Countdown to iPad – Sheet Music II (Use Case 14)
Sunday 28 February 2010 - Filed under gaps + mobile + Technology
In Countdown to iPad – Sheet Music (Use Case 2) we introduced iPad as an effective way to manage sheet music. Once sheet music is in the iPad, there is so much more you can do with it. Add a wireless mic/acoustic pickup and the right software and you have an iPad that can listen to you play. As some of our readers imagined, this would make it possible for the iPad to know when to automatically turn the page. Moreover, adding Rockband-like-qualities to the sheet music software turns your iPad into a music teacher/trainer.
Sheet music Rockband style
iPad: Where Rockband and sheet music collide.
A special thanks to Joshua Mace for the original sheet music concept. You can find him on twitter: @joshmace
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2010-02-28 » Russ Leseberg
28 February 2010 @ 12:13 pm
So, taking the process a little further, with the same mic setup and the right software you could have your iPad listen to you play your original music and compose the sheet music for you. Don’t know if the software exists but I am sure some enterprising developer could make it happen.
Dave
1 March 2010 @ 11:20 am
Thanks Dave, Absolutely, it is as if you are reading my mind! You will like the next music post “Sheet Music III.”
5 March 2010 @ 6:14 pm
There are already products in the music arena which feature LCDs for displaying and cueing sheet music – such as the Freehand MusicPad Pro and the MusicPad. These however are one-off specific devices for the sole purpose of displaying sheet music. The iPad would be ideal!!
7 March 2010 @ 12:34 pm
Also, think of the learning ability here. It listens and displays the note I’m hitting versus the note I’m supposed to hit, giving me great feedback to help get my fingers trained to hit the right keys for the notes I see on the page as well as my ears being in coordination with that. I get the right note and move to the next. You can have a similar thing for getting timing right.