Sheet Music For Mac
I'm a teacher and a musician who needs some iPad advice. I have a big collection of various music theory books, sheet music and orchestral scores in PDF. I would especially like to have a more practical experience using electronic sheet music while playing the piano or listening to music. How does reading PDF files on an iPad work compared to my MacBook Pro/Air? I'm not familiar with the iOS system, so I'm wondering how easy it is to organize folders and files on an iPad. Can I group a big collection of PDF files into specified folders or groups, or having various htm text files on my iPad opened in Safari as local bookmarks (I have an offline version of the entire The New Grove music encylopedia)? Also, does iBooks provide a clear and HQ image of PDF files?
I notice on my macbook that Adobe Reader Pro has a much more clearer PDF image quality, than (mac) Preview which makes several of my PDFs look blurry. I don't have a big budget these days, so I really have to weigh this purchase carefully. Any good tips or advices would be greatly appreciated. If you're a musician and you are performing, you can use the iPad for the sheet music and recording. There are free apps for sheet music such as and you can also view sheet music in iBooks or PDF expert. PDF expert will allow you to annotate PDF sheet music if there are any changes let's say from andante to adagio or if there are corrections needed like missing sharp/flat notes.
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The iPad will also fit on stands which the Macbook Air cannot. To get sheet music on your iPad, you can have it e-mailed to you or you can deposit them onto the iPad by using iTunes on a computer. Also check out these other apps which may benefit you in the long run. ForScore is great for this - cheap and very functional.
You can tag your PDFs, and add notes, composers, annotate and highlight, add text, and musical marks, which you can add to - It has a metronome and you can define a beat for each score, and also associate a music file from itunes for each score, for easy reference. You can associate each score with a particular Gig, a band, or otherwise, very flexibly.
You can use a bluetooth page turner with it. The clarity with the new iPad 3 is exceptional. I'm not associated with the maker in any way, I'm a semi-pro musician, and use it all the time. Click to expand.iannotate is the one i prefer. Goodreader is a long-time favorite, but has fewer features.
Other ones (as far as i know) have not been updated yet for the new iPad. Pdfs look fantastic!
If i were you, i would consider evernote as a place to store your pdfs. Premium users get 1gb of uploads per month, and that is cumulative, so by the end of the year you could have as much as 12gb in evernote.
That is huge, and unlike dropbox or other services, will not disappear if you go back to the free service. Evernote is great for organizing, has excellent search capabilities, and it is what i use for scans of books, journal articles, etc. When i want to read something at length (as opposed to just searching for something specific) i 'open in' iannotate. Click to expand.I notice nobody has answered the html files part of this question.
No, there is no native support for reading HTML files stored on an iPad. I haven't really looked to see if there is an app that lets you do this. What I've been doing is using a program called Calibre on my desktop to convert HTML files to ePub, then reading them in iBooks.
This works well with stand-alone HTML files, but if you have a folder full of HTML files that link to each other, then it wouldn't work. I assume apps like GoodReader will let you store and read individual HTML files without conversion, but I'm pretty sure links to other files wouldn't work. Thanks for all the replies. Too bad I can't use my complete New Grove (music encyclopedia) html text files library in Safari as a local webpage, but otherwise the iPad sounds great.
First thing when I get my iPad I'll install PDF Expert and ForScore, and start reading music books and sheet music. Virtual Sheet Music and eScore also sounds great, which can access and display online collections of various classical scores. Ordering a white 32gb wifi model as soon as the next paycheck arrives in my bank account. I notice nobody has answered the html files part of this question. No, there is no native support for reading HTML files stored on an iPad. I haven't really looked to see if there is an app that lets you do this. What I've been doing is using a program called Calibre on my desktop to convert HTML files to ePub, then reading them in iBooks.
This works well with stand-alone HTML files, but if you have a folder full of HTML files that link to each other, then it wouldn't work. I assume apps like GoodReader will let you store and read individual HTML files without conversion, but I'm pretty sure links to other files wouldn't work. Click to expand.Actually, you'll be happy to know that it.does. work as I've been doing this for quite some time. GR will open and display a folder of linked HTML files (including any referenced local js/css/image/etc files) just fine. One related hint: if you want to view just a single web page that contains several images and other externally-referenced files, open it in Safari on the desktop and save it as a.webarchive then copy it over to GR. The app (and likely others) recognizes this format and will open/display webpages saved this way.