On 4/7/2015 6:45 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > But beyond this, another reason I am attracted to the Surface Pro is the > ability to use it as a music stand. The pen-based interface seems ideal > (and the 12" screen just about ideal) for abandoning printed sheet music. >
I'm using it as a music stand and I love it. I'm not completely abandoning printed sheet music because sometimes paper is simply easier (faster random searching) but it's a wonderful way to travel with one's complete library so that I can play anything I want to from my library or study any of the scores from the Musician's CD-Rom Library. And the SurfacePro's screen is vastly superior to the iPad (in my opinion -- I have both a SurfacePro3 and an iPad4 with Retina display) for music reading. If the iPad is ever brought out in a 12" it would be a toss-up for me as I much prefer ForScore on the iPad to MusicReader on the SurfacePro for my music reading app. But given the screen difference between the iPad and the SurfacePro, I will put up with MusicReader And of course anybody can use Adobe Reader or any other PDF program to read the music PDF files instead of a dedicated music-reading app if they'd prefer. But both ForScore and MusicReader have built-in devices for annotating the music and writing reminders and such on the PDF files. The pen-input of the Surface makes that particularly handy. If you don't already have a SurfacePro3 I recommend buying the i5 processor with the 256GB storage -- it comes with 8GB of RAM. They have a microSD slot but those cards only come up to 128GB in size and the timing lag of reading from a SD card make it important to be able to store the music library of PDF files on the main storage for faster access. The microSD card is great for storing data files for other apps, but not for storing data which you want read at the fastest possible speed for page turns or switching between PDF files. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
