AirTurn's App Guide for the iPad

With a growing number of over a dozen AirTurn-compatible iPad apps, it can be somewhat daunting for a new user to decide which app might be best suited for their job.  In this article, we're going to try to profile some typical users and suggest apps that they might find most helpful.  Click on the links below to jump directly to the selected user profiles:

Rock Band Jazz Band Worship Team Singer Speaker Music Teacher Classical Musician
Rock Band

Rock Band

What you use:

Lyric sheets, guitar tabs, chord charts

What you need:

OnSong - text-based app that enables you to change font sizes, create playlists, and transpose song chords.  Scroll text and advance songs in your playlist hands free with the AirTurn BT-105.

SongBook Chordpro - works with text and chordpro song files.  Refer to chord libraries, create playlists, and transpose songs on the fly.

Jazz Band

Jazz Band

What you use:

Fake books, big binders with lead sheets and sheet music collections

What you need:

DeepDish GigBook - you can create "Super Bookmarks" that can create separate songs out of big collections.  Use those bookmarks to create custom set lists and binders.

unrealBook - Mark up your music with colored ink. Create playlists and link PDF files with songs in your iTunes library.  Share files via Bluetooth, web and email.

Worship Team

Worship Team

What you use:

Overhead projectors, builky hymnals, worship songbooks and binders

What you need:

Planning Center Music Stand - with an online subscription, you and your worship team members can synchronize all your sheet music files and playlists.  Create custom worship plans and rearrange pages for any PDF file.

unrealBook - link multiple iPads and use a master iPad with an AirTurn BT-105 to turn pages for all the other iPads simultaneously.  Create custom playlists and link audio files to songs for playback.

OnSong - text-based app that enables you to change font sizes, create playlists, and transpose song chords.  Scroll text and advance songs in your playlist hands free with the AirTurn BT-105.

Read AirTurn's Worship App Guide for more recommendations.

Singer

Singer

What you use:

CD Player, iPod or other MP3 player for backing tracks, lyric sheets

What you need:

NextSong - use your AirTurn BT-105 to play, pause, and advance tracks hands free in your iTunes playlist running on your Bluetooth-equipped iPhone, iPod, or iPad.

OnSong - text-based app that enables you to change font sizes, create playlists, and transpose song chords.  Scroll text and advance songs in your playlist hands free with the AirTurn BT-105.

Speaker

Speaker

What you use:

Index cards, notepads, teleprompters

What you need:

Teleprompt+ for iPad - use your AirTurn BT-105 to play/pause, control the scrolling speed, or jump forward/reverse to cue points of your text document hands free.  Compatible with both the iPad and iPad 2, but if you have the iPad 2, you can also make video recordings of yourself while speaking.

Music Teacher

Music Teacher

What you use:

Music lesson books, pencils, erasers, metronomes

What you need:

MusicReader PDF for iPad - easily annotate PDF scores in a variety of ink and highlight colors and pen sizes.  Add bookmarks.  Use the app browser to download PDF scores directly from the internet.

forScore - use the built-in metronome for visual and audio tempo cues. Mark up the music with ink, highlighters, and music notation stamps.  Download PDF scores from the internet or from other iPad apps.  Add bookmarks to create sub-scores.

Classical Musician

Classical Musician

What you use:

Traditional music notation scores, sheet music binders, pencils and erasers, metronomes

What you need:

forScore - Download PDF scores from the internet or other iPad apps. use the built-in metronome for visual and audio tempo cues. Mark up the music with ink, highlighters, and music notation stamps.  Create hotspot links to quickly jump to different parts of the piece for repeats and Da capos.  Add bookmarks to create movement headings and sub-scores.  Create playlists.

Virtual Sheet Music Viewer - Purchase and instantly download scores from one of the most popular classical music websites, VirtualSheetMusic.com.  Find scores by composer, title, or even keyword.  Create custom folders for selected pieces.  Most scores are available with MP3 audio files so that you can hear the music as well.

NextPage - Mark up music with ink and text.  Change page order and add page links to easily jump to different sections of the music for repeats and Da capos.  Create playlists that can be easily accessed within a beautiful interface.

MusicPodium - Download PDF scores from the internet.  Easily find scores with the graphical music library.  Crop pages to maximize the iPad's screen real estate. Mark up music with ink and highlighters.  Add bookmarks.

Scorecerer - Import scanned music sheets. Rearrange pages by dragging. Add color ink and text annotations.  Create playlists and turn pages hands free with the AirTurn BT-105.