Re: electronic music displays

On Mar 28, 4:41 pm, "Steve" <deforr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We always put together a playlist prior to any gig... doesn't mean it
won't get changed. But ya could build a folder to replace your
playlist. Just shove your pdfs in there. I have a lot of charts in pdf
already... (thanks to those RealBook CDs not too long ago)... yeah...
well a laptop might do the trick if ya organized it right. Should be
able to do something that wasn't too slow. Our play book is just
getting too unwieldy. Memorization ain't gonna happen... and loose
charts has not worked out at all.

Ya'll got me thinkin' laptop and pdf files. I need a new printer
anyway and they're almost all multi-purpose now (i.e. built in scanner
function).

THANKS ALL...
Steve



Mark Guest wrote:
On Mar 28, 4:47 pm, Kevin Van Sant <kvans...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've got a pianist friend who carries around a laptop for that
purpose. He's got all the various fakebook PDFs that are out there
and a master index. It's a lot cheaper than the music pads at this
point.

_________________________________________
Kevin Van Sant

I played a couple of gigs with a piano player who used a laptop to
access charts. I'm sure it could work well, but this guy took *twice*
as long to find a tune as those with books. And then he tried to
stream smooth jazz through the PA during the break. ACK!

Best,

Mark Guest- Hide quoted text -

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I suppose for a stage band you dont have to worry about backing
tracks, just a way to quicky call up charts to the LCD panels for each
player.

Some alternatives:

Maybe a simple HTML page with links to the PDF's in the order you want
to play them is enough. Then to advance through your playlist you
simply click the next link in the list. This way the PDF's themselves
can be stored anywhere.

If the songs are in fake books then I believe there is a way to launch
Adobe Reader to a specific page number using the command prompt
invocation of the exe. Then you could just have BAT files per/song
that launch Adobe directly to the proper page in the fakebook, all pre-
planned. Just clicking the BAT file of a song will launch that song
directly to the proper page of the fake book.

Of course if each song is in its own dedicated PDF file then you
always just load page 1 of that song, but multiple songs in a book
will require a bat file to launch to the desired page by using the
start page option on the AcroRd32.exe DOS command.

In my "one-man-band" case I needed a program that could "glue" a
backing track to it's appropriate PDF file (for some 600 songs to
date) and launch them as a pair with one simple click action, to avoid
file searches.


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