitor. Really good value for the
| money. I've tried several display dimensions and I think 2560 x
| 1440 works really well for sheet music. (Of course 4K would be
| better, but I don't want to pay that kind of money for a screen
| that is standing on my piano and gets only used irregularly)
| ohthehugemanate wrote:
| I love my Remarkable 2 for sheet music. Just the right size for
| me, and easy to use the pen to annotate my scores. The scores
| all have to be PDF, but that seems to be what everyone uses
| anyway. Plus I'm a classical musician so lots of my music is on
| imslp as PDFs anyway...
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Do you connect a pedal to the Remarkable?
| chaosprint wrote:
| Boox tab X; it's eink!
| [deleted]
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