sunspot Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Hi guys, I was wondering if any of you that are gigging are using an Android device for your song/lyric sheets? If so, what app are you using, or how are you doing it? Trying to figure out if Android is a usable platform to do this. The only thing I'm currently aware of is OnSong, but it is iOS only. I'd rather use an Android tablet if I can. If that's not an option, are there any opinions on OnSong, or are there any other options that are just as good or better available? Quote The Players: OB-X8, Numa Compact 2X, Kawai K5000S, cheap Korean guitars/basses, Roland TD-1KV e-drums. Eurorack/Banana modular, Synth/FX DIY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Here's 5 for Android https://www.codamusictech.com/blogs/news/top-5-paperless-sheet-music-chord-chart-apps-for-android I us an iPad with Unrealbook - does pretty much most of what Onsong does without all the "hoopla" that goes with Onsong. IE, imo,. a MUCH simpler app to use. Quote There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 MobileSheets Pro on Android is what I"m running. The biggest draw back is you need to connect to the web once in a while to renew the license file. It"s $12 to buy. It will also send MIDI changes via little USB MIDI. (Micro or Mini, heck I don"t know which. It"s the one the tablet has. ð Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfields Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Also using MobileSheets Pro, on a Samsung Galaxy tab S3. I have (let me check...) 269 "songs" in it. Every time somebody gives me something, I add it. For charts I make myself I either do them on paper and scan them in, or start with a blank page and write them directly on my tablet using the app's annotation system--which isn't really what's it's meant for, but it mostly works. I make a setlist for each show and keep the tablet on a stand in front of me. It can be configured to flip pages with a pedal, but I've just been tapping on the screen. With my PX-560 I kept a note of the registration with each song and changed them by hand. With my new setup (PC4 and Deepmind 12) I'm storing the necessary MIDI command with each song in MobileSheets and its doing everything by MIDI/USB. It took some fiddling to figure out how to set that up, but it seems to be working OK now. I haven't actually used it outside the house yet. I keep my collection sync'd to google drive and my phone, for redundancy. Happy to answer any questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoodyBluesKeys Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 OnSong works great for me, and I'm using an old iPad 3 to run it, so it doesn't require a lot of processing power. I've started keeping all sheets on it that we use in the worship band, and it is getting to the point that most are already in it. Have separate categories for chord sheet, lead sheet, Nashville, and Hymns, which I scan to PDF and put it it. It works best with Dropbox, but works well using iCloud. The old iPad 3 is using an older version, but that can be downloaded from the App Store. Have it on my phone also for any time I'm in a service when I'm not playing. Quote Howard Grand|Hamm SK1-73|Kurz PC2|PC2X|PC3|PC3X|PC361; QSC K10's HP DAW|Epi Les Paul & LP 5-str bass|iPad mini2 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Mobile Sheets is good if you"re on Windows and/or Android. Forescore has become the one and only for me on iOS. The only frustrating part is the cost of large screen iPads. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gino Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I use setlist maker on an Ipad but its available for Android also. http://www.arlomedia.com/apps/setlistmaker/main/home.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggypants Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I use forScore on an old iPad Air, I do a LOT of scribbling on music, and it's annotation stuff is fantastic. Love the stamps, love the multiple note layers which I can use for the same song with different bands. Love being able to import a massive pdf like the Real Book and bookmark pages so they appear as separate songs. I only wish the tablet was maybe 2.54cm bigger all the way round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groove On Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 MusicNotes.com has an app for their sheet music that runs on Android. It also supports personal PDFs and you can sync across platforms. It's a pretty decent sheet music reader. https://www.musicnotes.com/apps/android/ - ForScore also supports downloads of sheet music purchased from MusicNotes.com. - For lead sheets, I like using iReal Pro's editor. I'm curious about OnSong, but I always get tangled up in their pricing descriptions - can never figure out which one I "really" need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunspot Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 Wow, thank you everyone!! You've given me a lot of stuff to check out. To CEB or the other MobileSheets users - so what happens if the app wants to check your license but you don't have Internet connectivity? That concerns me and I don't think I need anything that fancy so maybe one of the other Android apps would be better for me (unless they all do the same thing??). Quote The Players: OB-X8, Numa Compact 2X, Kawai K5000S, cheap Korean guitars/basses, Roland TD-1KV e-drums. Eurorack/Banana modular, Synth/FX DIY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfields Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I bought MobileSheets from the Google Play store once, years ago, and I've used it on multiple devices since without every hearing anything about a license check. I suspect CEB bought it some other way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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