New (2011) Feature: Player

[RobertM]

I was getting ready to leave for a gig tonight when the bass player called in sick. I was getting the cables organized to hook up my laptop and figured I would just use Band-in-a-Box when I remembered the iRealBook app on my iPhone. I downloaded the "Styles Pack" and plugged the iPhone into the PA, turned off the drums and piano and just finished our first set with an "iBass" player.

This is a fantastic app and has tons of potential.

Thanks,
Robert

[dflat]

...downloaded the "Styles Pack" and plugged the iPhone into the PA, turned off the drums and piano and just finished our first set with an "iBass" player.

Hi Robert, thanks for your enthusiasm and report. Good to get feedback.

One thing we are aware of using it in a live situation through a PA is when you transpose in Song view. You might normally hear the clicks as the picker (tumbler) moves through the keys as you are selecting the key to transpose to.

In the Settings of the iOS device itself (not iReal book's settings) you will need to turn OFF keyboard clicks to prevent this from happening.
iOS device>Settings>General>Sounds>Keyboard clicks.

[thesoundsmith]

You might normally hear the clicks as the picker (tumbler) moves through the keys as you are selecting the key to transpose to.

In the Settings of the iOS device itself (not iReal book's settings) you will need to turn OFF keyboard clicks to prevent this from happening.

Thanks for that tip. You might want to consider creating a 'sticky' with tips about the usage - both yours and the users. This ia a powerful new feature and there are a lot of ways to use it, especially if we start re-editing files to make them fit our charts.

[RobertM]

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One thing we are aware of using it in a live situation through a PA is when you transpose in Song view. You might normally hear the clicks as the picker (tumbler) moves through the keys as you are selecting the key to transpose to.

Dflat,

It wasn't the clicks that I heard, as I didn't need to use the transpose feature, but it was a bit embarrassing when the phone rang.

This is truly an amazing app. I've been playing semi-professionally for about 25 years and never really bothered to memorize tunes. I would just drag the Fake Books with me to every gig and then more and more books over the years. Then, when someone sat in, like a vocalist or another instrumentalist and needed to play the tune in a different key, I would literally take a pencil and change the chords to the key they needed...to the point that each chord in my current Fake Books has two or three small pencil changes written next to each original chord...quite a mess. I can go up a step or two without any notations, but anything past a third and I need to write it down.

I played a gig last night and a singer sat in and needed "At Last" in a different key, I simply transposed it via the app and life was great.

Aside from all the wonderful features and the potential for future upgrades, the one thing this app has really changed my mind about is purchasing an iPad. I've been holding off, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and get one in time for my Xmas gigs.

Great app and keep up the great work!

Robert